Bangkok…Re-discovery!
Bangkok is always known as food & shopping paradise. For the past few years, I hv been going to Bangkok quite regularly. Shopping is always in the MUST DO LIST every trip that I go (regardless it is biz or personal trip), but, it was never the same when I shopped with 2 other shopping queens the last trip when I went in Bangkok.
I was in Bangkok to attend a Sales Conference (30 Aug – 1 Sep), with 2 men and 1 lady colleagues. We decided to extend stay over the weekend after the conference. My sis & her family (hubby and a 11 mths old baby) flew in to join us after work on Friday.
We went to the new shopping mall in Bangkok, Siam Paragon on Friday evening after the conference. But, our actual shopping marathon started on Saturday morning.
After breakfast on Sat, we started our ‘appetizer’ with the week end market, Chatujak.
For those who has never been to this place, make it a MUST the next time you visit Bangkok. You can basically get anything you want under the sky, provided that you can find it in this mass market.
It was getting hot, in fact very hot during noon time, thus, we left the place for lunch at about 1pm. After lunch, we continued shopping at Patrunam, a mall called “The Platinum Fashion Mall”. Patruman is known as a wholesale market. Most of the shops, stalls, and even shopping malls in Patrunam area are meant for wholesale. But, their definition for ‘wholesale’ is, as long as you buy 3 pcs (some require 6 pcs) of anything from their shop, it is considered as wholesale. The mall that we went, is quite a new one, and don’t be surprised by their window display/ presentation even it is a wholesale market. Basically, it has no difference from any other good shopping mall. And the wholesale price is about 60% of the retail price. E.g. you can buy 1pc a@ THB250 or 3pcs @ THB150/ea.
And, Patrunam is our ‘main course’. My sis and the lady colleague became so crazy with the price and the fashion they saw there (mostly clothing). They basically wanted to buy everything they see…..I was not that excited as it was not my first time there.
As the shops started to close at 6pm, we left the place, and proceed to MBK, another shopping heaven. Well, first thing to look for, of course were the lingerie. And, second thing, shoes! Well, we had quite a heavy ‘dessert’ in MBK. We shopped till they closed shop at about 9pm, how we hope that it operates 24 hours, not enough time for us!
So, the next thing was to fill our stomach, but, food became secondary for ladies when come to shopping. We went to Suan Lom Night Bazaar to have our dinner, and then, continued shopping there until almost 12 am! We didn’t buy much thing from Suan Lom, thus, I considered that as just a light ‘fruit plater’.
Can you imagine, our shopping marathon continued for more than 12 hours on that single day itself? My colleague confessed that she would never walk that much if it was not for shopping, and she believed that she could had walked the distance more than she would ever walked for half a year in Singapore!
The next day, Sunday, we made it a slow day, as we had set our target at the Patrunam, we realized that afterall, we could find most of the thing there at a very reasonable price. Thus, after taking our breakfast, we headed directly to the place and shopped till we left for airport!
Just to share some of our 战利品...
In summary, 3 of us bought at least 50 pcs of clothing (t-shirts, blouse, shorts, jeans, skirt…), most of them were below THB300 and 20 pairs of shoes at THB199/ea, THB250/ea and some TBH350/ea….! Not including others things like hair accessories and souvenior...Can you guys imagine that how much we had contributed to Thailand economy !?
I was in Bangkok to attend a Sales Conference (30 Aug – 1 Sep), with 2 men and 1 lady colleagues. We decided to extend stay over the weekend after the conference. My sis & her family (hubby and a 11 mths old baby) flew in to join us after work on Friday.
We went to the new shopping mall in Bangkok, Siam Paragon on Friday evening after the conference. But, our actual shopping marathon started on Saturday morning.
After breakfast on Sat, we started our ‘appetizer’ with the week end market, Chatujak.
For those who has never been to this place, make it a MUST the next time you visit Bangkok. You can basically get anything you want under the sky, provided that you can find it in this mass market.
It was getting hot, in fact very hot during noon time, thus, we left the place for lunch at about 1pm. After lunch, we continued shopping at Patrunam, a mall called “The Platinum Fashion Mall”. Patruman is known as a wholesale market. Most of the shops, stalls, and even shopping malls in Patrunam area are meant for wholesale. But, their definition for ‘wholesale’ is, as long as you buy 3 pcs (some require 6 pcs) of anything from their shop, it is considered as wholesale. The mall that we went, is quite a new one, and don’t be surprised by their window display/ presentation even it is a wholesale market. Basically, it has no difference from any other good shopping mall. And the wholesale price is about 60% of the retail price. E.g. you can buy 1pc a@ THB250 or 3pcs @ THB150/ea.
And, Patrunam is our ‘main course’. My sis and the lady colleague became so crazy with the price and the fashion they saw there (mostly clothing). They basically wanted to buy everything they see…..I was not that excited as it was not my first time there.
As the shops started to close at 6pm, we left the place, and proceed to MBK, another shopping heaven. Well, first thing to look for, of course were the lingerie. And, second thing, shoes! Well, we had quite a heavy ‘dessert’ in MBK. We shopped till they closed shop at about 9pm, how we hope that it operates 24 hours, not enough time for us!
So, the next thing was to fill our stomach, but, food became secondary for ladies when come to shopping. We went to Suan Lom Night Bazaar to have our dinner, and then, continued shopping there until almost 12 am! We didn’t buy much thing from Suan Lom, thus, I considered that as just a light ‘fruit plater’.
Can you imagine, our shopping marathon continued for more than 12 hours on that single day itself? My colleague confessed that she would never walk that much if it was not for shopping, and she believed that she could had walked the distance more than she would ever walked for half a year in Singapore!
The next day, Sunday, we made it a slow day, as we had set our target at the Patrunam, we realized that afterall, we could find most of the thing there at a very reasonable price. Thus, after taking our breakfast, we headed directly to the place and shopped till we left for airport!
Just to share some of our 战利品...
In summary, 3 of us bought at least 50 pcs of clothing (t-shirts, blouse, shorts, jeans, skirt…), most of them were below THB300 and 20 pairs of shoes at THB199/ea, THB250/ea and some TBH350/ea….! Not including others things like hair accessories and souvenior...Can you guys imagine that how much we had contributed to Thailand economy !?
posted by evelyn at 10:43 PM
2 Comments:
Well.... shopping in Bangkok.... I don't know from a guy's point of view you know.... a-hem.... Sometimes we guys find the time a bit too tight for shopping... a-hem...
One thing I sure do in Bangkok is the massage - not traditional thai massage but the SPA type of massage. Spend 3 full hours for body scrub lar, massage lar, steam lar, sauna lar etc. Cheap I must say.
For the girls, I heard that there are quite a bit of guys show as well. Very wild.
We went for massage too...but traditional massage. But, I hv to confess that, I don't really enjoy it, as I will get body ache the next day!
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