Where the regulars drink
Expat bar zones in Southeast Asia
The expat pub-and-hostess-bar zones where the regulars drink: Sukhumvit, BKK1, Poblacion, Changkat.
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Sukhumvit Soi 11
Bangkok· 17:00–02:00
Sukhumvit Soi 11 is a long, busy soi off Sukhumvit Road, five minutes from BTS Nana, lined with hotels, restaurants, cocktail bars, a rooftop or two and the nightclubs Levels and Sugar. It is a normal night out — tourists, expats and Thai women who go out — with cocktails around $9–14 (฿300–500), club entry $9–18 (฿300–600) usually including a drink, and a legal close of 02:00. It is where you take a date, and the best place in Bangkok to meet women who do not work in a bar.
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BKK1
Phnom Penh· 17:00–01:00
BKK1 is the embassy and expat quarter of Phnom Penh, fifteen minutes south of the Riverside. Its nightlife is the Street 308 and Bassac Lane micro-district: craft-beer bars, gin bars, wine bars and small clubs, drinks $2–7 (Aug 2026), busiest Thursday to Saturday from about 8pm. No hostess bars, no bar system — this is the part of the city where you talk to someone with a day job.
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Tay Ho (West Lake)
Hanoi· 18:00–00:00
Tay Ho is the district wrapped around West Lake, four kilometres north of the Old Quarter, and it is where Hanoi’s Western expat community lives. Its bars run along Xuan Dieu and the lakeside streets of Quang An: craft breweries, wine bars, sports bars and restaurants, with drinks $2–7 (Aug 2026). It is the one part of Hanoi where a Western man over forty is in the right room, and the one part where you might meet an English-speaking Hanoian professional.
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Canggu
Bali· 10:00–01:00
Canggu is the eight-kilometre (five-mile) stretch of dark-sand coast north of Seminyak — Berawa, Batu Bolong, Echo Beach and Pererenan — that has gone from rice paddies to Bali’s expat and digital-nomad capital since about 2015. Beach clubs and craft-beer bars rather than nightclubs, an average age around thirty, closing times enforced by the village councils, and traffic that makes a two-mile trip take forty minutes. Great for a fit, social man; a long way from everything else.
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Blok M
Jakarta· 17:00–02:00
Blok M is the shopping and nightlife quarter of Kebayoran Baru in South Jakarta, built around Jalan Falatehan and Jalan Melawai. It was the foreigners’ night out in Jakarta for twenty-five years; most of those bars have closed and what replaced them is a mix of survivors, the Japanese izakaya and karaoke rooms of Little Tokyo, and the young Indonesian crowd at M Bloc Space. Beer $2–4.50 (Rp30,000–75,000), walkable, on the MRT, and the cheapest night out in the city.
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Changkat Bukit Bintang
Kuala Lumpur· 17:00–01:00
Changkat Bukit Bintang is a short, steep street of restored pre-war shophouses running off Jalan Bukit Bintang in central Kuala Lumpur, and it holds most of the bars in Malaysia worth the walk. Irish and British pubs, whisky and cocktail rooms, tapas and Latin bars, a couple of small clubs. Beer $5–7 (RM20–30), cocktails $9–15, no cover at most doors, busiest 21:00–01:00. The Jalan Alor food street is one block downhill.
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