Sirocco Restaurant, The Highest Restaurant in The World July 17, 2007

 

At the top floor of Lebua at State Tower, there is the highest restaurant in Bangkok and also in the world, named Sirocco. The restaurant is located in 63rd floor of The Dome at State Tower.

From the luxurious restaurant, you can touch views of Bangkok and Chao Praya River, especially at the night time and breathe the fresh air as well. It’s completely romantic place for the couple. And there is the Sky Bar in the center of the restaurant. So you can have fun with your friends as well. There are many beverages for you to choose such as White Wine, Red Wine, Sparkling and Champagne, Champagne Cocktails, Martinis, Cocktails and Non-alcoholic Cocktails. In additional, you can enjoy having dinner there with the delicious Mediterranean Food which are three sets of menu and A La Carte Menu.

Moreover, the restaurant also offers the Live Jazz Music, featuring vocalists in every evening.

It opens only for dinner at 6pm. – 1am. and you can make a reservation at +66 (2) 624-9555.

Siam Paragon July 11, 2007

     

 There are too many shopping centers and shopping places in Bangkok, Thailand, but this is the newest one in Bangkok. This shopping mall is called Siam Paragon.

Siam Paragon is located in the center of Bangkok and also close to other shopping places which are Siam Square, Siam Centre, Siam Discovery and MBK Shopping Center. This shopping center is inclusive many department store, brand-name stores such as D&G, Coach, Chistain Dior, Armani Exchange, luxurious theatres and International restaurants.

Moreover, in the basement of Siam Paragon has Siam Ocean World which shows too many kinds of sea fish. On weedend, you can see the feeding show also, but you have to check for the time schedule. The price is not too expensive. It’s around 450 THB (10 USD).

Transportation to Siam Paragon, you can get there by taxi and bus. But if you do not like Bangkok traffic, you can get BTS skytrain from Silom area, Sukhumvit area or Phayathai area. You can get off at Siam station and walk to the Siam Paragon exit. it costs you not over than 40 THB.

Chatuchak Weekend Market - the shopping world in Bangkok June 14, 2007

In Bangkok, Thailand there’re many shopping places such as shopping malls, markets and department stores. This is one of the famous shopping places in Bangkok and is called ‘Chatuchak Weekend Market’.

The market opens only Saturday and Sunday around 9am. – 6pm. In this market, there are too many products for sale such as clothes, shoes, household accessories, handicrafts, religious artifacts, art, antiques, live animals, books, music, food, plants and flowers etc. The price of the products at this market is cheaper than the shopping mall and some products are hand made such as shirts, handicrafts and souvenir. Also customers can bargain the price from the sellers, even though the products in this market are already cheap. Sometimes they can decrease 50% of the price.

The recommended time is early in the morning, late in the afternoon or in the winter time, because it is the market – does not have air condition and the weather in Bangkok is very hot in summer.