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Big Mango (summary)
"Big Mango" is the Bangkok, Thailand tourism board's 1990s "homage" to "the Big Apple."
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Bangkok is called Krung Thep in Thai, which translates to City of Angels. The tourism board calls the city "the Big Mango," in homage to the Big Apple. There is little similarity between the Thai capital and Los Angeles or New York, other than its sprawling layout, traffic jams, and heavy dose of American pop culture. Bangkok is definitely another world.
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The Big Mango by Jake Needham
What happened to the Bank of Vietnam's $400 Million?
From the Big apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. It had a kind of nutty logic to it, he figured. Bangkok was about as far as he could get from California without falling off the edge of the world. Although at times, he thought that was exactly what he had done.
Eddie Dare was a middle-aged San Francisco lawyer with a sinking feeling that the best part of his life was behind him. But back in 1975, when Saigon slid down the toilet, he'd been a young marine guarding a warehouse behind the U.S. Embassy.
(...)
Paperback
Hong Kong 2002
Chameleon Press
394 pages
ISBN 9628631942
http://www.spikemagazine.com/scattered/2005/01/big-mango.php
Thursday, January 06, 2005 :: Chris
The Big Mango
I hated Bangkok when I first arrived here two years ago.
http://jewish.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=2262
And it's not just for the "Big Mango," as Bangkok is known: Frankel has made Groovy Maps for Singapore, Shanghai, Bali, the Thai trekking paradise of Chiang Mai and other destinations across Southeast Asia.
(Google Groups)
Have 4 months to travel. Where would you go?
... Richard S. Ehrlich Asia Correspondent Bangkok, Thailand:
*The Big Mango* phone (66 2) 286 2434 http://ftp://ftp.supernet.ab.ca/pub ...
rec.travel.asia - Aug 26 1995, 6:11 pm by surreal pagoda - 11 messages - 11 authors
http://forums.studentuniverse.com/student-travel-guide405.html
Bangkok is called Krung Thep in Thai, which translates to City of Angels. The tourism board calls the city "the Big Mango," in homage to the Big Apple. There is little similarity between the Thai capital and Los Angeles or New York, other than its sprawling layout, traffic jams, and heavy dose of American pop culture. Bangkok is definitely another world.
ttp://www.dco.co.th/product_info.php?products_id=53
The Big Mango by Jake Needham
What happened to the Bank of Vietnam's $400 Million?
From the Big apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. It had a kind of nutty logic to it, he figured. Bangkok was about as far as he could get from California without falling off the edge of the world. Although at times, he thought that was exactly what he had done.
Eddie Dare was a middle-aged San Francisco lawyer with a sinking feeling that the best part of his life was behind him. But back in 1975, when Saigon slid down the toilet, he'd been a young marine guarding a warehouse behind the U.S. Embassy.
(...)
Paperback
Hong Kong 2002
Chameleon Press
394 pages
ISBN 9628631942
http://www.spikemagazine.com/scattered/2005/01/big-mango.php
Thursday, January 06, 2005 :: Chris
The Big Mango
I hated Bangkok when I first arrived here two years ago.
http://jewish.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=2262
And it's not just for the "Big Mango," as Bangkok is known: Frankel has made Groovy Maps for Singapore, Shanghai, Bali, the Thai trekking paradise of Chiang Mai and other destinations across Southeast Asia.
(Google Groups)
Have 4 months to travel. Where would you go?
... Richard S. Ehrlich Asia Correspondent Bangkok, Thailand:
*The Big Mango* phone (66 2) 286 2434 http://ftp://ftp.supernet.ab.ca/pub ...
rec.travel.asia - Aug 26 1995, 6:11 pm by surreal pagoda - 11 messages - 11 authors
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