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The Blue Parrot Flies Again
(Bangkok, 21 February 2007, Source RC Press)
For those of you who have smoked a cigar or two in Asia, you may have heard of the Blue Parrot Cigar Club. It had its beginnings in Hong Kong in the early 1990s. On a monthly basis, tales of wafting smoke rising over some of Asias most eclectic aficionado dinner gatherings were told amongst Asia's button-down, cigar smoking fraternity. From Singapore, to Jakarta, to Bangkok to Tokyo, the dinners grew to legendary proportions. Here, you see a gathering of Hong Kong's famed Blue Parrot circa 1992.
We are pleased to report an official resurrection of the Bangkok chapter of the Blue Parrot Cigar Club. An eclectic blend of blue blooded, semi-blue blooded and not so blue blooded aficionados gathered on the evening of 21 February, in the year of our Lord 2007 at Bangkok's most renowned and long standing Italian restaurant, L Opera.
On that fateful evening, over the course of four and one half hours, more cigars were lit, more red wine consumed, more white wine consumed, more champagne consumed and more calories were consumed by the Blue Parrot Club Bangkok boys than by the 250 strong contingent of the 51st infantry division on the evening of the day they liberated Paris. Were talking loosen the belt two notches here.
Geographically, the cigars ranged from Nicaragua, to the Dominican Republic, to Cuba to an odd little unit from the Philippines, while the ring gauges ranged from pencil thin to “My Big Fat Cigar,” with robustos, churchills, double coronas and petites being fired up before and after the fabulous five course meal. (The guy smoking the petites was secretly black balled at
10:40 PM).
All in all, a great night was had by all; truly a gentlemans night out. Special thanks to the inaugural organizers, mighty Mike Alexander, Viking Kitchens rep for Asia, and titanic Tommie Duncan, perhaps the only non-sailor in Bangkok who has mastered the sextant.
The next dinner is scheduled for the third week of March.
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