MBK (Mah Boon Krong) + CentralWorld + Silom/Patpong... Shopping Day!
Our Skytrain ride at Asok BTS. It took about 15 mins to National Stadium Station where the MBK Center located...
MBK Center... It was once the biggest shopping mall in Asia when it was opened in 1985. The 8 stories mall has more than 2,000 shops and stalls!
From electronic items to fashions, from furnitures to leather goods, you name it, they have it. It is hard to tell what they don't have there.
All types of clothes... branded but faked.
When it came to lunch time, we headed to MBK Food Center, which was located at 5th floor.
What a huge food court! I guess it could accommodate at least 1000 people at any one time.
Food Stalls on my right...
And on my left... these only showed some of the stalls and not all. We were really spoiled for choice!
Before we started to order our foods, we had to buy this coupons...
I order a Kuey Chiap... 45TB. Plenty of "spare parts" but little kuey. It tasted OK but I still preferred Penang's Kuey Chiap.
Mrs. Chialat ordered a Beef Noodle...80TB ( keh liao one). It was very salty where Mrs. Chialat had to add a glass of hot plain water to dilute it... Somehow I found it still didn't taste good with or without the additional water.
Pork Leg Rice... 45TB. It was quite good. The meat was tender and tasty. The "kiam Chai" was just "kiam chai" - nothing special.
Excellent Dessert Bar...
Beans and preserved fruits in hot syrup... 25TB.
Sticky rice with mangoes... 70TB. Quite good but expensive compared to the roadside stalls.
After the "pit stop", we continued to walk up and down...
When we got tired, we started to look for a place to rest... and we found that the food center was still the best place to rest.
While we were "resting" at the food center, we realized that we still had some unfinished "works" to do... so we ordered these...
Shark Fin Soup... 150TB. The portion was enough for 2 persons.
Lots of shark fins... tasted not bad but not great either.
Coconut Cracker... 10TB/pc. The plain coconut one was O.K but the cream one was too rich for me... couldn't even finish the whole piece.
The Bird Nest Soup... 80TB. Nothing special!
That was too colorful for me to try...
The newly opened cafe in the food center...
Ice Latte... 45TB after the 10TB discounts. It tasted like the Starbucks' one if it was not better.
CentralWorld... The largest lifestyle shopping complex.
After we had done with MBK, we continued our " exploration" to Central World which we took the 5 mins-skytrain-ride to Chit Lom station where the CentralWorld located.
CentralWorld is the 2nd largest shopping mall complex in S.E. Asia. The complex includes hotel, office tower and shopping mall.
Some random shots of the shopping mall...
The busy Ratchadamri Road...
I have no idea what was so special about this store for me to take a pix...
The Erawan Shrine beside the Chit Lom BTS station... quite famous in Bangkok.
Well, we didn't stay long in CentralWorld... not because there was nothing much to see or do but unfortunately we were just too tired, too tired to move anymore. We found our legs became numb after a few hours of torturing walks. We decided to head back to our hotel to rest and took an hour foot massage after that. The massage parlor was the one we went for our Thai body massage yesterday... the foot massage was quite good also - 250TB for 1 hour session.
Patpong/Silom Red Light District...
At first I wasn't sure if we should visit Patpong (the most famous red light district in Bangkok) especially when Mrs. Chialat was around. But as the saying goes - "no visit to Bangkok is complete without a night at Patpong", so I decided to bring her there to see how was the red light district liked in Bangkok...
We again took the Skytain from Asok Station to Silom Station which we had to change station at Siam Station in between. The ride took about 20 mins or so. After coming out from the station, we just walked 200 metre ahead and we found this...
Night market in between 2 rows of shops where many of which were Agogo Bars...
Sexy girls were standing outside the bars waving at you and I managed to "peep" inside where many girls clad only in bikini danced on the bar-top. Well, I was a little bit "paiseh" to take photo of them. So I just took photos of the stalls.
There were many touts that kept persuading us to watch the Thai Girls Show (not tiger OK) or Ping Pong Show( not the actual sport game OK) inside which we only had to pay for the beer that cost 100TB. But we didn't go in. I knew that with Mrs. Chialat around, it won't be fun going in. There was one tout that actually held my arm and followed me for a while to keep persuading me... If it was not Mrs. Chialat who followed behind my strong determination, that fella would have successfully "dragged" me in.
With my sheer determination, we headed straight to this roadside alfresco-dining "restaurant"...
With a bar counter as well...
Just a few tables being set up...
SPY sparkling wine... 90TB with nuts.
Cute little ketchup & chili sauce...
Skewed Pork & Beef kebab... 50TB each. Excellent!
Seafood Fried Rice...150TB. Expensive and lousy!
Pad Thai... 150TB. Expensive and tasteless!
Starbucks in Thai decor...
When we left Patpong at 10:30 p.m, we noticed that more stalls were just started to set up along the roadside, selling all sort of things. I guess it would be more "happening" when it gets late into the night at Patpong.
This time we took the subway(just below the Silom Skytrain Station) back to Sukhumvit which we didn't have to change station.
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