Took me an entire week to stop procrastinating but I must write this down while the memory is still fresh. Bangkok is good for many things, but nothing will beat the food (ok shopping comes really close). Especially Bangkok's street food. Embarrassingly, it's only my second time to Bangkok, my first time was a press trip I wrote about here. Basically everything is pretty new and exciting to me so please don't judge me.
Above picture shows my two ultimate favourite drinks - freshly squeezed orange juice and passionfruit juice. Thailand's fruits are really, really fresh and exquisite; oranges are tiny and passionfruits (or is it something else?) are so pretty! Plus they come cheap like 20 and 40 baht respectively so we drank them everyday.
Usually if I walked past anything deep fried (especially on a hot, sweaty day), I would have given them a miss. But Jotham specifically texted me to ask me to look out for fried bananas, and we found them! Apparently, it's his favourite Thai street food.
Random mango sticky rice store. Almost didn't want to buy them because we were so full after our zi char style street dinner (btw we paid over 200 baht for just tom yum soup aka kena ripped off) but thankfully we bought it back to our hotel to eat. So, so, so good.
Street vendors lining in the middle of Khao San Road. This backpacker place is probably the best place to scour for street food! We went there on our first night and our 5-day overeating started there but so worth it.
Coconut ice cream in Chatuchak. Delicious on a hot and crowded weekend.
Banana pancake in Khao San Road. Surprisingly we didn't see this banana pancake anywhere else in Bangkok! There's nutella, chocolate and lots more other flavour but we got the original one. If the passionfruit juice is my favourite drink, this is my favourite street food.
Nothing special really, I just like steamed sweet corn. In fact, I have sweet corn ready with my lunch tomorrow!
Phad Thai in Khao San Road. No joke, that place is a food paradise. The only thing I didn't really fancy was the chicken kebab. It was sort of dry with lots of weird sauces on it and dropping all over my shirt as I attempted to eat it. Not a fan.
No idea what this is, the auntie told us "pancakes" or at least, that's what we heard. But it has a sweet taste to it!
Green curry noodles at Platinum mall. Unsure if this is how green curry is supposed to taste like or they just watered it down to cheat tourists' money but I definitely prefer Singapore's version.
Had a cheesecake and tea in a cute Japanese cafe to wait for the rain to subside. This happened almost everyday. So we went to lots of cafes. And restaurants.
Another cafe in Siam Paragon. Just needed aircon after Chatuchak lol.
Ventured to Sukhumvit area and found a little soi (10 or 12 I think?) with lots of Korean bbq restaurants. There were lots of Koreans too so we thought it must be of reasonable standard so we went in to eat too. Good choice because we paid only $34 for two in total which, unfortunately, will never happen in Singapore. If you do know a place like that in Singapore, please let me know thank you. Will be grateful for life.
Above three are in Sukhumvit soi 11, a cool hippie street with lots of restaurants and bars and lots of expats. We went to a Mexican restaurant and a Spanish tapas cafe there (on different days) and were the only two Asian girls. Again, we pretty much ordered without looking at the prices and ate our fill. And yes, that is a Paul Frank Volkswagen bus/van mobile bar. Someone needs to set this up a bar like this in Singapore and I need to own this Volkswagen.
Ok, this is taking me way too long and my eyes are hurting. And I need a haircut. Bleah goodnight world.
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