barefoot,

Once you leave the Wat and head to the main Yaowarat strip you will find many restaurants as well as street food stalls. The restaurants will have better food, better tasting, ingredients and more comfortable A/C seatings vs the street food. It's hard for me to recommend a place as I don't know what you like but most, if not all, the restaurants there will specialize in seafood - Chinese style. I would choose what look best to you but this guide should help.

http://www.tatnews.org/emagazine/4184.asp

I remember visiting Wat Trimit and the Solid Gold Buddha on one of our stopovers a few years ago, and it has very special smiley memories, because of a misunderstood guide who gave the history of this Buddha, before making our way down that narrow alleyway.

Our jetlagged ears listened to the tale and we both understood the statue was re-discovered covered in semen; we both had visions of centuries-long fertility rites by thousands of devotees, completely obliterating the gold. At each mention of the semen disguise, we looked at each other with a Michael Palin’s ‘Cathcart Towers Hotel’ expression, and were chuckling discretely when we saw the guide was actually referring to cement!

Revisited the Grand Palace during my last trip in November, and will put Wat Trimit on the list for a revisit during my next, undoubtedly with a special smile on my dial :-D

lol

lol, too. I wonder how much else gets misinterpreted by our faulty ears.

Hanuman, Thanks for the website link...can't believe I haven't seen that one yet!