Before we headed off for our first destination, Taling Chan, we wandered around a bit at the ferry drop off point at the BTS station we usually took. Our wandering led us to a supermarket that also served breakfast...so in a sense, this was more of a clean food-court ish place and the food sold here probably isn't going to match that of the stuff in the streets. Still, it was pretty good, especially the omelet rice. =)
After our quick meal, we found ourselves on a metered cab making our way to Taling Chan floating market, the less touristy, more local feel floating market, just a 20 minute drive away from where we were.
The market here is significantly smaller than the Damnoen Saduak floating market. Before we made it to the dining area, we were greeted with all sorts of delicious goodies along the road side for locals and tourists to purchase before sitting in the dining area to have their fill.
Right before the bridge to the floating market's large dining hall, you could find loads of catfish swimming around the area, all hungrily waiting for locals and tourists to purchase a loaf of bread from the nearby stall, and toss into the river for them to eat.
Once we were done being fascinated with the huge schools of fish, we made our way to check out the main dining hall.
The dining concept here's pretty interesting, from the hall, all you see are rows and rows of tables with people having a meal...so where are the food stalls? By the river of course!
Diners would place an order from the boats, and then take a seat at the dining area. Once the cook on the boat is done making the dish, it is being passed on to a floor runner who then walks up to you and hands you your food.
You'd see a lot of people eating seafood in this area, especially Catfish, which I assume are being caught at the same river site and grilled to perfection
We didn't really eat though, the fish was huge, probably better off if we had more than just the two of us.
We did stop for a drink and light snack...Mango Sticky Rice! Also, there was some coconut drink that was mixed with honey I believe. Xinn loved it, I thought it got a little too much after half the cup.
Unlike Damnoen Saduak, you can't boat ride through the market, where we were was pretty much it in terms of market place. There were boat rides to other locations though, one and orchid farm, and another which was to a snake farm. I think cause of the scheduled tours, we picked the orchid farm which was the mot convenient.
There was still time, so we wandered around a bit. We checked out the train track right above Taling Chan market that is still operational, and later found a few kids playing by the river right below the track.
Not long after, the boat arrived and we, along with some tourists and a bunch of locals, got on board and headed towards the neighbourhood side of the floating market.
Throughout the journey, the tour guide only spoke in Thai, so the locals understood and laughed at her jokes, but for the rest of us, it was a "laugh when everyone else laughs" session.
There wasn't really anything worth seeing at the Orchid farm, my aunt owns one in Singapore and I've been round her farming facility, and so I gave it a miss and soaked in the sights and sounds around the neighbourhood instead.
On the way back, the boat also stopped off an a temple, and a bakery where once again, you'd see huge schools of catfish waiting eagerly for you to dump bread into the river for them to show on. The bakery sold a loaf at 10 baht per loaf...10 baht! We ended up buying it for ourselves to munch on rather than feed it to the fishes.
Still, a lot of the locals and tourist got in on the fun, purchased a loaf of bread, and started tossing them into the river. Video below.
Before we knew it, it was back to Taling Chan, where we hailed a cab and got on with our next destination, Khaosan Road.
Khaosan is super expat-ish. Loads of motels and hikers lodging here that many flock to this area to stay in Bangkok. Naturally, to cater to these tourists, stalls selling clothing, food, and other services were found throughout the entire 400m stretch.
It looks happening but Xinn probably wouldn't want to stay here cause it's too congested.
We did manage to grab a light snack...fried crepe with nutella and sliced bananas, Xinn totally enjoyed it =)
Khaosan was like a 20-30 minute walk around and that was it. It was already evening time and so we made our way to another popular place for food...Thipsamai's Phad Thais! But first, to work an appetite, we decided to make our way there by foot, which was about a 20-30min journey.
Thipsamai serves what is considered to be the best Phad Thai in Bangkok, with people such as the King himself coming to dine here to my understanding.
The Phad Thai served at Thipsamai is pretty dope. We ordered one regular version and a special which consisted of papaya salad, crab meat, and shredded dried cuttlefish.
It wasn't spicy like the one we had on day one, but it was still rather good, the textures from the special Phad Thai was awesome, crunchy yet meaty at the same time...a very nice experience. =)
After our meal, we found ourselves at Chinatown, checking out the place a night which was booming with activity, but mainly chinese cuisine dining and some street snacks. We were done in about 30 minutes too...it's cool but I guess for a Chinese, this looks pretty much like any Chinatown we've been to.
We were almost ready to call it a day, but before that, we headed off to Central World for one last session of Thai Massage, from the same place Tier 0 went last year.
The massage here was, naturally, so much better than the one at Patpong. What a way to end the day, even Xinn enjoyed her massage, too bad we were in different rooms.
After the massage, we took the train back to the nearest BTS, hopped off, and were feeling a bit hungry, so we managed to try some thai microwavables at 7-11.
Compared to the microwavable stuff Singapore has to offer, Thailand is leaps ahead, the stuff looked good and also tasted pretty nice! It was comfort food to end our super long third day.
Tomorrow would be our final day in BKK and although we didn't have much time left in our hands, we managed to cover most of the things we wanted to do in Thailand.
That's it for Day 3, will write up Day 4 when time permits, it's a lot shorter so hopefully it'll be quick.
Khaosan is super expat-ish. Loads of motels and hikers lodging here that many flock to this area to stay in Bangkok. Naturally, to cater to these tourists, stalls selling clothing, food, and other services were found throughout the entire 400m stretch.
It looks happening but Xinn probably wouldn't want to stay here cause it's too congested.
We did manage to grab a light snack...fried crepe with nutella and sliced bananas, Xinn totally enjoyed it =)
Khaosan was like a 20-30 minute walk around and that was it. It was already evening time and so we made our way to another popular place for food...Thipsamai's Phad Thais! But first, to work an appetite, we decided to make our way there by foot, which was about a 20-30min journey.
Thipsamai serves what is considered to be the best Phad Thai in Bangkok, with people such as the King himself coming to dine here to my understanding.
The Phad Thai served at Thipsamai is pretty dope. We ordered one regular version and a special which consisted of papaya salad, crab meat, and shredded dried cuttlefish.
It wasn't spicy like the one we had on day one, but it was still rather good, the textures from the special Phad Thai was awesome, crunchy yet meaty at the same time...a very nice experience. =)
After our meal, we found ourselves at Chinatown, checking out the place a night which was booming with activity, but mainly chinese cuisine dining and some street snacks. We were done in about 30 minutes too...it's cool but I guess for a Chinese, this looks pretty much like any Chinatown we've been to.
We were almost ready to call it a day, but before that, we headed off to Central World for one last session of Thai Massage, from the same place Tier 0 went last year.
The massage here was, naturally, so much better than the one at Patpong. What a way to end the day, even Xinn enjoyed her massage, too bad we were in different rooms.
After the massage, we took the train back to the nearest BTS, hopped off, and were feeling a bit hungry, so we managed to try some thai microwavables at 7-11.
Compared to the microwavable stuff Singapore has to offer, Thailand is leaps ahead, the stuff looked good and also tasted pretty nice! It was comfort food to end our super long third day.
Tomorrow would be our final day in BKK and although we didn't have much time left in our hands, we managed to cover most of the things we wanted to do in Thailand.
That's it for Day 3, will write up Day 4 when time permits, it's a lot shorter so hopefully it'll be quick.
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