Just Us to Bangkok, Day 1 Part 2

I thought the hotel is a new(er) hotel but I was wrong. I am never a fan of big, luxurious hotel anyway, but I cannot speak the same for Daddy Lim and the kids. They whined when I put them in cockroaches hotel and hostel with small towels. Lol. 

The room was decent. Good size for 2 pax. Yay, we are 2 pax! The toilet was irritating though, the shower head was not holding up properly and the warm water comes and goes. 

I cannot help but showcase our 战利品. 

Daddy Lim's.

Mine.

What we bought for the kids. 

Daddy Lim said that he doesn't have anything in mind that he wanted to buy but ended up buying the most. He now tells me that he needed new berms. Zzzzz. Lol. 

We didn't stay long in the hotel and got a Grab to the Jodd Fair Markets. The nice thing about Grab is that the price is made known upfront - no extra charges, no need to bargain or worry about the driver driving us to some jade shop. It cost us THB 227 from the hotel to the market and it was very jam. 

Hello Jodd Fair Market.

The sign board gives me an Aussie Market feel. The moment we entered, there was little carts selling beer and food. There was also a sitting area set up. The vibes feel good. 

However, the other parts of the market was just very crowded. 

I had thought that there would be interesting shopping to do but the merchandises were similar to what we saw in the Platinum Mall but more expensive. There were many food stalls though and that suited us. It was dinner time! 

There are 4 things on my "I wanted to eat" list: 1. Grilled Pork 2. Banana Prata 3. Fried Pork 4. Mango Sticky Rice. We saw the prata and mango sticky rice earlier in the afternoon but didn't try as we were too full. Interestingly, the 1st food item that we tried was this Thai pancake bcos they looked so cute and hot from the oven. They were warm, sweet and crispy. Very nice. 

I wanted to find my Thai grilled pork but ended up with chicken, pork and beef satay. 

There were many stalls selling proper dinner food but I wanted to walk and eat the many 小吃. There were many stalls selling non-Thai food, Chinese, Japanese, Korean. So many food. 

After that, we had the roasted pork. This one looked better than it tasted. I find it gelat after a while bcos there was so much fats and it wasn't warm. Daddy Lim got to benefit. 

Finally the mango sticky rice. We ordered a small one bcos I 吃不下 already. 

Daddy Lim continued with his grilled squid. 

Then a taro and coconut milk desert to put out the 'fire" bcos the chili on the squid was damn spicy and the stall owner was super generous on the chili. 

There were many interesting and weird looking food too. Not sure what was this. Some kind of seaweed? 

The recently legalised.

Then, this new craze about eating raw prawn/ squid/ I don't know what else. 

I didn't let Daddy Lim tried any of the raw stuff, just in case it gives him bad stomach. 

We were ready to leave at about 8pm after all the yummy food. Then we found the grilled pork. Must buy even when I was damned stuffed. Very nice. 

There were many other food that I wanted to try but there is very limited stomach capacity. We will bring the kids back here in June, with more stomachs, we probably can try more variety of food. 

Trying to get a grab back was difficult. We didn't know where to wait and when we finally got a Grab, the roads looked so jam that the driver would probably take a long time to get to us. In the end, we "flagged" a taxi. It was actually waiting for customers to bargain with it. We bargained down from THB 300 and paid THB 250. Grab would have cost us about THB215. 

It was wonderful to finally got into the taxi. Air con! We needed air con! It was so warm. 

I had wanted to go massage. Daddy Lim was too tired and promised to bring me the next day. Ok lah. My legs were so tired from all the shopping and walking. Hoho. 

Mummy Lim