{"id":5231,"date":"2012-10-21T01:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2012\/10\/21\/bangkok-day-01-i-off-to-the-land-of-smiles\/"},"modified":"2012-10-21T01:10:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T17:10:25","slug":"bangkok-day-01-i-off-to-the-land-of-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2012\/10\/21\/bangkok-day-01-i-off-to-the-land-of-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Day 01 (I) – Off to The Land of Smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date:<\/strong> 29 June 2012 Friday<\/p>\n

07:00 AM Singapore Changi Airport<\/strong><\/p>\n

We woke up at 5 AM and prepared for my first Bangkok trip. We reached the airport at 6+ AM. The officer on duty at the Staff Travel counter gave us a black face and told us that we were very late and had to hurry up to the boarding gate.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t have much time to sit down for breakfast so we grabbed a Roast Chicken & Apricot sandwich from Starbucks.<\/p>\n

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Our plane… Bangkok, we are coming now!<\/p>\n

07:10 AM On Board SQ970<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It was an empty flight.<\/p>\n

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My western breakfast<\/p>\n

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JR’s Nasi Lemak<\/p>\n

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The service for this flight wasn’t really satisfying. The stewardess forgot to give us our headphones and also missed out JR when they served breakfast. They threw away my sealed cup of minerial water when I was sleeping :(.<\/p>\n

09:30 AM Suvarnabhumi Airport<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We landed in Bangkok about 2.5 hours later but took a long time to clear customs due to the long queue. We got onto a cab and headed for our hotel.<\/p>\n

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Our large luggage on the front seat of the cab.<\/p>\n

Traffic in Bangkok was terrible. We finally reached our hotel.<\/p>\n

10:30 AM Citin Pratunam Bangkok<\/strong><\/p>\n

SiewLin introduced this hotel to us, which is located the the heart of\u00c2\u00a0Pratunam. The room looks a little old but still quite clean.<\/p>\n

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11:10 AM Exploring Bangkok<\/strong><\/p>\n

We decided to explore Bangkok before the rest of my family arrive in the afternoon. We took a tuk tuk over to Siam Paragon. The driver told us to help him get some free petrol. He brought us to a gem factory and left us in there for about 5 to 10 mins. All we have to do was to window shop. There were many other tourists at the gem factory too. We left the factory shortly after and got a 40THB discount off the tuk tuk ride.<\/p>\n

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The tuk tuk that brought us to Siam Paragon.<\/p>\n

11:35 AM Siam Paragon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We walked around the mall looking for a restaurant for lunch.<\/p>\n

11:50 AM Curry House CoCo Ichibanya<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally decided to have curry at a\u00c2\u00a0 Japanese restaurant.<\/p>\n

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Coke Lemon<\/p>\n

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Fried Chicken Omelette Curry<\/p>\n

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Yummy… But maybe because we were hungry.<\/p>\n

12:20 PM CentralWorld Bangkok<\/strong><\/p>\n

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JR was in Bangkok earlier this year and had visited a Thai restaurant that his colleague recommended. We tried to find the restaurant but had troubles looking for it because JR couldn’t remember the name of the restaurant. We finally found the restaurant 30 mins after going round the mall.<\/p>\n

12:50 PM Taling Pling<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ordering<\/p>\n

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Lychee Frost<\/p>\n

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Sticky Rice & Mango served with Coconut Cream<\/p>\n

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Crispy Rice Cracker with Pork & Peanut Coconut Dip<\/p>\n

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Crispy Fried Noodles in Sweet & Sour Tamarind Sauce<\/p>\n

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Cripsy Pork Lardons Omelette<\/p>\n

JR over ordered again! We couldn’t finish all the dishes. We had to leave the restaurant because the rest were reaching the hotel soon. We rush back to the hotel in a cab.<\/p>\n

View my entire TRAVEL list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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