Bangkok Photo Guide of Sukhumvit Road

Food courts are very popular in Bangkok. Every new shopping center tries to challenge it's rivals for the best new food area. To no surprise Terminal 21 Mall offers a great new restaurant area together with a huge food court presenting many styles of cuisine and a great view of Asoke area with residential high rises, parks and streets. Prices are moderate and choices are great.

Similar to an airport and other Asian malls, guests have to pass a metal detector and might be required to allow security selective bag screenining.

Finally, Terminal 21 Shopping Mall opened it's doors for it's Grand Opening on October 11, 2011. Lot's of events taking place and the place is always busy. The mall is structured differently than Bangkok's other topshelf shopping centers. Lower levels are occupied by mid-priced brands like Esprit, Jaspal and Nike, while mid levels host moderately priced fashion stores. Upper levels offer food and beverage adventures like Pier 21 food court and 8 movie theaters. Many escalators and signs make this location look like an airport building. Hey, reminds me about the movie 'The Terminal' with Tom Hanks.

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It's taking shape and construction is in it's final stage: Sukhumvit's new mega shopping mall Terminal 21 is set to open in October 2011. It's perfect location at intersection of Asoke Road and direct skyway access from MRT station Sukhumvit and BTS station Asok make it the most conveniently located shopping mall in New Bangkok. To my culinary delight Terminal 21 will be hosting a branch of Tony Romas Steak and Ribs Restaurant. Once the mall is open I will take some more images and post them here. Hope you will make it here soon. Sorry for the shaky image below. Took it with my iPhone while carrying my shopping goods from Robinson's department store.

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Terminal 21 Photos
Pier 21 Photos

Sukhumvit Road is crowded with cars and pedestrians as large numbers of street vendors offer goods for Farangs and other tourists. The goods on display are mostly cheap clothing, jewelry and Thai souvenirs like wood carved sculptures and paintings. Late at night stalls are replaced by restaurants serving food and beverages until early in the morning for barflies and other creatures of the night. It's very safe to walk and shop on Sukhumvit Road during day and night time.
The busiest areas can be found between Skytrain BTS stations Asok and Nana. Most Sois offer Thai massage shops and restaurants. Although this is the main tourist strip of Bangkok, prices are still reasonable and there is always room for negotiations.

Patpong is a busting place at night. Countless vendors sell souvenirs, bags, clothes, shoes, jewelry and watches. Hustlers try to lure first time tourist into dark corners with seedy bars. Actually, the bars are the main attraction for single male travelers who want to enjoy booze and watching scantily clad agogo dancers inside the neon-lit bars with seductive names like 'Super Pussy' and 'Electric Blue'. Many bars have very attractive 'ladies', but be aware a lot of the gorgeous ladies inside the bars have been men before they underwent gender change surgery. If you can't hold back from visiting those bars, watch your bill. These places are known for bill padding for shows and ladydrinks.

An angle from Patpong at night. Markets and bars illuminate the nightly quarter with shops and bars

Located in the heart of the city in walking distance of Siam Square and the National Stadium lays Bangkok's first large shopping center MBK. It's stores sell about every merchandise that is available from clothes to furniture, but it is best known for it's large electronics section of cellular phones. Brand new and second hand mobiles are available for a fraction of prices that most tourists are used from their home countries.

Night view of MBK shopping center