As we had already done the “compulsory” sightseeing of Bangkok in our previous trip three years ago, we decided to skip the main tourist attractions and just do whatever we felt like doing.
Our agenda for the first half of the day was to go to Pantip, a huge 6-floor shopping centre full of all kinds of IT-related gadgets stores (e.g. computers, mobiles, cameras, hardware, (pirate) software, dvds, cds, etc.). I was a bit tempted to get a new laptop, but as all laptops had Thai-Western alphabet keyboards, but not Western alphabet-only keyboards, I decided that my dear old IBM is good enough. We also looked around for mobiles, but at least the price of HTC phones did not seem to be too much cheaper than in Estonia. So I decided there was no point in getting it from here. They also had quite cheap fake iPhone 4, but as it lacked GPS functionality and we were not quite sure what other possible functionalities, we decided we didn’t need that either. So we ended up just getting an extra battery and an extra memory card for our photo camera.
In the afternoon, we shopped for some spices needed for Asian cuisines and also for some sweets to take home with us. As we had decided to cook a Lao-style dinner for Antonio, we looked around for the groceries as well.
Our Lao-style cooking worked out quite nicely, except that it had proved very difficult to find rice paper for spring rolls and what we thought had been rice paper appeared to be something different and unsuited for spring rolls. So we swiftly turned the content of spring rolls into a salad, but that was nice enough too. We enjoyed the dinner at Antonio’s balcony with the view.
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