Sunday, June 30, 2013

Bangkok: A Holy Park - Buddhamonthon

Date:  June 30, 2013

We arrived at this Buddhamonthon.  It is called a Holy Park.

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Because the king was once a monk here.

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It has some nice temple for photos.

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Its huge.  Children can run around.

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And it is good for photographers.  Chester is a photographers.  So I asked Thomas where to go to take photos and kids still can have fun.  Here it is.

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The royal crest indicates that this place is protected by the king.

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The king is once a monk here.

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The Buddha scripts are all here.

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A lot of scripts.

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Jay and Conrad try to be funny.  Selling chips that they cannot eat (dropped to the floor).

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I think this is Rama 9.

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This should be Rama 5.  I think.

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Kids having fun together.

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A monk.

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Some highly rank monk.

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The ceiling.

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The ceiling.

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Natural lights.

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Temple.

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Temple of Marble Pali Canon.

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Here is the store that we going to stop by.

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The kids going to be freak out soon.

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Tour Guide, Thomas bought a lot a lot of bread and fish food.

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Let's start to feed.

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Another monument.

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Jay and Kay enjoying the view.

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And here goes the fish feeding.  The fish are huge.  And no one can fish in this pond as it is a Holy Pond.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/CdWVFTtCK80

So as you can see the laughter from kids's face.  

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/DK0CZa7rgcQ

Usually, if you come on your own, or tour, you will not get to come here.  You have to customised your tour in order to get here.  hahaha

And I am glad we were here as this is one of the great spot that our kids feeds different kinds of fish.  hahaha

Bangkok: Bussaracum - A fine Dinning

Date:  June 30, 2013

When you travel with kids, it is hard to eat at a very nice restaurant.  But in this trip, we did it once.  Thanks to our tour guide, we have a chance to eat at this restaurant, Bussaracum.  He said, this is a fine dinning place, where they have excellent thai food, but at the half price of Blue Elephants.  I don't think I have ever eaten at Blue Elephants before.  So I do not know what is Thai Fine Dinning, except the one in Tanglin Mall.  

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This is the restaurant.

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This is their signature dish.

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In no time, every one sapu all the food.  But the main point is to look at the plate made of banana leafs.  Nice.

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This is appetiser.  Very very nice.  Taste like nasi lemak samba, but have lots of neat little things inside.

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The salad is server this way.  This is north east thailand - isshan food.  The salad sauce is very nice.

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The rice cookies for the kids.

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Kay Kay is eating.  Good.  Got to make sure of that.  And he is sitting by himself with Jay Jay at the children table.

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This is the signature dish we just saw.  All taste very nice and unique.

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Before they prepare our tom yam soup.  They let every one taste a bit of the soup.  So we can decide what to do, add more salt?  less spicy?  etc etc.  Mine is just fine.  and the Tom Yam Soup is really nice.

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Let's check out the kids, there are talking to each other, playing and laughing.  And the food are served there too.

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At the adult table, all food almost arrived.

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Pamelo salad.  Quite spicy.  

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This is squid I think.  But I love the two little eggs there.

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This is green curry eating with the rice noodles there.

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I love this giant prawn rice noodles… very nice.

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the rice noodles.

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The three eggs salad.  Hmmmm… interesting prawn salad.

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We have the rendand too.  Together with some roti prats.

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Let's check out the kids.  There are still happy.

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Lastlly we ordered 5 desserts.  This mango sticky rice is not as good as the one I had in Sompong. But it is OK.

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This is nice.

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So, all of us had a very satisfy meal.  The bill come up slightly lesser than 10,000 Baht.  4 Family splits the bill.  Each family pay 2,500 baht.  So, it is about SGD$115 for each family.  We have 16 people (inclusive of tour guide where we invited him to join us, and 7 kids).  It is a wonderful treat, and we had one of the most delicious meals.

Bangkok: I am freaking Scared of Tigeere !

Date:  June 30, 2013

I posted this photo that day.  And a lot of people, even my wife thought it is a green screen photo and photoshop the tigers on it. 

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HaHaHaHa… Of course NO.

I got chance to take video for the second team, Alicia & Conrad who is brave to take photos with the tigers.  Take a look.  

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/ggawoVXVTqk

Yes, these are the two "tame" tigers.  Real.  As you see, the heavy chain are around their neck.  And I am sure they cannot stand up because of the chain.  I think… I am sure they cannot turn around too because of the chain.  That is why we are dare to go forward.  hahahaha

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It is not easy to overcome the fear.  But we did it.

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Look at Kay Kay eyes… He still eating something, but don't dare to swallow.  hahahaha

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Let's take another photos.

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It is so thrill.

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Conrad the animal lovers of course is brave enough to take this photo.

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Close up shot!

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OK.  The tiger still OK.  Third team, where are you?

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Justin & Jayden's daddy is going to freak out.  hahahaha his son taking photos with the tigers.  hahahaha

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Esther's mom seems very happy.  Taking photos behind a real tigers.  I am so scare that these kids steps on the Tiger's tail.  hahhaha

I kept reminding every one of them not to do so.  HaHaHaHa

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So there you go, our greatest achievement.  Taking photos with the tigers.

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This is a very small zoo, lesser visitors, that is why we got the chance to do so much here.  Thanks our tour guide for brining us here.  hahaha