Bangkok - Day 3 & 4

The 3rd day was a free and easy day. dW and I basically woke up late, took a late morning walk to the BTS station whilst enjoying the morning street food for breakfast. Dimsum and pastries. Delicious stuff.

Where are we heading you ask? Why... Platinum Mall dan kawasan-kawasan sekitarnya of course.

Colorful cabs..

Water bus

See the amount of people who came out of it..

We totally explored the area by foot and found many many amazing stuff around Platinum Mall. We even found a great place for lunch with nice authentic Thai dishes and friendly owners.

Below is the Erawan Shrine. Built to honour the 4 side head Buddha. You make your donation and write down what you want to pray about then kneel. As you pray, the musicians at the side will start playing some sort of zen like trancy music while the dancers behind dance for you.

The 4 side head Buddha

Make your offerings

Purchase offerings inside the temple, those outside are too expensive

If your wish comes true, you have to donate an elephant. See how many came true?

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 This was a great surprise for us when we got back to the room. Thanks to the hotel and Ms.Sunan.

Day 4... Stay in the hotel, enjoy the buffet breakfast... Nice spread, but nothing really great to recommend. I enjoyed the below though...

Then it was time to pack and get ready for the airport. Will I come back? Yes... of course. :)

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Bangkok - Day 2

2nd day started off bright and early. 7am to be exact. Why? So we could make it to the Maeklong Station Market for the famous market on the railway line.

It is just about an hour drive away and we had the pleasure of exploring the market a little bit before the first train came. Had we miss it, it will be a 2 hours wait for the next one.

Pork noodle, RM1 a bowl!!

The making of pork noodle. I figured out later that you can actually choose what you want in it. God gave us pointer finger for a reason.

Would you still buy the vege?

The train is just slightly above.

Show is over...

Check out the video above if and only if you know that you will never visit it in your lifetime.

Our next destination right after was the floating market. Free fresh coconut awaits you as you alight from your transport. Then, for RM40 each, it is a 90 minute ride along the floating market for some shopping and eating.

Make sure you go through the itinerary properly. We missed out on fish feeding because the guide told us it was a temple trip which we skipped. Had we know there was fish feeding involved, we'd have gone for it.

Coconut factory

Local houses

Much like the stuff found in Jonker Walk, Melaka

A very persistent guava seller

Overall, the floating market was a nice experience. The day not being too hot was a plus. Food was great. We had some sort of noodle soup and roast pork! It was delicious. Clean clear soup with crunchy pork. Great combination.

Not sure why, I didn't take any pictures of our destination which was Chatuchak Market or what the locals call BB Market. It was simply a huge market with everything under the sun sold at a very very affordable price. We didn't spend much time there as dW's target was cloths and cloths at Platinum Mall were of much better quality than the ones here.By the way, the roasted pork here is good too. So are the chicken skins.

Back to the hotel we go then out to the streets for more street food and street market. It seems like there is a street market below every single BTS station in Bangkok. Well, at least the high traffic ones.

We had this superb wanton mee somewhere near Pat Pong, the famous red light district in Bangkok before going for a nice relaxing Thai Massage nearby. RM20 for an hour of body massage. Superb!

And with that ends day 2...

Unfortunate Lolita

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Last week, Lolita accidentally hit a cab from the back. No thanks to my concentration and the car behind who beeped his horn when no car in front was moving.

This week, a bike hit Lolita right there. Bloody asinine riders!!

A Shopping Trip to Bangkok

TTG... The Travelling Gang was up in Bangkok last month for a... believe it or not, SHOPPING TRIP!!!

It was both dW and my first trip to Bangkok and we were pretty excited. To be honest, my presumption was Bangkok is a dirty, dusty, hot hot ghetto-like city.

However, to my utter amazement, it was a total opposite. The scenery from Suvarnabhumi airport to Plaza Athénée Bangkok, A Royal Méridien Hotel reminded me of our trip to Taipei last year. Beautiful road. Beautiful buildings. Beautiful people.

We were awestrucked by the lobby of this hotel. Large spacious space to run around. You can't sneak in a dead body this way for sure. Nice lighting. Something has to be done about staff friendliness though. Please remember to smile guys. OK, so maybe I got to stay at a very cheap rate, not an excuse though.

Coming back to a Le Meridien branded hotel brings back memories. Anyone remember the LM smell? A whiff of it brought me right back to LMKL! Our room looked exactly like the ones in LMKL, maybe that was why we didn't even take any pictures of the room. Dah biasaaaaaa....

Next comes lunch. As per TTG's SOP, off we went to the in-house restaurant for some great hotel food before hitting the streets later.

Awesome burger!! #1 in my best burger list.

All 3 dishes were good. The burger though was exceptionally good. Perfectly cooked to a medium rare like texture with the perfect mix of light fluffy bun, fresh tomato, crispy fries and pickle. Comparing the burgers from Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur, Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur, The Andaman Langkawi, Sheraton Taipei and some other western restaurants, I'll give this the #1 spot. Yes my dear readers, it is thatttttt awesome!

Platinum Mall

Our first destination was Platinum Mall. Taking a train which they call BTS from a station (Phloen Chit E2) nearby, about 2 minutes walk, we stop at Chit Lom (E1) then walk over towards Central World and onwards to Platinum Mall going through a very happening night market.

Salt baked fish & roasted chicken

Thai Otak-otak

Love the street food!! Everywhere BBQ pork ball. Salads, Mango rice...fresh fruits including strawberries. Its all so awesome that we didn't eat at any restaurants until the last day of the trip.

Folk performances right outside Central World

Platinum mall was a bit like Sungai Wang Plaza except they don't sell anything besides clothing. Cheap cheap cloths. Level 1-4 is for females. Level 5, male. Working shirt, clubbing shirt, every dang shirt for RM20. Shorts too! I don't usually shop, but dang it, I just can't help it. Cheap and good quality. 

As usual, no trip blog goes without me bitching my aching feet. dW and dWcuz went crazy in Platinum Mall, so dWcuzBF, our friend and I lepak at Black Canyon and do some eye cleaning. Sexy pretty girls walking everywhere, its a waste just to blink. 

The night ended with another walk back the way we came from stopping from time to time to explore more street food. All cheap and delicious.

Next post... 2nd day.

Lazy

Call me the king of procrastination.. I have so much to blog about but as it piles, I got lazier and lazier.

Just a heads up, Cranberries is coming to KL. :)

More tomorrow.. Maybe. Heh!