Sawasdeeka: One Night in China Town

P.S: Back to my Bangkok post. Bangkok is currently combating a terrible flood, hope that the disaster will be over immediately and everyone will be safe :(

Some time ago, I read in Eugein's blog about seafood in Bangkok's China Town and already secretly made a mental note to myself to include it in my itinerary.

After checking in to Ecotel on the first evening, we walked to Central World and took a tut-tut to China Town. And I have to say... TUT-TUT IS SCARY!!!

After what I would like to imagine as an "Initial D-experience" on that bike-like vehicle *wiping cold sweat*, we arrived at the China Town. It was congested with a lot of cars and people.

We found Nam Sing Bird Nest once entering the street where the tut-tut driver dropped us.

My dear M Yvonne highly recommended this place in her blog so we decided to drop by to try. Afterall, China Town is famous for its Bird Nest and Shark Fin.

The interior of the restaurants reminds me of those old-fashion, traditional Chinese restaurants and they display a lot of their products- bird nests and shark fins.

Bird nest is actually the saliva of the swifts (sounds gross, I know!) and is said to be very nutritious, especially good for "preserving beauty" (养颜) wakakakaka. Why does it sound extremely comical coming from me?

And since we have zero knowledge about bird nests and was just trying for fun, we ordered two bowls of the cheapest "4th class"- one white, one red.

The two bowls of warm desserts come with some longans, ginkos and red dates.

I was wishfully hoping that by drinking these would help me turn prettier *ignorant* but I guess it takes more than two bowls of low-grade bird nests to salvage my looks :P Hahahaha.

Stupid jokes aside, I do think they tasted quite nice.

There's a slight difference in taste and texture between the white and red bird nests. Personally I prefer the white one but YM insisted that the red one is better (whatever!).

It's time for a proper meal. We were already quite famished. It wasn't difficult to find the famous China Town seafood, in fact it was just around the corner where Nam Sing Bird Nest was located.

The only problem is there's a stall on each side of the road (at the junction) and we couldn't decide which to go to. Both the pink and green stall (distinguished by uniform colors LOL) were packed with diners, I guess both are equally popular.

We ended up "going green" (lame pun) because I think I saw a few other bloggers recommending them. Yes, the green one is T&K Seafood.

We were attended by a worker who asked the number of people and handed me a number, asking me to wait for our turn.

The place was really crowded, but the service was prompt. We did not have to wait too long before being ushered to our seats.

It didn't take long for us to decide. We ordered a crab fried rice, stuffed crab, belacan kangkung, Thai style steamed squid, shark fin soup and of course, my favorite char grilled big prawns. Yums, I can feel my stomach growling as I type.

The food was way better than good. They were really extraordinarily awesome! Ok, that might be a little exaggerating but I couldn't help but praise them. Everything tasted superbly delicious and the prawns, what can I say? It's hellishly yummy!

Why does some of the prawns have this scary, long err... crab claw thingy??? Prawns have that? Maybe they are a "mixed" between lobster and prawn *curious*???

Oh ya, read my t-shirt... "I AM NOT FAT" (delusional!), I purposely wore this to feel less guilty when I stuff food greedily into my mouth :D *genius*

All these goodies washed down with a large bottle of local Thai beer. Lovely!

The bill came up to less than 1000 baht (RM100), very reasonable indeed!

Our only regret was to not order their TomYum soup (thinking that it's only the first night and we would have plenty chances to try authentic TomYum later). Argh, stupidest decision ever! We didn't have any proper TomYum during the whole freaking trip!!!

Anyway, we finished all the food on the table *burp*, feeling so contented and happy!

Our stomachs were so full that we decided to stroll a little.

There are some roadside sellers selling clothes and shoes but nothing really particularly attractive.

But I did find some funny slippers, cute eh? Crabs on leaves LOL.