day 4…where have all the bkk bags gone?

it’s a pretty lazy day. we woke up past 12 noon,watched a little tv then set out to the grocery/food bar nearby. the day before, i saw their make-your-own-salad station.the huge yellow,green and red capsicums made my eyes big and told my boys "hey, guys i’m not eating out tomorrow.i’m making me salad!"

jeff would’ve loved sharing the nameless salad i made. i just could’nt get over the fact that at 20 baht i got me a generous serving of arugula, sprouts, capsicums, celery sticks, onion rings, carrots and cherry tomatoes.in manila, that wouldn’t go down 100p.

after brunch, it was museum and park time. since we left home just a little bit late, we didn’t catch the museum open so we just walked around national stadium ( well not inside,i don’t think we’d be allowed but the vicinity.you see, national stadium’s also the station we got off so the entire area seem to be referred to as national stadium).

since i didn’t find the bags last time we went to jj mall, we decided to hunt for some at mbk mall. mbk mall is the thai version of our greenhills shopping center only bigger and more product choices and food places. this is the kind of mall you go to and are able to haggle but still no bags but i found thai silk scarf/shawl which is cool. i was told the best thing about bangkok is shopping and bags are like the cheapest and of good quality BUT WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY??? the ones i see are basically the same things i see in my beloved phils.what’s the point in buying here?

anyway, it was getting dark so we desided to head off to this dinner place chu’s been raving about, the Brown Sugar.he likes this place alot and why not, it seemed really,really cozy. the problem is, it’s closed for the songkhran festival. nice! we travelled all the way from the NS to the lumphini area excited and it’s closed. we were in utterly jovial mood because of the silly things we talked about so what the hell, we picked another restaurant. this time it’s japanese. it’s called tokyo joe. from our bkk guide it seemed like a really good place. so from luphini park, we hailed a cab to sukhumvit. it took us awhile to find the place and when we did, guess what? it’s also closed. the gods must be kidding us a bit. we know sukhumvit area ( technically, chu does not me ).this is where we ( i mean chu ) live (s). we decided to go to the English pub. we scanned the menu and the food are incredibly pricey by bangkok standard.besides i couldn’t find anything i feel lke eating. on the same street were other restaurants so we walked some bit and decided on this japanese one by Mr. Nakashimi ( that’s the only english writing i saw by the door ). it was a neat, intimate jap resto. and when the food he arrived, i knew why all the other food places we went to didn’t work out. this was the perfect dinner for day 4. we had this incredibly soft maguro sashimi, the seaweed and soft tofu soup was cleansing and the familiarity of miso and the delicateness of tofu was perfectly complimented by the succulent seaweed.the  salmon steak was grilled to perfection that i ate even the skin.it tasted to good. even the simple baked inokitake mushroom was amazing. the ebi tempura was plated beautifully and the prawns were really large. i loved this meal. it’s a great break from the thai food marathon.

this was a perfectly imperfect day.

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