[contenttypegeek]

Bangkok is (used to be??) perhaps my favourite city in the world.

Is Kuala Lumpur more hygienic? You bet. Is there more 'order'? For sure.

Guess what! Kuala Lumpur is not in my top 10. Maybe not even top 20.

If I want order and hygiene, I go to Singapore, which is tied for the top spot on my favourite city list.

Bangkok is so charming because... it's Bangkok. Change that drastically (for example by imposing 'order and hygiene') and you get something like a watered down Kuala Lumpur.

Thanks, but no thanks.

[Markoff]

I stayed in both for extended periods of time many many times and Bangkok was love at first sight, though it get tiring after some time, KL not that much, but as for your hygiene comment I think they are pretty much on par, it's just that BKK is significantly bigger city so it might look a bit dirtier but in reality KL for its size is also pretty dirty despite being richer

though I would take nowadays Georgetown over both of them and maybe dare even to say I would prefer Kanchanaburi over Bangkok, their night market next to train station is amazing, went there for every dinner always when visiting, somehow I got tired of these bigger Asian cities and can enjoy the small as well (this coming from someone who lived in 20mil Beijing for years, so KL is pretty much village like most of European capitals by population)

[anentropic]

+1 for Georgetown

[sunyata]

I agree. Bangkok is also one of my favorite places in the world. Because of the chaos, the heat, the street food and... Oh pretty much everything about it...

Sad to hear about this.