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About Poomjai: Poomjai lived and worked in Bangkok for five years between 2003 and 2008 before returning to live in his native England. He currently works in London although he stays in touch with Thailand by writing a regular web-blog for The Nation. Poomjai also writes under the pen-name of Toby Brittan, and published his first book "Sao Thai: Rawang Farang" in October 2007. The book contains some cold truths about the tricks that farang men can play when dating in Thailand, but its underlying message is optimistic. That true love is possible between Thais and farangs. It is essential reading for any Thai lady thinking of entering into a serious relationship with a farang man.

I got the train to London yesterday and noticed some Asian girls on the platform. Pretty as a picture they were. Smartly dressed and wrapped up against the cold. Seeing them warmed my morning before my long day of work.

But it made me ask myself. Why do I find Thai and Asian girls much cuter than farang girls? I can’t be the only farang man who feels this way. I know from many of my friends that single farang women professionals in Bangkok often struggle to find a decent guy who is interested in dating them. And I have been home now for a week and I have barely seen a single farang girl who I find attractive. Everything is down to personal taste I suppose and this is just my opinion.

Some men will always find attractiveness in otherness of course. The glossy black hair, almond eyes and sweet smiles of Thai girls are certainly very appealing. But at a very basic level it must also be an issue of size. Thai and Asian girls generally are more petite in stature when compared to their farang counterparts. For example, my 18 year old niece is a pretty girl for sure. But she is by any definition overweight. And like so many English girls she dresses in such a way which accentuates her size, rather than softens it to the eye.

So many English girls dress in a manner which doesn’t suit the weather either. On the train yesterday was another chubby girl wearing very short shorts and no stockings to warm her legs. Other girls like to display the rolls of their midriff. It isn’t a pretty sight. Although deep down I sense that these girls might be trying to dress in a way which appears sexy, albeit failing. Don’t get me wrong. Not all English girls are fat. But a very large proportion seem to be from my straw sample of seven days in country.

But it isn’t just about size though surely? As hinted above, manner of dress is also important. On the front page of yesterday’s Telegraph was a photograph of a young Asian girl out shopping in London. She wasn’t exceptionally beautiful. But she was dressed in such a nice smart way, with a pretty red coat on and knee length boots that I found her quite adorable to look at. So many of the girls I see in Bangkok have a manner of dress which is both modest and attractive. Pretty print skirts which are not overly revealing, bright colours and neatly made up accessorized hair. OK, to some extent the manner of dress must be driven by the tropical weather in Thailand. But the desire for a level of modesty in dress is also important too. And for me at least, a girl who doesn’t try too hard to appear sexy is far more sexy and attractive than one who does.

What else is it about Thai girls? Is it because their manners are more riab roi? It is perhaps less common to happen across a group of Thai girls in Bangkok acting in a raucous way flinging around bawdy badinage than it would be to find English girls acting in said way in the centre of Southampton. Go to an English pub or night-spot and many of the girls will be chugging as much alcohol and smoking as many cigarettes as the men. They will in many cases also be the instigators of intimate one night encounters, the boundaries on sexual relations still being more loosely cast in the west than they are in the East (as a general rule).

Or could it be that the advance of the women’s liberation movement in Thailand and the Orient is still far behind that of the west and farang men enjoy the greater feeling of being in control in relationships with Thai and Asian girls?

As I said at the top, everyone has different tastes. Some men may like well padded women, who can drink them under the table and out smut them before carrying them to bed. But I think that a large number of men, at heart, find sweet looking, well manner girls with nice clothes and figures, quite adorable. I certainly do. And that is why for me Thai girls are far cuter than farangs.