What is Bangkok most famous for ?

It’s the ultimate solution to all the pain on your body. It’s said to provide instant relief.

You can’t leave out fruit snacks when you visit Bangkok. Kunna is one of the critically acclaimed brands for its different kinds of fruit snacks. Available in major stores and markets, try the original and yet exotic fruit snacks!

Add drip coffee to your shopping list in Bangkok. Doi Tung and Doi Chang are two of the famous local brands that offer premium coffee at, yes, an affordable price.

Yes, the chewy milk candy that comes in all kinds of flavors from corn, watermelon, strawberry, chocolate, and apple. Pick a type according to your taste.

If you’re an instant noodle lover, Tom Yum flavored noodles from Mama are a must buy. Packaged in small plastic bags, they are light enough to fit plenty your suitcase.

Often called the snack king of Thailand, Tao Kae Noi‘s crispy seaweed is eaten like potato chips in Thailand

This snack also comes in various flavors from curry crab, coconut to grilled squid.

All of this and its people are among the friendliest on earth. Not a bad effort for a city of 14.5 million people.

It's so well-known that you hardly need reminding but Bangkok produces -- quite effortlessly -- some of the best food in the world.

Forget about Italian simplicity and French savoir faire, Thai cooking is all about intricacy, complexity and some of the most indefinable flavors ever attempted in gastronomy.

Thai celebrity chef McDang characterizes Thai food as demonstrating "intricacy; attention to detail; texture; color; taste; and the use of ingredients with medicinal benefits, as well as good flavor."

Known as Krung Thep to locals, the full name of Bangkok -- given by Rama I, first king of the still-reigning Chakri dynasty in the late 1700s -- is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

Built on a vast expanse of plains and river deltas at an elevation of a little less than two meters (some six feet), the entire city is sinking into the muck at the rate of about 7.5 centimeters (three inches) per year, say scientists.