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Saturday, August 15, 2015

BKK Day 1 Part 2 - After You Dessert Cafe @ Central World, Super Heroes Cafe @ Central World, Pratunam Night Market

Back to update Part 2 of my Day 1 BKK trip. You may read part 1 here!

After our filling dinner, we went back to Central World for desserts. Oh well it's our first meal of the trip (lunch + dinner) hence we were able to squeeze down some desserts before we call it a day.

Passed by this cute bear shop front in Central World and couldn't resist taking photo with the bear.

This shop is similar to our build-a-bear shop but I can't remember the name of this shop. There's more than 1 of this shop in the whole Central World and they are all located in between 2 shops, right in the middle of where the shoppers walk.

We were on the hunt for After You cafe. It's located at the 7th floor and mind you, the area of each level is really very big. We walked the wrong direction and it took us nearly another 5 mins to finally find the cafe. So you can totally imagine how huge the whole shopping mall is.

Years back when we visited Bangkok, we dined in at a restaurant on the 7th floor before. It wasn't that happening in the past but it's very crowded now even on a weekday night. Many shops have changed since then and they started opening very 'in' eateries which attract the crowd. The famus Jones Orphanage also have a branch there but it's a much smaller branch compared to the one at Thong Lo.

There was a queue forming outside After You cafe and thankfully there was a queue system. Since there was only 2 of us, it was easier for us to get a seat. We didn't wait that long, probably after 10 - 15 minutes our queue number appeared on their screen.

The menu

The counter.

When you are ready, you can just walk up to the counter and order your desserts :)

The drinks menu

The drinks which is free for all.

We saw many people taking the free drink so we follow suite too haha! It's actually some ice tea with flower scent in it. You can add the sugar syrup according to your preference.

After we were done ordering, our desserts came shortly after. Totally excited to try the famous Shibuya Honey Toast!

Hereby presenting to you the Shibuya Honey Toast which costs around SGD7

It taste really yummy even though I have not try the toast from Dazzling Cafe. It's our first time eating this kind of toast by the way. The texture and taste of it is really good but it's not something which we will keep eating it. That's because this dessert is really filling and we almost couldn't finish it.

I ordered a cup of Cappuccino - 95 Bhat (SGD 3.80)

Derp ordered Flat White - 95 Baht (SGD 3.80)

You might find us weird for drinking coffee at night but it doesn't really affect our sleep haha! In the past maybe but not now unless is those espresso shots. We are getting immune to coffee which is a bad sign. But for something sweet, we prefer a not so sweet drink to go with it.

Their coffee standard is acceptable, just like our cafes locally. The price is also cheaper too.

Mandatory shot

We will definitely go back there to have their desserts again in future when we are back in BKK. Perhaps we'll try their non-toast desserts next time round which are pretty popular too.

I love Bangkok cafes because of their affordable price, nice ambiance and not forgetting they serves quality food! It's really on par with those local cafes in Singapore or even better.

After we left After You cafe, we saw something that caught our attention and ended up staying another 1 hour in the mall!

There's a cinema on the same level as After You cafe and "Ant Man" movie was about to start screening soon.

Many people took photo of this/with this as it does looks quite real and seems like the life size of it.

Saw this and we went O.O haha! Poor Ant Man!

Near to the cinema theater we spotted this...

Hello Elsa!

It's actually right outisde a shop call the Super Heroes Cafe. I won't call it a cafe because there's too many merchandise for sale in the shop.

Saw this Hulkbuster in the middle of the shop

There were many other displays in the shop as well ..

They bring in not only Marvel but they also sell DC super heroes' merchandise..

All these were for sale!

In the inner part of it, that's where the cafe is!

We didn't have anything there but just simple went to take a look at it. Somehow everyone who come in to the whole place just to take photo and then leave after taking a look at all the merchandise.

All the merchandise are authentic so don't expect them to be cheap.

There's a 2nd floor in the shop. We climb the stairs up and saw this..

Funko Boggleheads!

They were priced around SGD20. Truth to be told, we had a few in our house and we lack of 1 to complete the particular series.

Too bad we didn't manage to find it there but they do have a wide range of Boggleheads. We had a good time looking through them even though we have no intention to buying them. #selfcontrol

Hello Olaf :)

For more information on this shop, you may click here. Google translate is needed if you do not know Thai language.

We made our trip back to the hotel after a long day. It was around 9pm local time and most of their stalls were actually closed by 8pm on a weekday.

The walk back to our hotel is always pitch dark because we have to pass by the alley before reaching Pratunam night market (located just below our hotel) . That's one of the reason why we hope to stay at other hotel in the next trip.

We spent sometime at Pratunam night market before heading back to our hotel room to call it a day..

There were lots of stuff selling at cheap price and I manage to get a new shades for myself. I happily took out my shades to bring for the trip but left it all on my dining table. -_-"

Stay tuned to the rest of my BKK posts. Can't wait to share about our trip the Silom Thai Cooking School. Till then!

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-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
http://firstlove88.blogspot.sg/2016/01/bkk-day-4-back-to-singapore.html

Monday, August 10, 2015

Bangkok 2015 Day 1 Part 1 - Singapore -> BKK, Baiyoke Sky Hotel, Alex Fashion @ Amari Watergate, Jelly Dreams @ Central World, Greyhound Cafe @ Groove

It has been nearly 2 years since we last visited BKK! Have been missing the country a lot since then as Bangkok will always have a special place in our heart. :) Nearly 2 months since we are back from a overseas trip and now we are flying off again. It was for a different purpose this time round.

This BKK Trip was more of a relax trip and also a trip to settle our wedding stuffs. This getaway trip came in at the most apt time because we were both so tied down with work for the whole month of July.

Our flight was around noon time hence we need not wake up too early to catch the flight. Having that being said, we will rather reach Bangkok earlier the next time round because the traffic jam can get pretty bad. Will go into it later on!

#OOTD taken at Changi Airport Terminal 2

It sort of reminded me that it's less than 1 month to our National Day celebration before I departed.

With my travelling partner...

Happy SG50!

We had a quick brunch after checking in our luggage. We roamed around a little before boarding the plane.

Saw this huge roti prata otw to board the plane..

#welfie taken before the plane takes off

It was a short 2.5 hours plane ride to reach Suvarnabhumi Airport. After we landed, we quickly queue to get our passport chop. We collected our luggage and off we go to hunt for the data SIM card.

There were long queues at the various counters. It's located 1 level down from where you pass the custom and we usually choose AIS. It's our preferred network because it never fail us :) Both counters have lots of customers as compared to the last few years when we are in BKK. Seems like getting a data SIM card there is a must-have these days.

We took the 299 baht (roughly $12sgd) package which includes unlimited data usage for 7 days. It's definitely more than enough and the price is the same for all the different brands phones. In the past, there's different pricing for Iphone/Samsung and etc. Glad that they standardize it now and it's much cheaper these days! I'm very sure it's around 500 baht 2 years back.

We quickly hop on to the cab and head to our hotel after we are done with purchasing the SIM card.

Anyway, even the cab system has changed lol. There used to be someone writing down the destination for you but now they have kiosk and you just need to press a number and wait for your cab lol.

The journey to the hotel took much longer than we expected. It took us more than an hour to reach the hotel due to the bad traffic jam near our hotel area. It's like a norm from 5pm onwards due to peak period. We had to push some of our itinerary items to the next day instead due to the lack of time.

As I had made dinner reservation, I was quite kan cheong to see the jam. Hence, I concluded next time I will prefer to reach there probably before noon! There's just too much errands to run on the first day.

As we booked our air ticket and hotel less than 2 months to the trip, there weren't much hotel option. Initially we wanted to book Glow Pratunam but it was fully booked :( Hence we sticked to Baiyoke Sky Hotel and I do hope that it's our last time staying there lol.

Some pictures of the hotel room before we dashed out of the hotel..

The dressing area

Toilet

The view from the room. Nothing much and I can't really figure out where we are facing lol.

Anyway, we headed to Amari Watergate hotel straight. We had quite a bit of stuff to settle at Alex Fashion.

It's probably 10 minutes walk from Baiyoke Sky (that's provided there wasn't much crowd at pratunam market)

2nd level of Amari Watergate is full of tailors!

We managed to settle all the altering/ordering of shirt/suit/pants at Alex Fashion within an hour. It's quite record breaking because we used to spend much more time there during our first trip there. We were more well prepared this time round.

We had around an hour left before our dinner reservation. Our dinner place is @ Groove which is just next to Central World. We passed by Central World and since we had some time, we quickly went to check out Jelly Dreams. 2 years ago, Jelly Dreams weren't opened yet! It's located just opposite Naraya.

One can easily find many Singaporeans in that shop lol.

The Melissa shoes sold there were of cheaper price but sad to say, a lot of their sizes were out of stock :( We went back the next few days and it's still the same. The Melissa shoes sold there were cheaper by at least 20% which explains why many of them were out of stock.

We headed to our dinner venue after the failed attempt of hunting down Melissa shoes. Our dinner venue is at Greyhound Cafe. They have a few branches in Bangkok but we chose to go to the one near Central World since it's more convenient for us.

The exterior of the restaurant.

And finally, we are having our first meal in Bangkok. Totally famished by then because we have been rushing from places to places.

Love what is written on it.

We were served with appetizers after they took our orders.

I ordered the Thai Iced Milk Tea :) While Derp has his boring sprite lol.

My mains: Pound Shrimp Fried Rice - 180 Baht

A not bad dish which taste like the fried rice served in Thai Express just that the salted egg taste quite weird. I've no idea why they included it in this dish too. In my opinion, it's quite off.

Greyhound Famous Fried Chicken Wings - 110 Baht

A trip to Greyhound cafe is not complete without trying their chicken wings. It's super yummy!

Derp Mains: Thai-style Seafood Pasta

It may look harmless but it's actually very spicy and Derp likes it a lot. Even the basil used in this dish is very different from the one we had back in Singapore.

The waitress helped us to take a pic but somehow the lighting is very weird so I deleted that photo. It's actually due to where we are sitting. In the end, we helped each other to take photo instead lol.

Us with the almost finish Thai Iced Milk Tea..

The dining experience at Greyhound Cafe was great. Their service is good and they actually served the wrong pasta to Derp and they quickly went to change it for us. Nothing to complain about as their food were great too :)

We will definitely go back there again especially for their chicken wings!

Groove @ CentralWorld

Greyhound Café : Central World, there is connected the sky walk to Chidlom BTS sky train station,

and Greyhound Cafe' is located on 2nd floor, Tel. 662(02)-613-1263, 662(02)-613-1264.

http://www.greyhoundcafe.co.th/greyhound-branch/the-groove/