Farang kee nok

In Chiang Mai we have a sub-species of human called ‘homo farang kee nok’.

 He is recognised by the following prominent characteristics:

 Age 60 years upwards;

Believed to have a rudimentary power of speech

Matted grey greasy hair hanging well down the back or tied in a pony tail;

Scrubby grey beard;

Yellow teeth with some gaps;

Grubby tee-shirt announcing his support for Man United;

Enormous beer gut;

Calf-length dirty shorts;

Legs the shade of a dead fish plus a gallery of knotted purple varicose veins;

Dirty feet encased in tattered flip-flops.

When in motion he is accompanied at several paces to the rear by a sad-looking Thai girl in her late teens or early 20’s who may well have been purchased for a poor hill-family.

Not like the girl in the picture!

‘Farang kee nok’ translates as ‘foreign chicken-shit’.