Mr. Jones' Orphanage

Back at Malaysia but all I can think of are those wonderful time I had when we're at Bangkok. Café hopping is one of the best thing to do when in Bangkok because you'll never know what treasure you'll find hidden in the city. 

So am gonna introduce to you this teddy bear theme café called Mr. Jones' Orphanage located at 3rd Floor Siam Center. We went there for brunch before we head to Chatuchak and the interior of this café is really stunning. 

There are teddy bears everywhere in the café! It also made dining alone less awkward because you can have teddy bears sit opposite or beside you and pretend that you have a partner to with. 

There's this pancake and waffle set with beverage that costs just 299Baht. So me and Freda decided to share this together. 

Huge strawberry but less fluffy pancake. They had really nice butter but too bad the pancake was a tad bit solid. I like mine fluffy and soft. 

The same goes to this waffle, kinda hard in texture, taste just like normal waffle with a lot of cream on top. 

Thai Milk Tea Blended with Choclate Chips is good! I didn't know that when Thai milk tea paired with chocolate chips can taste so good and harmonious. 

Bon Appetite! 

Thai ice tea blended yum yum! 

I like this dessert bar setting! 

I'm kinda curious why it is called Mr. Jones' Orphanage. Not sure if it's because of just the fun of it or the teddy bears here are unwanted teddies from everywhere so they kinda become the orphans of this place. But nonetheless it is a very warm and fluffy place with lots of details to attend to. A cute café that you can visit if you visit Siam Center next time! 

Mr. Jones' Orphanage 

3rd Floor, Siam Center

Phone: +6626581163

Opened daily: 11am - 10pm

Day 5, Bangkok Trip 2015

Totally spoilt for Day 5 as it marks the least walking distance of all days! Been taking bikes, BTS Sky Train and Uber X today. 

Bike ride from hotel to Siam Paragon 

Taking bike and tuk-tuk is one of the experience in Bangkok that you must try. Their driving skill seriously amazed us it's almost like the scene in Fast & Furious lol. We opt for bike ride in the morning because we're heading to Chatuchak in the afternoon and we wanna save more energy to walk the whole weekend market. 

Imma write all the cafés we went to today in different blog post so it doesn't get too lengthy, the itinerary for Day 5 was: 

• brunch at Mr. Jones' Orphanage 

• Chatuchak weekend market 

• meet up with Jean 

• Dinner & supper 

A very relaxing Sunday it is with not much schedule pack into one day. 

Will blog about Mr. Jones' Orphanage in another blog post, after brunch it is BTS time to Mo Chit station and yes! Chatuchak it is! 

Mandatory Chatuchak #ootd shot lol 

It was super hot that afternoon that we checked the weather report it stated 40 Celsius degree! Freaking 40!!! The hot weather kinda made me feel impatient to explore all the sections, just wanna get over with it! End up we walk under the shelter and lanes inside the sections, which made us stop by for this: 

Had Iced Latte with Vanilla syrup 59baht 

Freda fell in love with all the Thailand young designer stuff and she made a promise that she gonna come again next year and spend all her shopping fund here. Lol. 

Well I guess some people like Chatuchak more, I'm more to a Pratunam and Platinum Mall person. Haha. The only thing I felt worth to buy in Chatuchak ate those phone cases! They sell lower than 100baht and some in very pretty design! This trip alone I bought more than 5 phone cases! Wondering how am I gonna use them all. 

Anyway, it rained around 4pm and we rush back to BTS station and head back to Siam Paragon to see if we can meet Jean up. It is quite an amusing feeling to meet up with your Malaysia friend outside of Malaysia. Funny thing is we don't even meet up back in Setapak area seeing that we're all from the same area. Lol. 

Popcorn container which costs 325baht per set. Wow. Mind blowingly expensive. 

Café hopping night! 

We went to Nikko Café and 24Owls at Ekkamai Soi 12. Same thing I'm gonna separate those 2 café visit experience in different blog post. So yea. 

How you not selfie with these girls seriously. So funny! And I think I just link Freda and Jean together because they both share the same interest in writing, arts and craft. Haha. 

Our night concludes with an Uber X ride back hotel all thanks to Jean's Thai friend who made the booking for us. Ekkamai is tad bit far from Pratunam, I think I don't really know the way to go back to our hotel. Really thankful to Jean and her friend. 

And that concludes our Day 5, last day at Bangkok. Am on our way to Don Mueang airport as I'm typing this now. Just made a praying at Erawan Shrine this morning and I hope it will come true. Definitely gonna come back to Bangkok again next year for another round of shopping. I call Bangkok the Shopping Mekkah of mine. Haha 

Leaving Bangkok with overweight luggage gosh help!!! 

Day 4, Bangkok Trip 2015

Day 4 considered our most adventurous day throughout our whole trip I guess. One of the bravest decision we made. Lol. 

But first, it's time for brunch as we woke up a tad bit late. Here starts another round of walk before we reach Siam Square One, where the café we wanted to go located at. 

Was a bit confused with the direction that the electronic directory gave. We can't find that café so that end up we have to ask staff from Too Cool For School and she told us it's one floor down. We are going to have our brunch at After You, one of Bangkok's must-go café. 

Seriously this café is super obvious if you come from another direction because it is facing the Main Street and right opposite Hello Kitty Café. After You is a Korean-ish interior café which serve super delicious desserts. Very modern vintage design, comfortable and relaxing, perfect rest spot for a hot sunny day. 

Staff will give you a table number right after you enter the shop and just proceed to the counter and order your food, then sit down and wait for your food to arrive. We ordered a Shibuya Honey Toast for sharing as I'm not a breakfast person and a drink of our own choice. 

Mochaccino 105Baht 

Royal Thai Milk Tea 85Baht (super sweet I trembled on my first sip)

Shibuya Honey Toast 175Baht 

This is the first time I had Shibuya Honey Toast and it is omfg super duper yummy! The warm and crunchy thick toast paired perfectly with fresh cut strawberries, cheese and vanilla ice creams, covered with honey, I will come back for this every time I come to Bangkok! Twin sharing on one Shibuya Honey Toast makes the best  portion as appetite are not too overwhelmed with dairies. 

And they are everywhere! Checked the nearest After You café located near your location next time! 

After yummilicious brunch, is time for another round of walk + public transportation to our next destination - Victory Monument. Before that, we stopped by at Siam Center look look see see before took BTS from Siam to Victory  Monument. 

Jurassic Expo located right outside the link between Siam Center and Siam Paragon. 

Why are we heading to Victory Monument? Because we want to visit MaeKlong Train Market and also Amphawa Floating Market. Did some research and also asked for friend's advice if it's worth going, some say yes some say no, but in the end we decided to step out and head to an adventure. Thank god for the guide I found online that we made it to Maeklong and Amphawa easily! 

Waiting for time to pass. 

• At Victory Monument, find Century The Movie Plaza, the mini van station to Maeklong located just behind the plaza. Ticket to Maeklong - 70Baht

• Hop on to mini van of your designated time and from Bangkok to Maeklong took about 1 hour. 

We reached Maeklong about 5pm, it was hot and stuffy. We followed the Maeklong Market road sign until we saw the cross section of railway then we followed the rail path and found the train market. Too bad the train market closed due to maintenance and only will reopen in November, so no train will pass by for the time being. 

Continue walk around Maeklong and took lots of photos. I bet it will be an awesome scenery to see train coming and sellers closing their umbrellas and all. Gonna come back again next year. 

Maeklong, such a beautiful place. 

After Maeklong, I look at the guide and try to find Songthaew(tuk-tuk-like-van) to Amphawa. Asked for directions and the Songthaew station was located in front of the 7-11. You can hop on to the Songthaew and wait for it to depart. From Maeklong to Amphawa costs us 8Baht per person. 

10 minutes ride and we're at Amphawa! 

Thanks to a grandma who can speak Chinese, she told us to get off the Songthaew if we were to go to the floating market. We followed her advice and found Amphawa Floating Market in no time and the place was amazingly stunning we keep taking photos and were totally mesmerised by the beauty of floating market! 

We even had our dinner right beside the river, indulging the finest experience at Amphawa with some fresh grilled seafood! What an extraordinary life experience. 

We only have so little time to stay at Amphawa, a little imperfection I guess. The last van from Amphawa to Bangkok depart at 8pm, so we have to leave the place around 7-ish. From Amphawa to Bangkok the fare is 80Baht, and arrival destination is Victory Monument. Right before we left Amphawa, found this postcard shop and we decided to post some postcards back to Malaysia. 

What a wonderful day it is for able to experience new life experience and also indulge in different culture and lifestyle of Thailand. Luckily we followed our guts and have the courage to step out from our comfort zone and decided to explore the unknown despite we knew nothing about the language, the place and directions. And also thanks to all the kind and friendly people of Thailand which pointed us the directions. A perfect day indeed! 

Definitely in love with Thailand more each day. Will come back again to Maeklong and Amphawa. Can't wait to relive the whole experience again!