Ask a Local: 48 hours in Bangkok with artist Maan Sriluansoi

For after-dinner drinks with other artists and creatives, Maan heads to his favourite laidback cocktail and live jazz bar, Smalls, a rickety three-storey affair. “It’s a tiny little bar with a rooftop, which we always joke could be in Paris.” He also loves Lucky Duck, a decadent Shanghai-style speakeasy on Maitri Chit Road in Soi Nana Yaowarat, Chinatown. For something more high-octane, he heads to The Parlor Bar at the Standard Hotel, where all the “young scene-y people go when they want to have a crazy night”. If the night stretches on, he’ll go to Thaipioka for local DJs and to meet “some cool new strangers”. For after-hours dancing, it’s off to Blaq Lyte or Never Normal, depending on where the night takes him.

Maan Sriluansoi

Shops

Maan gravitates towards one-of-a-kind shopping and unique brands by local Thai designers like Bangkok-based brand “Dry Clean Only”, famous for their colourful 80s style using off-cut vintage fabrics and worn by the likes of Rihanna and Beyoncé. One of his favourite brands is Pyvet, which upcycles high-quality vintage silk from dead stock into stylish modern pieces. “I always buy their oversized silk Hawaiian shirts.” Pony Stone “changed the Bangkok fashion scene”, and is known for oversized, distressed clothing: “Once Lisa from Blackpink wore this brand, everyone in Bangkok was also wearing it.” For a bit of everything, Maan will go to Chatuchak, one of the largest open-air markets in the world, to get everything from wild orchids to rare vintage clothes, or to simply “get day-drunk with a local artist”. In the old town, stalwart store Yupadee Vanich, “which must be around 100 years old”, sells handmade baskets and wicker furniture.

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Arts and culture

For a bit of zen, Maan heads to Slow Combo in central Bangkok, a concrete brutalist building and “mindfulness playground” that celebrates healthy living with flower arranging, gong baths, yoga and pickleball. “You walk out of the building with a good mind and healthy kombucha in your hand.” The World on the Corner in the Old Town is a “beautiful bookstore in an old wooden house owned by a celebrated fashion photographer. It has all kinds of rare books and objects from all over the world, from Yemen, Ethiopia, Jaipur and beyond”.

 

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