I briefly mentioned about Ice Monster in one of my posts on Bangkok food, but after my recent trip to Bangkok last weekend (yup 2 months after my first one), I figured it deserves a post of its own!

What is Ice Monster? Basically it’s a shaved ice dessert that has condensed milk mixed in with fruit toppings of your choice. It is absolutely yummy and I insist that it it a must visit with every trip to Bangkok.

As you can see in the image below, there are so many choices for the toppings. You can choose up to 3 toppings and it’s all very affordable. A regular sized cup with one topping costs 85 baht which amounts to abt S$3.50 and it’s a HUGE serving (just wait for the photos).

During my April trip, I tried the strawberry one (strawberries are like my default fruit for anything) and FP had longans as toppings:

And during my girly Bangkok trip last weekend (more on this in the next few blog posts), these were what we had. I had watermelons as topping because it was yet another really hot day in Bangkok and I wanted something thirst quenching, and Rara (my awesome travel partner) had strawberries AND bananas on hers. We were so, so happy when we saw that the banana slices were covered in chocolate sauce and nuts.

It was just a happy moment ok? Check this out:

I love how pretty everything from Ice Monster appears on photos! AHHH. It’s always such a happy thing to have, which is why (I repeat) this is a must-have when you go to Bangkok.

So far I’ve spotted two outlets: One is at the ever famous wholesale mall – Platinum Fashion Mall, and the other is at this fancy new all (which I will blog about soon) – Terminal 21.

You can also visit the Ice Monster website for more info. It’s mostly in Thai, but there’s nothing Google Translate cant help you understand!

I give this dessert cafe…

As promised, here’s part 2 of the Bangkok food blog post!

We’ve always been game to try out street food (please choose wisely!). So on our second night in Bangkok, we chanced upon a hidden alley near our hotel (a really dodgey area in Pratunam) that has a whole row of stalls selling street food.

So we decided to get a bit of everything to bring back to the hotel for an indoor picnic.

Some shots from the alley:

Pad thai, being stir fried, right there and then. I could never resist a good pad thai, can you?

This was at a stall that was selling tom yam. You can choose if you want shrimp, squid and/or fish in your tom yam in whatever combination you want. I went for squid and shrimp!

Freshly made tom yam bubbling away…

The uncle who was manning this stall was a friendly person who sings and chats and take photos with his customers. It was entertaining to watch him prepare your food.

We also bought mango salad (an absolute must!), chicken, oyster omelette and fried rice from the same street. This was our spread for the evening:

And this amounted to… SGD11. This is why I will be obese if I stay in Thailand for too long. Now that I think about it, the pad thai was bought on a separate evening (as it’s not in the above photo).

One drink that we saw a lot on the streets for the 4 days we were there were these bottled orange drinks. It was the green peeled oranges. We finally caved in to it on our last day in Bangkok. And let’s just say one bottle wasn’t enough.

I’ve already told my mum to buy these green oranges if she sees them anywhere, best orange juice ever.

So here comes the part that all of you have been waiting for – the insect eating part! We went to Khao San Road specifically just to look for insects (talk about courting trouble). We walked all over Khao San but didn’t see a single insect stall. But just as we were going to give up and head back to the hotel (almost giving out a sigh of relieve to have escaped it), there it was in front of us.

Sorry have to use a screengrab from the bangkok montage video for this one:

The aunty manning this store didn’t even give us a chance to choose what we want. We pointed asking her what’s this? what’s that? and she scooped them all.

But what we actually asked for were crickets and grasshoppers. Why grasshoppers? I don’t know, they looked harmless. So this was our bag of insects.

Our bag of insects:

And here, my friends is the video of me eating ONE cricket. Please ignore the tired face and disheveled hair. I’ve been walking and shopping so much for three days by this time. Beyond exhausted, I’m only human. Ok here goes:

Sorry about the background noise from the TV, totally forgot to turn it off in our anxiety. Like I said in the video, the cricket is actually not too bad. Would have gone for a grasshopper but somehow when I reach into the bag to want to grab a grasshopper, I saw their dead faces staring at me and I just stopped, I couldn’t.

But a cricket was enough adventure for a day anyway!

I’ve always been a fan of Thai food, but I think I’ve become an even bigger fan of it since I came back from Bangkok. I think if I ever decide to stay in Bangkok permanently, I will become severely obese. It is really food heaven. I mean, just check these photos out:

This plate of spicy seafood noodles was my first meal in Bangkok, at Platinum Mall’s food court. Between me and FP, our lunch amounted to a total of SGD3.50. Amazing. And these noodles were delicious and true to its word – it’s incredibly spicy.

We were really curious when we saw these and asked what they are. They are, sweetened (to the max) egg white in a crispy pancake topped with coconut flakes. Of course we tried it. And while it was so very yummy, it was also very, very sweet. So one is enough.

Been craving for coconut ice cream since I last had it in Phuket last October, so I was so excited when I saw a stall in Chatuchak selling it. This time, the ice cream is served in a coconut shell and had toppings! This was mine with pineapples on it. FP’s coconut ice cream had glutinous rice and atap seeds. Freaking glorious, if I should say so myself.

I’ve never had these before till this trip. So obviously, the sight of these colourful lovelies that look like toy miniatures brightened up my day. I am attracted to bright and colourful things you see. Got like 10 of them and snacked on them while shopping, yummy! Oh they are called “Royal Fruit” by the way.

This is a heart attack waiting to happen. Just because they are mini sized doesn’t mean they have lesser cholesterol. One quail egg has the same cholesterol of a normal sized egg. But hey you only live once (YOLO ya’ll!), lol.

We had these eggs together with this plate of sticky mango rice:

Precisely why I cannot live in Bangkok if I want to stay petite.

So somewhere in the middle of Chatuchak, we came across this small eatery that sells extremely yummy pad thai. So we ordered one each, not knowing that they are huge servings (they are served on trays, not plates – 2 people can share one plate!). The photo below does not do justice to the size of the plate (tray), but it looks so yummy doesn’t it?

Each of us also ordered our usual of thai milk tea. Again, we didn’t know it was going to be a gigantic serving of milk tea. Get this – it came in FISHBOWL. So each of us had to finish a FISHBOWL worth of milk tea. Never had that much milk tea in a single seating in my life. Goodness.

While we are on the subject of milk tea, I was told (prior to the trip) to look out for this bubble tea chain called Dakasi. Spotted it on our first day in Bangkok, and of course tried it. It was so delicious.

We also tried a strawberry pudding drink, that tasted like strawberry pocky. What’s not to like?!

At one of the malls we were at (I think it was Siam Paragon), we chanced upon these drinks that had herbal jelly in them.

We had the milk tea, and the ovaltine ones respectively. Of course it was good, but just one complaint about drinks in Bangkok – there’s always too much ice in them.

Speaking of desserts, we also had Ice Monster on one of the days because our legs were begging for mercy from all the shopping. It’s just fruits of your choice with shaved ice and condensed milk. Very nice on warm day (and Bangkok is very, very warm). But I also like how pretty it is in this photo:

One more dessert photo before I end this. These ice lollys were spotted at Chatuchak market. There were other flavours but we chose lime, because it was the most thirst quenching – I guess (or we just needed something cold because it was so hot). It was very refreshing but melted too fast. But given the heat on that day, I don’t blame the lolly.

Okay, that’s it for now. This post is getting too long! Tonight I’ll post part 2 of it – all about street food!