Greetings from Bangkok Thailand :)
Yes, all the Ronald McDonald figures in Thailand look like that... I was kinda scared standing beside 'him', 'it'.... whatever. The third day in Thailand! We ate breakfast at the hotel and headed to the first tourist location via rent a car+driver.
First location, the Grand Palace *oooooooh*
The "Grand Palace" is basically the palace that the king of Thailand lives in. Only, he actually lives in maybe 1/10th of the entire property because the rest of the palace are all temples that have been made open to the public with the fee of 500b/person (around $9-10 CDN). There were mini troops of soldiers marching around the king's legit palace (which was basically barricaded and fenced off from the public), however the soldiers were all looking pretty bored and was some were staring at them female tourists (not me, of course... LOLSADBUTTRUE)
Anyways, it was 25+ degrees today and the palace had really strict rules on their dress code. From our understanding, sleeveless shirts, open toed shoes and bottoms that were ended above the knees were prohibited. So, we dressed accordingly... but nope. When we arrived at the palace, leggings (what I wore) and 3/4 length pants were prohibited as well. And boy, were they strict, they have two people checking each person's attire. One of them was at the entrance of the property, though he let a lot of people through and a lot of people (including us) snuck past his beady eyes (okay, first level passed). However it was the second person that deferred me and my mom (I wore leggings and my mother wore capris), we weren't the only ones that were deferred (there were people who violated everything on the list...*pft, tourists...LOLJK) And to solve that dress code issue is by depositing 200b/item at their "borrow station", which is basically renting out skirts, shirts and pants for people (like me). It was basically an extra 20 minute wait in line for the clothing (wehweh).
My reaction the entire time:
The whole palace was meh, the dress attire and the heat got me kinda grumpy; but it was one of those tourist attractions that you only need to go once and once is all you need. We went to a temple afterwards, and even though we were only there for half an hour it was a LOT more interesting than the "Grand Palace"... why is that? For one, they weren't strict about the attire (which is weird, considering it was a temple-temple) and two: THEY HAD A GIANT GOLD BUDDHA LYING DOWN. Literally... the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the buddha's post was...
"Hey there..."
Continuing on...
We went to eat (another fail food story), hoping to eat a recommended/authentic Hainese chicken rice, when we got to the store and sat down they told us that they were sold out. They had the second 'famous' dish of fishballs and noodles; so the adults stayed and the kids (me, my sister, Joey and my cousin) went to eat at a nearby mall (Thai food nomnomnom). We were going to go for a Thai massage but the wait was two hours (nope, no patience and time for that) so we went back to the hotel and chilled at the outdoor pool until dinner time :)
Joey's aunt and uncle brought us out for dinner again, tonight's dinner place was at the Greyhound Cafe. I've seen Greyhound Cafes around Hong Kong before too, but obviously this one was Thai style with some Western dishes as well.
After dinner we went to Bangkok's most popular dessert shop called After You. A lot of their desserts were sold out by the time we got there, so we got the chocolate lava cake with vanilla, and a honey toast with vanilla ice cream. I got myself an Earl Grey milk tea, SO YUMMY :) I love Earl Grey tea, it was iced and not too sweet <3
After dessert at After You, we went to Joey's uncle's restaurant for more dessert (yep...). Sticky rice with fresh mango, chopped yellow beans and coconut sauce, an authentic Thai dessert highly recommended by Joey's uncle (who got it for take-out on our way to his restaurant because it was closing soon). By then I was pretty full, but I still tried some. It was interesting but yummy :)
THAT WAS A LONG POST. BUT I'm done now, it's late but I really wanted to finish this post so I can finally catch up on keeping you posted on my trip :) Didn't fall asleep this time, aha. I'm leaving tomorrow night back to Hong Kong! Even though I'm really glad I went on this trip (in general, including HK), I kind of want to go back to school... I'm missing the first week (long story short, we booked these flight tickets really early in the year; I didn't know when school started, don't judge me!!!). Ugh...I'm feeling antsy already!
Anyways...
Bye for now :)
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