Khao Phansa Day 2025

Adam’s Apple Club Chiang Mai is closed tonight “Khao Phansa Day” Friday, July 11st, 2025

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Khao Phansa marks the first day of “Buddhist Lent,” a time when observant Buddhists fast from such things as meat, alcohol, and tobacco. For the most part, only Theravada, rather than Mahayana, Buddhists observe Khao Phansa, and even many Theravada practitioners choose not to fast.

We wish YOU a good “Khao Phansa Day” Friday, July 11st, 2025

Adam’s Apple Club in Chiang Mai is OPEN again on Saturday, July 12th, 2025.

The club was empty, it being early evening, so I made my way up the stairs to Jen’s private quarters on the building’s top floor. Entering his apartment, which appeared to be more of a club house for the staff, I immediately blushed crimson at the sight of over a dozen young men, most wearing only their white y-fronts, feasting on a table laden with food. There were four expat men sitting by the balcony, Jens and three of his regular customers, digging into a plate of Camembert, sipping Singhas and flirting with a stream of young men who kept coming up to give them hugs and kisses.

Jens took over Adam’s Apple as a favour to his friend, the previous owner, who fell ill over a decade ago. His ‘few months’ has since turned into 11 years, as he says that he is unable to leave his ‘family’, which is how he now describes the community he has built up at Adam’s Apple.

“I retired early and am financially secure,” explained Jens who started, and eventually sold, one of the largest data centre companies in Chiang Mai a decade ago. “So I am not doing this as a business, but because these boys have become my family. The Lord gave me such a beautiful life that I want to give back. I ask myself why I have been given so much? And this is what I have to do to give it on. I genuinely like all of these boys, many of whom have no one to care for them and I want to treat them like human beings, like family. For me, it is important to get hugs! I am not a sexpat, that isn’t my thing,” he explains, glancing at the discreet wooden cross hanging on the wall leading to his bedroom. “These boys (when asked, I was told that they ranged in age between 21 and 33) come here by choice, they make their own decisions as to whether they want to serve or go further and become a sex worker.”