SIN- BKK 

13/12/14- 18/12/14

My long waited trip to the legendary shopping paradise, a place where I've been hearing from friends about how amazing this place is of a shopping hub. 

Hehehe. 

It's been long since I used my Canon G15. 

Cheezeeeeee 

We stayed at Centara Watergate Pavillion Hotel, there were some hiccups regarding the booking of this hotel room but overall I really liked this hotel, the hotel service and the hotel designs. 

Chillax after breakfast. I really loved the morning breeze at Bangkok during this season. It is literally chillyyyyyy wind that feels like air con. 

Look at those green/pinkish looking thing. These are street stalls that I liked to walk everyday. 

Bangkok is amazingly filled with the most amount of Singaporeans I've ever encountered in one foreign country. Literally everywhere, I hear Singaporeans, I speak with Singaporeans and mom even bargained together with Singaporeans. LOL. I can totally understand why all the nearby hotels are fully booked at that time when I was trying to book for a hotel room. 

Other than the amazing shopping, comes the amazing local street foods. 

10 baht. I loved this!!! I even dabao-ed to the plane on the last day. Hehehe. 

Roadside fishball noodles. 

I've learnt that there were chinese influence in Thailand in the olden days. And these chinese influence stays authentic until today. 

Mom said the fish ball noodles has got her childhood flavour in it. We even encountered a teochew old lady selling soon kueh by the streets in a basket, whom only knew how to communicate in teochew. Her soon kueh was 3 for 20 baht, and mom said it tasted like her mom's soon kueh. Mom's loving this place. A lot. Hehe. 

Dinner by the roadside stalls. hehe. 

Our favourite Chendol at Chatuchak. This is unique in a way shaved ice are contained in this big wooden tumblr and we can add as much as we want into the mixture. 

Watergate Night Market 

Located at somewhere ulu, super localised, and super cheap. We chanced upon this night market because it was directly below and behind our hotel. We thought it was a long folded night market because the sign board was up but there wasn't any stalls on Saturday and Sunday night when we looked down to. But amazingly on Monday evening when we peeped out at the window again, that's where we found this market. I really loved this market, perhaps my most fav one of all. Because there were so little people walking around, mostly are locals, and there are even different live bands every single night. 

Cheap and gorgeous vintage shoes (brand new). The cheapest things are found here, even the D.I.Y name holders and keychains that you see in the streets, it is cheapest here. 

Fried ice creammmmmm! Literally from liquid form to solid on this icy cold pan. We ordered mocha with cornflakes and almond, topped with whipped cream and chocolate syrup. We went back for more on the third day but too bad it wasn't there on the third day. And yea the stalls varies day to day. 

Amazing voices, amazing band. 

View of the night market from our hotel room. 

I really loved to mingle into the locality when I'm in a foreign country. I've got no interest in touristy spots, but I'm into places that locals go the most. And another cool thing that my family loved is street foods and roadside food stalls - which not a lot of family/ friends are in favour of because they are not as hygiene. That I totally agree that the hygiene of street food stalls can cause upset tummies, but local food streets and night markets like these are what entices me to want to travel out of Singapore.  

To experience the lives of the Host Community. 

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Oh yea, as for shopping, how much loots have I brought home? 

Not a king size bed full of items though. But 3/4 of a single sized bed. 

Hehe.