Thai Lite: The Selected Scribblings of S. Tsow

By S. Tsow

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9748303381
• ISBN13: 9789748303383
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Asia Books
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Thai Lite by S. Tsow

Thai Lite is a very funny book filled with observations and anecdotes of expat life in Bangkok Thailand. I highly recommend it and had a blast reading Tsow's book.

Hilarious

It starts off mildly amusing yet mildly annoying, but apparently the former outweighs the latter because you keep reading. Then you get to the good stuff, and then the great stuff, and finally the stuff that tells you that you're gonna put this on your shelf when you're done and read it again later. Or at least, that was my reaction. For example, he tells us that Thai noodles taste better, but Chinese noodles have Szechuan pepper, and Lao Li the Monkey-Faced Boy can suck down a bowl in one minute flat. I stopped reading to laugh. Yes! They use chopsticks here, but daintily, and spoons for the soup. I'm trying to adjust, but I used to put the bowl to my face, shovel in the noodles, and suck down the soup so fast that ancient Chinese workmen were impressed. It's hard being civilized. Is that funny if you've never been to China or to Thailand? I don't know. It's damn funny to me. But then the style evolves further, as he takes his subject matter from all over the world, places that are placeless and times that are timeless. Dogs and cats, for example, from his unique beer-loving perspective. Gotta love that perspective. It is my hope that my upcoming sequel to WHO MOVED MY RICE?, entitled WHO MOVED MY UNDERWEAR?, reaches this point in the way that I hope this newsletter has reached this point. In short, get THAI LITE and hope the guy finally finishes writing MORE THAI LITE. If not, it's because a gecko fell on his head while he was sleeping and he banged his head on the roof of a hovel in the mountains somewhere. A hovel without beer.

Fun book to read

Though you need to have some knowledge about Thailand(and its language) in order to understand some of his jokes, I think this book is hilarious. It has a lot of incites into a bunch of countries, esp. that Bangkok is not a golden city but a traffic jammed nasty place with loads of fun :)It does, however, contain some stereotypes of Thai people being fun-fun, stupid people(though I have to admit the government is exactly like the committee in Edenburi), in which many Thais would argue there.But in general, I think it's a pretty good book to read when you have some free time, and one that shows some reality other than a bunch of mis-guilding Thai Guildbook as well.