Ocean Plaza Bangla in Patong Beach has something of a history: once a bazaar-like labyrinth selling fake guns and not-so-fake combat knives, binoculars, and the like, buy could have been forgiven for thinking it was some sort of a wannabe military outlet. Nowadays Ocean is far more benign and the renovated shop has closed the dusty upstairs café and bowling alley sport and is restricted to one, cheerily lit ground floor.