Aside for its cultural and shopping experience, Bangkok is also popular with their foods! There are varieties of foods that you should definitely try. And the happiest thing is they got so much cheap price for foods.  On this post, I will give you information and review about foods that I ate at Bangkok. So, here it is! Oh, and check my other culinary experience at Seoul and Busan :)

1. Fish Soup with Rice

Fish soup is a common food at Bangkok and you can find it easily anywhere. As its name, they serve rice with fish stock soup in a bowl. It has fish fillets, some mushrooms, carrots, and sprinkles it with celery. The soup was really fresh and had a clean feeling for your body. This fish soup taste mild and healthy for me. Adding some chili soy sauce would be perfect. I ate this soup near victory monument; I don’t really remember the name of the restaurant. That time, we were just hungry and decided to eat whatever food that attracts us. The one that I remember is it was a small and friendly restaurant. They didn’t even have English on their menu. So yes, I ordered by looking on the menu’s photos. 

2. Pad Thai

Pad Thai is one of the most popular foods at Bangkok and it is known internationally. It is basically a stir fry rice noodle. They use so many ingredients to cook this amazing dish such as chicken fillets, eggs, tofu, shrimp, bean sprouts, garlic chives, radishes and many more. Sometimes it also can contain other seafood ingredients like crab or squid. Then, Pad Thai will be served with chopped roasted peanuts. It has a little bit fresh sour taste from tamarind pulp. The one that I ate was Chicken Pad Thai and they sprinkled it with some dried prawn. I found this dish in one of many food stalls at Rod Fai Train Market. Same as fish soup, Pad Thai is also a very well known local dish from Thailand and you will find it easily anywhere at Bangkok. 

3. Salt Coated Grilled Fish

Pratunam (in front of Platinum Fashion Mall) is one of the famous street food and local restaurant area. You can find so many foods here. I went there and saw so many stalls along the way grilling on some kind of fish. They grilled it on the street while asking people to buy. It turned out to be a salt coated grilled fish. Then I bought it to filling my curiosity. I have to say that this dish was not my favorite. The fish was kind of smelly and so fishy. I thought it will be salty and savory but it just plain. However, for those who are grilled fish lovers you should try this. Maybe I was not on my luck that day.

4. Banana Pancake 

You know that we always have room for a dessert! Still at Pratunam area, there is one common sweet dish that called banana pancake. It is different from a usual pancake that we eat when breakfast. This dish actually similar with Martabak Telur however topped with banana. They will whisk some eggs then fried in butter while adding bananas. On top of that, they sprinkled some sugar and condensed milk. The taste is sweet because of caramelized bananas. I think it would be good to be eaten with a glass of hot coffee.

5. Coconut Ice Cream 

Coconut Ice Cream is a very well-known and famous dessert from Bangkok. As its name, they serve some ice cream inside a coconut bowl. Then, they will add the coconut meat itself and some jellies; last they will sprinkle it with some peanuts. This dessert really matches with Bangkok’s hot weather. It was sweet and refreshing. Coconut Ice cream can easily found at weekend or local market. There are also some mobile stalls that sell this sweet dish.

6. Mango Sticky Rice 

Nami is a name of tiny island with half moon shaped located 3,8 km from Gapyeong, Chuncheon, South Korea. The name Nami came from the original name of General Nami from Joseon Dynasty of Korea. This island then bought in 1965 by Mr. Minh Byeong Do who wants to enjoy the rest of his life with nature. In 1966, he founded Gyeongchun Tourism Development Inc. and started to develop Nami Island. Now, it attracts so many tourists from local even international people. 

I had a chance to visit Nami Island on April 2016 when spring season happened at South Korea. It is the season when the trees, flowers, and animals wake up from their long sleep in winter. Back then, Nami Island was full of blooming flowers and green reddish leaves. If you are lucky, you will found a squirrel running around.

What to do at Nami Island?

When I got off from the bus, the first thing I saw was a high tower beside the ferry wharf. That high tower is for people who want to go to Nami Island by zip wire. Actually, I really really want to try that zip wire thing but I was tight on budget back then. The price for that zip wire is 38.000 KRW included an entry ticket to Nami Island.  So yes, I’m going to get back again to South Korea and ride that zip wire.

Because I couldn’t go across by zip wire, I had to ride a ferry. They have a ferry that will take and pick you up to and from Nami Island. I will give you the ferry schedule and how to get to Nami Island later at the end of this post. Before I took off with a ferry, I had to pay the admission ticket first. The price was 8.000 KRW for international tourist. It is already included the ferry ticket. 

When I got in to Nami Island, there were daisies and other colorful flowers everywhere. Cherry blossoms are a very famous flower on spring season at South Korea. It also lasted for a week; I was a bit late that time and hoped I would find it at Nami Island. And yes! I found it, the famous cherry blossoms falling from its trees.

At Nami Island, there is a vast grass field that tourists can use for picnic or some educational things. I met many kindergarten kids with their yellow sport suits had their happy picnic below the cherry blossom trees. I remembered some of them said “hey don’t take pictures” with their cute face but hehe I still took it. There were also some people playing games with their friends. Nami Island indeed provides an education and training facilities for office workers, college students, even kindergarten kids.

As you all know, Nami Island is a famous place because one of the best Korean Drama took place here. Yes, it is Winter Sonata starred Bae Yong Joon and Choi Ji Woo. They shooted it on winter season so it was all white at Nami Island. There are even their statues here. Many Korean drama lovers came to Nami Island because of this drama. There are also some other cute statue around this island. 

The Line of Trees around the Field

Line of Trees

Lake View