Place to eat: West Side Saloon, Hat Yai, Thailand

West Side Saloon (Hat Yai, Thailand)

West Side Saloon (Hat Yai, Thailand)

Hat Yai is known as southern Thailand's transportation hub and sex capital. But too few know it has the West Side Saloon, where bar tenders and waitstaff are dressed in cowboy gear, serving jovial customers as a band plays the likes of John Denver, the Carpenters, and the Cranberries.

About this place:

Hat Yai is sometimes referred to as the sex captal of southern Thailand, but too few know it also has a great place for food and music called the West Side Saloon. Given its proximity to the Malaysian border, the city sees more Malay than Western visitors, and on most evenings you'll find a few of them at the West Side Saloon, where a live Thai band plays the likes of John Denver and the Cranberries as staff in American cowboy dress serve drinks and food.

Postcards about West Side Saloon:

  • Joel Carillet

    13 June 2008
    From:
    Joel Carillet

    Hat Yai is known as southern Thailand's transportation hub and sex capital. But too few know it has the West Side Saloon, where bar tenders and waitstaff are dressed in cowboy gear, serving jovial customers as a band plays the likes of John Denver, the Carpenters, and the Cranberries. In my journeys through Southeast Asia in recent years, I've stopped here four times, thankful for the taste of home. For a guy from Appalachia, after months on the road there's nothing like hearing a Thai band sing, "Take me home country roads, to the place I belong."

Hat Yai, Changwat Songkhla, TH

Discovered by Joel Carillet
on 13 June 2008.
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