The principal transgender cabaret venue in central Bangkok, the Golden Dome Cabaret Show occupies a purpose-built theatre on Soi Ratchadaphisek 18 in the Huai Khwang district of the central city. The theatre opened in 2003 and is one of the principal long-running venues of the famous Thai kathoey or transgender cabaret tradition, which has been one of the more distinctive forms of Thai popular theatrical entertainment continuously since the establishment of the first dedicated venues in the late.....

Stretching across approximately thirty-five acres of central Bangkok immediately north of the Mo Chit BTS Skytrain station, the Chatuchak Weekend Market is one of the largest weekend markets in the world and the principal historic flea and handicraft market of central Bangkok. The market operates only on Saturdays and Sundays, with around eight thousand individual stalls organised across twenty-seven numbered sections and approximately two hundred thousand individual visitors during a typical we.....

A small specialist culinary school in the PD Mansion on Soi Rung Rueang in the Samsen Nok district of central Bangkok, the Siam Carving Academy provides intensive courses in the traditional Thai art of fruit and vegetable carving. The academy is one of the few institutions anywhere in Thailand offering structured instruction in this distinctive traditional craft to international visitors and operates principally on a short-course basis for tourists and culinary professionals visiting Bangkok. T.....