Bangkok Guru

If you’re now in Bangkok and have been out to get some food, chances are you have come across loads of bright yellow triangular flags with some Chinese writing on them in front of many restaurants and food stalls. Yes, the popular Vegetarian Festival is back and in full swing once again. It’s a huge [...]

Bangkok’s China Town is a rather hectic old business area located on Yaowarat Road en route to Charoen Krung Road. Here, there are an inconceivable number of streets & alleyways on which you can aimlessly wander through a maze of shops and pavement stalls selling virtually everything you can imagine.
Walking up the road from Ratchawong [...]

OK the other week I started a poll on Bangkok’s favourite shopping mall and I’ve decided to end it today. The results were close. The votes have been counted and verified and I can reveal to you that Bangkok’s favourite shopping mall as voted for by Bangkok Guru readers is the popular MBK shopping mall [...]

Bangkok’s BTS sky train is a relatively fast and reliable way to make your way around town and to avoid the chaotic, traffic plagued roads below. As of now there are two sky train lines:
The Sukhumvit line has 16 stops and connects On Nut with Mo Chit, with en-route stops including Siam and Asoke [...]

There’s dozens of skyscrapers towering the skies of Bangkok but by far the tallest and most impressive has got to be The Baiyoke Tower II which was opened in 1998 and is about 310 metres high.

It’s also the 26th tallest building in the world. In fact, there’s roughly 2060 steps from bottom to top and [...]

Today I’ve been out to do a bit of grocery shopping on metered taxis so I thought it’d be interesting and useful to those of you new to Bangkok to offer my take on one of the most popular modes of public transport in Bangkok. So here it is:
You’ll have little difficulty finding a metered [...]

1. The capital of Thailand is generally known as ‘Krung Thep’ by the locals. Bangkok is only used by foreigners.
2. As with Los Angeles in the US, Krung Thep means the City of Angels and, funnily enough though, LA happens to be the biggest Thai expat community in the world with nearly 200,000 Thai citizens [...]

It’s been a long, shattering week for me. I’m feeling a bit shitty. In fact, I ain’t felt this knackered in quite a while and really can’t wait to hit the sack. I’d promised myself to take it easy and stay in this weekend BUT somehow my mates are all so itching to go out [...]

The government funded free bus services for Bangkok commuters have started today. For obvious reasons, I couldn’t be arsed taking advantage of this myself but according to many on Thai websites, it wasn’t as bad as had widely been believed and there were more than enough buses to cater for those unable or [...]

Like most young people in Bangkok, I enjoy going out for a beer or two after a long week at work. There’s one major problem that I’ve encountered though; it usually spirals out of control and ends up costing me more than what my nightly budget allows. And there’s a reason for this: a pub [...]