Bangkok: Day 1 and 2

This is one of the overdue post. Bangkok trip which is during end of September. If I really have to count how many stuff I wanna blog about for past few months, I think I'll at least need 10 more updates. Barcelona, Nice, London, Scotland... It will prolly be up only by Feb 2013. Blame Edexcel A-levels. So I shall just start with Bangkok coz da best friend is flying there tomorr.

This trip was kinda vital for Rene and I coz we're in the midst of stressing about college stuff. A tiny vacation together feels so good. Despite paying twice the amount sis and I had paid for our flight, Rene and my cousin, Joann is still willing to go Bangkok with us, so much love :)
Let's start the journey....

Day 1



Our first dinner at Somboon Seafood. Gosh we went through a hell of alot to get there. Recommended by mumsy. She told us about her experience back then during March and I can't believe we nearly got conned the same way. Let me tell the story so you can avoid this hopefully.
Hopped on to a taxi, not tuk-tuk with the mind set that taxi drivers are more honest, won't cheat u and drive u a few more rounds here and there. Sadly, this theory ain't entirely right, applicable depending on situation and oh well, the driver. He dropped us at a restaurant with really lots of seafood out there and at that time it started raining ady. The waiter was so good, bring umbrella to welcome us. I was like thinking 'Good service!' *gosh I was wrong*
The first question I asked was to confirm if it is Somboon Seafood. The manager-kinda guy showing us gestures and nodding heads, and quickly brought us in and have us sit down. The restaurant was almost empty, immediately I sense something fishy. Cannot be right? No one eating when the restaurant is so famous? Then I saw the menu. It's written there 'Somboondee Seafood'. They think I never spot that extra DEE word la. Called for the manager again to ask, then he brought another old man over, rudely telling us they're not Somboon after like the N-th times of us asking the same question.
Quickly get out of the restaurant but it was raining cats and dogs out there and no cab is turning into the restaurant. What really pisses us off was the waiter just stood there looking, not offering us umbrellas to cross to the other side of the road where there's a BTS station. In the end we ran in the rain and took another cab, hoping to get to the real place. Fortunately, we managed to get to the right place after being stuck in a 1-hour traffic jam.

Beware!! FAKE SOMBOONSEAFOOD SCAM
Now there have been groups of people who have used names similar to Somboon Seafood as a scam to confuse and mislead both Thai and foreign customers into eating at their restaurants. Such restaurants work closely with some taxi drivers who would drive customers to their place and exceedingly overcharge them.By doing so, these taxi drivers receive a huge sum of commission. Therefore, We would like to inform you that Somboon Seafood does not have any branches located near railroad tracks or at Suan Lum Night Bazaar or in any other city. 
We have only 5 branches in Bangkok : 
1. Bantadthong Branch & Chinese (Cantonese style) 
2. Surawong Branch 
3. Ratchada Pisek Branch 
4. Bangna (Sukhumvit 103) 
5. SamYan


Look this is what I got from their website. So beware!