Great account, Death_at_midnight! :) Looks like you really had fun here in Thailand.
Speaking of Durian, Southeast Asians have always described it as "smells like hell but tastes like heaven". :D (Try the dried Durian chips next time--available too in supermarkets--tasty but without that smell, hehe!)

Greetings!

The dried durian sounds interesting. I was tempted to buy a mooncake at S&P that had durian in it, but ended up getting another. One of the taxi cabs had sticker on a window that had little warning images.. like a silhouette of a person or object with a line through. Something like "no smoking, no eating, ..." etc, and "no durian".

I need to start watching the prices for another trip there. Would like to go for a December/ January trip... something around New Years.

Yeah, that one from S&P is tasty (and not smelly). Try it next time. :)
And believe it or not, there's also a durian-flavored ice cream here. :eek:

Is there a Greyhound Cafe at Siam Paragon?

Not sure. Will check out the next time I'm there.