Kathoey Cabaret
Over the past few days, Dad and I have travelled around and seen many many things. We've hit Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai, snake farms, elephant camps, orchid farms, butterfly parks, hotels with amazing views, markets, Nailert shrine, khlong boat bus trips...
But the one thing dad enjoyed the most must have been the kathoey (ladyboy) cabaret. I'd already been with hubby and just knew dad had to see it. I therefore personally secured the best seats Mambo cabaret had to offer: front row, middle. Prime victims should there be any audience 'interaction' initiated by a ladyboy.
OK, it's not that I have any penchant for putting pictures of scantily-clad pretty girls on my blog, but this has to be an exception!
It's all good family fun - a mixture of Japanese, Chinese & Western pop sungs lip synched to perfection, energetic dance routines and raunchy costumes. At the beginning, you just sit there, mouth agape, not believing that the beautiful women in daring dresses are/were men. You then start looking for the tiny signs which might give them away: skin bit too tight around the bust area? face caked with a bit too much foundation? perhaps those shoulders are a little too broad? And surely with bikini pants like those, they must have had the snip already right? In the end you just enjoy the show. Sometimes you may even get bored - until you kick yourself with the reminder again that the Shania Twain lip syncher was originally a bloke.
With my dad's zoom lens and shock of white hair, the performers were more than obliging in giving him a special pose for the camera (unfortunately I don't have his pics!). Dad would give his own opinions: that one's got dimples, that one's sooo pretty, that one's not pretty at all. But never did he say: that one looks like a bloke.
(Incidentally, the one with the dimples who looks like a Japanese pop songstress, danced a bit too energetically for her bikini top and more was revealed than should be. And as for your question: no I don't have a picture. But you'll get the idea below. As for your second question: I can vouch that they certainly looked real enough.)
At the end, you can have your picture taken with and pay a compliment to your favourite ladyboy. They've hit the feminine mannerisms, make-up and boobs right on the nail, but one thing will always give them away: the voice!
But the one thing dad enjoyed the most must have been the kathoey (ladyboy) cabaret. I'd already been with hubby and just knew dad had to see it. I therefore personally secured the best seats Mambo cabaret had to offer: front row, middle. Prime victims should there be any audience 'interaction' initiated by a ladyboy.
OK, it's not that I have any penchant for putting pictures of scantily-clad pretty girls on my blog, but this has to be an exception!
It's all good family fun - a mixture of Japanese, Chinese & Western pop sungs lip synched to perfection, energetic dance routines and raunchy costumes. At the beginning, you just sit there, mouth agape, not believing that the beautiful women in daring dresses are/were men. You then start looking for the tiny signs which might give them away: skin bit too tight around the bust area? face caked with a bit too much foundation? perhaps those shoulders are a little too broad? And surely with bikini pants like those, they must have had the snip already right? In the end you just enjoy the show. Sometimes you may even get bored - until you kick yourself with the reminder again that the Shania Twain lip syncher was originally a bloke.
With my dad's zoom lens and shock of white hair, the performers were more than obliging in giving him a special pose for the camera (unfortunately I don't have his pics!). Dad would give his own opinions: that one's got dimples, that one's sooo pretty, that one's not pretty at all. But never did he say: that one looks like a bloke.
(Incidentally, the one with the dimples who looks like a Japanese pop songstress, danced a bit too energetically for her bikini top and more was revealed than should be. And as for your question: no I don't have a picture. But you'll get the idea below. As for your second question: I can vouch that they certainly looked real enough.)
At the end, you can have your picture taken with and pay a compliment to your favourite ladyboy. They've hit the feminine mannerisms, make-up and boobs right on the nail, but one thing will always give them away: the voice!
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