Showing posts with label BKK2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BKK2015. Show all posts

Monday, January 11, 2016

BKK Day 4 - Back to Singapore

Just got back from the honeymoon trip and yes I shall get down to finish writing about the final post on BKK2015. I know it's pretty backdated but at the very least I did it before BKK2016 happen lol 

For other entries of my bkk trip, you may click the BKK2015  link under My Travels.

The last day in Bangkok was spent doing last minute shopping around the must-go malls like Platinum Mall and Central World. Not forgetting those street stalls which we have been patronizing much as we went around getting souvenirs for our friends. 

No BKK trip is complete without heading to level 5 of Platinum Mall to see and grab some Rilakkuma stuffs for myself :) 

After having a hard time deciding on what to buy because I just want to buy everything from the shop, I decided on this bag. Yea only this bag because I was refrained from buying more stuffs by Derp lol. 


We checked out and headed to the airport in the early afternoon. Derp was paranoid about us getting caught in the jam hence we left for airport much earlier than plan. 



Checked in our language.

Off for some late lunch before our flight. Since we were sitting budget airline, it's best to keep our stomach full first before boarding :)

It has become our routine to dine in at The Pizza Company before boarding the plane. I think we did that since our first BKK trip.



Ordered one of their combo to share. Their pizza is pretty good and after trying for so many years, I must say their standard is comparable to that of Pizza Hut :) 



The combo comes with spicy wings and drumlets too. 



Our new leather passport cover :) Probably the best loot of the trip. 


Last #welfie before boarding. 


Goodbye BKK! 

See you soon alright? :) 

You may read other post of my BKK2015 trip here:

http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bangkok-2015-day-1-part-1-singapore-bkk.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bkk-day-1-part-2-after-you-dessert-cafe.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bkk-day-2-part-1-coffman-by-friends.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/09/bkk-day-2-part-2-silom-thai-cooking.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/09/bkk-day-2-part-3-ookii-ookii-village.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/10/bkk-day-3-part-1-big-c-supermarket.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/11/bkk-day-3-part-2-som-tam-nua-siam.html

Sunday, November 15, 2015

BKK Day 3 Part 2 - Som Tam Nua @ Siam Square, Hello Kitty House Bangkok

So where did I stop at for the BKK travelogue? I was too busy lately with the wedding preparation hence I stop updating this space with the travelogue because they usually takes up much more time in drafting them.

Since I'm able to take a breather now, I shall clear my backlogs! Previously I stop at shopping for all the tibits and snacks to be brought back for our colis and friends since it was our last day in BKK. I shall continue from there :)

We went back to the hotel to rest after running all the errands and I start to search for dinner places around Siam Square. Our initial plan was to have dinner at Inter Restaurant because I personally love their local thai dishes. After going through some discussions with Derp, we decide to try something new instead so that's when I start searching online for recommendation.

Many people recommends Som Tam Nua which is also located at Siam Square. The food looks delish too especially the Tom Yum Soup which is slightly different from the one we have at other restaurants in BKK. We decide to give it a try then :)


It's location within a walking distance from Siam Station. 

We were there early hence there was no queue! After we left, we saw there's a queue forming outside. It seems like a popular choice for locals and also tourists.

The menu


Candid shot taking by Derp while I was looking really serious at what to eat. 

So here's what we have ordered..


We see everybody having their sticky rice so we also join in. The rice is really very sticky hence we have a hard time eating it unless we decide to use our hand to eat it. However, Derp love such sticky rice more than I do. 


A shot with the cute looking sticky rice. 


North East Style Spicy Soup with Pork Bone 

This is actually very different from the normal tom yum soup we have. It's one of those very light yet thick taste kind of soup because of the pork broth. It's also very spicy! 


Opps pardon for the blur shot! This is also another famous dish of theirs and they actually have various variation. And it taste sour and spicy at the same time. It's the first time we ate salad that is spicy though lol. 

We also ordered their fried fish because it's also one of their signature dish. 


It's very big and yummy. Not forgetting, it's really huge too. It costs less than $10SGD for this fish. Super worth it! 

I must say this is our only non-spicy dish so we finish everything of it haha! 


Yummy Thai food!

The food served in Som Tum Nua is very different from the normal thai restaurants so if you are looking at trying something different, I will highly recommend Som Tum Nua. But do go early if you do not wish to queue!

We spend less than $20 SGD for the whole meal :)


We walked around after our dinner before heading to Hello Kitty House for desserts. All these eateries weren't far apart so it wasn't that difficult to locate them. 


Hello Kitty House Bangkok

I'm not a big fan of Hello Kitty but I feel that I haven't been to Bangkok if I never step in there once before.  It only opened in 2014 and my last trip was in 2013.


Yay to no queue so I can take lots of pictures without feeling pai seh haha.


It was getting dark so this picture didn't turn out that nice. 

Anyway, we roamed around the whole place first (and took lots of pictures) before finally settling down. The effort that was used in creating this Hello Kitty House have definitely impressed us.

There were various  levels in the Hello Kitty House

Once we entered, we saw the counter for ordering your desserts. We thought we will be allocated a seat but to our surprise no. Haha! That's when we know we can  roam around since there wasn't much people and there's plenty of seats everywhere.


The counter for ordering your Hello Kitty Desserts 


The Menu


Very pretty looking Hello Kitty Desserts that make everyone go aawww :) 


More desserts!

We went down to the basement and it's the level that sell lots of Hello Kitty merchandise.



Spot the Pink Hello Kitty car! 



Love it because it's in my favourite pink! 


Lots of sweet looking backdrop everywhere.


Even the ceiling also very chio haha! 


A shot with the very pretty and pink cushion type of backdrop.


The staff there are all very kind and helpful to help us take photos. Btw, this is not the only photo. More to come! 


One last photo before we order our food :)

I was totally spoiled for choice on what to eat but given the fact that we were still very full from our dinner, we settled on sharing 1 rainbow cake and coffee! 


Mandatory shot with the pretty rainbow cake.


Derp drinking his coffee and he find this shot very gay lol. 


#flatlay of the coffee and cake we have.

So pretty! I know you must be wondering how can we drink coffee at night haha, but actually we can and still fall asleep easily. This shows how immune we are to coffee these days. 

Even though there were many seats in the Hello Kitty House, but the design of some of the tables were really bad. 


How do they expect someone to sit like that? Totally no leg space.

The poor couple in the pic has a hard time eating their desserts and resort to tilting their legs to one side. We couldn't understand why they didn't make the table higher because they were too low for everybody including kids!

Anyway after we eat finish our desserts, we went to the top level. It's a level filled with tables and chairs for dining too. 



The table design is the same as those downstairs too. Making it really hard for people to eat their desserts hence we didn't see anyboy sit here. But I think if it's really crowded, you got no choice but to sit here too.   


With Hello Kitty's grandmother! 


Derp with the grandpa!



Thank you to the kind and helpful staff once again for this couple shot.

We bought some souvenirs (not for ourselves) before we left the place. That's all for our trip to Hello Kitty House! The desserts sold there weren't that cheap and the 2 coffee + 1 rainbow cake costs around $20SGD. Very similar to our local cafe's food price.


We shopped around the night market around Siam area before heading back. It's our first time visiting it after 3 trips to Bangkok. 

We were finding stalls selling the customized leather for souvenirs. We walked down the lane for few hundred meters but totally no luck in finding any stall selling that so we head back to Central World instead.


The crowded night market which sells clothes, shades and etc. It was really crowded so I didn't stop to take a second look at them since our main focus were to find stalls which customize leather. 


These marks the end for our last night in Bangkok! We went back to Central World area to do last minute shopping before going back to our hotel to pack our luggage. Glad that we were still able to stuff all our loots into our luggage without much problem. 

Will do up the final installment of the Bangkok trip soon. It's gonna be a short one because on the final day, we didn't have much time to do much stuff before we head to the airport. Be back soon for the final update!

You may read other post of my BKK2015 trip here:

http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bangkok-2015-day-1-part-1-singapore-bkk.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bkk-day-1-part-2-after-you-dessert-cafe.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bkk-day-2-part-1-coffman-by-friends.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/09/bkk-day-2-part-2-silom-thai-cooking.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/09/bkk-day-2-part-3-ookii-ookii-village.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/10/bkk-day-3-part-1-big-c-supermarket.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2016/01/bkk-day-4-back-to-singapore.html

Friday, October 02, 2015

BKK Day 3 Part 1 - Big C Supermarket, Santa Fe Steak @ CentralWorld,Chan Traditional Thai Massage

BKK Day 3 started off by taking a big ass selfie! Just a tip, hotel rooms have the best natural lighting and they will turn out to look really good. No filter needed *wink* 



#selfie before heading out

Time flies and it's the 2nd last full day in BKK. It's the last full day to do our last minute shopping and run our errands. But first, we had a hearty hotel breakfast to start our day with.


It's our first time eating the poached egg from the hotel breakfast and it taste good. I do prefer poached egg these days and will tend to order that when I'm cafe hopping because I don't really know how to cook it haha. 

After our breakfast, it's time for us to do our shopping! We went to a street stall outside Platinum Mall to get the remaining souvenirs done. Not forgetting to customize a passport holder for ourselves. 

We've been busy making souvenirs for our friends/colis but could not find a appropriate one for ourselves. We chance upon this shop outside Platinum Mall which sells good quality passport holders so we went ahead and customize our passport holders there. They need to take sometime to finish making our orders, so we went to shop around Platinum Mall first.  



A #welfie on our 2nd last day :)

It's the first time during this trip that we step inside Platinum Mall to shop. During all our previous trips, we will go Platinum Mall everyday for shopping. However. this shopping mall has become a low priority place to visit nowadays.

I find the quality/standard of the clothes drop and the variety is just so-so. Maybe I've aged so the fashion sense doesn't seems to appeal to me that much as before. #signsofageing


Feeling happy because this is the first dress I bought after spending 2 days in BKK. 

We went back to the street stall to collect the souvenirs after probably half an hour and head to Big C Supermarket! It's time to stock up and bring back yummy snacks to Singapore. A must-do for all our BKK trips.




#OOTD taken outside Big C.

We can easily spend an hour or more in Big C Supermarket. The supermarket is easily many times bigger than our NTUC Extra and there's a very wide variety of snacks being sold. 


Lots of pocky at a really cheap price. 


We had a hard time choosing which flavour of pocky to bring back due to the limited space in our luggage.  


In the past, I don't remember they have such baskets for us to pull around. Can't help but to take a photo of it. 


My turn to drag the basket around lol.  


We also spotted this chilli which was used during our cooking lesson. I regret not buying it back to Singapore though so as to add flavour to our homemade tom yum soup. 


It's time for lunch after our snacks shopping. We cross the overbridge back to Central World to have our lunch. Didn't plan what to eat beforehand so we walked around to see what we crave for instead. 

In the end, we settled on western food lol. After 2 days of non-stop thai food for every meal, we decide to eat something different this time round.


Santa Fe Steak @ Central World


They have this combo which seems to be a good deal. Around SGD 10 bucks for a steak meal. Sounds not bad right? However when the food arrived, I was quite disappointed.  


This is Derp's combo.


And this is mine. Why the portion so pathetic one? There's no salad being served too :(

Oh well, we get what we pay. Seems like it's still a safer choice to stick to having Thai food when in BKK. 

We passed by a department stall in Central World and I was attracted to the Rilakkuma soft toys in there. Even though the variety of Rilakkuma items on sales cannot be compared to items at Ookii Ookii Village, but I can conclude Rilakkuma is popular in BKK all these years :)



Love the background but due to the lighting, I can't get a proper pic taken. This is one of the nicer picture. 

We left Central World and walked back to Amari Watergate to visit Alex Fashion once again. This time round it was for collection. However, the custom made clothes were not ready yet. Part of the reason was they do not know what color of the buttons to use for each of the formal shirt, hence it wasn't ready yet. So the boss quickly told the factory over the phone our decision and they sew it on the spot and delivered over. We were told to come back 1 hour later.

I decide to take this chance to go for a quick massage while Derp brings the barang barang back to the hotel. Yay to cheap massages and I finally have the time to do it after 2.5 days in BKK.


I went back to the trusted Thai Massage which I've always patronize. It's just a short distance away from Baiyoke Sky hotel which explains why I love to patronize them. 


My masseur who is really good.

I chose to do the legs,arms and shoulder massage for 1 hour. Kind of regret not taking the 1.5 hour massage as I almost fall asleep when the time is up. Total costs is less than 10sgd . 


Derp came to meet me after I'm done and we walk to Alex Fashion again. This time round, the clothes have arrived from the factory. Derp tried his clothes while I waited for him.

It's best to try your custom made clothes during the collection so they can quickly alter it. If not you will have to alter it yourself/wait for them to come Singapore. It's much more troublesome that way. We've learned our lesson so we make it a point to try during collection.

Previously, we were in a rush to catch our flights. Anyway. only 1 pants need to be further altered so we brought back the rest of the custom made clothes back to our hotel. We will need to go back there on the last day to collect the pants again.

While on the way back to the hotel, we decide to drop by my favourite chicken wings stall to get some fried chicken wings for tea break! You may find directions to the chicken wing stall here :)



Our sinful tea break that day. We can have the wings everyday because they are so affordable and yummy lol. 

Ending off this post with this photo..



All the snacks we bought from Big C! If only we can buy more...

It will just be another 2 entries to end my BKK 2015 travelogue. I'll finish it up really soon! Stay tuned :) 

You may read other post of my BKK2015 trip here:

http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bangkok-2015-day-1-part-1-singapore-bkk.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bkk-day-1-part-2-after-you-dessert-cafe.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/08/bkk-day-2-part-1-coffman-by-friends.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/09/bkk-day-2-part-2-silom-thai-cooking.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/09/bkk-day-2-part-3-ookii-ookii-village.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2015/11/bkk-day-3-part-2-som-tam-nua-siam.html
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2016/01/bkk-day-4-back-to-singapore.html