We are back to Bangkok’s chaos. Gosh, I missed it!
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| People praying at a shrine right among skyscrapers |
The plan for the first half of the day was to take a closer look a Bangkok’s parallel world: its business and commercial center which has nothing to do with the old town, except for omnipresent street food vendors.
Sounds weird but the most exciting part the day turned out to be our ‘excursion’ to an Asian mall. Food courts we found in the malls were not less outrageously unfamiliar as the street food markets with an incredible amount of food with nondescript names and showcases with plastified dishes, even soups!
I ventured on some green tea cake with red bean filling: tasted good beyond any expectations!
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| toffee makers |
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| Japanese sweets |
Many deserts looked quite hideous, like, for example, ice-cones with colored syrops and corn (!). The ones what really caught my attention were matcha desserts, made of green tea powder. Matcha smoothies, matcha puddings and matcha frozen yogurts seemed very popular with stalls over the place offering this green-tea based sweet with jelly, black pearls or sweet red beans.
Asians and Europeans do indeed have very different ideas about what is tasty…
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