Washington Square (Bangkok)
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Washington Square is an entertainment area in Bangkok
Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...

, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

, located at Sukhumvit
Sukhumvit Road
Sukhumvit Road , or Thailand Route 3 , is a major road in Thailand, and a major surface road of Bangkok and other cities it winds through. It follows a coastal route from Bangkok to Trat and is just over in length....

 Soi
Soi
Soi is the term used in Thailand for a side-street branching off a major street . An alley is called a Trok .Sois are usually numbered, and are referred to by the name of the major street and the number, as in "Soi Sukhumvit 4", "Sukhumvit Soi 4", or "Sukhumvit 4", all referring to the fourth soi...

 22, near the Phrom Phong skytrain station
Phrom Phong Station
Phrom Phong station is a BTS skytrain station, on the in Watthana and Khlong Toei District, Bangkok, Thailand. The station is located on Sukhumvit Road at Soi Phrom Phong , one of the areas in Bangkok which is sometimes called Little Japan with many Japanese restaurants...

. It contains bars, restaurants, massage parlors and a katoey theatre. The area is mainly popular with retired western expatriates.

Bourbon Street serves Cajun
Cajun
Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles...

 and Creole
Louisiana Creole people
Louisiana Creole people refers to those who are descended from the colonial settlers in Louisiana, especially those of French and Spanish descent. The term was first used during colonial times by the settlers to refer to those who were born in the colony, as opposed to those born in the Old World...

 food and was written up by the Bangkok Post in 2005.

The area appears in Christopher G. Moore
Christopher G. Moore
Christopher G. Moore is a Canadian writer of twenty novels and one collection of short stories. He is best known for his trilogy A Killing Smile , A Bewitching Smile and A Haunting Smile , a behind-the-smiles study of his adopted country, Thailand, and for his Vincent Calvino Private Eye series...

's series of crime novels about private eye Vincent Calvino
Vincent Calvino
Vincent Calvino is a fictional Bangkok-based private eye created by Christopher G. Moore in the Vincent Calvino Private Eye series. Vincent Calvino first appeared in 1992 in Spirit House, the first novel in the series. His latest appearance is in The Corruptionist, the eleventh novel in the series...

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