Why don't thai women drink?

**AntRobertson** · 19-01-2009, 04:44 PM

majority of Thais like other Asian people lack an enzyme necessary to breaking down alcohol; that is why about 2/3 of them get flushed after only a single drink and vomit if they persist.

Had a Korean girlfirend like that; one sip of alcohol and she'd go bright red. Was quite amusing.

**dantilley** · 20-01-2009, 01:22 PM

Pretty much every Thai woman I know drinks, at least occasionally. Some much more than others though - my better half, for example, drinks only about once a month. I've known other Thai girls become certified alcoholics though.

**plorf** · 20-01-2009, 02:35 PM

Somehow I have troubles believing all these stories about asians not being able to drink alcohol, milk etc. It solely seems to depend on the where they're coming from and from what upbringing. Or can someone explain why most bargirls, hi-so party chicks seem to have that gene while conservative middle class girls don't ? I guess it's just all about practice.
My girlfriend can't drink at all, she's wasted after a beer. But she claims that in the past she could drink quite a few glasses of whiskey, but now not anymore.

**notanameleft** · 20-01-2009, 02:38 PM

what! what! what??
Thai women don't drink???
Sure they do,
the old ones in the rural drink Lao khao
and the ones in city drink Whisky (Regency is their favourite) and beer
The younger ones do beer, cocktails and liquor

**Rural Surin** · 20-01-2009, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by notanameleft

what! what! what??
Thai women don't drink???
Sure they do,
the old ones in the rural drink Lao khao
and the ones in city drink Whisky (Regency is their favourite) and beer
The younger ones do beer, coctails and liquor

And we're only seperated by several kms....you know how the a small percentage of women are here. But than on the other hand, I'm well aquainted with a number of ladies here that fit into that archtype 'Thai women don't drink' circle. Oh...Surin!

**robuzo** · 20-01-2009, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by plorf

Somehow I have troubles believing all these stories about asians not being able to drink alcohol, milk etc.

No, it's for real. Google it. Here, from the Brown University health website:
Alcohol and Your Body
Asian descent
Some people of Asian descent have more difficulty metabolizing alcohol. They may experience facial flushing, nausea, headache, dizziness and rapid heartbeat. It appears that one of the liver enzymes that is needed to process alcohol is not active in these individuals. It is estimated that up to 50% of Asians are susceptible to these reactions to alcohol.
---

I've also read that American Indians and Finns are in the same category.

**Frankenstein** · 20-01-2009, 03:41 PM

Sort of...

**plorf** · 20-01-2009, 03:59 PM

Thanks, I have heard of it, but just by personal observation I haven't met too many girls who couldn't drink at all, there were some of course, but most just weren't accustomed to it, without all the facial flush and stuff.
Same goes to milk, it got incredibly popular among students in recent years. Milkbars and coffee shops everywhere, so a large number of Thais must be able to digest it, otherwise they surely wouldn't drink it.

**ThaiSpy** · 20-01-2009, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by traveler

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Thai women don't drink??? Guess you lot ain't been to Pattaya, most of the women there are fookin alcoholics.

I am not talking about bargirls or anything associated with them (Xbargirls,etc.).

I am talking about your average thai lady that holds on to traditional values.

Which traditional value is that? Obedience to the parents? Being brainwashed from birth that her role is to be to increase the comfort and material wealth of mother and father. The sense that her most meaningful asset is to be found between her legs?

Sorry, but you've got it exactly backwards. The traditional values girls are the ones you find in the bars. The rest are just lucky enough not to have been born into a dirt-poor family.

Once you stop putting labels on them, the "good" girls and the "bad" girls are just different points on the spectrum.

Thaiguy · 20-01-2009, 04:25 PM

Where you been Sunshine? - all the Thai ladies I know village and bar drink like fishes and love their "Blend 285" - I can send you pics of a GF on the floor with a wastepaper basket necklace calling for "Bill" who didn't hesitate to pass the picture around at the local village gathering point to prove what a great night she had out on the town!

**Frankenstein** · 20-01-2009, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by plorf

Thanks, I have heard of it, but just by personal observation I haven't met too many girls who couldn't drink at all, there were some of course, but most just weren't accustomed to it, without all the facial flush and stuff.
Same goes to milk, it got incredibly popular among students in recent years. Milkbars and coffee shops everywhere, so a large number of Thais must be able to digest it, otherwise they surely wouldn't drink it.

Perhaps the enzyme is not as commonly lacking in as many South Asians and South-East Asians as it is in North-East Asians.

Obviously South East Asia has a fairly large percentage of Chinese genes as well, and the actual population of Thailand is a combination of several other ethnic groups as well, to mention some: Khmer, Mon, Burman, Tibeto-Burman, Malay, etc.

Seems like there is a forum for everything, by the way:

Asian Flush / Asian Blush / Asian Glow Community

**Marmite the Dog** · 20-01-2009, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by notanameleft

and the ones in city drink Whisky (Regency is their favourite)

Regency is a brandy.

**HermantheGerman** · 20-01-2009, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by notanameleft

and the ones in city drink Whisky (Regency is their favourite)

Regency is a brandy.

I don't think it's Whisky nor Brandy !

It's some kind of caramel colored alcohol.

**Marmite the Dog** · 20-01-2009, 07:40 PM

It's a Brandy. My lodger HM King Rama V has a snifter most nights.

**nevets** · 20-01-2009, 07:55 PM

Traveler, OK on reflection i have had a thunk and a count ,and there are a lot of the farming women in my community that don't drink alcohol.

**nevets** · 20-01-2009, 07:57 PM

Regency is a Brandy it is on the bottle

**robuzo** · 20-01-2009, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Perhaps the enzyme is not as commonly lacking in as many South Asians and South-East Asians as it is in North-East Asians.

Obviously South East Asia has a fairly large percentage of Chinese genes as well, and the actual population of Thailand is a combination of several other ethnic groups as well, to mention some: Khmer, Mon, Burman, Tibeto-Burman, Malay, etc.

Seems like there is a forum for everything, by the way:

Asian Flush / Asian Blush / Asian Glow Community

From my experience that seems to be true. Thais do seem to handle their booze a lot better than the Japanese, for example- although there certainly is a substantial minority of Japanese who have no trouble drinking. I was married to a Japanese woman who turns into Tomato Girl after merely a sip; my current wife is Thai/Indian, and can have one, but two drinks make her tipsy and three drinks put her that many sheets to the wind. Often she doesn't even finish the third. It's shame because while she isn't much into drinking, she does like wine.

Another factor to consider to body size; Thais are generally smallish to begin with, and women of all races have both smaller livers than men and livers which produce less of the vital alcohol-reducing enzyme.

As to social strictures, I've known Thai females from all walks of life who drink. I think it is only the hard-core Buddhists and the Santi Asoke types who really get bent out of shape about drinking, although alcoholism being the problem it is in Thailand I think there is less social tolerance for drunkenness here than in, say, Japan, where you can just about get away with anything, even murder, if you are drunk.

**slimboyfat** · 20-01-2009, 08:05 PM

Who cares why they don't drink? You've got a cheap date, pal, and thats a pretty good thing.

Plus you don't have to put up with drunken tantrums in public etc

**HermantheGerman** · 20-01-2009, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by nevets

Regency is a Brandy it is on the bottle

This also says "BEER"

it sure don't taste like beer to me...if you know what I mean.

They even forgot to paste some foam into that glass.

**notanameleft** · 20-01-2009, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by notanameleft

and the ones in city drink Whisky (Regency is their favourite)

Regency is a brandy.

ahh yes Brandy! just watched the ads on telly, they said "Regency Brandy Thai"

**notanameleft** · 20-01-2009, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by notanameleft

what! what! what??
Thai women don't drink???
Sure they do,
the old ones in the rural drink Lao khao
and the ones in city drink Whisky (Regency is their favourite) and beer
The younger ones do beer, coctails and liquor

And we're only seperated by several kms....you know how the a small percentage of women are here. But than on the other hand, I'm well aquainted with a number of ladies here that fit into that archtype 'Thai women don't drink' circle. Oh...Surin!

Have you heard the Slogan of Surin?
ma Surin dtong kin sura, ta ma surin mai kin sura, khao riag wa mha surin!
"when you visit surin you have to drink, if you don't drink you'll be called surinian dog!"

*Sura in Thai means alcohols
As i've been to Ban Taswang quite often, i'm sure the women there drink.

**Rural Surin** · 20-01-2009, 11:24 PM

^ Yeah, of course. About a 50-50 circle going on here....

**Bill Donnell** · 21-01-2009, 07:54 AM

I live in a small farm village near Chok Chai.
As far as I know, all the women in the village drink. They lay around in their Thai Bahn with several bottles of beer or a bottle of cheap bourbon. They use only one glass and pass it around. By doing this, they loose track of how much they are drinking, and half of them end up drunk.

**S Landreth** · 21-01-2009, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Let me explain,..she lived in a dorm. So the way it was explained to me was that every now and then the girls would gather in one room,…put a blanket down on the floor,…get a couple buckets of Sam Tam (sp?), sticky rice and beer,…….drink, eat and giggle.

Any pics or linkies then......?????????

She wouldn’t let me post any pictures of her and her friends here, I am sure. Even if she did say I could post a few pictures of her college days (maybe drinking with friends) it would have to be a photo taken of an old picture (I don’t think it would be that clear). I don’t think there were digital cameras way back then (when she was in college) so she doesn’t have any old photos saved on some memory stick/s, that I can just copy and paste at TD.

I was also talking to her about the enzyme she might be lacking being the reason she gets those red blotches on her face when she drinks a little (I have seen her reaction to liquor once). She told me she was the only Thai she knew with that problem.

**Bexar County Stud** · 21-01-2009, 11:15 AM

I'm grateful that my GF does not. I reckon the number 1 Thai drinking activity is "sing song."
No thanks.

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