Floting market for Thai people - Urbands GoodieS

This is not my first time experiencing floting market in Thailand but somehow I felt different from any other times. Last time I went to Damnean Saduak floting market and I felt it was so fake like someone setting a scean for movie shoot or something. It is only for tourists to come visit not for Thai people at all. Don't get me wrong, it's beautiful but it's just not my thing.

The trip to Hua Hin this time my friends and I decided to stop by at Ampawa floting market to take a peek.





This place is very interesting and quite a real deal. The try to keep their old style of living next to the cannel. Everything was kept the way it was or some how immitate to feel and look antique. For example you will find lots of coffee shops that decorated to look like 50 years ago or you can buy Thai icecream on a stick which you will get free one once you get the red stick.







You can find lots of Thai deserts here along with old style toys and accessories. If you got tired from a busy walk you can stop by small coffee shops that hiding in a small Soi or upstairs from the busy route.












Ampawa floating market is opened only on Friday to Sunday. If you go on Friday there are not many shops open but you don't have to struggle that much with the crowd (still lots of people, mostly locals and students from filed trip). On Saturday and Sunday seems to be very congested with Bangkokian tourists.

Ampawafloating market

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Nong May, real thai taste in Hua Hin - Hua Hin GoodieS

When you are in Hua Hin, seafood seems to play a main role there. However, when you have too much seafood it can become too rich somehow. For me, I can have only maximum of 2 seafood meals per trip. So when I goes to Hua Hin I always exploring for other kinds of food and Nong May restaurant is by far my favourite substitute to seafood in Hua Hin.




Nong May is a Thai restaurant that offers real Thai taste in every dishes. The famous dishes here are Koong Chaow Wang (shrimp curry), Kiew Waan Hang (stir fried green curry with fish cake), Gang Pah (spicy Thai red soup), Gai Pad Med Mamuang (stir fried chicken with cashew nut), Kai Jiew (Thai style omelet), etc.









Not only the food is good but the price is very cheep. You can only spend a hundred plus Baht each for a full and yummy meal. They offer coconut Jello which is pretty good for desert. You will love this place, trust me.

Nong May Restaurant
032 515 525


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Need a good massage? - BKK Lifestyle GoodieS

Thai is worldly famous for its massage. Thai massage combines all body parts using for kneading and relaxing muscle. This is a very distinguish way of massage. I like to get massage once in a while and a place that I usually goes to is Health Land Spa and Massage.





The athmosphere is very nice and the place is very clean. You can ask for private room if you want. Actually this place've got so many branches bult up in the last few years which located in Srinakarin, Sathorn, Pinklao, Ekamai and Chang Wattana. I guess the reason that this place is getting popular is because Thais are getting much more stressful these days.




Healthland offers Thai massage, foot massage and aromatherapy massage. The spa packages are also available here as well as Therapeutic massage.
If you have never tried Thai massage before then it's a must that you try the real deal in Thailand. Reseravtion is always a good idea if you know exactly what time you will get there.

Health Land
Srinakarin tel: 02 748 8135
Sathorn tel: 02 637 8883
Pinklao tel: 02 882 4888
Ekamai tel: 02 392 2233
Chaeng Wattana 02 573 3355

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Kuu @ central world - Japanese Goodies

After long shopping at Platinum Mall, I stopped by at central world to chill and relax after marathon shopping. My sister and I decided to stopped by to get a foot massage and had dinner later on. We did walked around 7 floor where all the restaurants are to survey for the dinner. Finally we stopped by at Kuu restaurant.






The gimmick here is semi open kitchen where customers can see chefs cooking as a background. For menu, there are not many selections of food so we felt a bit hesitate to order. So we just ordered assorted Yakitori platter and kutsu kare (curry over rice with breaded pork filet) to share. The curry was the best Japanese curry I've ever had in Bangkok!!! However, Tonkatsu was cold and dry. For the assorted Yakitori there were quite good.








From the 2 dishes we've tasted, we now ready to explore more food here so we ordered Tempura. The tempura was very good as well!!! I'm very impressed with this place and definately will go back there very soon..







Kuu Restaurant
7th floor, Central World

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Great Yakiniku for beef lover - Japanese food GoodieS

We took mom out for a mither's day dinner this year at Yuu restaurant on JAvenue Thonglor. Yuu is one of our favourite Yakiniku places in Bangkok. There are many kinds of meats for your selection.




I can recommend you many good BBQ dishes here starting from Yuu Super, Yuu Tender, special spare ribs, toungue, spicy chicken and small octopus















Yuu serve non- BBQ dishes, too, such as Tempura, Sashimi, soup and salad. Also try garlic fried rice here. It's a very nice balance with BBQ!!!

If I'm not mistaken, YUU now has 4 branches in all very famous spots. The original location is located in Sukhumvit soi 31 and the next one at Javenue. Third and fourth ones are at La Villa and Crystal Park.

Now, Yuu also introduce Yuu Shabu Shabu as its sister restaurant with the same concept of good quality beef and other ingredients. Goodies !!!

YUU JAvenue:
Tel: 02 712 9758
YUU Sukhumvit soi 31
Tel: 02 662 2544


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Fresh seafood for my lazy day - Hua Hin goodies

Once again I'm in Hua Hin with my girlfriends for relaxing and hanging out. And once again I stopped by to buy fresh seafood for a lazy lunch at the condo.





"Pa Ruay Poo Pen" at Kao Takieb is my favourite place for takeaway seafood. The price is right and the quality is great! You can buy fresh seafood to cook yourself or ask them to cook for you base on your preference without extra charge.





My favourite here is stemed crab. It's so fresh, flavourful and sweet that you don't need to dip it in any sauce.




Other seafood items available there are shrimp, clam, bloody clam, fish, caramari, rock lobster, oyster, scalop, etc...











Once again that I enjoyed the food here and I hope you will enjoy it too.

Pa Ruay Poo Pen - Kao Takieb
Tel: 032-536-221

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Lively acustic sounds and lovely place to hang out - Bkk nightlife GoodieS

For people my age, a night out means sitting and chilling at a "not so loud" spot with good music and chatting with my lovely friends. So if you are looking for this kind of place (or you are as old as I am) then here is a good place for you. Ban TakRKad Cool Water (pronounce Baan tak-a-kaad) is the name of this place.




The architecture here is modern-minimalist with some of graphical trees for a decoration. This place is mainly outdoor but some how manage to have a portable roof tent for a rainy season. There is an air conditioned room in the back that can probably fit 20-30 people.













Food here is decent and the service is great. I recommend you to go to this place when the weather is a bit chill, like in November to January, will be perfect. Bathroom is an open rooftop with a pond inside, so be careful when you have to much too drink!!!


Ban TakRkad Cool Water : Ekamai-Ramindra Road
Tel: 081 432 3173
Http://Takrkad.blogspot.com

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Missing a Yoshinoya beef bowl? - Japanese food GoodieS

If you start to miss a Yoshinoya beef bowl, you can find a good substitute here in Bangkok now. Kinniku Kyudon is a specialize place for beef over rice in Japanese style. But if you don't eat beef then you can order pork over rice instead.








Kinniku Kyudon also offers Tempura, Ton Katsu and curry over rice for your preference. You can order a la carte or a set, which come with soup and salad.










Kinniku Kyudon : 3rd floor; La Villa
Ari BTS station

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Chill by the river and look over the old city - Old Town GoodieS

Today I took my guests to Grand Palace so I got a chance to stop by for a dinner at a very chill place on Chaophaya River. This restaurant is a part of Arun Resident which is a small boutique hotel in Ta-Tien area. The restaurant is a deck that look over the river with the view of stupa of Wad Arun (temple of dawn) as a background.









The food here is a mixture of Thai and Western food as well as a fusion food. I'm not a big fan of the food here but with that kind of view and lots of Posecco, I'm completed!








On top, fourth floor, there is bar called Amarosa that you can chill after dinner. The view of the bar is so awesome!! Many people took their SLR cameras with tripods to take pictures of this beautiful view as a part of their memories in Bangkok.









The Deck : Ta-Tien
Tel: 02 221 9158
http://www.arunresidence.com


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All day breakfast and yummy deserts - sweets goodies

Have you ever been looking for all day breakfast in Bkk? If so I have a nice place to recommend you. After You is the name of the place located in Thonglor Soi 13. First After you offer only sweets, all those cake, cupcakes, tarts, coffees and teas. The signature of this place is a dish called Shibuya. Shibuya is half a loaf of toast bread with lots of butter top with honey serve with vanilla icecream and whiped cream.








For breakfast, After You offer varieties of waffles, pancakes, omlets and toast. I tried egg and ham toast because it looks awesome. It's a third of a loaf of bread toast with a pool of ham and eggs on top served with grilled tomato. Check out the picture!














Even the iced water they serve for free has a very interesting taste and smell. I won't tell you what the flavour is but you should go figure it out yourself! And let me know what do you it is.


After You - Thonglor Soi 13


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For people who love Sashimi-Japanese goodies

There are a bunch of Japanese restaurants grouping in one area in Thonglor Soi 13. For that matter, I always call it Japanese town. Here inside small Japanese town, there are a few Japanese Restaurants plus one Japanese bakery that just opened not too long ago. One of the restaurant that I always go to with my girlfriends is Uomasa. This place offers a very good quality of Sashimi, serving in a small plate to a very big bucket!!! A very special menu Uomasa offers is a "horse sashimi" don't ask me how it taste coz I haven't tried it yet.





Other than Sashimi, Uomasa also offers a very delicious Yakitori (grilled chicken and its parts on a stick) and other izakaya style foods (snack or beer food type serving in a small portion). If you love beef tongue then order grilled beef tongue because it's thick, juicy and perfect cook... Yummy!!!





There are 2 branches of Uomasa, one in Thonglor 13 and the other one on the third floor of BigC Ekamai. But for me personally, I like the first branch better because the second branch always run out of ingredients.








Try it and you won't be disappoint.

Uomasa - Thonglor 13
Tel: 02 714 8365
Website: www.uomasa.co.th

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Sonie's Japanese fusion-- Japanese food goodies

Italian is the most popular western food of Japanese people. Many Japanese restaurants now offer fusion kind of food; the same as Sonie's. Must try menu are happy craby salad, Sonie's pizza, spaghetti with spicy ebiko, beef hamburg and the sushi rolls such as Nashveil roll, rainbow roll, etc.












I'm not too crazy about Sashimi here but the grilled Chilean oyster with ponzu sauce is pretty good.

Sonie's has 2 locations. The original one located on Sukhumvit 39 and the second one located on 2nd floor of JAvenue Thong Lor.

Sonie's
JAvenue - Thong Lor
Tel: 02 185 2970
Sukhumvit 39
Tel: 02 381 9425

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Have you ever seen Siam Tulip? - Bkk exhibition goodies

Yesterday I went to the Emporium shopping center and experience a very beautiful exhibition of "Emporium Bloosom of Siam Tulip". Thai people called this type of flower "Dok Kra Jiew". The exhibition is well decorated that make the whole department store alive! There are many colors, many types of Siam Tulip exhibit in this event.




















You can experience this event from now until August 16, 2009 at the Emporium shopping center. You can also buy the plant for your own garden or buy the flower to decorate your house as well.


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Beef noodle on the way to Hua Hin: Petchburi goodies

I bet there are some of you who wonder what to eat for a quick meal on the way to or back from Hua Hin. This place I will recommend you is located in Petchburi province. This shop is called Na-Na. They offer beef and pork noodle seasoning with special Kariang (hill tribe) chili that's very spicy with a nice purfumy smell.



Other than the noodle, they also offer quick thai food such as pad kraprow (stir fried basil with meat), fried rice, Thai omlet, etc.



Once you finish your meal, now it's time for a dessert. Take a right turn from the noodle shop for 50 meters you will see a cart full of Thai dessert on the pavement. The thing that make this place special is they use palm sugar from the area for sweetener. Lod Chong Singapore with palm sugar syrup is the best ever! But if you don't like palm sugar you can ask for a regular syrup as well.



Na-Na :Petchaburi

Lod Chong Singapore
Tel: 032 400 438

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