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Bangkok: Khao San Road

Bangkok: Khao San Road – The Hangover 2 Place – Last year, I’ve wanted to go to Khao San Road during my Bangkok trip in 2012, but I didn’t get the chance cause I was busy checking out other night market. The recent trip had gave me another chance to visit the scene from Hangover Part 2 – Khao San Road!

If you read from Lonely Planet or any online source, this place was very famous for Caucasian backpackers with lots of cheap hostel, bars, internet cafes and Pad Thai! But it gets even famous now, still to the tourist, but from everywhere of the world, Asian, Blacks, everyone young and energetic just loves this place.

You can hear music blasting off the bar while walking pass food stalls, and imitation branded stuff stalls as well as some little fashion boutique stalls. Tourist roaming along Khao San Road and the alleys with a beer on hand, backpackers with handful of luggage and camera, booth that can help you make fake ID, Thai walking around selling exotic food like scorpion, mobile bar with Chang and Singha Beer… Well, this place is just awesome at night.

I have a friend told me that it gets even more happenings after 12 when 7 Eleven stops selling beer and mobile bars move out all scale to sell you beer, music turns even louder, the whole street literally become an open party area. Too bad, I couldn’t experience that, it rained during my visit. Down. Nevermind, will go again the next time!

Fruit seller!

This is Khao San Road!

Me, blocking the road.

Angmo doing her selfy!

Mr Thai Scorpion.

Mango Sticky Rice.

Miss Pad Thai.

Pad Thai, I’ll call it the Thai’s Koay Teow which taste sweet and spicy.

Cheers with Singha!

BBQ stalls.

They bring foot massage outdoor. By this, they can have more chair and more customer eventually!

More of foot massage. You like?

September 6, 2013

Bangkok: Random Street Walks

Bangkok: Random Street Walks – I find Bangkok has culture, has style, and it’s very vibrant when comparing to Kuala Lumpur. Although lifestyle can be more luxurious in Kuala Lumpur, but then the what stands out in Bangkok is their culture, hardly being influence by others. Well, that’s the Thai-style. Malaysian-style is to follow what’s and who’s cool.

One side of the road can be super modern shopping mall in Bangkok, and across the street, you might stumble upon some small alleys with good foods, small and cheaper fashion boutique, street performers by the pedestrian walkway and then you might come to a mid-end shopping mall, and again some interesting alleys. Best part of all, people are walking here and there, the city itself is happenings! Walking is not our Malaysian culture, we prefer to drive here and there, we are quite lazy huh? Haha.

Woman’s heaven where you can shop till you really drop @ Platinum Fashion Mall.

Walking to Central World, a very big shopping mall in Bangkok, you can find almost everything!

Thai’s Steven Tyler. =D

SIAM. You can find Siam Paragon, the luxurious mall and Siam Center, a new modern and young mall just side by side. Interesting!

Got a free icy cool herbal drinks!

No idea what these letter balloons are.

SIAM BTS station.

Stumbled into a back alley and found people queuing for Mango Sticky Rice! @ Mango Tango. It seems very cool, but we didn’t get a chance to try it out, long queue oh long queue!

Lots of mango.

MBK, place where you can find a lot of high quality imitation branded bags. I’ve read that there’s Thai’s boxing fight every week! Must check it out on the next visit. My parents are not interested in that.

September 6, 2013

Bangkok: Must-Eat Swensens Ice Cream

Bangkok: Must-Eat Swensens Ice Cream – You know right, one of the must-eat thing in Bangkok or anywhere in Thailand is Swensen’s Ice Cream. Why? It’s because it’s dirty cheap, no I should say low-priced! Yeah, the desserts are so much cheaper than the Swensen’s in Malaysia and Singapore. Ice cream desserts in Thai’s Swensen’s starts from 69Baht (about RM7), and in Malaysia it’s from RM15, there’s so much difference!

After some research, I found out that Swensen’s actually specialize in ice cream desserts and founded in San Francisco, California. Somehow, the Swensen’s in Malaysia and Singapore serves food, which seems more to be a Western cuisine restaurant than ice cream restaurant.

So in Thai, the Swensen’s only serves ice cream, and you must just try it out!

September 5, 2013
Bangkok: Golden Buddha Temple / Wat Traimit, Chinatown

Bangkok: Golden Buddha Temple / Wat Traimit, Chinatown – Few days ago, I shared about the 4 Faces Buddha, now I would like to bring you to the Golden Buddha at Chinatown. I have been to Bangkok for quite a several time, but this time was my first time checking out this temple.

Well, I don’t know, but the temple claims that the Golden Buddha is the world’s largest solid gold statue. WOW! Imagine how heavy and how much value it is. It’s really very magnificent for it’s solid gold material! As usual, did some prayers, got some blessings from the monk and off we go.

What face is this?

Queuing for blessing from the monk.

There’s a Kuan Yin Temple just right across Wat Traimit.

September 5, 2013
Bangkok: Erawan Four Faces Buddha Shrine

Bangkok: Erawan Four Faces Buddha Shrine – A must-visit for Buddhist in Bangkok as it’s a place I would visit for a little prayer every time I travel to Bangkok! It’s so famous that Buddhist from all over the world flock to this little corner at Erawan to do prayer! The Buddhist way of praying is actually wish for some good luck from the Buddha, and people claims that the wish comes true after praying here. I do not know a lot about prayers, I just seek for Buddha’s blessing and that’s it. Even if you are not a Buddhist, it’s nice to take a visit to this place, and see the devotees doing their prayer. Very culture-ful!

September 3, 2013
Bangkok: A Night Walk Around Pratunam

Bangkok: A Night Walk Around Pratunam – In my Bangkok trip, I stayed at a hotel named Ecotel Hotel and it’s located in the Pratunam District. You might thought it’s near to Platinum, Central World, but then it’s quite a far walk. Anyway, me and my family went for a walk around that area on a fine night after Thai food treatment. We were too full and a walk in the city helps the digestion, I guess.

Do you just realised that Thai enjoys the night? They operate their street food stalls at night, just anywhere in the city, and there’s lots of stalls set up by the pedestrian walkway, selling clothes, bags and accessories. I know those are targeting the tourist, but I find it a good way to light up the night.

Only in Bangkok.

The night just never sleeps.

Thai Queen’s portrait was up in conjunction with her birthday.

7 Eleven, one of my favourite place in Thailand for sausage, but not anymore after the diarrhoea I had.

Pad Thai in making!

September 2, 2013
Bangkok: Terminal 21 Shopping Mall

Bangkok: Terminal 21 Shopping Mall – One of my favourite thing I like about Bangkok is their shopping mall, not those typical old MBK or Platinum, but their new modern mall like Siam Paragon, Siam Centre, Central World and this Terminal 21. Their malls are really well-maintained and the interior design is actually quite interesting!

Terminal 21 is one very interesting mall as it’s has a theme of famous travel destination like London, Paris, Rome, Japan, and more and it also incorporate airport-style design too, like those terminal gate, huge airport-style clock!

Best part, there’s cheap and fashionable buy too! I actually bought some nice fashion shirt at there! Here’s come the most interesting part, all of the toilets has different designs, you can hardly visit them all. The Thai really take design and fun seriously. Salute!

The world is small! Couldn’t believe I met my classmate – Jia Hui, at Terminal 21. Haha.

TOILET!

September 2, 2013
Bangkok: KL LCCT, Don Muang Airport, Raining @ Nana

Bangkok: KL LCCT, Don Muang Airport, Raining @ Nana – 2 weeks ago, I went on a short trip to Bangkok, one of my favourite destination in South East Asia. There’s a very unfavourable moment happened on that trip – I had diarrhoea! I was very well until the day before I leave Bangkok, then the I started to head to the washroom very often until no medicine can stop it. That really ruined my last day at Bangkok. Well, this does cause some phobia to me, because the last time I went to Hatyai, I also had diarrhoea after I came home. I suspected it’s the sausage bought from the convenience stall was the source of the sickness as it’s me and brother had it and we two had diarrhoea. Haha. Anyway, Bangkok is still fine for me, I will visit again in the future!

Charging phone @ LCCT, Kuala Lumpur.

Waiting @ LCCT, Kuala Lumpur.

Let’s not talk about that sad thing first and share something interesting about the trip. I took AirAsia from Kuala Lumpur and it’s my first time flying to Don Muang Airport. It was Suvarnabhumi International Airport all the while, but this year, AirAsia had changed to an older airport. No more of luxurious welcome anymore. Don Muang Airport is really old, but at least it’s very clean.

The old Don Muang Airport @ Bangkok.

Queuing for cab just outside of Don Muang Airport. You know, meter cab is cheap in Bangkok!

Wet day in Bangkok.

Somewhere in Nana, Bangkok.

Rush hour in the BTS train.

Without much hesitation, we took the cab, headed to the hotel, checked in and headed to Nana, a place you can find many Arabic restaurant and also tailor shop runs by Indian/Myammar/Banglah, they are just not pure Thai. My brother wanted to custom-made shirt, that’s why we went there. He said tailor is cheap and quality in Thai, I don’t really know but he made shirt at 1500 baht/shirt, what do you think?

After settling with the tailor, we took the BTS from Nana Station and headed to Asok Station, it’s just a stop away where the theme-shopping mall – Terminal 21 is!

August 30, 2013
Bangkok: Night Market Outside Central World

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Bangkok Trip: Night Market Outside Central World (Day 4) – Well, it almost comes to the last post and last day of my Bangkok trip. I still have one more post to share about. So after going to a day of Bangkok sightseeing trip to Wat Pho, Wat Arun and Grand Palace, I went back to hotel to take a rest to recharge my power. Later at night, it’s pretty free and no place of interest to go already.

Mom randomly suggested walking around the Central World shopping mall area as there’s a small night market right in front of the mall. We walked from our hotel and it took us about 20 minutes to reach there. It’s nice to walk at night because the weather get cooler and is away from the sunny sun.

At the night market outside Central World, you can find typical Thai’s night market stuff like clothing, beauty accessories, footwear, lots of street food, gift and more. Didn’t really buy anything there except a bottle of beverage and went to bought a notebook in Central World instead. Hehe, thanks dear Huei for getting me the notebook.

Since there’s nothing much to see at there, we went back to hotel for the last night. And so, my Bangkok trip has put a full-stop here. The last day, day 5 is just another going-to-airport-and-back day.

Shrine is everywhere!

Fried food look so yummy, but super duper unhealthy!

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February 23, 2012
Bangkok: Grand Palace

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Bangkok Trip: Grand Palace (Day 4) – Grand Palace is a historical site in Bangkok, Thailand where many years back, it’s the palace of King of Thailand. In year 2006, I went there once, and 6 years later, I went there again! It hasn’t changed a bit, but there’s some renovation going on in the Grand Palace. The tourists are more than before and the weather was hotter than before.

Although Grand Palace is located right next to Wat Pho, but then the main entrance is very far from Wat Pho! OMG. It took me about 10 minutes walk from Wat Pho to Grand Palace’s main entrance under the scorching hot sun. It’s really very very hot. I suggest starting the trip at Grand Palace first only go visit Wat Pho and Wat Arun, visit in the morning will be the best as it’s not that hot yet.

Looks pretty and like a Thai girl right? Hehe.

I have heard about the Grand Palace scam which is that the tuk-tuk taxi driver will approach you and tell you that Grand Palace is close at that time, and will instead bring you to other temple like Lucky Buddha and shopping at the gem shop, only you completed the “tour”, they will bring you back to Grand Palace. They charged only about 100-200Baht for the trip. Sounds good right? But it’s actually a scam and it’s a time wasting tour. Grand Palace is in fact opens daily. When they bring you to these places, they actually receive commission.

However, I did not approach with any of such tuk-tuk driver. I’ve read on the Internet, it’s better to beware. If you are approached by them, just say no, or in Thai, ‘Mai Owl Rock’, which means I’ve been here before.

Going in to the Grand Palace is pretty troublesome because one needs to be properly dressed. I have shorts, and Hueisean has shorts too, so we have to rent something to cover up. 200Baht per piece and you will get back the deposit when you end the tour. I got myself a wear on pants and Hueisean got a piece of sarong-liked cloth. 3/4 length pants and skinny jeans are also not allow in the Grand Palace, and spaghetti straps too. What a strict place, but since you get to rent the cloth for free, so why not checking it out?

Entrance fee to Grand Palace is very expensive at 400 Baht (RM40) per person! Since we have already there, no point getting back already, so me and Hueisean bought the ticket and went in. We only have about 1.5 hours to tour the whole Grand Palace because it closes at 4pm every afternoon. The weather was really very very hot, perspiring drops were all over the body and the pants they lend were hot.

We started off the tour at the temple area which is the Temple of Emerald Buddha – Wat Phra Kaew. I think this is the most beautiful part of the Grand Palace compound and with most things to see. Other than that is just no-photo’s Throne Hall which is just normal.

The Italian Renaissance-style of Throne Hall and King’s Residence is pretty cool. It’s a blend of Thai and Western architecture. When you are at the ground level, you can see Renaissance-style architecture, but when you look at the top of the building, you can see the Mondop-style roof. Pretty cool.

Actually Grand Palace is not as big as you seen from the outer wall. Many parts of the Grand Palace are prohibited from enter. It’s just maybe a small little part of Forbidden City in Beijing. However, if you haven’t been there before, I think this is a good place to tour on. Not big, but still good. We returned the pants and got back the deposit that we’ve made then we went to look for a cab to go back to hotel. Unfortunately, cabs around the Grand Palace just don’t want turn on the meter, so no choice that I paid 200 Baht for a 30 minutes trip back to hotel.

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February 21, 2012

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TOILET!