Our next stop after Dusit Palace was the Platinum Fashion Mall in Pratunam. We planned to have a quick lunch and then spend a bit of time shopping; the idea was to head back to the hotel before the traffic jams started.
Boy, we severely underestimated how much time we would take to shop there. First of all, the place is HUGE! The mall caters to wholesale buyers, which means there were loads of people dragging huge bags (the big China-stripey-plastic ones) around the mall. If you are a retail customer, you can usually still get items at wholesale prices, if you purchase 3 pieces from one shop (mixing of items is allowed). The downside is you cannot try the items before you buy them.
We went absolutely nuts in the mall. After 2 hours, we only covered 2 floors! And most of it was spent shopping for clothes for the kids, especially for our little girl. I bought sooo many outfits for her! Everything felt so cheap! I can totally understand how a business model like this could work; even after factoring in the air ticket cost, someone in KL could probably still make some profit by buying stuff here and selling it back home (say at a weekend market or something).
We had dinner plans, so we decided to tear ourselves away from the shops, head back to the hotel... and return to the mall the next day! We effectively sacrificed a trip to Chatuchak Market for this, but I guess that was ok.
Dinner was really yummy, and it was really wonderful catching up with friends. I had a strawberry+pineapple+mango+apple+lychee drink (no kidding!); so that was a bit of a laugh. The tom yum was really delicious- the soup had slices of coconut flesh in it, so that was quite unique. We had lots of seafood- big prawns, squid, fish, and other yummy dishes. I for one certainly ate until I was ready to burst!
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