Sack seeing and lunch at Chinatown on Bangkok
After Steemfest, I stayed behind in Bangkok for a few days to wind down. I ended up in Chinatown one day, not by choice, but because I nearly got scammed. I'll tell you the full story tomorrow.
Since I had arrived at Chinatown, I figured I'd make the most of it and do a little walk around, turns out it was very nice.
While walking around Bangkok, I noticed trades tend to cluster together. I passed by a street where there were many shops selling different vehicle parts. China Town had an area selling gold jewellery. My favourite cluster has to be this section of street just outside China Town that sells bags, or rather sacks of all sorts. These are industrial grade sacks. There were jute sacks, traditionally used for rice.
The blue and white ones complemented the shop well, and reminded me of Mother Teresa.
Some of the sacks are recycled which is great, I love environmental friendly usage. And some have been made into smaller fashion accessories. That is so creative.
Eventually I got to the main street on China Town, time for lunch. My benchmark is always go where the locals go particularly if it's busy. I saw this place from across the road and braved the busy traffic dodging in and out between vehicles to get to it. There were a few people outside waiting but I only had to wait a few moments. I love these old decor style places that stand the test of time.
Their signature dish was roast pork rice, I've seen it at many places in Bangkok. Although they pour some too sweet for my taste gravy on top the crackling was still nice an crispy.
After lunch I fancied a spot of shopping to get away from the heat. MBK was nearby and since we'd had enough of tuk tuk for the day we took a taxi. The driver dropped us off at a busy junction and told us to take a footbridge over to MBK. The footbridge is actually a big circular skywalk, and you can look down through the center and watch the traffic zoom by. It was quite fascinating.
The BTS tracks runs over head and the trains were coming in from left and right as if they were about to converge. Then there was a third track above the one on the right hand side. Surprisingly, the trains weren't that noisy, maybe because the surrounding traffic was noisy as well.
The other thing I liked about the skywalk was the artistic shades and the big green polka dots floor. It was obvious quite a lot of thought had gone into creating this into a fun skywalk.
Don't forget, tomorrow I'm going to tell you how I nearly got scammed in Bangkok!! 😂
Congratulations, Your Post Has Been Added To The Steemit Worldmap!
Author link: http://steemitworldmap.com?author=livinguktaiwan
Post link: http://steemitworldmap.com?post=sack-seeing-and-lunch-at-chinatown-on-bangkok
Want to have your post on the map too?
Hi @livinguktaiwan, a modest tip of appreciation:
$trendotoken
Thanks!
Thanks !!
A bonus $trendotoken tip from ONECENT!
Also consider MAPR fund and MAXUV vote bonds too.
MAP Steem FinTech: growing your STEEM without SP.
Thanks for represent Bangkok
Posted using Partiko Android
Congratulations! Your high-quality travel content was selected by @travelfeed curator @elsaenroute and earned you a partial upvote. We love your hard work and hope to encourage you to continue to publish strong travel-related content.
Thank you for being part of the TravelFeed community!
Did you know that you get larger upvotes when posting through TravelFeed.io? Also, thanks to the travel writing contest by @invisusmundi you can now earn up to 100 STEEM on top of the post rewards when posting through our new platform TravelFeed.io! Read the contest announcement for more information on how to participate.
We are continuously working on improving TravelFeed, recently we presented at SteemFest⁴, published our Android app and launched our Steem witness.
Please consider voting for us as a witness. If you're not sure how to do that, it's easy: Head over to our Support Us page and hit the witness voting button to vote with Steem Keychain, or Steemconnect if you are not a Keychain user. Alternatively, use this Steemconnect link or head over to the Steemit Wallet and enter travelfeed in the box.
Learn more about TravelFeed by clicking on the banner above and join our community on Discord.
Thanks guys!!
😱😱 How did you nearly got scam?
I just posted a video talking about it. Normally people get scammed either because they ate stupid or greedy, I think it was a bit of both 🤣
Hi, @livinguktaiwan!
You just got a 0.93% upvote from SteemPlus!
To get higher upvotes, earn more SteemPlus Points (SPP). On your Steemit wallet, check your SPP balance and click on "How to earn SPP?" to find out all the ways to earn.
If you're not using SteemPlus yet, please check our last posts in here to see the many ways in which SteemPlus can improve your Steem experience on Steemit and Busy.
Hi @livinguktaiwan!
Your post was upvoted by @steem-ua, new Steem dApp, using UserAuthority for algorithmic post curation!
Your UA account score is currently 5.118 which ranks you at #997 across all Steem accounts.
Your rank has not changed in the last three days.
In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 100 contributions, your post is ranked at #9.
Evaluation of your UA score:
Feel free to join our @steem-ua Discord server
Congratulations @livinguktaiwan, your post successfully recieved 11.52117675 TRDO from below listed TRENDO callers:
To view or trade TRDO go to steem-engine.com
Join TRDO Discord Channel or Join TRDO Web Site