Otis wrote:My gf informs that real Khmer monks:

1. Never walk around soliciting alms except in the morning

2. Never speak to people when they do - they just stand

3. Do not have a string of big beads

4. Do not have a little bell-like bowl

5. They don't give out bracelets or anything else

And that those who do the above are fake.

Is this correct?

If so I've seen a number of fakes in the last week or 2 down on or near the river and up towards st 51. I loudly heckled one who came into a restaurant I was eating in.

Plus two Philippina scammers on a bench on the riverside who complemented me on my t-shirt.

[Headline: Hardliner tries to reform Thailand’s Buddhist monks behaving badly
Scandals involving drugs, financial impropriety and lavish lifestyles have tarnished the reputation of the country’s dominant religious order.]...
There have been monks with girlfriends (and boyfriends), drunk monks crashing cars, monks pocketing wads of cash meant for funerals and monks playing the stock market. And that’s not even mentioning the monks-on-meth or the selfie-snapping, Louis Vuitton bag-wielding, private jet-taking monk scandals of 2013.

Otis wrote:Samouth, are you a missionary?

prahkeitouj wrote:

Otis wrote:My gf informs that real Khmer monks:

1. Never walk around soliciting alms except in the morning

2. Never speak to people when they do - they just stand

3. Do not have a string of big beads

4. Do not have a little bell-like bowl

5. They don't give out bracelets or anything else

And that those who do the above are fake.

Is this correct?

If so I've seen a number of fakes in the last week or 2 down on or near the river and up towards st 51. I loudly heckled one who came into a restaurant I was eating in.

Plus two Philippina scammers on a bench on the riverside who complemented me on my t-shirt.

Yes, they are not Khmer monks, but I think they are Chinese monks.