Friday was our last day in Chiang Mai and were really sorry to go. Transport was a scheduled Uber which cost 290B from Nimman to Chiang Mai Airport.
The flight was pretty uneventful. TripAdvisor advice was around 400B + toll fees to the city with a taxi, and there are also trains and buses, but with two sizable pieces of luggage (excluding hand luggage), I decided to just take the Uber. Bill was 390B so definitely worth it, and it took around 45minutes to get to our AirBnB, around 10 minutes walk away from Khao San Road.
Our host was amazing, and she showed us the way to take the river boat almost all the way to MBK Mall. Think the cost is around 9B.
This place is absolutely insane. Every single floor is filled to the brim with both products and people. Everywhere. The place is crazy busy on every level. We headed to the food court on the top floor, but nothing really looked great. I got the old standby:
Tom Yum Goong
It wasn't great. The heat just served to mask the lack of real flavour.
After a few hours of shopping we headed to supper.
In my hours of research, I had found out about an app/website called Eatigo, which seems quite popular in SEA. Basically it works on giving users an up to 50% discount on bills at various restaurants, the idea being that the slower the restaurant is traditionally is during a certain time, the bigger the discount at that time. Clever.
I had booked at Amaya Food Gallery, for the Friday night seafood buffet, which is normally 1500B, but with the discount was 750Bpp, not at all a bad price.
There's a more thorough review on the place on Youtube but my verdict: Not bad. Not great, but definitely worth the price. After experiencing one type of food more or less constantly since we had arrived in Thailand, it was a nice change to have a variety, which included roast and steaks, sushi, Indian food, cheese platters, pasta/pizza etc etc.
