Bangkok has all the pleasures and facilities of globalised life, amid a chaotic streetscape and a culture rooted in tradition; it's these contradictions and the city's sensory overload that keeps it inexhaustibly compelling.
Submit to a sublime French master
Short menus indicate attention to every dish....
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Royal and family-style Thai in a secret garden
Set in a 150-year-old stilt house and garden compound, Ruen Mallika hits the right aristocratic notes with huge dishes of Thai-Chinese fare and enchanting rarities like deep-fried flowers....
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The largest aquarium in South-east Asia
Siam Ocean World holds over 400 species, including penguins, giant crabs, sea horses and 30,000 fish....
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The capital's first public museum
Holding the largest museum hoard in South-east Asia, the National Museum originated in 1874 as King Rama IV's collection of regalia within the Grand Palace....
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A gallery with no artistic boundaries
Canny curatorship makes this converted modernist house a showcase for many leading local folk such as Thaiwijit, Chatchai Puipia and Sutee Kunavichayanont, expat Thais like New Yorkbased Richard Tsao, and global names including Damien Hirst and Louise Bourgeois....
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Restaurant and shopping complex by the Chao Praya River
River City is renowned as Asia's largest art and antique center with over a hundred art and antique shops selling jewelry, souvenirs, Thai silk and more....
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One-stop shop for Thai creativity
Chatuchak Weekend Market draws a quarter of a million people each week to some 10,000 stalls....
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Something else every evening.
From the owners of the Bull's Head, this split-level pub goes against the Japanese-only grain of Soi Thaniya....
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Dance and dine in a space pod
This all-white spacecraft on stilts entices the sharp-dressed up its ramp into Bangkok's wackiest nightspot....
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Your Spa in Bangkok
Nestled in the beautiful Boutique hotel Triple Two Hotel in the heart of Silom, Dahra Beauty & Spa is the perfect retreat to indulge in relaxation and pampering....
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Journey to the Enchanted Kingdom of Siam
On the imagined-historical model of Phuket FantaSea, this B1....
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At last a focus for art
Ten years in the making, the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre places art amid Siam's malls....
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