Secret Garden @ Sathorn, Bangkok

Sathorn is a center of the businesses in Bangkok. Not really shopping area, not really residential area. It’s the business place. Many foreign guys work in this area, too. A good thing about this area is that I can find good restaurants very easily.

The other day, myself and my stuff were at client’s office in Sathorn for the presentation. We skipped out launch to prepare the documents, so when the presentation finished, all we wanted was to eat.

Then, there was Secret Garden near our client’s building.

It’s a Thai fusion restaurant. They can serve foods spacy, but the way they cool is just fine to me.  Even if I didn’t say to make them not spicy, they were alright.


I have tried Thai food many times because it's cheaper than Japanese or others. But this time, it was a little expensive.

 

Local Thai food is like 30 to 40 baht, which is 90 cents to 1 dallor and 20 cents. However, food at Secret Garden is like 300 baht per each dish. I know, it's 10 times more. 

 

People usually eat food with a white rice, but we tried a brown rice this day. One of my stuff is pregnant, and she wanted a brown rice because it is rich in nutrients.  

 

After we ate all, we ate cakes and cups of coffee. Then, it was 1800 baht. 

It was superb, though.

Secret Garden @ Sathorn

Fun arium @ Suk soi 26

I can't go fishing every weekend because of my family. I have to take care of them.
I didn't ask them to come to Thailand, but they did. Well, my son visited me last summer from Japan, and it was his first oversea's travel. We went fishing, went to swim at the ocean, went to some other fun places, and he liked 'em all. So, after he and my wife went back to Japan and a couple of weeks later, he called me and said, "I am gonna move to Bangkok." To a 8 year old boy who doesn't speak English or Thai, moving to Thailand is a huge commitment and experience. He doesn't like spacy food, but he liked this warm weather and good ol' fruits and stuff. He liked fishing, too. So, he decided it.

I admire that. And I decided, too. I wanna go fishing every weekend, but if he (or maybe my wife) asks me to take them to anywhere, I go out with them.
You think it's normal? Do you think an angler like me wants to go shopping with a woman who doesn't buy a thing but look around all day without a plan, and I am comfortable with it? Hell no!! But I keep my mouth shut and go out with her although I don't want to, because I wanna go fish.

Anyway, Bangkok is not the best city to raise children. No park, no playground, no soccer fields or anything for kids to play at. I mean NOTHING. There are a couple of parks in Bangkok. One park is 5 minutes from my condo, but it's no ground to play around. Just trees and running spots to go around. Another park is just a big pond and a walk way around it. The largest park is currently occupied by people who participated Coup d'etat. They live there with camping tents...

Thanks to my condo. They have a swimming pool, tennis courts, and a kid's playground so that kids can play, but not at every condo.

Thus, how do kids, especially my son, discharge their enery? We go to Fun arium.
http://www.funarium.co.th/

It's an indoor playground. In Japan, we have Aeon Fantasy. There is Aeon Fantasy in Bangkok, too. But they are small, and my son says not fun at all. Therefore, we choose to go to Fun arium.
There are a huge and complicated jangle jim, basketball court, bicycling field, rock climbing walls, cooking studio, drawing studio, and many things. Kids at Fun arium run around all the time look extremely excited.

Food over there is not bad at all. This day I ate a Thai traditional noodle. The stuff asked me "spacy or not spacy". I ordered spacy one. What happended is I had a stomachache until late night....

I wish Bangkok government produces a park for kids, only for kids. 

Wines supplied

One of my stuff whose brother owns a bar in J-Avenue in Thong lo, Bangkok, brought wines for me, actually for my wife because she knows my wife loves drinking wines. If I didn't prohibit her to drink wines too much, she'd drink a bottle per day. Well, think about it how much it costs to drink a bottle every day.... Anyway, my stuff brings bottles of wines for me from time to time. Of course, I pay. 

This time she brough:
Villavelvedere Chardonnay Delle Venezie（Italian）x 2 bottles

Momentos Cabernet Sauvignon （Argentina）x 1 bottle

 
Coli Chianti Classico （Italian）x 1 bottle

The total price for this time was 1200 baht, but I still don't know whether this was the retail price or the cost. She says "I got new wines for you, there you go. 1200 baht" with her hand to pay at this moment. I laughed and paid.... but her brother's bar is located at the center of the most expensive and fashionable area. Therefore, I don't think it was a retail price.

Well, either way, I shold pass the bottles to my wife and ask the taste.