SHall wE WritE?: 2013

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Bangkok 4D3N

Morning flight!

Reached Bangkok on a bright & sunny day!

Since 3 of us, so we took a cab (500Baht)

Stay at Ibis
(opp MBK and walking distance to Siam)

We check-in, drop our baggages, went straight to

Jim Thompson Museum (within walking distance from our hotel)

and had our 1st late lunch at the restaurant cos we are so hungry.

Coffee wrapped by a cute knitted jacket!

Food tickets.
(Self collect at individual counters)

Our heavy but not so heavy breakfast!

We walked into the protest when we alight at Asok BTS
the 2nd day which we suppose to meet a friend's friend to go for a spa massage.
Nearly deaf bcos of their non-stop whistle blowing
& couldn't get out of the BTS as they blocking the way out.

Mountains of people in the station area & on the road

Our massage place quite atas!
We had an hour of oil massage + an hour of face spa.
(770 Baht)

After massage, we dine at this restaurant -
Thai Lao Yeh by Cabochon Hotel

CABOCHON HOTEL is a unique boutique hotel boasting only 4 Suites and 4 Studios. The fade of this elegant four-story building and its ivory colored windows; exquisite balconies, and elegant columns festooned with artistic patterns and motifs is architecturally distinct from its immediate environs. It has been conceptualized to recreate the Shanghai chic of the 1920s for which that city reigned supreme in the Orient and was also famous for its modernity and aesthetics after the Parisian and Viennese styles.

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Thai Lao Yeh Restaurant featuring ever-popular Thai cuisine and introducing the less well-known Chiang-mai, E-San, and Laotian fares. The name although descriptive of Thai and Lao cuisines is also a clever pun of words, which in the Chinese Mandarin vernacular could also mean The Grand Old Man Restaurant, the play here being on the designers family name. To give patrons the atmosphere of ancient Siam and a touch of nostalgia and visual aesthetics, the wall panels of the restaurant are crafted from 100-year old timber salvaged from a Thai village and painstakingly and expertly turned. The result is awe-inspiring and breathtaking.

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