Pattaya Beer Bars Archives

The date is 2006, and it’s Edie’s birthday party at the Naklua Malai Bar. Edie, will become a Pattaya tragedy. But only a few years ago, Edie had the best band in Naklua.

And unlike most beer bars today, Eddie had some really cute girls working for her.

Let me take you back in time–to the good ole days

It’s Eddie’s birthday, and she’s gone balls out to bring in a few pretty girls from Sattahip decked out in special uniforms. These girls are not Edie’s bar girls. But Edie’s birthday party, as sensational as it was, would be the harbinger of a Pattaya tragedy.

At this time Malai Bar was the best bar in Naklua hands down. And in my opinion the best barin all Pattaya, thanks to Ed.’

Cope during a photo shoot at my Naklua condo. She was about twenty back then. She would later mature to be even more beautiful with a far better command of English than she had in the old Malai Bar days.

Cope, one of the prettiest girls dancing is now living in Germany after marrying a German. Which is probably good for her, but bad for the rest of us. She was very pretty, and even prettier the last time I saw her.

There’s a beautiful lady in the video dancing next to Cope. You wouldn’t believe she’s a lady boy though. Like Cope, we haven’t seen her in Pattaya for years.

Today (it’s August 2017) , the band is nowhere to be found. The Malai Bar is barely open. It sits there devoid of customers while its owners wait in Bangkok for a buyer. A single woman looks after the place as caretaker. But I can still buy a drink there, and sometimes I go over to talk with her.

But back to the Golden Years of Malai Bar

Edie being a very special kind of bar owner always paid her band a lot of money. She also had A LOT more customers than any other bar around. If all this sounds like a Pattaya tragedy, it gets much worse.

My tilac, the tilac in this video, is no longer in my life. She was Edie’s niece, and it was because of her that I used to come to the Malai Bar quite often. So did most of my friends.

Edie was a very special kind of bar owner, the likes of whom we will probably never see again. But in spite of her brilliance at running a bar, she somehow lost a lot of money and had to sell the bar.

The Malai Bar would never be the same again. Not even close. But the real Pattaya tragedy here is there is not single bar in Naklua, Thailand since the Girl Beer Bar that is even 10 percent of what the Malai Bar once was. The Malai Bar no longer has any customers except for an occasional man or woman who wants to have a drink with the bar’s solitary caretaker. It sits there next to the Pen Bar, vacant, in mute testimony to all the great times we all used to have there. When any man or woman who wanted to put on a show could come up and sing or dance in front of the crowd.

Which you will see in this video. There’s a beautiful incredibly sexy Thai woman dancing as Edie’s band plays “Suzie Q”. Then there’s a muscular handsome German playing the guitar as he sings, “Welcome to the Free World.” The video ends with Edie getting practically everyone, her bar girls and customers, dancing.