The world's my oyster! Ok, I didn't actually spend only one night in Bangkok. I just wanted to reference that song. Anyway... Our introduction to Bangkok was quite impressive. The airport is pretty fancy and the entrance to the subway is right in the airport. The subway uses tokens made of magic which you just place on the reader and the gate magically opens. Also, the whole trip only cost about $2 USD.
We got in fairly late and made our way to the hostel, Smile Society, which was really nice. The manager, Bee (who is AWESOME), gave us directions to where to find food so we made our way out into the urban wilderness. And let me tell you, it was wild! We were staying in the Patpong area which it turns out is one of the shady "entertainment" districts. As we were walking around, a guy asked me if I wanted to go to a ping pong show. I've seen Japanese ping pong players who are really good, so I perked up at the idea of seeing that live. But it turns out that Ping Pong shows in Bangkok are VERY different than that (look it up if you don't know). He showed me the "menu" of the options and some pictures and I quickly said "No no no" and walked away quickly. We ate some quick street foods on the way to finding a restaurant.
Then we had dinner at a place sandwiched between two strip bars and explored the night market. I had Phad Thai (of course) and it was wayyyy better than in America. Boy it was great! I can't even describe it.
After eating we explored the night market. They have counterfeit everything and it's all incredibly cheap. But even so we found ourselves haggling them down a hundred baht or so, which is only $3 USD.
I got one of these awesome lamps for my parents :)
The next day I dropped my iPad's charger on my MacBook screen and cracked it. So I went out to try to find a place to fix it. I ended up in this huge mall.
After walking around the mall trying to find that store, the guy in the store told me to go to a different store in a different mall. The guy in that mall didn't speak English. I was only there for a couple more days so I decided to deal with it later and ate at this Burger King.
Later that night we ate at Noodi, which is still possibly my favorite restaurant so far. They had lots of different noodle dishes of all kinds of different styles - Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, etc... I had this ramen omelette which looks kind of terrifying, but it was so amazing I ended up eating that same dish two more times.
Raph bought a lot of things in the various night markets. Here I captured him buying a scarf. She's telling him about how authentic it is and he should pay a lot for it. He's disagreeing with her point and haggling her down.
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