BANGKOK ✨
INFORMATION ABOUT BANGKOK
Bangkok is the capital of Thailand and Bangkok is one of the most vibrant, exciting and
cosmopolitan cities in Asia. Today the
city of Bangkok acts as a major business, financial and cultural hub of South
East Asia. Bangkok is home to more than 10 million people and has experienced
phenomenal growth in the last 30 years.
Thailand’s capital is a place where ancient and modern
collide amid an abundance of sights, sounds, smells and tastes, and contrasts
are everywhere you look. There are
futuristic skyscrapers and ancient temples, religious shrines and hedonistic
nightclubs, street food and chic restaurants, road gridlock and an efficient
sky train and underground system. They
all exist side by side.
Between
temples, museums, markets, river trips, shopping malls, parks and nightclubs,
visitors to this diverse city are rewarded with a vast array sightseeing,
shopping and eating possibilities. Many refer to Bangkok as the city that never
sleeps.
Police: 191
Ambulance: 1554
Fire Brigade: 199
Tourist Police: 155
EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND HOLIDAYS IN BANGKOK
Songkran
Water Festival (Thai
New Year) starts 13 April and lasts a couple of days in Bangkok. Songkran is
the famous water festival which sprays water on everyone, from young to old and
even police officers get wet. No one is safe, spraying water one to two days.
Especially transport and accommodation can be full this week.
The vegetarian festival lasts for nine days, starting in the ninth lunar month (around October). A very long awaited event in Bangkok, especially for those with Chinese background. The festival has become mightily popular among vegetarians and even non-vegetarians. Restaurants and foodshops in Bangkok puts up yellow flags to show their participation in the festival. Several restaurants choose to only serve vegetarian meals throughout the festival. The festival's main area keeps to along Yaowarat Road is located in Bangkok's Chinatown. For those of you who do not want to eat vegetarian is a wide range in the town of Thai and international restaurants serving in the usual way around Bangkok.
Skytrain (trains above ground) is really good in Bangkok and there is even an underground train on some routes and buses running frequently in all directions, relatively cheap and easy to get around in Bangkok.
Taxi so one must remember that there are plenty of taxi drivers who do not want to work with taximeter in Bangkok. Always ensure that the meter is turned on, usually you get a bad deal otherwise, so not negotiate the price. Take the next tax
This is the quintessential Thai dish, but it’s often ruined in restaurants around the world, as they standardize it to the point where it becomes generic.
Pad Thai is a Thai noodle stir fry with a sweet-savoury-sour sauce scattered with crushed peanuts. It’s made with thin, flat rice noodles, and almost always has bean sprouts, garlic chives, scrambled egg, firm tofu and a protein – the most popular being chicken or prawns/shrimp
Throughout the streets of the main cities, you find little stalls around, and for a quick midday or late-night appetizer, nothing beats a spring roll — draped in sweet chili sauce, of course.
Spring rolls are made by wrapping an assortment of ingredients in a pastry and then steaming or frying the resulting roll. They are closely associated with Asian cuisine, since several Asian nations make variations on the basic form. Some people also call them egg rolls.
Red Pork Noodle Soup (Kuay Teow Moo Daeng)
It’s street food (i.e., not found in restaurants), and because of the way
they make the broth, you’ll never find it outside of Thailand. The broth sits
for a long time, and health and safety organizations don’t really sign off on
kitchens doing that.
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