{"id":4175,"date":"2010-01-08T11:13:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T18:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2010-01-02T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T08:35:08","slug":"bangkok-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/bangkok-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21210104.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21210104-432x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thailand buddhist shrine at night silom road bangkok\" width=\"432\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21210104-432x800.jpg 432w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21210104-135x250.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Night time came to our first full day in Thailand. After a refreshing (a bit too cold if you ask me) <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/bangkok-part-2\/>swim at the hotel<\/a> we headed out for dinner&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21212519trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21212519trim-669x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bangkok thai ronald mcdonald\" width=\"669\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21212519trim-669x800.jpg 669w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21212519trim-209x250.jpg 209w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21212519trim.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;though not at McDonald&#8217;s. Notice that Ronald is doing the <i>wai<\/I>, a Thai form of greeting, thanking, etc. by putting your hands together near your neck and bowing a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21220901trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21220901trim-800x611.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thai food bangkok thailand\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21220901trim-800x611.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21220901trim-250x191.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21220901trim.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ate at Sphinx, located at the end of Soi 4 off Silom Road. The food looked really good, and the free wonton appetizers were great, but this was my most disappointing meal in Thailand (and the most expensive).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21231522trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21231522trim-667x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tuk tuk bangkok thailand\" width=\"667\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21231522trim-667x800.jpg 667w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21231522trim-208x250.jpg 208w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/21231522trim.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We took a tuk tuk back to our hotel for only 20 baht (under $1). This was our first, and last, tuk tuk experience in Thailand, not that the experience was horrible. Tuk tuks in our next location (Phuket) were ridiculously priced so we never used them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night time came to our first full day in Thailand. After a refreshing (a bit too cold if you ask me) swim at the hotel we headed out for dinner&#8230; &#8230;though not at McDonald&#8217;s. Notice that Ronald is doing the wai, a Thai form of greeting, thanking, etc. by putting your hands together near your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243],"tags":[245,102,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}