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"YOU ARE SOOOOOOOOO CYNICAL~~~!!!!!!!" they all sighed so dramatically (I swear, if I get 100 baht for everytime someone calls me cynical, I wouldn't even NEED to count my money~!!)
They protested SO HARD that I had to concede defeat just to shut 'em up. Besides, they all decided to treat me for dinner, so of coz I had to say yes (I usually don't say "NO" to free food~!!)
So I gave up counting my money (which is MUCH MORE FUN than counting years, am tellin' ya~!!) and went out into the humid Sukhumvit night air.
Unfortunately, it was over 11 pm already, and most restaurants were closed.
"See, this is ALL YER FAULT for spending sooooo... much time obsessing about money just now~!!" one of my B-day dinner payers whined. "WHERE are we gonna eat now~?!"
Well, since I was the B-day star, I got to choose the place. The choices were, I got to admit, quite limited.
I tried to remember what I typed in for one of my photo albums before, titled "Late Night Chow in Sukhumvit" (read it HERE) and decided to choose SANKAYA (pictured right), one of my favorite Japanese restaurants in Sukhumvit 24 for some Thai food - this one stays open 'til 1 am.
(I know, I know, it's so WEIRD to go to a Japanese restaurant to eat Thai food, but I swear - this Japanese restaurant makes a really fierce somtam puu~!!).
"Why SANKAYA~?!?!" they weren't done whining yet. "Can't you at least choose a Japanese restaurant that's NOT beside a sleazy Japanese club~?!?!"
Nevertheless, since tonight was s'posed to be MY night, they had no choice but to go along with my choice.
"You're not even gonna eat Japanese food there~!!" one very stubborn complainer tried a last-ditch attempt to change my mind.
But don't despair... I DID drink genuine HOT Japanese sake(rice wine) there to usher in one more year of my life.
So to all the wonderful peeps who greeted me on my B-Day:
THANK YOU A WHOLE BUNCH~~!!! (*wipes tear from eye*)
I'm truly touched y'all remembered my B-Day~!! Sorry I don't have any exciting pics to show ya~!!
Dum-dee-dum... My sad bitter tears for the disappearance of Onnut Square turned into tears of joy at the sight of this new open market (OK, so the market isn't exactly SUPER new; it's just that I haven't had the chance to check it out 'til now).
This was how Onnut Square (right next to the Onnut BTS Station) looked like before:
And this is how the area looks like now:
Not so much different, huh~??Except that Onnut Square had AIRCON (and that's one GIGANTIC difference in my book~!!).
Anyway, this new market sells more or less the same stuff like Onnut Square before: clothes, accessories, more clothes, cosmetics, and still more clothes, costume jewelry, and even more CLOTHES~~!!!!
I promised myself I would just TAKE A LOOK AROUND and NOT BUY ANYTHING... I am so very ashamed to admit that my willpower wasn't strong enough...
Yes, boys and girls... I succumbed to temptation and bought this bangle~~!!!!
Aaaaarrrggghhh~~~!!! (*slaps self~!!*)
Oh, one more difference with Onnut Square is that this new market has more FOOD (*burp*)
And did I mention dirt-cheap traditional Thai massage~?!?!
(Found this VDO in YouTube... I think this was taken at this exact same place inside the market...)
Now that I think about it, perhaps it's very good that this market has no aircon... Coz that means I woulda probably spent more time there... and ended up buying more "stuff"~!! But since the place was sooo... HOT N' HUMID, I was sweating buckets already in a few minutes... and I quickly GAVE UP and ran back to the (airconditioned) BTS...
I've always wanted to do some sort of a photo-guide of the famous street food of Sukhumvit 38, and finally here it is~!!
I totally went overboard with the pics (what can I say, I'm there reeeeally often, plus I kept feeling that there was ALWAYS just ONE MORE PIC to take~!!), so here's the info in a nutshell:
- Sukhumvit 38 is right beside the stairs of the BTS Thonglo station (very accessible~!!)
- the street food vendors are there every single night (some take a Songkran holiday), so there really is no need to panic and run to the nearest 7-11 and grab the first junk food you can get your hands on when you get hungry in the middle of the night - the food here is FAR MORE superior
- some stay open for biz til 2 am, so the soi is often PACKED on Friday and Saturday nights - the reason is because many clubbers love to refuel here before they go home (hey, dancing and boozing burns A LOT of energy~!!)
- it is not unusual to bump into daras (celebs) on this soi, because the food here is desired by EVERYONE, regardless of social status (one look at all the posh BMWs and Volvos parked in the soi confirms this)
- customers here see NOTHING WRONG with mixing cheapo plastic chairs and air pollution with Gucci wallets and Ferragamo shoes
- every seller specializes in one kind of food, so you can be sure that each of them is an EXPERT GOURMET in his/her offerings~!!
- you can actually have a FULL COURSE dinner here - start with an appetizer (such as some satay or dimsum), salad (somtam or yam woon sen), main course (khao man gai - chicken and rice with separate soup), then noodles (baamii muu daeng - egg noodles and pork) and then dessert (khao niew mamuang - mangoes and sticky rice). Wash it all down with fresh fruit juices (booze is also available~!!). There is also a joke (rice porridge) shop in the soi - perfect for those who've over-indulged with the alcohol~!!
- rumor has it that the sellers here make anywhere from 60,000 baht to 100,000 baht a month~!! (Let's all sell street food, shall we~~~???)
To make your viewing more convenient, I've displayed the sellers and their food right next to each other (so click on individual pic to read more info).
I've also marked the good ones with a pink bar at the bottom of each pic with ** highly recommended **~~!!! Just like this one:
ENJOOOOOOOOOOOOY~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. Click to check out more late-night eateries in Sukhumvit
Fluffy pillows... Crisp white sheets... Low seductive pink llights... Champagne on mattress... YOW-ZA~~!!!!
Not to mention the endless possibilites of suggestive innuendos:
- I went to BED with _____ last night - Why don't we go to BED together tonight~?? - OMG, I saw _____ and _____ in BED~~!!!! KYAAA~~!!!!
I'm of coz, talking about the BED Supperclub, the chi-chi night hang-out place of the very socially aware, fashion conscious and moneyed denizens of Sukhumvit (and their hangers-on).
I have't been back to BED (located in Sukhumvit 11) for quite some time, but a friend from Shanghai visited Sukhumvit and before I knew it, I was plopped up on an immaculately-white lounge bed, being served by waitresses in air hostess uniform (the BED changes its theme regularly) on the second floor of what some people claim to be Thailand's hottest club.
Unfortunately, the purply pink lights made it hard for me to see what I was eating.... HAHAHA~~!!!!
From now on, that is. And only the expensive kind. As in imported European (Belgian) kind.
Don't get me wrong. I enjoy a glass of wine now and then, a cocktail here and there, Japanesesake to go with my sushi or Korean soju with BBQ, and so on and so forth... But I just never liked beer. I can stomach Asahi or Heineken or Budweiser (Kloster was actually my so-called "favorite"), but I truly abhor the rest.
I swear, Singha beer tastes like PEE (not as if I actually TASTED pee before, but... y'know what I mean). And don't even get me started with Leo or Chang or whatever animal the beer people come up with next.
That is... until I found HOBS (House of Beers).
Situated right across J-Avenue (Thonglo 15) on the ground floor of Penny's Balcony, HOBS is actually slated to officially open next month, but a friend knows the manager/partner and paved the way for my enlightenment a bit earlier. ALLELUIAAAA~~!!!!!
HOBS is a very macho-looking place. It's got red brick walls, dark wood furniture, and flat screen TVs (which was showing the Euro 2008 football match of Spain vs. Sweden).
Oh, and did I mention that it's got this fierce-looking thingymajig (pictured right) on the wall which looked like some Viking's shield~??
(It turned out to be a harmless wall clock on closer inspection).
Looking around, I spied that the place was full of dek inter and luuk khreungs. Noting that HOBS used to be a German restaurant and a Belgian restaurant before that (when Penny's Balcony was just newly built)... I got to say that perhaps this time HOBS will prove that "third time's a charm" really is true (after all, J-Avenue across attracts young, beautiful and painfully hip individuals, who perhaps didn't want to be associated with stuffy and unfamiliar European food). I was pleasantly surprised to see some of my former high school classmates there~!!
I said hi to those I knew (and tried hard to remember those faces that seemed familiar...) and recognized a few from a rival international school... NO no no I SHALL NOT~!! WILL NOT~~!!! Mention ANY names~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(ISB~!! ISB~!!).
The skeptic/cynic in me zeroed in the cocktails list and ordered a glass of Sangria (pictured left) at first (to tell you the truth, I was appalled that they didn't have Bailey's~!!). But sure enough... soon alcohol envy reared its ugly head and it wasn't long 'til I was quickly tasting (READ: mooching off) everybody's beer.
OK, I admit that I was first attracted to some of the unusually-shaped glasses (and beer logos~!!), but since I have the motto of tasting anything that is edible at least once... might as well...
And did I mention that HOBS has an extensive and huuuuuge selection of alcohol~~~?!?!
Eniweeeei, I am verrrrry pleased to introduce to you...
The newly adopted pets of SSS:
And my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE:
Pheuh~*wipes forehead*Had no idea that trying new beers was such hard work... Soon we all got hungry and decided to stick to the European theme and ordered traditional fish-n-chips (well, I was more like out-voted... I was actually insisting that we go out to Thonglo and hunt for some muu ping and khao niowHARUMPH~!!)....
I was shocked. The fish-n-chips (pictured right)turned out to be YUMMY. Not just edible, mind you... but DELICIOUS. Like finger lickin' good (don't worry, I DID use a fork).
And I actually had to fight off everyone for every last bit of it~!!!!!
Seems like I just found myself a new late night hang-out place on Sukhumvit~~~!!!!
HOBS is the perfect place for you if you: 1). Agree wholeheartedly with me that Singha tastes like pee. 2). Are hunting for a dek inter/luuk khreung for a possible partner/'kik'. 3). Want to drink expensive European beer without having to look at old, fat, balding farang men with their (ahem) "compensated companions".
Overall, I'd have to say that it was truly a very productive night. I got rid of my beer phobia, met some old classmates (and found out that kids from a rival international school CAN turn out to be very nice, sophisticated and witty indeed~!!), and threw away my prejudice against dear ol' fish-n-chips~!!
I mean, I ain't kidding... yes, the name is truly "To Die For", situated in the oh-so-hip-it-hurts"H1 Complex" at the end of Thonglo (Sukhumvit 55)... Perfect for a chill chill night out with close friends~!!
So, I've been accused of pandering too much to the hi-so people of Sukhumvit. The proof? Recently I've been blabbing about aaaaaaaaall the things that cost too much (as well as toooo "academic"), such as:
1).Big'waste-of-time-and-money'Echo Karaoke (read it and ) 2). Restaurants like MK'burn-your-dough-into-steam'Gold (read it ) 3). Capitalist art exhibitions on (European) cows (read it ), which will encourage people to eat costly beef instead of khao niew (sticky rice, a staple of Isaan food).
And with all the rising prices (example: some motorcycle taxis now ask for 15 baht instead of 10 baht), my less-moneyed readers have been feeling a bit left out.
Therefore, to turn this elitist tide around, may I present to you the glowing food review of:
The baami (egg noodles) dude in front of the 7-11 shop around the pak soi (mouth of the soi) of Thonglo (Sukhumvit 55)~!!
(sorry for the too-long title; didn't know what else to call it).
Come rain or shine, this devoted baami dude is perched right in front of the FIRST 7-11 shop in Thonglo (so if you enter from the main Sukhumvit Road, he'll be on your left side), and he serves customers waaay into late at night (perfect for when you get the munchies after hard partyin' with the homies~!!).
His specialty is (obviously) egg noodles with moo daeng (literal meaning: red pork), which you can eat either dry or with soup (pictured right). His noodles are always consistently firm, his vegetables crunchy and his meat tasty (PLEASE try to read that sentence with a PURE mind~!!) *snicker*
I myself prefer my baami to be haeng (dry); somehow the taste is bolder when you don't pour the soup in. I drink the soup later, when I'm done with the noodles (his soup is always very peppery and addictive~!!).
Highly recommended: you can create your own "taste" by mixing the various condiments pictured here below: dried chilli, chilli and vinegar, peanut powder and sugar.
Don't forget the nam pla (fish sauce), pictured left - it's guaranteed to fire up your appetite~!!
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