Bangkok is similar to a video game designed by a Japanese genius, where you’re always stumbling onto all kinds of crazy bonus level: you turn the corner and suddenly there’s a Muay Thai training gym, a Chinese temple, a store that sells monks robes and only monks, robes, shark in a bag.
You thought you were just stopping by Chatujak Market to buy fisherman’s pants and candles to take home, but suddenly you’re lost, roosters are crowing and Thai dwarves are watching cockfighting.
JJ has an entire section of cockfighting.
A warning to the losers? Vendors sell fried chicken next to the cockfighting ring.
You walk past some guys selling manta rays and giant coy fish while watching Muay Thai on TV.
You walk past rays in an aquarium.
And you thought it was charming to buy Thai coffee in a bag? These people sold sharks in a bag.
JJ is full animal cruelty. There are puppy mills, kitten mills, macaws who have plucked out all their own feathers because they’re boiling in the heat, half-dead squirrels tied to their cages with red ribbon, wild-caught ocean fish struggling in plastic bags. However, this bunny might be the worst injustice suffered by animals at JJ.
It’s 40 degrees outside! Do bunnies really need “outfits”?