Monday, March 05, 2012

Mission Bangkok

Agent E has been activated for a secret mission to Bangkok, Thailand for the first time of his life although almost everyone of his friends have been there. He has heard of the famed cheapness of the clothes but doubted their quality.

Mission: Find quality clothes in Bangkok and eat everything Thai.

He has observed that most tuk-tuk drivers and some taxi drivers are scammers. The tuk-tuk driver wasted 40 minutes of his time by bringing him to shops that gives him gas coupons but the entire trip only costs S$0.80. Another taxi driver brought him to an ulu restaurant even though he wanted to go Chinatown but he didn't charge any money.

The place is very much like Malaysia with all the undeveloped and unorganised land and slums all around.

Clothes
Platinum Mall has everything at wholesale prices. Buy more at a cheaper rate.
He finally went to the famed hot and sweaty Chatuchak Market with all tourists but most of the stores are the same as platinum mall.

Coconut ice cream damn good.


Food
Food is really cheap! He ate mango sticky rice everyday. Sometimes even twice a day because the mangoes are fakingly sweet. He drinks Matcha Latte and Thai milk tea from Black Canyon Coffee once every day because both drinks costs around $2 there while they are at least $5 in Singapore.
He also drinks coconut juice everyday to replenish lost fluids.







Roadside stalls are even cheaper.

At Chinatown, seafood is amazingly cheap and fresh.


Althogether, he bought 4 tee shirts, 2 shirts, 1 scarf, 1 pair of shorts, 6 mangoes, 2 Lays seaweed, 2 packs of Thai milk tea, 1 bottle of Lemon-grass tea, a few accessories and a lot of calories.

A good recess week holiday!

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