Hey Hey, It's Katie here and today is Day 2 exploring Bangkok.
So it is a Sunday, I have just had two days doing a work conference, and today we checked
out of the work conference hotel and moved to a different hotel.
It is called the X2 Vibe Hotel, it is near On Nut Station.
Check-in is not for another hour so we thought we would pop to a near by market and just
get some food.
I started off with some drinks.
I am not entirely sure what these drinks are.
I pointed to an orange and a red one.
Hoping it was orange and strawberry.
But I think it is just like a juice syrup thing with water.
It tastes really nice actually.
So if you haven't been watching us for a while, we actually live in China, and we live in
Northern China, in a place called Tianjin.
So at the moment in February, it is minus weather, horrifically cold.
It snowed a few weeks ago.
It's really cold.
So it is a big change coming here and it's like 30c and I am sweating - but it is a nice
welcoming warmth!
So in this little market there is like, little stalls just inside and behind me.
They have lots of different types of food.
I thought I would kind of point and hope for the best.
They kind of did have some loose translations.
So one of the dishes has just come.
It is a chicken and rice dish with garlic.
It smells pretty good!
You can taste that garlic.
But the sauce is really nice.
I like it.
So we've also ordered some sautéed vegetables with oyster sauce, that smell amazing.
We have also got a Pad Thai.
I love Pad Thai.
I am a bit lover of Pad Thai.
Calum always finds it too boring, but I love Pad Thai.
That is nice.
There is a bit of kick to it.
I think it might have lemongrass in there or something.
It has a flavour of lemongrass, but with a bit of a kick to it as well.
So we have got like noodles, I think there might be a little bit of chicken in there,
noodles, chicken, like nuts and bean sprouts and onion.
And a bit of lime to squeeze on top of it.
Right so we just finished lunch and checked in to our hotel.
I really enjoyed lunch.
It was really nice.
Last time we came to Thailand, I really didn't eat that much street food at all.
I was really cautious about getting sick and stuff like that.
I guess living in China has kind of taught me to be a bit more adventurous with my food
choices.
Anyway, I really enjoyed that food.
It was really really lovely.
So we have just checked into our hotel.
We're staying at the X2 Hotel or the X2 Vibe Hotel.
Just off Sukhumvit Road, near the On Nut Station.
It is a really nice room.
It is really spacious, it has got a cool little balcony and it has got some really funky pillows
as well.
So we're going to relax for a bit and then go see a bit more of the local area I think.
Right so we are here.
I am not entirely sure what we have found.
We decided to explore near our hotel this evening because we moved hotel today.
The point of our visit to Bangkok, is to explore some of the more residential areas and see
what there is other than the big tourist sights, because we had already been to the tourist
sights last time we were here.
We walked along the Sukhumvit Road and literally just outside On Nut Station, opposite the
Tesco, there is a place, I think it is called the Corner 79.
It has got a really nice area.
You can sit down and have a drink, they have a little food market, where you can go choose
some food.
So it is a bit like the W District, that we found the other day, but it is a little bit
smaller.
They have got a lovely little - what would you call it, a lake Calum?
A river that runs through it?
'A pond?'
A pond maybe?
I am not sure.
Nice little area.
So I have ordered us some food.
I have got chicken skewers, these are about 20 baht and they look amazing!
We also ordered some pork satay.
I really love pork satay.
In the UK, whenever we go to a Thai restaurant, I have pork satay.
You can't really find them, even in a Thai restaurants in China, you can't find pork
satay.
They have got a really lovely sauce on it.
I think it is like BBQ, but it is really nice.
You will like it Calum, I recon.
So I have also got some pork satay, dipped in my peanut butter sauce.
It's good.
It is really tender.
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Because the meat is really thin, it is so tender.
It is really good.
So we have ordered a few more bits of food, I have got some prawns.
They were grilled prawns.
I don't know if they have got anything on them.
But we will see.
So that is the end of our evening here in Bangkok.
I really enjoyed our meal this evening, I would definitely recommend find these little
hole in the wall type places.
It is really nice and really cheap.
So I had a lovely day today.
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