Happy Easter in Bangkok

The following post was posted on my original Little Wandering Wren Blog earlier.

It has a charming, but wait there’s more to our Happy Easter in Bangkok story…

Scroll down to the end to see what happened next!

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You have to look long and hard to find Easter in Bangkok, 

so imagine my delight when I came across this at a hotel cafe.

This is how the conversation went at our place:

Me: ‘So, Easter must be coming up soon?’

Mr Wren ‘I guess so.’     … more chitchat 

Me: ‘What you don’t get any holiday?!’

Mr Wren ‘Nope.‘

Silly me, of course, we don’t get any holiday we are in a Buddhist country, but I’m a tad surprised with the low-key Easter approach, seeing how enthusiastically Christmas and Valentine’s Day were celebrated this year. 

Especially given the Thai’s love of anything sweet. I mean what is your excuse to munch on the most delicious chocolates if you can’t pull the Easter card?  

The whole country can’t all be on a sugar detox!

So here’s a huge round of bunny ears applause to Chef Simon, the new Executive Pastry Chef at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok who has enthusiastically brought Easter to Bangkok. Well, let’s face it if there ever was a way to make an impact on this crazy city chocolate will do it! 

Sadly, I didn’t get to meet Chef Simon. Bless, he was too busy making his chocolate eggs, but I was able to pass on my appreciation to Khun Phitchaya, the Assistant Director of F & B who tells me Chef Simon made this entire display. 

Hmmm, I was thinking of offering myself up next year as assistant Easter egg display maker… 

I mean surely someone gets to lick the bowl out? 

I was there to buy an Easter Egg for Mr Wren to take into the office tomorrow, if you have to work you might as well eat chocolate right? It was quite a decision, all the eggs looked so good.

Happy Easter everyone from Bangkok!

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So the next part of this story was that the Easter egg never made it into my husband’s office, by a series of unfortunate events the egg melted when left in a hot car for 30 seconds …. no, not quite that short a time but it is blooming hot here.

 When Chef Simon heard about the original post he invited us in to meet him and very kindly presented Mr Wren and I with an egg each that he had made.

What a generous gift and how special was that? The eggs are an art piece themselves, and in true Thai style are covered in gold. They are absolutely beautiful.

Thank you to Chef Simon and the team at the Grand Hyatt, Erawan for giving us the best Easter ever!

 

H is for Happy Easter in Bangkok and part of Blogging from A to Z April (2018) Challenge.

Click here to see the list of all participants!

Thanks so much to the organisers.