Monday 10 October 2011

China Town in Bangkok

Hualampong Station is near Bangkok's China Town. So after our Ayutthaya tour, we went
to China Town to do some street food walking tour.

The staff from Hualampong Train Station said we can ride a tuktuk for 50 baht to get to Chinatown. She even provided a note with "China Town" written in Thai alphabet to be given to the driver.

After a few minutes, we arrived in China Town. It was a bit dark. I was expecting a lot of people with a lot of stores. There were indeed a lot of them but some were already closed. Maybe because it was a Sunday. We walked on the left side of the street, checking for the suggested street foods that we have researched but found none. I was losing hope because we can't find anything pleasing to the eye. At the same time, it was a bit scary walking there with few people passing.

So we went back and tried our luck on the other side of the street. Good thing there were a  handful of food stalls and people gathered there.

One such stall was the Satay food station. We saw a lot of customers buying their grilled chicken meat with peanut sauce.
Chicken Satay


Another was the kway teow station. Their noodles were very appealing, as well as the fried rolls.
Kway Teow

The best among the rest! :)

Since they all looked yummy, we tried them all. The best for us was the fried prawn rolls. 

Afterwards, we walked on the next street. It was livelier and more crowded than the others. I guess this is the main street of China Town.

Traffic in night time Bangkok
After doing our pasalubong shopping, we checked out the Saphan Phut market. It was one bus ride away from China Town. The night market did not pass my expectation. Though there were a lot of stalls around, I cannot find anything nice plus it seemed that this night market was for local people because most of the vendors didn't understand English. We just strolled a bit more (but still failed to find something) and decided to go back to our hotel.

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