chinatown in bangkok

this is the last 2 episode of my travelogue to bangkok (I Promise)

they said chinese are the jews of the east. they usually migrate to foreign land as trader..their presence can be seen in the chinatown.

we took a cab to go to chinatown in bangkok. it was known as yaowarat street there.
basically as our cab past through the road, we see lots of goldsmith.lots of restaurant too..
taxi driver dropped us at sampaeng lane. it's this narrow alley with heaps of small shops.mostly wholesalers. how do I know this? i saw many shoe shops and I went in trying and wanting to buy and the sales assistant said I have to buy at least 6 pairs of the same shoes. as I walked past more shops, some of them display signs "WHOLE SALE ONLY".

anyways i soon got tired of the street. it's just too crowded and selling all sorts of knick knacks.
we must have asked at least 20stores if they sell 'bell'. (I shall save the bell story for next time)

we stopped by this coconut and sugar cane stall on sampaeng lane. me and jake must have drank at least 4 big cups of sugar cane and 2 coconuts each. it was the most cooling thing on the hottest day.



for lunch, we had dim sum at sheraton (not related to the hotel chain) all these are their version of 'har kao' crafted into different shapes. first is the fish, then the swan, can't remember what the 3rd one is..then the rabbit.


some other type of dim sum. i think it's another type of prawn dumpling. the gravy one is some 'crab leg' ones.


then we went to another restaurant to try bird nest soup. yaowarat road is a long road. it's a one way street with 4 lanes. we went walk about and went to try shark fin's soup.
saw lots of bric-a-brac and chinese drug store type shop and we bought dried mushrooms etc ..
as it is a one way street, no taxi was willing to pick us up on yaowarat back to our hotel without charging us some ridiculous fare (not wanting to use meter) so we had to walk against the traffic and slowly walk to the hualamphong which is the train station. Before we reached hualamphong, we past this 'chinatown' gate thingie. so a pic had to be taken.


btw, thais are really into their PEPSI. notice the 'measly' coca cola billboard on the building. You can hardly see it amongst all the Pepsi, Seven-up, mirinda billboard.

i was red as a lobster when we got back to the hotel and was 2 shades darker the next day ..