BKK Trip with Leecher Nov 2012 P5

Another week to Xmas! I must say I'm still pretty much in holiday mood, haha, which warrants another travel post :)

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

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Again, missing breakfast for lazy Leecher was too engrossed in sleeping. Again, another #ootd to start the day with, haha! 

 

Individual shots - I love how cheerful my dress looked and Leecher is looking to start a war with his T-shirt.  

Shopping on the go! This was put on displayed @ one of the BTS station, with a QR code underneath each item. So you just need to login, scan the QR code to start adding items to your shopping bag, pay for the items and await delivery! As simple as 1,2,3. 

 

 Back to Chinatown in day time. This time round, we decided to go Chinatown using another mode of transport, having tried bus and train+walking previously. We cabbed to Chinatown, haha! Yeah, one of the rare times when we actually cabbed in BKK, even though cab rides are relatively cheap. We were quoted 200THB for a one way trip and refused to board any, unless it was running on meter. What's the point of being tok-carrot when you have the right to insist on charging by meter? We managed to board a cab which charged by meter and we paid THB80 for the journey there. 

The usual shop was closed. Imagine my horror when I was told they only opened by 4pm when we were there at 11am.

Exploring the area, since this was the 1st time that we came to Chinatown in the daytime. We always frequent this place at night, with a meal @ the nearby seafood restaurant & followed by snack-buying routine at 林真香.

 

CDs for sale .... I remembered buying a lot of CDs during my secondary school days, having to save my pocket money just to buy a single CD. 

Walking and enjoying the sights along the way.

 

I nearly shrieked with joy when I spotted that there was another  林真香 further down the road.

 This store, apparently the 总店 sells a lot of 腊 stuff - different from the other shop which mainly concentrated on local snacks.

 

  

Helpers in the shop packing food into respective packages. I honestly hoped that they did practiced some basic hygiene standards. 

 

Spending a bomb at the shop, close to 75SGD worth of snacks to be brought home.

林真香 (with Piggy mascot)
Yaowaraj Road
At the entrance of Talad Kao Lane

  

  

Spotted another 林真香 shop just next door. The 2 林真香 can be differenitated by their mascot ... one with a pig, the other bearing a dragon. Basically, they sell almost the same stuff and same prices.

 

 

 Be extra cautious when shopping at this outlet (shop with dragon mascot) - be sure to re-calculate your purchases. The guy in front of Leecher was overcharged by almost 300THB. Leecher paid around 1000THB for the stuff and he felt that something was amiss, for we only put in 6 packets into the basket. So we had to re-open the box, re-calculated the goods and found out we were overcharged of almost 400THB. Imagine if we didn't check our purchases!  

 林真香 (with Dragon mascot)

366-369 Yaowaraj Road
At the entrance of Talad Kao Lane

 Seafood  - mainly crabs on display along the roadside stalls.

 Walking along the streets - kinda excited, felt like a kid out on excursion. 

 Settled our lunch at this roadside stall.

 

The broth was really good! I've a problem with bean sprouts, and had to handpick all and dumping it in Leecher's bowl. I could easily finish another bowl, but I had to save stomach space for our cafe experience later. 

BKK Trip with Leecher Nov 2012 P4

 Off the KL for a day trip - think this should be my last trip of the year before flying resumes in Jan. I've consolidated quite a lot of KL pics, will blog about it once I'm done with BKK & TW. A continuation from our Chatuchak trip (previous part can be found here). The weather was incredibly humid that day - cold drinks and ice creams were selling like hot cakes!   

 Their version of cold stone creamery! No, we didn't try that for I was starving for food. 

 

Needed to rest our legs and re-fuel 

 

Looks yummy! Placed my order immediately.

 

Coke! I'm not really a fan of cold drinks, but when it comes to hot weather (esp in Thailand), I'll have to break all the rules. 

 

Leecher, extremely happy with his purchase. See how tightly he's holding onto the bag?

  

Leecher wasn't feeling hungry, so we ordered 1 bowl to share. I remembered to change to mama mee, but totally forgot about the no-adding of veg part. 

 

The familiar sight! Another of my must-try in Chatuchak :)

 

I wanted to take a pic of coconut icecream inside the container, but it was so deep down that I couldn't capture a nice picture. That goes to show how popular this is! 

 

Choose your toppings - peanuts, corns, aloe vera etc ....

 

Leecher joining the queue too!

 Coconut ice cream with corns (my pick) and aloe vera (Leecher's pick)

 

Every ice cream purchased will get a small cup of coconut water, perfect complement. 

 

I can finish this by myself, but good things are meant to be shared with Leecher :) 

 

Left the area early to escape the going-home crowd, and also, we have another agenda on the list. 

Guess where we are heading?

 

The usual massage place that I always frequent in BKK, Healthland Asoke. To get here, alight at BTS Asoke station and walked 10 mins to get there.

 

Looked empty, but we had to wait for almost 30 mins for our rooms to be ready cuz I forgot to make an appt with them, haha! 

 

Waiting for our turn to be called. 

 

Leecher's companion!

 

Keep calm and watch on :)  

 

We took the hot herbal compress massage. I've tried it before and I intro Leecher to give it a try.

 Leecher with his big yawn, lol!

 

 

2 hours later, we were rejuvenated yet famished!

Health Land Asoke

55/5 Sukhumvit 21 Road (Asoke)

Khlongtoeinuea, Wattana

Bangkok 10110

Tel: 66 2261 1110 (Booking strongly recommended if traveling in big groups)

Nearest BTS: Asoke

 

Wanted to drop by Terminal 21, but we didn't have time --- another to-do list for another trip! 

 

Saw this while crossing the road - the final installment to Twilight :) Caught this movie on my birthday (cuz I just had to see Edward on my birthday). My heart nearly sank at the beginning, nice twist to the story.  Nice closure - was kinda sad for "to be continued" no longer applies to this :( 

 

Alighted at BTS Thong Lo station in search for food. We didn't know which exit to go, so we walked towards Exit3 and 4 to see which side has a higher possibility of leading us to the food street. To our surprise, this is the view we saw when we head towards Exit 4. Lights + people + stalls = food street! 

 

Walked till the end of the food street in search for the famous Wanton noodle stall that was recommended. We couldn't find it, so decided to settle our dinner @ this stall that looked like it had the most number of patrons. 

 

 

In the midst of preparation.

 

Waiting .......

 

 Crabmeat with char siew & dumplings - one of the most expensive bowl of wanton noodles in BKK, costing THB60/bowl. I kinda got a shock when the bill was over 100THB, for we normally pay less than 100THB for 2 pax.

 

While walking back, we saw the food corner that we came here for! It was tucked at a corner, so we missed it the first time round for we were too focused on the stalls along the road.

 

 

Fruit juice corner 

  

Passionfruit ice-blended. Not recommended.

  

 

Leecher was drawn by the array of food displayed @ this stall and proceeded to order.

 

Check out that fire! Woohoo ..... I nearly got scared by it for standing too close in trying to capture the pic. 

  

Pad Thai, with lots of bean sprouts. Not my fave dish. 

 

Then, I saw the recommended wanton mee stall. Recognized the stall based on the bag hanging, for it was the same pic that the blogger took.

 

Ordered the soup version this time round.

 

Trying out DOF. 

 

 

Mango sticky rice to finish off the meal. Generally, the food is OK, just that it was kinda expensive as compared to the other street stalls that we have tried. 

Wanton Noodles, Sticky Rice, Pad Thai

Address: Sukhumvit Soi 38

Alight at Thong Lo BTS, head towards Exit 4

Opening hours: 8pm till 2am