Drinking on a Shoestring: South East Asia’s Best Budget Booze

Posted by julian on 16 August 2010

It is a demon that numbs our senses, and its power is impossible to overthrow until you throw up. It is on the five continents and the seven seas. Alcohol is the universal language; this has now been confirmed by dermatologists. In South East Asia it doesn’t just make the hearts of the locals beat slower: Be it on Ko Panghan in Thailand, in Nha Trang, Vietnam, or Vang Vieng in Laos – entire tourist party hells live off continuous irrigation by overpriced bars. But stop! It doesn’t have to be like that! Already in the past sagesex has proven that South East Asia offers festive inebriation in price ranges below any budgetat least for those with a tough stomach. Which means looking for a compromise: Good and affordable is what counts! After half a year of experience in this part of the world sagesex is ready to present the ultimate guide to almost free intoxication in South East Asia: The top three in affordable and enjoyable alcoholica.

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Popularity: 28% [?]

16Aug

Sagesex discovers the most repulsive drink in the world: Start damaging your brain right now!

Posted by admin on 23 April 2010

Brain damage: Jägermeister, Vodka Absolut, Gin. Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Popularity: 11% [?]

23Apr

Sagesex presents the hippest new drink for the 2010 season: The Ranong Propaganda!

Posted by stefan on 30 March 2010

2009 has been the year of The Moabit. Now sagesex strikes back with the in-drink for the 2010 summer season. Like you would expect from us, it’s from a rather exotic place again. Manhattan bores you? Singapore Sling is so 20th century? Behold! From Don’s Bar in Ranong, on the Thai-Birmese border, we bring you

The Ranong Propaganda

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Popularity: 7% [?]

30Mar

Become a better person with 7/11

Posted by julian on 28 March 2010

Wherever there’s civilisation, there’s advertising. And Thailand is very civilized in that sense. In Bangkok’s Skytrain there are ad wagons themed entirely for one product; advertising spots shout at you from screens everywhere. Mostly congruent with western advertising, the blockbusters are sweets, drinks, fashion and above all beauty and health products. Yet what struck us as most useful are trendy small bottles containing drinks that are supposed to make you more beautiful, smart, or healthy. If you believe the ads, Thai women can make sure to be wed in the most romantic way by regularly enjoying a glass of chicken essence! How about better memory or just a little whiter skin? You local 7/11 super market keeps an entire palette of world improvement drinks in store for you. Exclusively and using death defying self experiments, sagesex has now tested the favorites from the fridge. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 8% [?]

28Mar