Shopping Experience

This is a video of Janelle and I in a tuk tuk

We spent most of today at an 8 story shopping mall called the MBK (Mahboonkrong). Janelle needed some walking-around shoes and a lens for her DSLR camera. Luckily we were able to get both at a reasonable price. We also had lunch at the mall in the food court. All of the food stalls in the food court were run centrally with each stall specializing in 4-8 dishes. I ordered mine, a vegetable and chicken stirfry and then when it was ready tried to pay in baht but found out that they only accepted coupons. You had to buy a coupon worth money and exchange that for your food. After I finally bought my coupons and then traded my coupons for my lunch. I started to eat it and discovered that it tasted like chewy, stinky water. I choked down as much as I could, but not very much, my first taste of something not to my liking in Bangkok.

Good food

After an awful lunch, I wanted to have a good dinner and we headed back to a restaurant that we had went to on our first night in Bangkok, a place called May Kaidee (http://www.maykaidee.com/). They cook only vegetarian and all of the food is really reasonable ($2), fresh and delicious. If you come to Bangkok, I would highly recommend this restaurant, there are currently three of them.

In the evening, we headed towards an area called Soi Cowboy, a red light district in Bangkok. I had never been to Bangkok before and as red light districts are a large part of what you hear about Bangkok, I thought I should check it out. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but Soi Cowboy was full of creepy old white guys, not really my scene. We quickly left and returned to the area around our hotel.

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2012-06-22 Bangkok