BKK Again
Having visited this famous Thailand capital for the nth time, I wanted to do a brief “highlights-only” entry of my trip but ended up with 120 photos I wanted to post. So much for ‘highlights’, I’ll probably split this trip journal into a couple of entries, also to make up for the lack of blogging these days.
So let’s see where a 4D4N free N easy takes me!
Khao San Road
So many times I’ve been to BKK, but the first time seeing Khao San Road, place of pubs, bars, angmohs and night activities.
Lotsa lotsa angmohs…
There isn’t a whole lot to do here, especially not shopping. Best to come when you’re hungry or looking for a place to chill & have beer, which was what we wanted anyway.
First, we searched for food…
…mini calzone roadside stall!
The satay here is different from SG. It’s heavily marinated and minced, kinda like a mushy sausage.
Chicken, beef & pork, they all taste the same.
But what could never go wrong is – Chocolate Condensed Milk Banana pancake. Somebody bring this to S’pore quickly please!
We find the least sleazy beer place to eat our roadside food and have some beer while watching people get drunk.
Watermelon juice for the lady and Tiger for the man. With what’s left of the most delicious roadside stall fried noodle I’ve ever tasted. Must be all the fish sauce, chili flakes, ground peanuts and sugar that gives Thai food such kick.
Me, greasy from the head & shoulder massage we had earlier in the day at Asia Herb Association. It’s really posh and affordable, I highly recommend.
If you are here over the weekend, a must go place is Chatuchak Weekend Market, a market so huge you’ll probably get lost among the clothes, furniture, accessories, household wares, plants, and animals being sold at the market. The animals! Oh how they tug my heartstrings!
…I want another puppy doggy!
3hrs is the limit I can stay in the sweltering humid environment of Chatuchak. After that, the experience deteriorates in accelerated fashion. On to the next shopping site, city centre Siam.
Typical Siam traffic. What a bugger.
To Siam Paragon for my favourite takeout soup. This time I try black chicken herbal soup and the flawless lobster bisque.
And Food Loft at Central Chidlom for this wonderful banana fritter with ice-cream. Inside the fritter contains not just banana, but chocolate cake, pear & pineapple. How do they make it? Anyway, it tastes lovely and very fine for food court fare.
And then as we strolled pass Siam Centre, we saw 2 phenomenons happening AT THE SAME SHOPPING CENTRE, SAME TIME, in separate atriums.
Thailand’s F4…handsome youths, spikey gelled hair with slick dance moves winning shrieks from every teenaged girl.
VS
“What do those guys have that I don’t have….”
......
At night, we go to the night version of Chatuchak – Suan Lum Night Bazaar. Contrary to the rumormill, this place is still very much buzzing with business and life.
The golden gate of Suan Lum
Rows of endless shopping…
The kinda restaurant surely meant for tourists only…
I rather eat at the centrestage hawker stalls. Yep, the stage with lip synching performers is still there!
Suan Lum is another good place for beers
Beer makes him happy.
To be continued…
So let’s see where a 4D4N free N easy takes me!
Khao San Road
So many times I’ve been to BKK, but the first time seeing Khao San Road, place of pubs, bars, angmohs and night activities.
Lotsa lotsa angmohs…
There isn’t a whole lot to do here, especially not shopping. Best to come when you’re hungry or looking for a place to chill & have beer, which was what we wanted anyway.
First, we searched for food…
…mini calzone roadside stall!
The satay here is different from SG. It’s heavily marinated and minced, kinda like a mushy sausage.
Chicken, beef & pork, they all taste the same.
But what could never go wrong is – Chocolate Condensed Milk Banana pancake. Somebody bring this to S’pore quickly please!
We find the least sleazy beer place to eat our roadside food and have some beer while watching people get drunk.
Watermelon juice for the lady and Tiger for the man. With what’s left of the most delicious roadside stall fried noodle I’ve ever tasted. Must be all the fish sauce, chili flakes, ground peanuts and sugar that gives Thai food such kick.
Me, greasy from the head & shoulder massage we had earlier in the day at Asia Herb Association. It’s really posh and affordable, I highly recommend.
If you are here over the weekend, a must go place is Chatuchak Weekend Market, a market so huge you’ll probably get lost among the clothes, furniture, accessories, household wares, plants, and animals being sold at the market. The animals! Oh how they tug my heartstrings!
…I want another puppy doggy!
3hrs is the limit I can stay in the sweltering humid environment of Chatuchak. After that, the experience deteriorates in accelerated fashion. On to the next shopping site, city centre Siam.
Typical Siam traffic. What a bugger.
To Siam Paragon for my favourite takeout soup. This time I try black chicken herbal soup and the flawless lobster bisque.
And Food Loft at Central Chidlom for this wonderful banana fritter with ice-cream. Inside the fritter contains not just banana, but chocolate cake, pear & pineapple. How do they make it? Anyway, it tastes lovely and very fine for food court fare.
And then as we strolled pass Siam Centre, we saw 2 phenomenons happening AT THE SAME SHOPPING CENTRE, SAME TIME, in separate atriums.
Thailand’s F4…handsome youths, spikey gelled hair with slick dance moves winning shrieks from every teenaged girl.
VS
“What do those guys have that I don’t have….”
......
At night, we go to the night version of Chatuchak – Suan Lum Night Bazaar. Contrary to the rumormill, this place is still very much buzzing with business and life.
The golden gate of Suan Lum
Rows of endless shopping…
The kinda restaurant surely meant for tourists only…
I rather eat at the centrestage hawker stalls. Yep, the stage with lip synching performers is still there!
Suan Lum is another good place for beers
Beer makes him happy.
To be continued…
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