Hello,
My name is Phatcharin Thungngoen, I found your blog site while surfing the net and was so thrilled to find news of Alan.
I worked with Alan at the Mango Tree Cafe the day he opened it. Alan worked hard and soon the cafe became very popular with famous people arriving and staying all day sometimes. The cafe won the Thailand Tatler award for the best cafe, and sometimes on Sunday's we would have to turn customers away because we were full up. We started with only a total of three people and in 18 months there were over 20 working girls employed at the cafe.
Alan never interfered with the work we did he always let us do our job while he would be around if we needed help. The cafe became the envy of many others who tried their hardest to copy the style but it was the Mango Tree Cafe that everyone wanted to be seen in. We had a girl who sang very good songs, she was a mystery girl. Then we had two girls who played the guitar and violin, they made a CD and went to London to perform.
The Cafe was very odd because it had a feel about it and people seemed to be drawn to it, it did not help when Alan used to say the cafe was haunted by friendly ghosts! We girls got very frightened. But it did have an unusual feel, and many lonely but interesting people seemed to find the cafe and come in and never leave.
Alan had the ability be able to read these peoples minds as he would have us girls with eyes wide and mouths open in shock as he would sit and tell us stories about the people who visited the cafe, not because he knew them but because he said 'they gave off signals and signs'
He studied everyone and was always writing in his notebook. One French customer asked some of the girls if Alan was a spy as he seemed to sit watching the happenings on Loi Kroh Road and taking notes. We now find out the truth!
Alan was a great guy, he was kind to everyone and everyone liked him. I know that his novel will be a big hit because what he wrote in his notebook was what he saw happening around him daily in the cafe and on Loi Kroh Road.
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My name is Phatcharin Thungngoen, I found your blog site while surfing the net and was so thrilled to find news of Alan.
I worked with Alan at the Mango Tree Cafe the day he opened it. Alan worked hard and soon the cafe became very popular with famous people arriving and staying all day sometimes. The cafe won the Thailand Tatler award for the best cafe, and sometimes on Sunday's we would have to turn customers away because we were full up. We started with only a total of three people and in 18 months there were over 20 working girls employed at the cafe.
Alan never interfered with the work we did he always let us do our job while he would be around if we needed help. The cafe became the envy of many others who tried their hardest to copy the style but it was the Mango Tree Cafe that everyone wanted to be seen in. We had a girl who sang very good songs, she was a mystery girl. Then we had two girls who played the guitar and violin, they made a CD and went to London to perform.
The Cafe was very odd because it had a feel about it and people seemed to be drawn to it, it did not help when Alan used to say the cafe was haunted by friendly ghosts! We girls got very frightened. But it did have an unusual feel, and many lonely but interesting people seemed to find the cafe and come in and never leave.
Alan had the ability be able to read these peoples minds as he would have us girls with eyes wide and mouths open in shock as he would sit and tell us stories about the people who visited the cafe, not because he knew them but because he said 'they gave off signals and signs'
He studied everyone and was always writing in his notebook. One French customer asked some of the girls if Alan was a spy as he seemed to sit watching the happenings on Loi Kroh Road and taking notes. We now find out the truth!
Alan was a great guy, he was kind to everyone and everyone liked him. I know that his novel will be a big hit because what he wrote in his notebook was what he saw happening around him daily in the cafe and on Loi Kroh Road.
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