Once again I was back at one of my favourite city, Bangkok.
Before I start crapping, I want to say a big thank you to my boyfriend’s family for including me into their family trip.
I cant express my gratitude enough.
The timing was perfect too, right on time for me to buy my Chinese New Year clothes! :)
The last time I flew from KLIA was 12 years ago to Europe, so you can imagine my little excitement.
Yes, little things like this excites me wtf. Air ticket was about RM700+ per person, not too big a difference from AirAsia.
Take note: If you’re a person who couldn’t live without mobile internet (just like me), you can purchase data sim card in the airport itself. You will eventually walk to the area where they sell the sim cards and if you’re afraid that they do not have micro sim or nano sim they actually do. So no worries about buying a sim card cutter. (:
We stayed at two different hotels and we stayed at Muse (which I blogged about here) for the first two nights.
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#2 Six person, three rooms altogether and yet none of the rooms were the same as the one Fatty and I stayed in last year. I prefer that room though, I get to play with the television. :\
#3 After settling down we went to Victory Monument area to have Boat Noodle for lunch.
I’ve heard of Boat Noodle from Gavin when we went to Bangkok together last year last two year and all he said was Boat Noodle is famous among the locals and that it is located under a bridge.
Glad I get to try it this time.
After trying to locate where the Boat Noodle is for some time and not getting what we wanted, we went into a 7-11 store to ask for directions.
A very nice lady took us all the way to where the noodle is.
According to what I read online, the best way is to look for the canal while you’re on the pedestrian bridge and taking note that Victory Monument is on your left. If all else fail, just ask the locals for the direction.
#4 There’s a whole stretch of stalls by the canal all selling Boat Noodles. We weren’t sure which is the best so we just randomly walk into one.
#5 One do not simply resist raw shrimp.
#6 Boat noodle HAHAHAHA. The portion is so small you can finish it in two mouthfuls.
#7 Each bowl is 10baht from the stalls we ate and because of it’s small portion, one can eat up to at least 5 to 6 bowls.
When you’re done eating each bowl, you stack them up like how we stack up our sushi plates. It’s quite fun to watch and eat and stack because in a weird way you’ll feel like a giant for eating that much (illusion).
They do have quite a number of flavors so you can try most of them.
#8 Thai dessert which tastes a little like our kuih talam.
#9 After our lunch, our itinerary was to go to Wat Arun.
Wat Arun is also named the Temple of Dawn but we weren’t there to witness it’s glory because we left before the sun sets.
Oh ya talking about the sun, can you believe it that we were all shivering because it was too cold in Bangkok!?
Must be me being an ignorant person or something, I didn’t know that during year end Bangkok tends to be more chilly but according to the locals this year is exceptionally cold.
Temperature could go as low as 18 degree oh my god!
#10 Our means of transport to Wat Arun.
#11 Le fats and I.
#12 Yes, this is what I did half the time on the boat because the water from river kept splashing on my face OMG!
I don’t want to imagine how dirty the river is. And halfway through I feel asleep hahahah!
#13 Don’t know how it feels like to stay in houses like such, must be quite chill. (:
#14 Wat Arun. Remember to dress accordingly or you’ll have to rent sarong at their entrance.
#15 Fatty with his parents and two younger sisters. They’re all so tall! T_T
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#19 I climbed up the temple with Bernice and I had a super hard time coming down! The stairs was so steep and I was afraid of height so it really takes up a lot of courage for me to climb down that flight of stairs.
#20 But I have a deep sense of accomplishment too cause I tried to face my fears.
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#22 After spending some time at Wat Arun, we decided to go over to Asiatique to have a look.
#23 There was a food fair at Asiatique so we settle that as our dinner.
#24 Looks good but the food really didn’t live up to it’s expectation. What we had on street side was much better.
#25 It was a long long day but however long my day was I cant say no to 7-11’s food! Green curry is what I crave for very often so I was really happy!