TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE DIARIES

After shopping for 2 hours in Asiatique The Riverfront Night Market, my parents and I called it a wrap. We were tired, and we were hungry, so we decided to eat dinner in Asiatique and then go back to the hotel after for an early night’s rest. Because we were in Thailand, we ruled out eating other types of cuisines and stuck to spoiling ourselves with only authentic Thai food. However at Asiatique we had a little bit of a dilemma. There were so many of food stalls offering Thai cuisine. Which should we choose? If I remember it correctly, we just singled out the stall with a free table, and with a good seating view of the human traffic passing by. So this is how we landed at this food stall offering northeastern Thai food. Isan or Isaan Thai cuisine as it is called. I can’t figure out the name of the food stall in English because it is written in Thai. Isan or Isaan food may not be popular internationally, but it is very famous locally in Thailand. My dad and I settled for t...

My mom loves shopping, and my Dad and I didn’t really mind indulging her when we were in Bangkok last November. I don’t have a thing though with indoor shopping malls. I find them totally boring, and it’s the last place I want to be in when travelling. So after the little misunderstanding we’ve had with the travel agent guy where we booked our trip to the Floating Market, and wherein he recommended that we visit Central which is a luxury shopping mall that we didn’t like, I made sure to research better shopping areas for us to visit. I really can do other stuff in Bangkok than shopping, but alright, this is for my mom. So I discovered Asiatique The Riverfront Night Market while checking out the Bangkok map. It is located south of the Chao Phraya River and is one of the stops of the river boat service. We did not take the boat to get here though, instead, we hailed a cab which took us an hour of crazy zigzag traffic through Bangkok. I even managed to sleep in the cab, haha. ...