Inspector Zhang And The Dead Thai Gangster - Plot & Excerpts
Bang means “village” and kok is an olive-like fruit. Doesn’t have much of a ring to it, so the Thais prefer to call their capital Krung Thep, or City of Angels. Actually, the full Thai name gets a place in the Guinness World Records book as the world’s longest place name. Krungthep, Maha Nakorn, Amorn Ratanakosindra, Mahindrayudhya, Mahadilokpop Noparatana Rajdhani, Burirom, Udom Rajnivet Mahastan, Amorn Pimarm Avatarn Satit, Sakkatuttiya, Vishnukarm Prasit. Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? It translates as “The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with the nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in enormous royal palaces which resemble the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated God, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarm.” Bangkok is shorter. But it is still one hell of a big city. Officially It’s home to twelve million people but at any one time there could be up to twenty million trying to make a living there. The vast majority are Thais, so finding Jon Junior would be difficult, but not impossible.
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