Bangkok again - 2015

Bangkok highlights this round:

On Lok Yun - Finally tried this old school kopitiam.  Supposedly locals favourite.

It's super ulu, so better take cab there.

All we ordered... Definitely can skip that English platter. Super oily.

The plain bread with the egg custard tasted alright.

Personally I wouldn't come back here again cause it's not worth taking cab all the way here.

We chanced upon a "bread" shop that sells kaya and different flavours of jam at Siam Paragon which tasted great as well! It's right next to the food court.

I'll get my fix over there when I'm in Bangkok next time.

Most of the time we did shopping and eating and thus, didn't take much photos... haha..

The only touristy thing we did was going to Asiatique!

And Sylvia recommended a shop that sells lots of kitchen stuff that I fell in love with too!

I will make sure I buy them in future.

A group picture! This is the only one... :p

Ok, group feet picture count? hehe

The night view in Asiatique is quite pretty with this flyer. Every country needs a flyer isit?

We ate dinner at this Happy Fish - Obviously made Yuez a happy fisher too!

Bright cheery setting. :)

Hopefully our next trip will have LINX!!!!!!

Eat. Beach. Sleep. Repeat. Phuket 2015 Part 2

On our second day, we both went gym (yes, I managed to psycho him!) and chanced upon a table tennis room! Oh, it brought back so much memories of playing table tennis back in school days.... ahh... those days..

He managed to beat me and then told me he was in school team. What?! Should have given me handicap right?! Unfair.

But well, it was an enjoyable moment playing together. :)

 

Then, we ventured other beaches using the motor cycle we loaned for 24 hours.

It was seriously hot that sitting on a bike get suntanned faster than if you were at the beach.

 

Because of the heat, we didn't have the mood to eat as well, hence we just brought some food at the mart and bring it to the beach to relax, enjoy the breeze.

It was really much cooling under the coconut tree and enjoying our romantic beach picnic. hehe.

 

 

 

Mid afternoon, we returned the bike and stayed in our hotel and enjoy the facilities - Swimming pool, tan, and drinking coconut juice. Enjoyment. Life is great just like that.

 

 

 

Personal opinion, the swimming pool is quite impressive for this so-so hotel. Didn't expect this though.

 

 

We bought Fantasea tickets and went for it at 6pm. The bus picked us up and sent us there.

This is my first time and I was quite amazed by the grandness of this place.

Thought it would be only a small place, but it looks big.

 

Because I was so hungry, we went for dinner first. The dinner is buffet and it was big! Like Expo hall size. Note that when you enter, walk straight to eat first, don't go right side and take picture because they will think you have eaten your dinner, and cannot go back into the dining hall again.

When you exit, you have time to take picture.

 

You will be allocated seats when you purchased your tickets, so just go to your assigned seats to eat.

Dinner was good!

 

 

 

 

We decided to have some fun before entering the show and played all the kiddy stuffs. And he won! haha... :) He is good at shooting games, think that's what his NS trained him well.

 

Overall, I enjoyed the show and think it's worth watching one time. But I wouldn't go back and watch again.

Our next day was just totally nua until just eat, swim, massage. haha...

Went to this apparently popular food place, called No. 6 Restaurant near Bangla.

Soup is great! :)

But noodle.. not good.

 

 

Till the next holidays! :)

 

 

 

Eat. Beach. Sleep. Repeat. - Phuket 2015

Ah. Being back from a super relaxing beach break - Phuket.

Booked this during some fare sale and just do it.

Phuket wasn't on our "to-go" list but heck it. We need a break!

 

Booked sea sun sand resort which is near the end of patong beach.

It's true that most reviews says it's confusing because you have to change lifts here and there to get to your rooms.

But that's a minor issue.

To me, the major issue was the sound proofing was bad. People close door and hear very loud.

But i'm on holiday, so having the seaview, sunset view, and the pool view was just comforting for me.

 

 

Since it was already close to dinner time, we decided to take a walk down the beach and over to Junceylon for a nice good dinner. GGH wasn't feeling well, hence we went for steamboat at MK Gold Restaurant.

Ordered ala carte and had a very filling meal. Cost ard $40 for 2. The most expensive went to the shabu shabu meat.

Went around for a walk and just within 1 year of returning back here, Junceylon is getting very international. There's even Pandora there! Sometimes I kinda hope that such places don't so internationalised so that it keeps the local feel and us, tourists, can appreciate their culture.

Most of the people shopping inside are all tourist, I wonder does the locals visit...

 

 

Settled down early in preparation for the next whole day event.

We bought island hopping trip from one of the street, costing us THB1,200 per person.

Different operators quote differently, so try and get your best price.

We also got the Fantasea tickets for THB 1,600 including dinner.

 

The Phi Phi Island trip is the whole day, and it was a 45min bus ride from our resort to the marina.

 

Started off with the Monkey Island where we get to see monkeys. Not very interesting considering zoo has a lot of monkeys. haha.. even Machritchie has monkeys roaming. hahaha...

 

 

After that, we went to the middle of somewhere where we got to jup off the boat and snorkel in the middle of the sea.

The water was so clear and beautiful. You could see many small fishes!

 

 

After that, we went to an island where they served buffet lunch. This was slightly different from what I experienced during Krabi.

In Krabi, my island hopping lunch was brought to the beach itself and they just laid a mat and serve us food.

This, was a proper restaurant type.

And the food is quite good. Had ourselves ice cream cause it was too scorching hot! It was like 36 degrees??? I was like applying sunblock every hour.

 

 

Beautiful sight.

 

We reach Maya Bay where we could snorkel/ swim over there.

Damn shiok. The scenery was beautiful, and lying in the waters under the sun was super cooling.

My skin was burning!

 

Our last island was Khai Nai Island, equally beautiful.

Much bigger and there were shops selling bbq food.

Again, we snorkelled and saw more fishes here.

I think this place has the most types of fishes I've seen so far. 

 

 

Beautiful beach seats, but it cost THB150.

 

 

 

After our whole day island hopping trip, we had a very quick dinner because we booked our massage at sweet lemon grass which was rather far from our place.

 

We settled for an eatery just beside our resort, and it serves good thai food! I was surprised, cause I didn't really expect that type of standard lah... Thumbs up!!!!

 

And we decided to try renting a bike to ride!

Super nervous cause both of us never try riding a bike!

The rental is cheap so it's definitely worth renting than going by taxi.

One day rental was THB300. Quite standard. Unless you choose those newer ones or more trendy ones.

Bravo boy!

We made it safe to our massage place and had a wonderful massage.

A 90min aroma massage cost only THB500! :)

 

 

 

His 31st: Bangkok Day 4 - LiT Bangkok + Chatuchak + Pla Thong Mookata

Day 4th was of course chatuchak since it's the weekend... and more eating haha...

 

I mentioned we switched hotels halfway, that's because I wanted to try out other hotels since I have more days here.

 

So, I chose LIT BANGKOK.

It is located near National Stadium BTS, 5min short walk only. What captured me into booking this was the super big bathtub. haha..

Yup, I prefer hotel rooms with big bathtab because I can just relax in hot water, maybe i'm missing hot springs too much. hahaa...

And of course, this hotel is sooo romantic with 3 different types of dim lights. *girly mood on* It has different types of rooms and I chose Extra Radiance.  

 

This room is very big, and even has a side bed beside the windows.

Personally, I love this hotel more than Centara, but GGH doesn't like this cause it's too big for comfort. hahaha.. don't understand him.

 

 

1 room itself have 3 sanitary facility. haha. A bit too much.

 

Of course, they have very good facilities like gym, sauna, and swimming pool. Another must have in a hotel for me. Yes, I did bring my running shoes to gym.:D

Because this hotel is small, only has 79 rooms, chances are you can have the pools or gym by yourself, which is in the case for us! Awesome!

 

 

So cute! I bet someone will like this. haha...

And why this bear? because their naming convention is "pooh" -> pool and..

"jim" --> gym.

 

 

Their breakfast area, small and cozy..

 

You can order alacarte from the menu, where the chef cooks it for you fresh.

Love the bananas.. so nice!!!!

 

The eggs was quite good too!

 

View from outside.

 

I would recommend this hotel!!! :)

 

Okay, back to today's journey, Chatuchak. Nothing to snap pictures because it's all shopping!

Except for this... hehe...

 

Once shopping was done, we had to return back to town to collect his clothes.  

We went for a swim and suntanning before heading for dinner.

 

And finally, after many times in BKK, I finally got to try Mookata in Thailand!

I tried searching for mookata in Bangkok but it seems like there's only one recommendation which is Pla Thong.

This is located conveniently near BTS Victory Monument.

Exit left, there's a shopping centre, walk straight, cross a small road, there's a famous western food in green signboard. It's just beside it. 

There is not signboard that says Pla Thong, but the waitress shirt has Pla Thong at the back.  

 

They have a station of cooked food, but it's worth the skip.

 

Desserts...

 

And super wide variety of food and meat! Note that there is no plague that tells u what sort of meat or marination, so have to try abit and guess.

It has really too much of variety of the marination to even try all.

Also, do remember to use the lard for the mookata. That's the Thai way of eating.

 

Happy boy eating away. We love the meat and fish was good too!

The buffet was very cheap but I forgot how much.

The total bill with 2 bottles of water came up to THB 373, which is like $15 for 2 person!!!!

How cheap can that be?!?!?!

Super worth it. Now, I think won't pay so much for mookata in Singapore. haha. At least for now...

 

After that we slowly made our way back to central to get movie tickets!

We decided to try the 4D movie!

And, before that, another round of Shibuya! hehe. Have to have one last round before heading back to Singapore. I'm missing it already.

 

We took the same toast but with mangos. Equally nice. :)

 

4D movie is an experience that we never have anywhere else.

The closest is the 4D Shrek in Sentosa.

But this 4D movie is in proper screenings and in English too so no worries about languages.

The seats were spacious, and really, your seat keeps moving with the motion effect of the movie.

We paid premium seats within the theatre, which is the centre seats facing directly the screen.

It cost about THB1,000 for 2, approximately $40, which I felt reasonable.

Their "gold class" is also slightly higher than this only, but you have like free flow of drinks and pop corn. Super worth it. I think I will try it next time.

Do try their movie theatres as they have really difference ranges of "theme", the most expensive if Bangkok Airways I think. IMAX was very popular when we were there. SOOO may people queuing..

 

ok, that's about my last full day in bkk. Overall, I was satisfied with my food hunts for this trip.

haha.. but not to shopping! Retail therapy still much needed!

Who's up for it?!