Bangkok - How We Spent Our 10th Wedding Anniversary: Part 2

I loved everything that went past my mouth in Bangkok. I was fortunate enough to have friends there who gave me lists of places to go for food. We partially followed the list and let our noses lead the way sometimes. I ate too much.

This is Pad Thai. We found this delightful stall tucked away in one of the side streets in Chinatown and the pad thai only cost us RM 4. It is one of the dishes in Chinatown that our noses led us to! The pad thai was so good we ordered another plate to share between us.  Along that road was also a man selling porridge or 'cjhok' as they call it. I am not a fan of this but my husband enjoyed it very much.

Kalpapruek restaurant at the Siam Paragon came highly recommended and our friend was right! Finding it was horrible though....try pronouncing the name and asking for directions in broken Thai! The ladies at the information counter of Siam laughed at us when we approached them for directions.

 

The picture above is where we had breakfast at the hotel. This shows the wood oven used to toast the variety of breads you see on display there. Wood oven! Toast never tasted so good and a worthy mention is also the croissants.....they were bits of manna from heaven. My husband said that it was just not polite for a grown woman and mother of two children to sneak those croissants into my handbag. I disagreed with him but did not take the croissants for the record!

These are some of the culinary delights we discovered at Chatuchak Market. Its an awsome market but in a crazy way....we got a map and did not get lost at all. My husband's keen navigation skills must be commended here!
Giant Prawn Noodle (left) - Rating: 7/10
Beef Noodle (right) - Rating: 10/10


Below you will see my favourite dessert (name escapes me), one that I had almost every day I was there. Rating: Out of this world/10!

It is a thin crispy pancake that tastes like chinese loveletters, filled with eggwhite and sugar whisked to a fluffy cloud with grated persimmons on top. This was another find at the Siam Paragon food court.

I am missing the food already......

Bangkok - How We Spent Our 10th Wedding Anniversary; Pt 1

Bangkok was an experience like none other! Old and new co-exist alongisde one another like it was always meant to be. As you can see from the picture here, tall and modern buildings sprout up between little shops and houses. This is the mighty Chao Praya River - this picture was taken from our hotel room. We stayed at the beautiful Lebua State Tower and seeing that it was our wedding anniversary, they upgraded us to a suite! Their service, needless to say, was impeccable.

This is the living area of our room. It was nice to see a box of chocolates on the table as we walked into the room.....plus it was a convenient place to dump all our purchases for the day!

There was a little kitchenette just past the hall and coffee making facilities (drip coffee maker) was provided. They also had cups and plates with some cutlery as well as a microwave which was really convenient especially since we brought back snacks to have late at night on the balcony!

                                     

The bathroom was the best part of the room for me as it was huge! I spent a night soaking in the tub and just relaxing........

                            

Our bed was massive. I was hoping there would be a picture of it nicely made up but there is none. Every night, we found our bedroom slippers laid down and the bed turned for us with a card on the pillow describing the weather for the next day. Very important indeed for a tourist.

This picture was taken on the last day of our visit and the bag on the bed is so full that it was hard getting it back on the floor.

Look out for my next post on Bangkok's awesome food!