Bangkok Trip Day 2: 5th April 2012, Thursday
曼谷之旅第二天：4月5日2012年, 星期四
It's early morning 5am or so. Reluctantly I had to drag myself out of bed to accompany the two ladies downstairs to the morning market, which had already been bustling with energy by the time we went down. You'll never see that in Singapore lol. All the makeshift stall owners were scrambling to get their goods hanging on the partitions between each stall. And it was raining at that time too! Had to hide in the stalls while the two of them started their bargain-hunting. I'll gladly go back to sleep in my comfy bed and forgo such bargains if I were them lol. After rounds of haggling (in which the prices were already damn low), they emerged victorious with bags of trophies. OMGness. Once they were done, we headed back to our hotel.
曼谷之旅第二天：4月5日2012年, 星期四
It's early morning 5am or so. Reluctantly I had to drag myself out of bed to accompany the two ladies downstairs to the morning market, which had already been bustling with energy by the time we went down. You'll never see that in Singapore lol. All the makeshift stall owners were scrambling to get their goods hanging on the partitions between each stall. And it was raining at that time too! Had to hide in the stalls while the two of them started their bargain-hunting. I'll gladly go back to sleep in my comfy bed and forgo such bargains if I were them lol. After rounds of haggling (in which the prices were already damn low), they emerged victorious with bags of trophies. OMGness. Once they were done, we headed back to our hotel.
Pretty simple fare but good enough for our tastebuds.
It's always a luxury to wake up to a wonderful spread of breakfast, especially when you're travelling. Well...not when you woke up at 5am and walked for 2 hours or so before you get to munch on these goodies. Then again it's also a good thing to explore around the area for cheap and mouth-watering local food. Too bad our stay includes buffet breakfast for all mornings lol.
Dear and Vivian enjoying the breakfast.
After breakfast, I think we went back to bed for a while before a long and daunting bargain-hunting trip again. We visited the Platinum Fashion Mall. It contains 8 storeys of clothings, accessories, etc. We spent 3 hours browsing through most of the shops and bought plenty of clothes for ourselves, Nut and Dear's Mummy, some ties for myself, accessories for Cindy and Mummy. It's 3+pm already! Getting really hungry, and therefore we decided to settle for the food court upstairs on the top floor.
No photography allowed lol.
8 floors of shopping. Can you handle it?
The Platinum Food Centre
Opening Hours: 10:30 – 20:00
Location: 6th floor, Platinum Fashion Mall
Cuisine: Asian and Vegetarian
The fried kway teow was AWESOME! MUST TRY!
Beefball noodles. Not bad too.
Shark's fin soup anyone?
Drinks to quench our thirst after hours of shopping.
Jimmy mentioned he was staying at this hotel. Bottom floors are part of a shopping mall.
Made our way back to Budacco, packed our spoils of victory, before setting off on a hired van shared by all 7 of us to bring us around BKK.
I think we can open a stall of our own.
And off we go! Can see our tired eyes lacking of sleep.
Grand Palace
Seems like all temples in BKK have pointed tops like this. This is an entrance to the palace.
Next stop is Wat Pho, or the Temple of the Reclining Buddha. Already wanted to take a look at this interesting monument before we left for BKK, as I researched on the places to visit in BKK. Sure lived up to its name. Gigantic statue of a reclining buddha housed within a building.
Face-view
Full-view
Full back-view
Durian-head view
Dear and I exchanged 40 BHT worth of coins to drop into these bowls along the wall behind the Buddha.
Welcome to Wat Po.
Intricately decorated structures within the temple grounds.
Spot something weird here?
Inside one of the shrines.
One final pic before we left for dinner.
Next, Melvin and friend went to get some stuff while we waited in the van, and managed to catch a wink or two. Then the driver uncle brought us to this restaurant which is supposed quite popular - Poonsin Restaurant. We ordered many dishes and had a feast for dinner.
Don't think we'll ever visit this restaurant if we were on our own.
Kanpai!
Shark's fin soup again lol.
Tom Yum soup never disappoints.
We then hopped onto the van again and breezed through the streets of bangkok and the uncle introduced this very popular place with the locals, a place which sells bread as desserts. It is called Mont Nom Sod. Sounds interesting, so we all bought some back to try.
I supposed the name of the restaurant is called "Mont Nom Sod".
Here's the address in Thai, if you know how to read.
It's really fully-packed, with a neverending queue.
Some auntie peddler made use of the popularity to sell her foodstuff outside the restaurant lol.
Some auntie peddler made use of the popularity to sell her foodstuff outside the restaurant lol.
Quite simple-looking but really quite tasty. Have tonnes of flavours as well.
Of course, had to buy some beer from 7-11. The Cornetto ice-cream cones were damn cheap.
What's a night's stay in BKK without having some Singha beer?
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