Thailand guide No 1 Local vocabulary

When you as a beginner go out in the Thai nightlife I can guarantee that you are going to hear a lot of expressions that can be both hard to understand and confusing. I am going to try to sort them out so you get a deeper knowledge of the local vocabulary.

Hello sexy man
This is a comment that you hear when you pass a bar full of bar ladies. Fog gods sake don’t think you are sexy, they are more interested of the size of your wallet than your physical qualities.

You handsome man
That means that she thinks you are the sexiest man she have seen since David Latterman. Don’t fool your self. Her Thai boyfriend looks probably like Brad Pitt in comparison with you.

Me no like butterfly man
I don’t like flirting man. This in an interesting phrase since it gives you impression that she really don’t like that you are flirting with other woman (read: competition). That her works is to flirt with 500 guys a night doesn’t matter

Man Thai no good/Thai man no good
This is used to make you believe that Thai woman actually prefer Western man rather than Thai. Don’t believe in that one

Falang man good heart
Falang means western man and this phrase suggests that we are more familiar and child-loving than Thai man. That is if you give her a big god chain, a credit card a BMW and a house for her mother, otherwise you are a Kee Nok (bird shit)

My brother come stay with us
She wants her brother to come and take part of your money, in this case her brother is her real boyfriend.