Flying to Bangkok from Houston 2020/Carlos Pueblo

Flying to Bangkok from Houston 2020/Carlos Pueblo

Last year the Singapore Air offered a promotional rate to fly from Houston to Bangkok, a log flight covering a lot of territory yet was very interesting. With Amy's interest, we booked a 19 days ticket and made a plan to visit Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, a seven day cruise to the Vietnamese coast. As the trip came near, a day before the Chinese Lunar New Year, we were under a threat of Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus and the cruise liner informed us to be sure not sick or forfeit the trip. We di make it and had had such a wonderful time in the Southeast Asia.

 Even though it's a long haul, I have no complaint for my natural frugal character. It's a good deal with a super service from the airliner. There are six meals provided with drink including liquor. The head stewards even put efforts to have vegetarian meals for me even that I hadn't register on my check in. On the second leg from Manchester to Singapore, I adopted a stewardess, pleasant and beautiful, as my daughter. She is Mo Shen from Iland, Taiwan has a good command of the Amoy or Taiwanese, my mother tongue. I have her and her colleague's picture taken and her e-mail address. I shall see them again.

There were a 5 and half hours layover in Singapore and we missed a free tour provided by the tourist bureau for the lay over passengers. The first one was fully booked and the second one hour later was too late. We were sitting by a small yet busy chips shop to be witness of its wonderful business. Two kinds of chips, potato and fish, mixed with a raw salted egg then deep fry with a very nice taste. Singaporean love them even with a label warning Danger in addictive. The clerk gave us two pieces sample and her manager explained to us.

We continued our flight to Bangkok BKK, the new airport for the city, and then took a free shuttle provided by the city tourists bureau to the old airport DMK to stay over night and took an early flight to Hong Kong. I was very careful to go through an airport taxi hub desk to get our taxi and double check with the cost. The clerk speaks good English and command the driver in details. It is up to the meter's reading plus a $50 Thai money for fee which is very reasonable.

Putting off our luggage, we walked back to the local street and got our dinner. It's like a small village in the old Taiwan with no high rises. Our noodle stand is on the street side while several non-Thai foreigners had taken foods from the operator. It's was a bowl of rice noodle for me and regular noodle for Amy plus an boiled egg, fish balls, and two or three pieces of pork intestines. It's about two US dollar and I like it very much. The next morning, the hotel provided a nice breakfast with dragon fruit, orange, and banana, etc. We got it done to Bangkok.