Wednesday's Anchovies

We had been to Bangkok for few times and for this time, we decided to have some free-and-easy walk around Chinatown although we had been there before this. One of the main reason is because Chinese New Year was approaching during that time (this post was dragged for around half a year LOL). It was quite interesting to get to know how Thais celebrate Chinese New Year, the festive food also quite different with Malaysian Chinese! From Sathonr Pier, we took a blue flag boat which cost us 40Baht per person for the boat ride. Then we dropped at N5 Ratchawongse and walked towards Chinatown, followed the crowd :P On the boat :) Enjoyed a short river cruise in the morning. Here we are! As usual, busy traffic!  And with lots of shops selling gold! Haha! One of the popular snack during Chinese New Year festive in Thailand!!! One pack is combination of few different snack like sesame biscuit, dried winter melon, sugar coated nuts and ot...

What to eat in Bangkok? Haha, dessert from After You is a must for me :P What else? Seafood at Chinatown? Chicken rice at Pratunam ? Papaya salad at Som Tam Nua? Too mainstream for you?! Let’s try this! Prawn meat ball noodle at Ding Cai Fatt!( 丁财发虾丸面 ). 丁财发   is a small shop hidden in a corner of Bangkok :P We spent some time walking on the unknown path before we able to reach there. Thanks to its popularity among locals, we managed to reach the hidden restaurant after guidance given by random passer-by :P The restaurant! Image from Google Street View is closed LOL :P  丁财发虾丸面! 丁财发虾丸面 located some where around Sukhumvit 62. It is a simple restaurant, where everyone there can hardly speak English. The only menu is full with Thai words that we can’t understand. However, everyone there is being so nice and patient with us, we ended up managed to place our order using body language :P The menu! Our noodles with the signatu...

Click HERE for the full itinerary. We landed at Bangkok in the late evening, then we took a cab to Thonburi.  We stayed one night at Riski Apartment, or more commonly being known as Wasit Apartment by locals. The guest house is just normal, but it is clean and with an attached bathroom. Riski Apartment. Hidden in a residential area. Why Thonburi but not any other places around Bangkok? This is because we are going to take a train to River Kwai on the next day! Thonburi is the place where the train station located and we chose a guest house which is within walking distance to the train station. Smart traveller :P Thonburi station :) Before we reached Thonburi station, we passed-by a "train market"!  The market is really just next to the train railway. Too bad we didn't meet a train passing by here. Haha, but we managed to spend some time in the market :) How to go to River Kwai from Bangkok: By car – around 2.5ho...

Sawadekap~ So we went to Bangkok again but this time Bangkok would be like a transit for us since our main purpose this time is to take part in River Kwai International Half Marathon! Generally, we were like having city-crossing this time :P Kuala Lumpur - Bangkok - River Kwai - Kanchanaburi - Bangkok - Kuala Lumpur!!! Haha, let’s see how we explored the other part of Thailand! Day 1 Kuala Lumpur - Bangkok - Thonburi - Checked in to Riski Residence (Wasit Apartment) - Rest at hotel Day 2 Thonburi TrainStation - Nam Tok Train Station - Checked in to Star Hill River Kwai Resort - Depart to River Kwai Village Hotel to collect race kit of River Kwai International Half Marathon - Rest at hotel Day 3 Depart to RiverKwai Village Hotel - River Kwai International Half Marathon - Rest in hotel - Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum - Dinner - Rest at hotel Day 4 Checked out from Star Hill River Kwai Resort - Take bus to Kanchanaburi - Checked in...