Siam and Suan Lum Night Bazaars

On christmas day we spent much of the evening at Bangkok's famous night bazaars. It took us nearly two hours to get there as we got stuck in traffic. Obviously, everybody here in the capitol is going to the night bazaars themselves to buy what they can on christmas day. Probably a trend here in thai. When we got there, it seems an activity was taking place. Lots of school boys and girls present. The guys where kinda weird, I could not determine if they were jumbo totoy's or high school kiddoes because they were wearing shorts for their uniforms. It was a weird sight but I guess they got used to it because of their culture. Lucky for us filipino's we only wore shorts in kindergarten :P

stuck in traffic x-( at about 5pm, I slept afterwards.

Siam

I was already here on the even I landed in thai. We ate at Hard Rock's Cafe before going home that night. It was almost empty then, however on this christmas day, it was jampacked with people mostly teens. As it seems, they have been lured into Siam by the concert in the i-don't-know-what-it's-called square just right infront of Hard Rock's.

Like I said, alot of school boy's and girls present.

We went around looking for things to buy but weren't able to find one we liked so we decided to eat.

 

 err, too many pics of Mom already. Got nobody to document me.

Dinner at Somtam

Delicious I must say. In thai culture they prefer to eat sticky rice (noodles in reality) instead of normal rice. Not sure though if it's really called sticky rice because everything in the menu is thai. We were able to pick the menu only because Mom was here before brought here by here friends.

You must try the chicken and that thai rice (as shown in the pics below)

Be warned though, Thai cuisine is known for being spicy. :)

But don't worry these items below aren't that much spicy.

 

I lol'd at this. They fill your glasses with shredded ice.

 

 

Too much wax, bad hair day hehe.

 

Thai yucky / yaki / sticky rice

last two (T-B): Chicken, watermelon something.

After eating, we continued our hunt for clothing and on the way out I decided to have a picture beside mr snowman.

 

Suan Lum

When you are in Bangkok and planning to buy souvenir clothing, I suggest to you the Suan Lum night bazaar. I didn't bring my camera but for you filipinoes out there, this place looks like the modern Tiendesitas, only better. This is the hub for thai artists and creative and fashion designers and as she said, most of the items are designer clothing.

You can buy creative tee's at around 250 baht, polo's at 500 to 700 baht, pants at 1000 baht up. Design are nice and most of the pants are nearly everything is skinny. LOL. There are also food stalls and art shops, shoes, wrist watches and etc. Whats even more fun and challenging is that prices here can be haggled! hehe

I did nearly all of my shopping here :)

You will enjoy it here, even my friend who went here loved the Bazaar at Suan Lum. Oh yeah don't forget to bring a camera, There's a white lady and a temple of sorts here where you can take pictures.

Afterwards we went back to Siam night bazaar part two again but didn't buy anything.