1. It is illegal to go out in public without wearing underwear. Thankfully I haven’t been stopped by the underwear police along Sukhumvit yet.

2. Swiss-army knives are called “MacGyver” knives. When MyTGF first mentioned a MacGyver knife I almost wept from laughing. “Jing Jing, na! MacGyver very smart guy, and handsome!”

3. Dental braces are the new status symbol of rich young thai girls. So much so that there are places that sell fake braces for not-so-rich girls, which they glue onto your teeth, for 50 baht per tooth.

4. Ordering Num Prik in a Thai restaurant will not get you a jab in the johnson or a punch in the penis, but it will get you some spicy shrimp paste.

5. Ordering “Moo” in a Thai restaurant will get you pork, not beef – go figure. Incidentally cats are called “meow” but dogs are not called “woof” or even “shut-up-you-bloody-mongrel!” (what I thought dogs were called until corrected by my First Grade teacher).

6. Traditional Thai dancing is not performed on a shiny pole under bright neon lighting.

7. Suzuki sell a model of motorcycle here called Smash. I wonder if that has anything to do with the reported figure of 40 deaths a day on Thai roads.

I can’t think of three more right now…Thai experts and expats are welcome to submit their own by adding a comment below.