There aren't many pictures today.
Not because I didn't do anything or eat anything of significance, but because I spent most of my time in two shopping malls and I'm not very much the kind to take pictures of shops inside a shopping mall.
This morning we had a breakfast of eggs and the bo luo buns that we had purchased the night before.
Afterwards we decided to explore the EmQuartier and EmSphere area close by, so out to the main road we walked, and took the BTS to Phrom Phong.
We started with EmQuartier first.
What makes this mall interesting are the aesthetics.
It is one of the sunniest malls this side of town.
It is also one of the malls this side of town with the most indoor greenery.
Hardly is it that one gets to see a full wall of leaves and ferns (and a waterfall!) cascading down from roof floor to ground.
Maybe this time I wasn't appreciating it as much as I ought to have, but next time I come I will, especially since the Sephora here is a charm, as is the MUJI, the Zara and the H&M, plus the plethora of restaurants located all on their upper floors.
How it was we wandered this mall on this afternoon I don' particularly remember, but somewhere along the way we discovered the AEON Theater, and right beside it, Sushi Seki, a franchise-type of Japanese restaurant.
The menu offered a lot of dishes, a mix of familiar and new, all of them very good ones, but we thought we'd try something new, so instead of Ramen or Udon (as I sometimes like to order) or even Oyakodon (another favorite of mine), we ordered a Chirashi bowl that had cubes of salmon, tuna and unagi.
What made this bowl unique was that the rice had truffle oil, and scattered all over the top were tiny pretty flowers that were edible.
Then we ordered a plate of snow crab croquettes, all of which were beautifully breaded and fried.
And then we decided we'd try a plate of Salmon Larb which, to our surprise, turned out to be spicier than we imagined it would be.
Lunch over we hung around the shopping mall a little bit then decided to visit EmSphere on the opposite side of the Phrom Phong BTS station, accessible by a skybridge that connected EmQuartier to EmSphere.
Along the way I saw what I think might be an early outlet of Villa Market, and glad I was to find out that the same Villa Market I'd seen in Ploenchit Center last time had in fact been around for 50 years.
From the outside EmSphere looked like a very fun, youthful-looking mall, and we were right.
One of two anchor tenants in EmSphere seems to be IKEA.
Which floor it is on, I don't know- we didn't go up- but it is on the upper floor and seems to be very popular with shoppers who probably come to EmSphere just to look, and shop, for furniture.
The other anchor tenant in EmSphere is likely Gourmet Market in the basement floor. This supermarket carries a good selection of international produce, including deli counters, cheese counters and salad counters.
Then there were a whole bunch of eateries big and small.
Lots of variety.
This was the kind of place where you could have casual fine dining of steak or beef wellington alongside a snack booth selling buns filled with varying flavors of cream.
We took a toasted bun filled with milk tea cream.
Having seen enough of the mall, we headed out onto Sukhumvit Road towards a massage place close by where we did a foot massage for 2 hours.
Very likely I fell asleep, and continued being sleepy for quite a while, because when we finished we decided to hang around the area for dinner, and I was too dazed to make any decisions save for the fact that I didn't want to go anywhere too far away from where we were.
I had thought we'd be returning to EmSphere for dinner but my friend found this Argentinian steak place opposite EmSphere named El Toro Steakhouse and Churrascaria.
The Argentinian-style buffet was tempting.
I like grilled pineapple.
But I wasn't very much in the mood for huge meals this evening and so settled on a pasta carbonara (so heavy with the cream!) and my friend got a very, very good steak that came with baked potato.
