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Welcome to Part Three (Final Post) of my Thailand Trip which will highlight my stay in BKK where I visited Platinum Mall, Mango Tango, Ban Kun Mae, After You Café and Caturday Cat Café :P
Overview
Disclaimer: This
plan is based on 2 persons package where I went with my boyfriend J I believe that if you are travelling with more people (in group of
4), the plan will be even more budget friendly as you guys can share transport
cost!!!
Day One (Read here): Having to reach Bangkok
at about 7pm, we plan to travel from the airport to our hotel to put our
luggage before exploring
DMK
Airport ® Hotel (On Nut) ® Talad Rod Fai Train Market
Day Two (Read here): Before conquering
the famous chatuchak weekend market, we need to have energy. As such, we will
be visiting a famous and vintage breakfast house (On lok Yun) for soft and
traditional bread. At the later half of the afternoon, we will be immersing
ourselves in the pretty scenery of European style ville at the chocolate ville.
On Lok Yun® Chatuchak Weekend Market® Chocolate Ville
Day Three (Read here): We set off at about 6am to reach huahin,
an outskirt of bangkok where we get to enjoy the majestic view of santorini
park as well as playing with the sheep at swiss sheep farm. We took a breather
from attraction by visiting the FN outlet which sells many local designers
products before setting our foot at Venezia park. Lastly, we did some shopping
and fill our tummy at their local night markets (Cicada Market & Plearn Wan
Street )
Huahin® Santorini Park® Swiss Sheep Farm® FN Outlet® Venezia® Cicada Market® Plearn Wan Street
Day Four : We travel back to bangkok where we step
food at the shopping heaven (Platinum Mall & Pratunam market). We can’t possibly
say that we have visited Bangkok without trying local delights. Hence we visited
Ban Khun Mae restaurant for authentic thai food as well as desserts at Mango
Tango and After You café.
Bangkok ® Platinum Mall ® Mango Tango® Ban Khun Mae® After you Cafe® Pratunam market(night)
Day Five : It’s our last day of our trip. We did
some last min shopping at Pratunam
market and platinum mall before visiting the Caturday Cat Cafe
Pratunam Market (morning) ® Platinum Mall ® Caturday Cat
Cafe
Summary
Date
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Day
1 (23rd Oct)
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Day
2 (24th Oct)
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Day
3 (25th Oct)
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Day
4 (26th Oct)
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Day
5 (27th Oct)
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Summary of Activities
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Airport
®
Talad Rod Fai Train Market
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On
Lok Yun ®
Chatuchak Weekend Market ®Chocolate Ville
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Huahin
®
Santorini Park ® Swiss Sheep Farm ® FN Outlet ®Venezia ® Cicada Market ® Plearn Wan Street
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Platinum
Mall ®
Mango Tango ®Ban Kun Mae® After You Café
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Pratunam
Market®
Platinum Mall ® Caturday Cat Café
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Morning
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On
Lok Yun
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-Santorini
Park
-Swiss
Sheep
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-Pratunam
Market
- Platinum
Mall
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Afternoon
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Chatuchak
Weekend Market
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-FN
Outlet
-Venezia
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Platinum
Mall
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Caturday
Cat Café
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Evening
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Talad
Rod Fai Train Market
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Chocolate
Ville
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-Cicada
Market
-Plearn
Wan Street
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-Mango
Tango
-Ban
Kun Mae
-After
You Café
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Stay
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S50
Sukhumvit Hotel
925baht(SGD37)
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Phranakorn-Nonlern
Boutique Hotel
2600baht
(SGD104)
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Juntima
Boutique Hotel
725baht (SGD29)
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Hotel
Vista Express
(SGD64)
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Room Type / Breakfast
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Double
Room
No
breakfast
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Double
Room
Breakfast
incl
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Villa
No
Breakfast
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Double
Room
No
breakfast
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Day 4
As usual, we woke up
early morning before sunrise just because we were going back to Bangkok and
lots of activities waiting for us!
We have chances to take photo with our
super cheap villa. It gave us a comfy rest even though it was only a short
night.
However, we did not start the day smoothly.
We asked them the night before about the transport back to Bangkok and was
informed that they could help us to arrange for minivan (a public
transportation which is very common in Thailand) to stop-by in front of the
villa at 7am yet when were ready at the exact time only to realize that they
forgot to help us make the booking. The staff immediately requested for the
next session of minivan and was told only available at 8am. The place was nice
to stay in but the staff’s service need to be improved further.
Tidy up our mood, we board the minivan at
8am sharp and setoff to Bangkok. The minivan stop at the Southern Bangkok Bus
Terminal which was unexpected as we thought it will stop at Victoria Monument.
We had our breakfast there with few pieces of bread to temporary fill our
growling stomach.
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| Even though it's not from famous stall, it’s cheap and nice :) |
We then took the public bus 511 directly to our next destination,
hotel for tonight accommodation. We alighted at Pratunam area in front of
Pantip Plaza.
It took us some time to locate the hotel. It was actually
conveniently located in front of 7-eleven and Pratunam Post, the same street of
the famous Sabx2 Soi19 Wanton Mee yet it was hard to be spotted due to morning market
along the whole streets which blocked our vision to the hotel.
As we were still
early for check-in, we left our luggage at hotel lobby and requested the staffs
to take care for us. The staffs were very responsible as they will tag every
luggage from every customer to make sure the right person retrieve
the right luggage. A right turn out from the hotel will lead us
to Soi19 Wanton Mee which was fortunately not crowded at that time :D We
immediately sat down for a taste for their famous Wanton Mee and the
pork's knuckle rice.
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Hotel view from the outside
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The Wanton Mee was very delicious as it was not too salty yet very
tasteful. The pork's knuckle rice was not properly cleaned where you can still
see the pork's hair clearly. Though it was very well marinated, we didn't have
much of it :((
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Soi19 Wanton Mee (50 baht) and the pork's knuckle rice (60 baht).
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Location:
Sabx2 Wanton
Mee (Soi 19 Wanton Mee)
Operating Hours: Daily, 0900
- 1600
We then headed over to the famous shopping paradise in town - The
Platinum Mall. This is a mall with 5 or 6 levels (if I was not mistaken),
comprises shop lots selling cheap stuffs, mostly clothes and shoes. It's women
paradise! Of course there is male clothing too; just that it is much lesser as
compared to the female.
The prices are not that expensive compared to what we could buy in
Singapore! The clothes prices ranges from 100baht (T-shirts) to 300plus baht
for the better designed and quality shirts. The shopkeeper would be willing to
give discount if you buy 3 piece or more from them.
As the shop lots were really too much in scale, we walked till our
leg muscle cramp and finally stop-by at the shop lot selling crepe. We ordered
a banana chocolate cheese crepe and it was super delicious! It was crispy and
rich in ingredients.
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My favorite crepe - banana chocolate cheese (90 baht)
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Decided to conserve
some energy for the tomorrow, so we headed over to a sweet dessert - Mango
Tango near Siam Square! Like its name, it's all about Mango. We managed to get
in without queuing (Moments after we get in, queue starts to form). We were
required to order at least one item per pax.
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| The Interior of Mango Tango. It looks really modern and classy. |
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| Mango Tango (145 baht) |
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| Mango Rhumba (95baht) |
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The desserts taste fairly normal lacking the "wow" factor. The only plus point maybe that the mango was really sweet and juicy.
Location:
Mango Tango
Siam
Square Soi 3
ถนน พระราม 1
Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Operating
Hours: Daily, 1130 – 2200
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It’s near to dinner time after we finish
our mango desserts. We went to Ban Khun Mae for our dinner. It was just 2
mins walk from mango tango which we have reserved days before arrival. Ban Khun
Mae is a quite famous restaurant in Bangkok which is widely recognised by
the locals as well as tourist. It sells delicious local cuisine and the food
choice was fairly large including our craving – Green Curry, Pad Thai etc.
Entering Ban Khun Mae, you will realize
that the restaurant was dimly lighted, clean, and rustic with its timbre
furnishing and Thai theme decorations (ornaments and paintings).
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Deep Fried Marinated Pandan Leaf Chicken (120 Baht): The pandan chicken was served with sweet chilli sauce. The sauce makes a perfect combination with the chicken to add moisture to the chicken. The chicken was fragrant and tender.
Green Curry Chicken (120 baht): It was creamy and had an appetising aroma. There is a right balance of sweetness and mild spiciness which makes it a perfect combination with plain rice.
Baked Prawn With Tang Hoon (280 Baht): The glass noodles was springy and well-braised with the sauce. However, I find it too pepery to my liking. The prawns were very big and fresh. Its meat was firm.
Fried water spinach (80 baht): Water Spinach is what we call as “kangkong” in Singapore. Unlike the kangkong we eat in Singapore where it was fried with sambal blachan, it was fried with red chili here. The stems were still crunchy yet it was not spicy at all.
Ice Blended Coconut (80 baht?): It was very refreshing and cold. You could still taste bits of coconut meat within the drink.
Ice Blended Water Melon (80 baht?): My bf like it a lot as he finds that it helps to cool him down from the hot weather in BKK as well as the heaty food we have been consuming.
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Location:
Ban Khun Mae
458/6-9 Siam Square Soi 8, Rama 1 Road,
Patumwan District, Bangkok 10330
Operating
Hours: Daily, 1100 – 2300
Tel. (662)250-1952-3, (662)658-4112-3
After the heavy meal in Ban Khun Mae, I
insisted on going to After You café for dessert while my bf was trying his best
to stop me because he simply can’t stuff in anymore food. There is a
saying “there is always room for dessert”. We waited for an hour for seats in
the After You outlet at Siam square. Bf was very thankful for the wait as he
feels that some of the food start to digest thus no longer feels bloated.
Initially, I wanted to order the Shibuya Honey Toast and
Strawberry Cheesecake Kakigori, but the Strawberry Cheesecake Kakigori was
temporary out of stock due to the large volume of patrons ordering. The waiting
time for the Cheesecake Kakigori becomes 1 hr instead of the usual 30 mins. So
they stop taking ordering for a moment during our visit.
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| Interior of the cafe |
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| Strawberry Mille Crepe (125 baht): Look the texture that layers of thin crepe topped with light whipped cream and strawberry gives. The crepes were soft and light. It was overpowering sweet as the sweet-sour strawberry helps to neutralize the sweetness from the whipped cream. |
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| Shibuya Honey Toast (165 baht): the must try in bkk. The outer coating of the shibuya toast was honey coated and toasted. It was slightly crunchy. But when you cut open the toast, the bread within is soft and fluffy. The matcha ice cream with the general serving of whipped cream helps to create a right blend of texture |
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| The strawberry cheesecake kakigori that we din't manage to eat |
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| Photo to prove our existence... |
After all these
indulgence, I’m in food coma. I was tired to take the bts back while bf
has not tried taking tuk-tuk. So we hopped into one to send us back hotel to
put our stuff before going to night market at pratunam market and massage session.
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| The Happy man's first experience on Tuk-tuk. |
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| Beware of bag snatching. |
Location:
After You Café (Siam Square One)
Siam Square One Ground Floor
Operating
Hours: Daily, 1200 – 2400
Tel. (662)211-5194-9, (662)658-4112-3
Finally we can check-into out cosy room.
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Deluxe Room
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Deluxe Room
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Bathroom
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Location:
Hotel Vista Express
Thanon Phyathai, Rajthevi, Bangkok,
Thailand
Day 5
We start the day early
by visiting the morning market tasting the local delicacy sold. Was busy eating
and I have forgotten to take more photos.
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Tasty hotdog roll in the making
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Cheesy Hotdog Roll (20 baht): It is cheap and delicious. The crepe were crispy and the hotdog was cheesy. Wanted to have more buy i need to save some space for other food.
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Dimsum were sold 6 for 10 baht. the dimsum (siew mai ) was delicious but was too ugly for me to snapped a picture due to the sauce being poured in.
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| The round shaped food was actually the toasted rice cake (10 baht). I thought it was tapoica cake -.- It was not to my likely as it was kind of tasteless without any other food to accompany with. However, it was crispy on the outside but chewy in the inside. We also bought the toasted bread (20 baht) to try. Within the bread, it was spread with butter and was then topped with condensed milk. |
After exploring the place, it was nearly afternoon. So we start
travelling down to my bf favourite place – Caturday Cat Café. It was located
just 10 m away from Ratchathewi BTS. Head towards exit 2 and take the
stairs down to the right. You’ll see ‘guts’ restaurant at the corner. Then,
turn right into the carpark and you will see Caturday Cat Café on your
left.
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| Outside the cafe |
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| Outside the cafe |
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| Exterior of the cafe |
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| Exterior of the cafe |
Before you can enter the
cafe, you will be requested to wash and disinfect your hands so as to protect
the little ones. Inside the café, you can find about 10-20 cats roaming
free where you can touch, pat and play with. There will definitely be no lack
of these little friends.
The experience in
Caturday Cat Café was a total pleasure. You can see baskets of toys being
hang on the walls to let you play with them .The owner also encourage more
interaction between the cats and the visitors by giving us treats to feed the
cats.
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| Painting of cats |
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| Photos of visitors |
Apart from the
satisfaction derived from the company of these little friends, the food
provided by the café was also good. There is a huge variety of choices ranging
from cakes, sides and main course. Plus point is that, they are also very
instagram worthy. Presented in a photo-album and offering a range of
cakes, sides and main meals. We order a couple to try and to fill our tummy.
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Katchup Red Velvet Cake (138 baht): The cake was slightly stiff and dry. But the cream cheese was just nice where it was not too sweet. The grumpy cat decorated on the cake makes it more appetizing to eat.
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Rainbow Crepe Cake With Strawberry Sauce (138 Baht): The crepes cakes layered with whipped crèam was slightly sweet. However, the strawberry sauce provided was very sour. The combination of both makes it appetizing and nice to consume.
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Pork Minced Bolognaise (158 baht)& Carbonara (158 baht): The pasta taste fairly normal. Ultimately, people came to this café for cats. Food just simply acts as a bonus to this café.
Tropical Passion Smoothie (138 Baht): It was rich is passion fruit taste sour and sweet.
Double Berry Smoothie (138 Baht): I love this smoothie as it was sour. I love sour food.
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The food bar.
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The interior of the cafe.
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Location:
Caturday Cat Café
Phayathai, Bangkok, Thailand 10400
Operating
Hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 1200 – 2100
Saturday – Sunday: 1100 - 2100
My bf was super satisfied and grateful for
my arrangement :D With the timing striking 3pm, we have to rush back to our
hotel to check-out and proceed to the airport. As we were about to reach our
hotel, I can’t resist my crepe temptation and I ordered one. This is one of the
best I have eaten. I have always eat from this stall which is situated right
before we turn into Soi 19.
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| Generous Serving of Ingredient (90 baht) |
In Singapore, our macdonald does not sell any pork
product. Since Thailand has, of course we have to buy and try the pork samurai
burger. It tastes pretty similar to the chicken one we have in Singapore,
except that it is more juicy and tender. I also bought a coconut ice cream
below my hotel, but but but.. The taste was so much worse. It is
also more expensive costing 40 baht.
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| Pork Samuari burger |
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| The not nice coconut ice-cream from a random stall. |
To learn more about how we spent our adventure in Bangkok
Chatuchak & Chocolate Ville (read more)
or HuaHin (read more),
do visit the individual post :D
With that, it marks the
end of our first trip abroad. Bye BKK, WE’LL BE BACK SOON!!!!!!
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