Amari Watergate Hotel Bangkok Review: In the Heart of Shopping Haven
Looking for a hotel in Bangkok is never been hard but choosing a right one can be difficult. Always know what you want first and then only locate the hotel that suits you best.

If you are looking a good luxury hotel with the closest distance for shopping, I will recommend Amari Watergate.
Located at the popular wholesale district of Pratunam, Amari Watergate is within walking distance to other shopping malls such as Platinum Mall and Central World.

Upon arriving at the …

So far so good! Bangkok has been fantastic! I will compiled the 6 days of itenary into a series. There will be another minor changes to the blog as well. Please do bear with me, I assured you fantastic pictures and places of Bangkok coming soon! I took around one thousand photos, need to filter the best to upload.
Thanks for reading – Wilson Ng

World Largest Market at Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand

(Jan 09) – Chatuchak, the largest market in the world, is also known for its role as the weekend market. However, my last trip I couldn’t make it to the weekend so many might wonder, how is Chatuchak during weekdays. I tell you how….
On my very last day in Bangkok, I decided to go to Chatuchak. It was a weekday.
Many might thought that they will be closed on weekdays, well its not all that. Some or most shops are still open on weekdays.
I went …

Shopping at Central World, Bangkok

(Jan 09) – My first time to Central World to be frank and I must say, its huge. Catered to medium to upper market (I guess), there were lots of things to shop in this gigantic shopping mall. From what I’ve heard, this place used to be a trade center, so you can imagine the size of this place.
There were cineplexes!
A few storeys of lovely restaurants….
One thing I realized about Bangkok malls were, you were not allowed to take any pictures. I took lots of risks …

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The last food post from Bangkok in January. The first time I ate at Yum Saap was in 2005 when I was in Phuket. This will be my second time.
I ordered a “Mama” Tom Yum Seafood Noodle at 59 baht and a side order of Crispy Pork Skin at 15 Baht. It was spicy even I ordered the least “damaging” meal. However, for spicy lovers and Mama noodle lovers, this will be no big deal. There are also different specialties.
Mama noodle is Thai’s instant noodle. Its a …

This is one mall that you must go in Bangkok if you are a shopaholic. Why Platinum Mall?
The Platinum Fashion Mall is a 5 billion baht (100 million euro) shopping mall in Pratu Nam, Bangkok, Thailand, which specializes in fashion clothes and accessories retail and wholesale. It is a six-storey complex with an 11-storey condominium building above the complex.
The clothes shops operate on the principle that buying 1 piece is a retail sale and warrants retail price, but buying 3 (or sometimes more) pieces is wholesale and you get the …

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I believe in luck sometimes. I was randomly picking a restaurant when I was in MBK. I bumped to this Chinese restaurant, Hong Min. Since, I’m not a big fan of spicy food and I loved dim sum so much, I decided to try out this place.
I ordered 3 plates (since I’m eating alone). There’s a plate of the prawn dish was quite interesting. There’s a quail egg inside the dim sum. That was my first time eating such dim sum. The sauce was special as well. …

MBK Center, also known as Mahboonkrong or Mabunkrong (Thai: ?????????), is an enormous marble shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand. At eight stories high and 330 metres long, with 2,500 shops using a total selling area of 89,000 square metres, this shopping mall used to be one of the biggest malls in Asia when it was first founded in 1985. It is particularly well known for its many vendors of mobile phones and other electronics, as well as furniture stores.-Wikipedia
MBK Center is very popular among tourists especially Malaysians and Singaporeans. Basically, …

* NON – HALALBangkok is filled with many food stalls. Its everywhere. Even in front of luxury shopping malls like Central World. Nevertheless, I did try out their infamous BBQ Stalls (roadside version).
They normally sell chicken satay, chicken wing, pork satay and the chicken liver (I think). The pork satay is usually 5 Baht per stick (10 Baht in shopping malls) and chicken satay is 10 Baht per stick (20 Baht in shopping malls). The other 2…. I forgot to ask…
I tried the pork satay, not too bad. Often a …

Khaosan Road is infamous for its backpacking hotels and inns. It is also a place that I never visited before. Since I heard so much about it, me and Pete took a cab there.
It definitely a very happening place indeed. It crowded with tourists snapping pictures around.
There are lots of food stalls as well as restaurants and pubs. They also sell liquor in bucket for 150Baht, cheap! There are many different types of foods sold here, from insects to Japanese.
The crowd are usually tourists. Its an interesting place to go. …

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I never knew Heineken is so huge in Bangkok. The Heineken Green Space was an eye opener. The beer garden which operates only on cold season will be closing at the end of January.

Located at the Central World Building, Heineken party starts from the streets of Central World Bangkok with games and live bands. However, the real deal is not there.

At the side of the building, there’s another building called Zen World (1st picture, top left). We took the lift to 18th floor, that’s the real deal! …

The first night of my latest Bangkok trip was treated with a lovely Chinese steamboat cuisine. Located at the opposite of Amari Atrium Hotel, this 2 storeys Chinese steamboat restaurant is one of the pioneer Chinese steamboat restaurants in Bangkok. Given such a long history, this place are quite popular with some of the locals there.
Since its only 2 of us, me and Pete (my bestie), we ordered a “few” things for our steamboat. The vege dish was unique. Translated it as 3 nuts vege, the vege was stir fried …