Started the morning early at about 8am to have the hotel’s breakfast. Okay, I know. We are in Bangkok and yet I am having the hotel's breakfast? There is something about the breakfasts provided by hotels that I just really seem to like, and I don’t know how to explain it. But yeahh... Maybe it's the international spread that is available? I don't know.
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| Mini Pancakes with choice(s) of Honey Syrup / Chocolate Syrup / Maple Syrup. |
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| Live Noodles Station. |
After we're done with our breakfast, we called for a Grab to take us to the famous Chatuchak Weekend Market. The weather was a killer; it was downright hot. But luckily for us, since we reached Chatuchak quite early at about 9:30am, there wasn’t a crowd.
Chatuchak is a huge market with a total of 27 sections filled with shops that sell clothes, accessories, ceramics, furniture, collectables, books, etc. Basically, it’s like one giant pitch stop for almost everything you need/want. Also, the shops are categorised by product types into different sections. So, all/most shops in the same section sell similar products.
Because it is so huge, it did get a little confusing for us while shopping around Chatuchak, especially since we are first timers there. Fortunately, I had downloaded the Chatuchak App (a Chatuchak Guide) onto my phone before the trip, and boy was it useful! It helped us to find our way around Chatuchak, from shopping to searching for food and drinks to finding the toilet.
After much shopping, our tummies were grumbling. A sign to find some food. At this point in time, it was about noontime, so the crowd was starting to stream in. Boyfriend found a corner shop that sells duck noodles, and since we were really very hungry, we just went ahead and try.
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| Duck Noodles Store tucked in a corner. |
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| Duck Noodles; 60 THB. |
Verdict: It was not disappointing at all.
The duck noodles were really good. The only regret we had was that we did not order enough. By the time we decided that we wanted to order another bowl to share, we realised that there was a long queue outside and the eatery was fully packed (it was a small shop with very limited capacity). So, we decided to leave and keep some space in our tummies for other food instead.
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| Ice Latte to calm the weather and fuel the energy for more shopping. |
Back to more shopping after lunch, but it was getting quite packed everywhere since the crowd was starting to pour in. What made it worse was when my tummy started to hurt a lot and boyfriend had to quickly hunt for a toilet for me. Shortly after, we left Chatuchak for our hotel as it got a little too crowded for us, plus the sun was blazing down on us and it was getting stuffy.
Next stop, Siam! Our initial plan was to head over to the Chang Chui Plane Night Market, but because it is quite a distance away, which will take us approximately 1.5 hours to get there by public transport, we decided not to go.
Siam is conveniently only 4 stations away from Asok Station. Probably because it was a Sunday, Siam was crowded and packed with activities such as celebrity appearance and pop-up markets, etc.
After a day of walking, we decided to get some foot massage at Chang Foot Massage to pamper our feet before heading off to explore Siam area further. There are quite a few massage parlours at Siam area but we chose Chang Foot Massage because it seems fairly popular? In any case, the foot massage was great!
Exploring of Siam area officially starts after our foot massage. We passed by a cafe outside Siam Square One that is super adorable. The B.Duck Cafe! It is so adorable that I just want to get something off the menu so that we can dine in at the small little cafe.
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| B.Duck Cafe. |
We decided to have some ice-cream to share at B.Duck Cafe. Though the cafe also serves desserts, coffee, and other drinks, the weather was really too warm and humid for us, so ice-cream was what we went for.
From the selection of 10 different flavours of ice-cream - Vanilla, Chocolate, Tiramisu, Cookie & Cream, Yogurt Strawberry, Mint Chocolate, Forest Berry, Lemon, Panacotta, and Peach & Mango; we got a single scoop of our classic Chocolate flavour.
After our pitch stop for ice-cream, we continued to explore Siam area until it was time for dinner. Went up and down the streets hunting for a good dinner place for almost an hour because I can't decide until boyfriend randomly chose a restaurant that we passed by probably 3 - 4 times.
The restaurant of boyfriend's choice was: Ban Khun Mae.
The restaurant is located on the street opposite Siam Square One. It may look like nothing on the outside, but it definitely serves some very delicious great food, especially their Green Curry! Okay, for spicy-food eaters/lovers, the green curry might not be for you. But for non-spicy eaters like myself, their green curry was SO GOOD, with the strong herb and curry taste but not at all overly spicy.
We did a little more shopping and exploring at Siam Paragon after dinner before we are calling it a day. By far, I think we had quite a fair bit of good food all thanks to boyfriend. Of course, we had some street food and light snacks here and there every now and then. But the Duck Noodles (lunch) and Green Curry (dinner) were probably the highlights of all the food we had today!
They were both more than awesome and we would definitely go back to have more!
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