I'm back... From Bangkok!!
Yo! I'm back!! In fact, I was glad to be back home in Singapore. It was damn hot over at Bangkok, and I felt so so dehydrated! Well, I promise to be appreciative of the good weather in Singapore. Let's see, maybe 1 month? Before I start to complain the erratic weather again... =p
Anyway, the trip was full of hazard, sweat and weary. First of all, the stupid SQ actually left my fren's luggage out. So, we were there in bangkok while her poor luggage was left alone in Singapore. How dumb can it be, when we had all checked in together and faithfully reached the airport an hour earlier to check in?
On the way from Bangkok airport to our hotel, we agreed upon the taxi fare before we boarded the taxi. But on the way, the driver actually asked for toll fee for highway. We insisted that he talked to his manager and refused to pay him. Shortly afterthat, we heard a loud bang. And the driver removed his safety belt and stopped the car at the road shoulder in the middle of the highway! Panic lor! Scared that he was angry with us for not paying him the highway charge and decided to abandon us. But heng lah, coz he just went to check his vehicle niao. So after that, we decided to be nice to him and dun made him angry.. -_-" In any case, he kenak stopped by the traffic police for making an illegal turn. Well, saw him paid the police some money to get away the charge tot. Dunno we sway or he sway to pick us up?? Hmm.. keke
On the next day after our shopping, we kenak another taxi driver who refused to go by meter. Ended up, we just paid him 150 Baht to get back lor.. No choice man, coz it was kinda late. But he got his "retribution" lah... coz he ALSO kenak stopped by police and got to pay 50 Baht. Keke... either we "jinx" the taxi drivers or the traffic police in Bangkok are really working hard ( at collecting bribes?) nowadays...
On the next day after our shopping, we kenak another taxi driver who refused to go by meter. Ended up, we just paid him 150 Baht to get back lor.. No choice man, coz it was kinda late. But he got his "retribution" lah... coz he ALSO kenak stopped by police and got to pay 50 Baht. Keke... either we "jinx" the taxi drivers or the traffic police in Bangkok are really working hard ( at collecting bribes?) nowadays...
Putting aside the series of unfortunate events, we had our share of great food and fun shopping. In total, I bought 20 clothes ( includes skirts, dresses, tops, shorts and vest), 5 shoes, hair accessories and belt. How much I spent on them? Hmm, polly ard S$250+? That was about S$10 per item, real cheap man!! I would be back!!
As expected, I ate a lot in Bangkok as well.. the food there were more tastier ( polly of more generous serving of spices) and definitely cheaper. Ya can just order anything you like without thinking about your wallet damage. Cool man! Such environment works perfectly for ppl like me who eat like glutton, simply want to have a taste of everything and anything! Hahhahah
This was a thai food resturant recommended by fren. It was situated at Siam Square, Soi 8. Not too hard to find, coz it was a hut-like building standing on its own.
We went there for a after-lunch-before-dinner snack, so we just ordered a few authentic thai food to try. Aiya, must follow the locals mah...
Mango with Glutinous Rice
The one served in Singapore can never compared to this lor! The mango was damn big and sweet, while the rice was soft and simply melted away in your mouh. Yet, you can still enjoy the stickness texture of normal glutinous rice. Eat the rice together with the coconut milk and mango... Awesome!
Red Ruby - Chestnut with coconut milk
The red ruby was crunchy on the inside, and soft on the outside. The starch(??) wrapping the chestnut bites was soft, kinda different from the ones sold in Singapore. Maybe because it was freshly made, and therefore did not harden. What? Ya wanna see clearer? Come, come... place ur nose against the screen....keke
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They really looked like red ruby lor!! Jewels for the taste bud!!
Tom Yam Soup
It was a bit spicy for me, but nevertheless was good. Well, that what my frens all said lah. I'm not someone who enjoys spicy food so cant really appreciate the goodness of it. To me, it was bit bit sour, bit bit spicy. And hor, ya can find all sorts of seafood like fresh prawn ( not those small, frozen kind), fish, sotong, mussels, mushrooms.. 值得！
They tasted sth like otah, but definitely more satisfying. There were fish, sotong, mussel, prawn inside the fish cake itself lor! And the fish cakes were BIG, each cost like 30 baht only. They were so gigantic, that we got to tabao back to the hotel coz we were too full to finish them all. And most imptly, they tasted as good after heating up the next morning!
For all the above, we spent like around 500baht ( S$22) for 4 pax, which was like only $5 each. My god!! Really worth for the good food, somemore we were in a proper thai resturant, not roadside stall leh..
Other pretty desserts that we dint manage to try tot.... SOBZ... See lor.... and DROOL lor... SOBZ
Orange blended Juice
Watermelon & Orange blended Juice Actually I wanted to go to the Jap Resturant that I used to go last time, but *poof*, it was gone. Sad leh... coz that one really cheap and good. Somemore, the waitress all dressed in kimono de. ( You scratched head and said "so what?") Dunno leh, nicer lor... haha.
But I got over my "sadness" in less than 5 minutes and went to another Japanese Resturant in the same level ( MBK, Level 2 or 3).
Kobune Japanese Restaurant
Sashimi!
But it was too little! We had braved through Platinum Mall, Siam Square & MBK the whole day, how can a small plate of sashimi comforted us? So we ordered another plate of salmon sashimi..
This was great! The fish slices was cooling to the palate, must be freshly cut out from the fish tank! Each slice was chunky and sweet... Oh, I can feel the ocean!! ^_^
Saba Set
Beef Set Must order the set meal! Each set came with soup, white radish side dish, kimchi ( Thai cant differentiate Jap & Korean lah..hee) and rice. Yet they costed less than S$10 each. Both saba and beef were reasonably good. And hor, the bean sprout and vege were cooked in teppanyaki style.. I like!
In total, we spent ard 1,200baht ( S$55) for 4, so roughly $10+ for each pax. Alamak, where to find this in Spore. Somemore, got complimentary ice-cream at the end of it.
Day 2 at Bangkok
We were dead tired after all the "hardwork" and "series of unfortunate events" for the previous days. But dun worry,we were mentally strong and that kept us chionging all the way!! In the morning we went chatuchap, and then came back to the hotel at around lunch time for our free lunch!
Phat Thai
Somemore, we also given each a plate of fruits ( watermelon, papaya, melon & pineapple) which were all super sweet!
Thereafter, we chionged to Platinum Mall again to contine the "battle"! It was getting tough as resources ( aka my $$ lah) was depleting fast. I got to deploy resources to where the battle had 80% of survival ( aka negotiating prices)....
Darkness was approaching, we got to feed ourselves again! This time round, we went to have xiao long bao and la mien at Central world for a dinner appetizer..
Finally, we went Big C supermarket to buy dinner back to hotel to "celebrate the victory"!
Dun rub your eyes! There was absolutely nothing wrong with them. YES! It was 25baht for the whole saba, S$1+!!! I can eat a basket of saba lor!
We were in luck! It happened that Centralworld was having a hokkido fair, so we went for the free tasting and of coz tabao for more feast!
After several food testing, keke, we decided to buy the following back...
Yes, we simply love the glue-ness taste of raw squid!
Not too sure what it was.. Dun care lah! Just eat lah!
We paid 490 Baht for this. Considering that it was HAIRY CRAB & ROE, I guess it was still cheap? Keke.. BUt the hairy crab was really tasty, I wished we had more man..
Take a look at the BIGGGGGG roe... can *pop* *pop* inside the mouth lor...
Finally, we ended off our dinner with japanese pancake.. like the one Doremon ate, but with strawberry & black sesame cream fillings. Yummy!
How much we spent again? An alarming figure of only S$10+ each per pax again!
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