Day 4 in the Land of Smiles: Bangkok (June 2015)

Day 4

Push cart coffee

Thai coffee served from the push cart. You can get your morning fix from these pushcarts. Cheap and good!

Lunch at Kyochon Chicken MBK

Endorsed by none other than Lee Min Ho

Honey Glazed Chicken

Hot and Spicy Chicken

The hot and spicy chicken is quite crispy but the honey glazed chicken has been coated with too much flour. I think they did a slight change in formula to cater to the Thais. Nonetheless, very pleased to have eaten at Kyochon. If you have no chance to go Korea and are in Bangkok, do try Kyochon! 

Grand palace

Opening Hours:

0830 - 1530

Location of Grand Palace
Retrieved from: Google Maps

There were many PRC tourist swarming the Grand Palace on the afternoon of our visitation. We took a cab from Siam Square which costs us around 60 baht.

The ticket entrance fee costs 500 baht per person which allows you access to 3 areas: Grand Palace, Coin Museum and Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles.

Main Hall of the Grand Palace

The main hall of the Grand Palace is open for the public. However, shoes are not permitted in the main hall. One suggestion is to bring along a plastic bag to contain your shoes to prevent any possible theft.

There are a stretch of nice mythical paintings on the walls along the walkway of this building. Worth the look!

This building house the Thai's historical weaponry

MP

The Grand Palace is definitely worth the visit. You can easily spend 3 hours in the Grand Palace. After the Grand Palace, you can visit the nearby Wat Pho (aka Sleeping Buddha). We took a cab to Wat Pho which costs us around 35 baht.

Wat Pho

Opening Hours:

0800 - 1700

Location of Wat Pho

Reclining Buddha

 This is a huge reclining Buddha!

For a donation of 20 baht, you will receive a cup full of coins. You are supposed to put one coin in one urn that is lining the corridors of the main hall. This is located at the back of the reclining Buddha. In all there should be 89 urns and 90 coins. I guess you get to keep the last one? 

Your entrance ticket comes with a complimentary bottle of water. Do claim them at the booth outside the main hall of the reclining Buddha.

Outside of the main hall, there are many huge pyramid structures. Yes, they call them pyramids.

There are many Buddha statues lining the corridor of this building.

Map of Wat Pho

Yaowarat (Chinatown)

Opening Hours:

0700 - 0000

The famous Lin Zheng Xiang. There are two stores that are adjacent to each other. Go for the one with the pig. The lady boss is a friendly teochew speaker. She recommended our dinner place for later.

Things to buy there:

1. Pork Floss Roll (aka Dog Shit)

2. Prawn cracker with pork floss

3. Durian Chips

4. Dehydrated Durians

5. Dried Fruits (Mangoes and Pineapple)

6. Chilli Crab Snack

If you like huge prunes, you can go down two stores to get them. The friendly lady boss will direct you to the store when you ask for big prunes.

T&K Seafood Dinner at Yaowarat

There are two seafood stores that are separated by the road. The lady boss of Lin Zhen Xiang recommended T&K seafood with their crew dressed in "Green" tees.

News highlight

Sotong

Baked salted fish

Clear tom yum

Fried Rice

Kang Kong

Kang Kong will never go wrong in Bangkok. Nothing spectacular with the rest of the dish. The Sotong is a bit rubbery. We might have ordered the wrong food. :/

Asiatique

Opening Hours:

0815 - 2145

Free ferry

You can take a BTS to BTS Saphan Taksin and transfer to the free Asiatique ferry.

River Cruise

Arriving at Asiatique

The free Asiatique Ferry

 Last ferry time departing is 2300. If you miss the ferry, fret not, you can always cab back.

Mango sticky rice, ice cream set

The things at Asiatique are pretty affordable. It is like chatuchak but more organized and with a better atmosphere. There are also many bars with live band. It is a good place to chill out. Do pay this place a visit!

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