Originally Posted by
olisch
and for what it's worth ... my wife, who is thai, never gave tip before she got to know me, even she earned good money. she told me that tipping doesn't belong to thai culture and that tipping just came with farang ... but nowadays thai people got used to getting tipped, so many of them expect to get a tip.
In the end the more tip you give them the more they expect to get tipped
I see you points, in that what we'd consider a small tip in the West is huge where wages are much lower, and that we raise expectations. I guess my point of view is that it's practically no skin off my nose and means a lot to recipients.