So, just getting ready to head back to Bangkok after a relaxing weekend in Hua Hin and Ked goes off to grab a bite of Thai food and my friend H and I walk around the corner and decide to eat at The Fat Cat.

The girl comes over to take our order and she's talking at barely above a whisper. She's standing right next to me and I can barely hear her. H asks her to repeat herself because he can't hear her. She mutters something again and H says "Come closer, dear. I can't hear a word you're saying." He turned his ear towards her and motioned for her to lean in.

All of a sudden someone yells "This is not a girlie bar!"

I turn around to see who said it and who he's talking to. It's us!

H and I both look at each other completely stunned. H who is usually at no loss for words can only stammer out, "I wasn't doing anything."

The owner, Dr. Jazz, completely oblivious to the irony of what he was about to say continued, "You have to be polite here!"

Again, getting scolded in a restaurant full of people has thrown both of us aback so H simply replies "We are being polite, mate."

Dr. Jazz continues, "If you're looking for the girlie bars they're down the road."

WTF?!?!

The only thing I can imagine is that he saw H turn his ear towards the girl and saw his hand motions and assumed he was asking for a peck on the cheek. And if you know H, he is anything but a wild groper or going around asking waitresses to give him a peck on the cheek. He's been to Thailand five times and he's never even been to Cowboy or Nana.

Regardless, there are far better ways to handle the situation. He could have waited for her to take the order, sent her in the back (which he did after she took our order), and have the older unattractive woman serve us the rest of the meal (which he did as well). He could have come over and said something discreetly or at least asked the girl what happened.

And in all of this the girl was pretty shaken up as well. We gave her our orders and she forgot to ask us what we wanted to drink. And with the entire staff now hiding in the kitchen we had to sit there waiting for our food because nobody was coming out of the kitchen unless they had to.

Dr. Jazz = Dr. Douche

Oh lordy.

The Fat Cat owner does sound like a complete douche to call his customers out like that so blatantly. I'll remember this next time I'm there so that I can hit on all his staff... ambiguously.

hahahahaha I would like to greeeed on phone but I cannot

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heh Ive been to Thailand 9 times,and have only seen pattaya,and Nana in pics and movies.

What an idiot. It's not like HH is so crowded with tourists that they're having to turn people away. If he thought there was something untoward happening, he could have had a quiet word and let it go.

Maybe you should have canceled the order. Walked up to Dr. D and explained that H was just trying to hear the girl, but since Dr. D acted like a complete c*** you felt no need to give him any business. There are plenty of restaurants nearby.

I live in HH, and though I've never been in Fat Cat, it always seemed to have a good rep. Is Dr. D a new owner?

Not sure of the ownership. And it may have a good rep but that doesn't stop the owner from being a douche.

Sunrise Tacos has a good rep too but I've seen the American owner bellowing orders at his staff and acting pretty obnoxious. Doesn't mean the food sucks :-)

Gotta come up to BKK Friday. Maybe I need some tacos BTW, next time you're down, Margaritas in the night market has some decent Mexican food, though it doesn't fit any of the styles I'm familiar with (New Mexico, Tex-Mex, and to a lesser degree, Cal-Mex). The owners are nice, mellow guys who don't yell at anyone.

Bellowing at the staff is stupid enough - bellowing at customers is over the top stupid. Guess I'll scratch Fat Cat off my 'I really oughta get over there for lunch sometime' list.

I'd bet he is one of the bloody marry for breakfast crowd from the sound of it.....eieieieieieiei, or the party till the sun comes up, then work off the hangover using the customers, or staff, as his target.........because that damn pounding just won't quit, and if he can't get anywhere hitting on his female employees, he sure isn't going to let you try.....lololol.

Well, I didn't want to say anything about the girl but she wasn't overly attractive. Quite normal looking gal.

Maybe he had his eye on her already.

Here's the sign outside of the place: