One of the most popular destinations for tourists from around the world! A flight from HCMC to BKK lasts for one hour and 10', but we may stuck at the Thai immigration for more than an hour, then the taxi ride from the airport to downtown (either Silom or Sukhumvit) - another hour or even more due to the traffic jam! But people keep coming to this very easy going city...
I used to go to BKK, very often! Some times for business, sometime for pleasures...but over the past several years, only once a year for my personal medical check-up.
Some of my friends didn't like Bangkok, they have their own judgments: either dirty, messy, commercial...but to me I realized Bangkok is very smelly! It's not a negative comment as this smell is quite unique, and only few cities have the smell...Singapore also has a special smell and surely Saigon has something!
Famous Patpong with karaoke clubs, massage parlours...a sin in the eyes of God!
The smell from Bangkok is indescribable, it's like a combination of many different smells, flavors: from the massage oil, to the fried chicken, grilled fish, spicy salad on the street, from the strong perfume of those nicely dressed ladies, standing in Patpong, keep saying some Japanese words...to the stinky dark water canals around the city! Bangkok really has many things that we may not find in another cities in Asia: the land full of smiles and smells!
Fish cake wrapped in banana leaves, grilled on fire, together with rice - a luncheon for Thais!
I tried some noodles, I quite like the one at Silom, near to the sky train station Sala Daeng.
I love the grilled chicken, esp. with the sticky rice, especially before they sell, they put on fire, make it warm, crispy on the outside pour on it with some yummy sauce! I used to buy it, bring back to the hotel but this time I couldn't see it!
In Bangkok in the morning the street food vendors seems very active, at some places, they gather along a narrow, long sidewalk and sell as a small market. From homemade sandwich, coffee milk to the porridge with eggs, or spicy salad with rice, fried rice, fried noodles, deep fried banana...big selection!
The owner, a young man, next to his giant container, right on the pavement!
Sometime it's not easy to walk through this morning market, crowded, but it's very interesting to watch how people sell and buy, I wonder Thai people buy those oily foods as fried eggs, fried noodles or hot porridge for breakfast or maybe for their tea break in the office? Or may be lunch!
Thai people should love to enjoy small meals throughout the day, that's why the variety of street foods in Bangkok is really overwhelming, so many things: from fried chicken to the healthy fruit juice, from very tasty grilled sausage to Thai traditional fruits as guava, mango...
Irresistible fish cake, sausage...ready to be grilled, a good supper for night crawlers...
Fried rice, fried noodles...I love the way they display on banana leaves...
Deep fried sweets: banana, sweet potato, sesame cake (like banh cam in Saigon)
covered with some brown sugar! No toaster is needed!
To be continued
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