Staying at the lovely Dream Hotel.
They have a pretty sweet roof pool where I spend my days working on pictures poolside.
I love coming to Thailand to chill out and catch up on work because it is SO cheap to stay in really nice hotels (I paid $300 for 5 days) so you don't feel bad about just staying in the hotel all day long. I'd wake up, eat the free breakfast buffet, work out, get a massage, and then work work work in between dips in the pool until my Princess Teebags got off work.
On this day, I met Tee at her office, we hopped in a cab into rush hour traffic...
And headed to Lebua State Tower for drinks...
...at the gorgeous Sirocco, an epic rooftop bar.
(If you're thinking it looks familiar it may be because it was featured in The Hangover Part 2, or because I came here in 2008 with Anne & Felix.
Fun fact, they tried to build an exact replica of Lebua State Tower down the street several years ago, but ran out of money so the building just sits there abandoned...
The view of everything from up there is pretttttty awesome.
Then we descending into evening Bangkok traffic, which is the WORST, even compared to LA traffic.
It took us like 20 minutes to find a cab.
Which we had fun in at first...
But then ended up getting sleepy in.
Waiting and waiting and waiting.
While all the crazy motorbikes just zip by.
Motorcyclists in Bangkok are INSANE. I don't know how they don't all die all the time.
Yes that is a woman and her child riding together unsecured on the back of a motorbike WITHOUT HELMETS.
We were in this cab FOREVER.
So I just took lots and lots of pictures.
Which ended up being a good thing because I ended up leaving my phone in this cab when we got out, and through the pictures we were able to uncover the license plate from the picture above and the phone number for the cab company from the sleeping picture and tracked down and recovered my phone. EPICCCCC
Also, as you can see from the meter. The cab ride took 1 hour and 10 minutes to travel about 4 miles. And only cost us around 150 baht = $5.
LOVES a thailand.
Then we ended up at Little Beast. Where we of course had a BEAST FEAST.
And look what's on the menu! DKMB!!!
I just LOVEEEEE my Tee!!!!
We started with Crab Dip. SO good. SOOOO fat.
Also, LOVE knowing the owners of the restaurant because they put their little manager dude in charge of calling around to find my lost cellphone while we sat and enjoyed our meal. Literally in no other restaurant would this ever have been possible. Plus I don't speak Thai.
Chef Nan made me an EXTRA LARGE double-meatballed bowl of the DKMB.
They are FILLED with CHEEEESE.
Also new to the menu Iberico Ham and Rigatoni Mac & Cheese. Ridiculous.
And of course we had the Black Truffle Pork Cheek Penne, always a fave.
And another special, Grilled Kurobota Pork Loin...
I heart a Beast Feast! (And we come back tomorrow too!)
LOVES a Thailand!!!!!
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Clarence & Andrea's Wedding
After getting home from Dragon-I at the reasonable hour of 4:30am, I took a little nap and then woke up at 9:30am to get to Clarence's 10:30am wedding ceremony at St. Theresa's Church in Kowloon.
I made it just in time to catch the beautiful bride walking down the aisle. (Thank god I was not the official photog this day.)
I was super jealous of the hired photogs though who got to shoot this beautiful couple in beautiful Hong Kong!
Gasp! And it turned out one of the photographers, Sasithon aka Sas, I had met just a few months ago at Zameer's party celebrating our Vogue spread!
The world is soyyyyy small!
The photogs had them climbing crosswalks and running through traffic. Soyyy jealous.
I did manage to get one cute walking shot of them with some HK cabs in the background. Yay...
For transportation from the ceremony to the reception, they had rented a vintage double-decker bus.
It was pretty awesome.
We stopped at the waterfront for the photographer to take some epic photos... SO jealous.
I love love love the buildings in Central. What a great idea to rent this bus.
The reception was held at one of Clarence's restaurants. The fabulous Domani at Pacific Place.
Featuring stunning nighttime views of downtown HK...
Tee was rocking a nasty UDI (unidentified drunken injury) from the night before.
And Tim and Eugene were rocking matching suit-tie combos unintentionally...
Dinner was an epic 6 course meal. It started with an INCREDIBLE scallop with black sesame sauce...
A delicious green soup with a lobster or something under that crouton thingy...
Saffron Risotto with Osso Bucco...
Eggplant pasta... (this was my fave)
Chilean Sea Bass with Black Truffle...
And finally a Wagyu Steak on top of Mashed Potato. YUMMMMM
And then there was a dessert buffet bar.
The restaurant was SO pretty and classy. Unfortunately there was no dancing though.
HK weddings rarely have dancing. Sad.
Love seeing all my high school buddies in HK though!
Cheers!
Congratulations Andrea and Clarence!!!
I made it just in time to catch the beautiful bride walking down the aisle. (Thank god I was not the official photog this day.)
I was super jealous of the hired photogs though who got to shoot this beautiful couple in beautiful Hong Kong!
Gasp! And it turned out one of the photographers, Sasithon aka Sas, I had met just a few months ago at Zameer's party celebrating our Vogue spread!
The world is soyyyyy small!
The photogs had them climbing crosswalks and running through traffic. Soyyy jealous.
I did manage to get one cute walking shot of them with some HK cabs in the background. Yay...
For transportation from the ceremony to the reception, they had rented a vintage double-decker bus.
It was pretty awesome.
We stopped at the waterfront for the photographer to take some epic photos... SO jealous.
I love love love the buildings in Central. What a great idea to rent this bus.
The reception was held at one of Clarence's restaurants. The fabulous Domani at Pacific Place.
Featuring stunning nighttime views of downtown HK...
Tee was rocking a nasty UDI (unidentified drunken injury) from the night before.
And Tim and Eugene were rocking matching suit-tie combos unintentionally...
Dinner was an epic 6 course meal. It started with an INCREDIBLE scallop with black sesame sauce...
A delicious green soup with a lobster or something under that crouton thingy...
Saffron Risotto with Osso Bucco...
Eggplant pasta... (this was my fave)
Chilean Sea Bass with Black Truffle...
And finally a Wagyu Steak on top of Mashed Potato. YUMMMMM
And then there was a dessert buffet bar.
The restaurant was SO pretty and classy. Unfortunately there was no dancing though.
HK weddings rarely have dancing. Sad.
Love seeing all my high school buddies in HK though!
Cheers!
Congratulations Andrea and Clarence!!!
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