Bangkok 13/12/2007

We start off our day by having our hotel breakfast. The breakfast is a mixed of local and western flavor. There has Thai fried rice, fried noodle as well as sausage, bread. The variety is limited but the food still ok.

We were planning to go MBK today and initially we were thinking of taking BTS from Chit Lom to Siam Square. However, after consulting the hotel staff, they actually told us there is this thing call skywalk that link Chit Lom and Siam Square. So we decided to walk. Is actually not as near as you think but also not as far as you think but if i will do it again, i might take BTS from Chit Lom to Stadium station as MBK is really just beside the stadium station.

The thing that draw us to MBK is because there is this sticker and name card printing shop which my friend is interested. Other than that, we actually did not do much shopping on clothes as we heard this place is starting to become tourist place and the price is not as cheap any more. However, when we finally walked into a name card printing shop, the price is way exceed our budget. So end up we just went for the lunch at their food court. We had tom yum gong and mixed beef soup. The mixed beef soup is quite ok but the tom yum gong doesn't really meet myfriend's expectation. But what i can say is their food in the food court is much much better than the Singapore food court.

After lunch we decided to go to talad nad or flea market at Silom Soi 10. Although is flea market, it actually also sell some new stuff. we took BTS to Sala Daeng station as this is the nearest BTS station and from there we have to walk Silom Road to reach the market. This time we finally get the chance to take BTS. Is actually quite a convenient transport if you consider traffic jam happen around the city. There are using those magnetic card, and you have to use their ticket machine to get it and the ticket machine only accept 10b and 5b coins. Don't worry if you don't have enough as you can always exchange from the station control room. There is also a daily pass cost 120b per day. We not getting it because we calculate the trip we going to take today is less than 120b.

Bangkok BTS

The flea market at Silom Soi 10 is actually not as big as we think but still pack with a lot of stalls selling from clothes, shoes to food also. The first stall that caught our attention is a stall selling denim jacket, is only 79b but we believe there are all second hand stuff but i still think is cheap. There are also stalls selling ladies singlet 39b and one stall is selling remote controller cover which cost 10b. Anyway, we not really buying a lot of stuff there as some of the things is not our liking. I think we spend around 1 hour there and we decided to make a move back to Sala Daeng. We walked all the way back to Sala Daeng and rest ourselves at the A&W inside a shpping center. After some discussion, we decided to go back to the hotel to rest and make a trip to Pratunam night market tonight.

Before we came to Bangkok, we already heard of their chicken rice and hence we decided to try tonight. We had it at one of the shop very near to our hotel. And indeed, is yummy and it only cost you 30b per person :). One thing we notice is their soup all very nice but also a bit salty too. And they give you a bowl of cili padi in soy sauce. If you like spicey, you might want to pour all into the rice and mix up. This is what i see the local do it.

Yummy chicken rice

After having our dinner, we make our way to Pratunam night market. Is actually opposite the chicken rice but we didn't dare to jay walk as it seems the traffic is very busy. (As we find out later, jay walk is actually not as hard as you think). So we took a long walk to the overhead bridge and use it to cross the road. The night market selling a lot of clothes, slipper, bag and even there is also a place for you to get massage. The T-shirt generally sell at 80b (listed price) here but actually you can try to bargain to much lower price. I bought one t-shirt 75b and my friend bought slipper which cost 50b. We didn't plan to buy too many things here as we set our sight to the JJ weekend market which we are planning to visit tomorrow. So we call it a day early and went back hotel to rest.