We started off the day at Pratunam Morning Market, shopped, met nasty shop owners, melted and then gathered back again for lunch at a famous noodle shop (which sits just behind/beside the main shopping street).
Address: อยู่หลังตึกใบหยก 1 ซอย เพชรบุรี 19 ถนนเพชรบุรี แขวงพญาไท เขตราชเทวี กรุงเทพมหานคร 10400
The shop's famous for its pink noodles but for some odd reason (mostly miscommunication with the waitress), I was the only one who was served a bowl of tom yum wanton pink noodles. How was it? It was... a very sour (and slightly smelly) bowl of noodles. The only reason why I finished it was because I didn't want to waste the food/money but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to order that again on future trips. Why is it pink? Important question! (which I should have asked before I made my order) According to eatingthaifood.com, the pinkness "comes from the fermented soybean paste that’s added" to every bowl of noodles. Fermented... that explains the foul smell emanating from my noodles (pained expression)! A smell which the site described as "lightly sweet, almost flowery"... I don't know what to say lol.
Then we went to while some time away at a Thai massage place! My very first foot massage ever so I was nerrrrvous - I honestly expected it to hurt like shiat! (didn't help that I was the only one in the room of 10 or so ladies who got allocated a male masseur ._. my legs are shy! HAHA) Surprisingly, it didn't hurt much - I must be pretty healthy(!) bahahah - and I- okay, my feet felt really refreshed after the massage. They were ready and prepared for another 5 hours of walking :D
OW. This hurts just from watching hahah
I accompanied Shiyin to the tailor whilst the other girls went to a cat cafe (I really adore cats/kittens but I wasn't too sure about the hygiene standards of the cafe so I gave it a pass) and after the tailor trip, we ended up relaxing at MBK Center (yet another old shopping haunt!). I had the best Thai food (of the trip) here - basil chicken rice! The wokhei flavour was 짱짱! The same stall (third/fourth stall from the left) also serves a fantabulous tom yum seafood soup with a gigantic freshwater prawn (115 baht, if my memory doesn't fail me). Anyway, can you believe that the enormous plate of mango sticky rice pictured above costs a mere S$4 - it had two huge mangoes, oh em gee - totally UN, UN, UN-BELIEVABLE. (sulks, now I'm craving mango sticky rice again)
Did the shopping that the mummy asked me to - Thai crackers!
After that, we went back to the hostel, showered and set off for ladies' night.
The only picture I have of DND hahahah
It was sooooo bad, I didn't even bother taking more pictures of the place. Imagine being hassled constantly by the staff to buy more drinks (within 10 minutes of our entry) and when we didn't - we only bought one cup that was free-flow - the staff (I counted at least 6 of them wandering about the small enclosed space and wow, we attracted the attention of 2-3 of them!) followed us around the dance floor (which pretty much took up the entire club) and chased us away from tables! JOKE. At the very least, let us settle in first before we decide if we want more drinks or not! If you're constantly bouncing your customers around the club and right after our entrance at that, I doubt your customers will be in the mood to drink or even linger in the club -.- After two to three times of them shoving the drinks menu under our noses and shining a torchlight at it/us, we got sick of it and left.
We headed for The Iron Fairies, a pub where "a night of magic, spells and fairy dust await(ed)"~* It was a much better experience (and hey, we got to experience walking about Sukhumvit, one of Bangkok's popular nightlife areas in the wee hours of the morning!) for the simple reason that.. any place with a decent live band can't be that bad heh. I really enjoy listening to live music so 'twas good. We stayed till.. 3 am(?) playing 'Truth or Truth' (whoever came up with that game...) before we dragged our weary bodies back to the hostel. This was the night the maddie record was set.
We woke super late the next day (laughs gaily). I woke up when my alarm rang but since everyone else were either still asleep or going back to sleep, I decided to go back to dreamland. And we all woke around 11am (12 noon, Singapore time) :P I appreciated the rest though, puts me in a better mood ^^
Check out the gorgeous skies *_________*
Tried looking for a Mookata place for lunch (I initially thought that Mookata was a restaurant brand but nopey, it means Thai Barbecue steamboat - think a grill surrounded by a narrow moat) but turns out that some blogger got the opening hours wrong so... trip wasted. We did go back for dinner that night but naww, Mookata ain't really my thing.
So we skipped over to Century the Movie Plaza for lunch and a brief respite from the scorching heat and it didn't disappoint! The basement food court (which seems to serve predominantly locals - and that's a sign that the food is decent/authentic) is worth checking out!
Dairy Queen - ice cream which is cheap like siao. 29 baht (~S$1.20) for this cup of Oreo Coffee Blitz, aka ice cream that doesn't fall out of the cup even when the cup's inverted. How do the Thais keep themselves from getting fat... I wonder.
Movie Theatre! I love checking out cinemas at all my travel destinations ^^ (it would be even better if I could have watched a movie teehee)
Saw my minions and just had to say hi to them :D
As the girls shopped, I explored the mall until I decided it was time to move on to the next destination HAHA and after a fair bit of drama (missing the mini van and dealing with unfriendly vendors), we found ourselves a friendly cabbie who agreed to drive us to Amphawa market and charge us by the meter at that(!!). I read online that some hotel cabbies quote a flat rate of 3000 baht for the 2-hour journey so I was very grateful that we managed to cab there for only 833 baht. Even more grateful that the cabbie wanted to send us back after our 'tour' for 850 baht. What a steal, seriously.
So we begun on our 2-hour journey to Amphawa Market, also known as the floating night market. The cabbie was surprised that we knew of the place because according to him, it's a night market frequently mostly by locals (maybe that's why the people there were much friendlier too...)! I would definitely recommend this place to others though (and go there again if I can). It's not too touristy, the vendors are pleasant, there's a reasonable variety of food, prices are negotiable and the scenery's lovely. Haha my description doesn't do the place justice but trust me, it was a memorable experience.
Arrived at our destination!
FLOAT, BOATS, FLOAT.
Mini Lego that were so cheepcheep, had to buy them for the sister!
Damn coolioz Spideyman who was just chillin' out in the middle.
Personalised key rings!
Bought 2 for friends and kinda regretting not making/buying a few more haha
Really liked this pair but I didn't know whose names to put on them (my sister said I should have just written 'Maddie' on both.. so Maddie loves Maddie <3) so I just bought another pair for her and the future brother-in-law.
Then we left Amphawa for Bangkok, got back to the Mookata place around 11+ pm, had a Mookata dinner (no pictures because hungry maddie is a moody maddie and moody maddie isn't interested in taking pictures, just chowing down food) and yay, decided to retire for the night.
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