Bangkok 2018

Day 1 (15-8-2018)

Arrived DMK around 4pm, pick up SIM card from Klook.

Queue up for taxi, there is a 50thb surcharge on top of taxi meter.

The Q for taxi is quite long but moved pretty fast, took about 20-25mins for my turn.

The whole journey took more than 2hrs, taxi driver playing his game on his handphone all the while. The route he took is different from google and stuck in very heavy traffic. The taxi is not moving for 1 hr and pay the driver and walked to my hostel myself.

It only took 15mins walk to my hostel. Next time I will not take taxi from airport anymore, not reliable depending on taxi in BKK. Taking bus or Grab is better option.

Ekenek Hostel
972thb for 3nights
Very good location, 5mins to BTS (Sala Daeng), 7-8mins to MRT (Sam Yam). Plenty of food and massage around this area till 1am. The con, next to Patpong, Taniya Road (red light district), pretty rowdy.

Very clean and spacious dorm n bed.

Their hair dryer is the most powerful ones I had seen in hotel/ hostel.

This stall is just outside the hostel, the braised poek leg is so so good!

50thb per plate

After dinner, walked 3-4 mins to Wat Hua Lamphong.

After donating coffin, prayers, I took MRT to Hua Lamphong to proceed next destination, Yaowarat.

Exiting the MRT, need to walk 15mins to Yaowarat. Along the way, found this noodle stall and stopover and had a bowl (50thb).

Finally arrived in Yaowarat around 9+pm

Had this Thai crepe, 4 for 60thb.
This is not those usual i ate before, the crepe is thicker, more fillings and sweeter.
I ordered 2 sweet and 2 savoury. Savoury is with thai basil and coconut.

Come back to this bird nest specialise shop.

They have ranging 200-100thb bird nest.
I had the 300thb one and request it to be inside a coconut. This is value for money, although the bird nest is mainly bits and pieces but it is quite alot and taste good. They also serve a pandan water, ginko nuts and honey to go along with.

Next, saw this kway chap and ordered a small bowl (50thb).
After eaten and found there are a few more and the popular ones is actually down the road.

Not really impressive.