The adventures of Pontus Karlsson

A local Thai travel agent managed to screw up the booking of my Hong Kong flight today. Big time. After having paid the agent twice I still had no e-ticket in my mailbox. Since I was already on my way to the airport when realizing, I called the airline directly to buy a new ticket. Lucky as I am, all flights today were full and I was forced to a stopover in Bangkok. I checked in at the legendary colonial hotel The Oriental, wearing the mandatory full-length pants. After chilling by the pool for a few hours it was time for dinner. I really like sitting by the river at The Veranda restaurant. They usually offer a very nice dinner buffet and this evening was no different. Not only did they offer proper sashimi, 500+ varieties of salad dressing, roasted sirloin, turkey, curries, Mongolian BBQ, hand made ice cream, mango with sticky rice (and the list goes on) - they served fresh chicken kebab! Bigups to the creative chef!

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I arrived in Bangkok for the Crooked Tongues BBQ early in the morning the day of the party and suffered from a hard case of jet lag. After a 6 hour nap, I met up with the boys from Crooked Tongues and Ben from Adidas to go to the BBQ at 100 Rajdamri, inside the The Royal Bangkok Sports Club. It offers two good restaurants, a nice bar and an oudoors lounge area. The influences from streethorsing are obvious. One of the restaurants is called Trot Bar and the other one is an Italian restaurant called Fallabella, which name is derived from Falabella - a rare breed of miniature horses. The servers are all wearing equestrian outfits.

First thing when we arrived to the venue was getting the VIP band put on.
I also managed to get the red band intended for the underaged.

After a few Singhas, it was time for me and Ben to get a complimentary foot massage.

The CT crew had designed a bunch of sneakers specially for the event.
Here’s the Adidas x CT BKK BBQ Superskate.

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