Bangkok is a city you might not want to permanently reside in, but it is definitively a city well worth a visit. Imagine a town halved by a river without a formal street grid and with traffic so brutal that when asking for distances, the locals will say 20 minutes to 2 hours depending on the traffic.
The Peninsula, the “Grand Dame of the Far East,” is one of the world’s legendary hotels with an atmosphere of unmatched grandeur and timeless elegance. Completely renovated and refurbished, it has kept the elegance of a bygone era and the tradition of service excellence and combined them with the most up-to-date technological innovations.
Old-money Athens still clings to the Continental cuisine or Oriental (i.e. Turkish) style of cooking though, as my associates tell me, the younger generation now prefers Asian.
The food at Champor-Champor is Malaysian but with a pronounced Thai influence and a few Indian dishes thrown in; most of the dishes are of the classic, savory and spicy East Asian variety.