After a horrific 18 hour flight from Sydney to Bangkok, I arrived late last night. Went straight for the street food noodles near my hotel.
Was so incredibly hungry after the flight. The noodles were delicious, soup pipping hot and good variety of meat - fish balls tasted the most like fish I've ever had, these things are usually tasteless. Noodles were the harder version like you find in hu tieu, in fact, I'm sure this is a variation. It also had rau muon stalks, one of my fav greens.
Loved the relaxed, devil-may-care attitude of other fellow travellers around me, kha thois (lady boys), hookers, tourists, students. Love the food, love the people.
The pool at Le Meridien looks heavenly! And how/why did it take you 18 hours to get to BKK??
ReplyDeleteYep, the pool is gorgeous.. a little small for lap swimming tho. I booked qantas freq flyer points but they put me on Jestar, which goes via Melbourne, and of course, being Jetstar, they were hours late... and no food on the plane, no in flight entertainment... it was hell!
ReplyDeleteAnyways, it's fine now, it's my second night in bkk and I just can't stop eating. Had the most delicious pad ga prow gai on the street, with a fried egg on top.. heavenly!
The travel industry doesn't call them "CrapStar" for nothing, then.
ReplyDeleteyou can say that again #majorfail Jestar... the way back is much more fun, flying upper class with Virgin Atlantic.. I've been told it's great
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