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Many Western movies featured Patpong, including the award The Deer Hunter (1978), starring Robert De Niro. In the final part of the popular musical Miss Saigon (1989) set the bar scene of Patpong.

Barack film has a few shots of strippers in Patpong.In the 1994 book Patpong Sisters: American Women of the World View Sex Bangkok (ISBN 1-55970-281-8) by Cleo Odzer describes the experience of an anthropologist doing field research in Thailand.

Patpong: Bangkok Twilight Zone (2001, ISBN 0-9537438-2-9) Nick Nostitz is a personal photographic image aspects of Patpong nightlife.

In the 2008 book Lady: The Secret World third Paul gives an intimate portrait of Thailand Kathoeys Thailand. It is a collection of authentic stories about journeys of self-knowledge by those who struggled with gender identity, trying to maintain a normal life and career. The book presents some of the celebrities transsexual Thai boxer such as Nong Toom, and life magazine columnist, a cabaret singer, prostitutes and others. Some of them also talk about their experiences in Patpong. The book was written by Susan Aldous and Pornchai Sereemongkonpol and published in Maverick Publishing House.

Patpong Opera is a collection of songs written by Paul Wood, manager of Radio City melodies of contemporary rock songs. Together they tell the story of the people in Patpong. Copies may be obtained from Radio City Music Hall.

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Some establishments in Patpong employment kathoeys (or "ladyboys") either exclusively or as part of mixed-sex employees. In contrast to the kathoey bars in Nana Plaza, Patpong, many employees of these bars postoperative transsexuals.

With one or two exceptions, the gay bars in the Patpong area is not go-go bars, but simply traditional gay bars, such as telephone and balcony, which are designed for both Thais and tourists. Commercial gay oriented go-go bars are mainly in the Surawong road or in a small street leading Soi Pratuchai Surawong.

Today, however, there are indications that some of Patpong refuse sex and to provide other forms of entertainment. Currently there are number of bars with live music, which attract regular Thais and tourists, as well as a number of very good restaurants. 

The night marketIn recent years, Silom and Surawong were captured Patpong night market, which makes the movement in this area difficult and filling the area with tourist Farang couples and tourists. Men selling pornographic DVD-ROM drive became more and more discomfort in this area, as it was advertised that are trying to send tourists to bars offering sex shows. 

This night market is very tourist-oriented, with an accompanying high prices compared to local market-oriented, if a person is not willing to bargain very hard to get a good price.In the media

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By 1968, several night clubs that existed in the area, Patpong, and have been used as an R & R (rest and recuperation), the place for American troops serving in the Vietnam War, although the main R & R area was actually on the road New Petchburi. In his prime in the 1970s and 1980s, was the prime minister of Patpong nightlife in Bangkok, and was known then for his sexual show. 

In the mid-1980s, soybean was Patpong annual Mardi Gras, which was just off the street, picked up a lot of money for Thai charities. By the end of the 1980s, however, the family Patpongpanich began to lease small plots in the center of a Patpong night market.Today, the night of Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy provide strong competition for Patpong. 

Nevertheless, Patpong is the only official entertainment zones decreed the Thai government in 2004, which allows local places legally stay open until 2am, instead of 1 am legal closing time in other areas. Implementation of this law was originally strict, but over time has changed since then.

In recent years there has been a departure from the traditional place of sex in Patpong. Twilo hip-hop bar boasts two live music every night and is very popular among tourists and local Thais. In addition, Muzzik cafe has been completely renovated and is very popular bar live music played by a mixture of rock, hip-hop and pop music.Next to it is fashionable Twilo Dojo with DJs regularly play both club and house music.  

Park Bridge, another high-class place of music, has just opened in Patpong 2 and is available from any car park Foodland or, conversely, from the third floor of the building. Radio City and Lucifer were also repaired, which would mean, in November 2008 Patpong is one of the major areas of live music in Bangkok.Sex-related businessesMost Patpong go-go bars are women dance on stage.  

Dancers (and sometimes staff), as a rule, are available for customers wishing to pay a fine in the bar took them out of the bar, pay for sexual services is negotiated separately. Some establishments advertising "massages" are in fact hidden brothels, and some of the famous "bar change" offer oral sex in the main bar or in the backrooms. 

A few bars at the top has a function (technically illegal) sex shows, the women who perform a variety of creative acts, such as ping-pong show. Perhaps the most famous of these features women performing exotic stunts involving their genitalia and projectile table tennis balls.  

Some of them are on the second floor bars are run by scammers that will attract tourists with offers low prices, and then submit a wildly inflated bill, as well as threats of physical harm if the bill is not paid. Tourist Police, usually located in Patpong 1 and Silom Road, can help in such situations.