Watch what you eat.
General Notes | Regular Food | Gelato Bars | Breakfast | Fancy Food
General Notes:
- Perhaps you didn’t know, but fruit in Australia tastes like watered down mush.
- The fruit in Thailand is fantastic. Your mission is to taste every weird fruit you see, even just once. Mangos, watermelon, rambutans, pomegranate, mangosteens, durian, jackfruit. And the unrecognisable ones. Yes, even the snake skin fruit.
- Drinks: lemon grass in a drink, insane!
- Street stalls, they’re still doing great work and you should try their food.
Ok, so specific places to eat:
Regular Eating
Nobu, Thonglor 14 – Nasi Dengaku, to die for, a must. Don’t bother too much with the menu. Ask head chef to plan out your meal. $10-$20 AUD. Open late.
Seven Spoons, $15-30 + Drinks. Renown head chef is Jok. The food coming out of his kitchen is out of this world.
Din Tai Fung, Central World Plaza, great experience had with their noodles and duck pancakes. Watch the dumpling chefs ply their craft while you sit on the bench outside glassed off kitchen. Just mesmerizing. $20
Sukhumvit Soi 38, Soi-Food (Street food) $3
— Sit any where and just order anything from any vendor. The food comes to you.
Recommendations:
The skewers of barbequed pork is delicious and served with a little salad vinaigrette. The noodles at the noodle cart are commendable. The pad-thai guy on the corner frying pad-thai has been doing nothing else for a very long time. There’s a tasty fried bread treat called Bat Thong Guo at the far end, served with condensed milk flavoured with pandan. Must have: thai ice desserts and the Mango Sticky Rice from this soi is particularly good.
Ka-nom : Fine Jok (rice porridge, served with excellent fried chewy bread), the Famous egg-tarts are perfecto. $7
Pladib, Ari Sampan Soi 7. $20
The 2008 menu included Ox tongue, frogs legs, tasty soft-shelled crab salad. They also have a pizza oven.
Shabushi, MBK Floor 3. $10
No visit to Bangkok is complete without a visit to this funny concept restaurant. Sushi train with no sushi, instead, raw ingredients parade past you to cook in your personal steamboat. 1 hour 20min on the clock for your timed all-you-can-eat Shabu buffet. Oh my.
Crepes and Co. 2 locations in Sukhumvit area. French Moroccan. Their Harissa is the shit.
Roti Mataba – Reknown roti for those that need a fix, Phra Sumen Rd in the Khao San area, $5
( Include a nice walk around the Rambutri Area, Khao San area, Banglamphu.)
(The Famous) Mai Kay Dee Vegetarian Restaurant. Khao San area. Three restaurant locations. ~$7.
Thong Lor Soi 17 Street Vendor: Duck Noodles (Bhah Mi Phet), Awesome street noodles here, remember to add all the roast peanuts and chilli in vinegar that you can get your hands on.
Location: Thong Lor Soi 17 therebouts, outside the FamilyMart convenience store . 40 baht
Gelato Bars:
iBerry franchise – Asian flavours smashed with gelato. Green Tea, Red Bean, Black Bean, Chilli, Corn, Durian flavoured Gelato, and more!
Melt Me franchise- gelato and chocolatier. Red Bull flavoured gelato.
Other Ice-cream
Breakfast
Kuppa, Sukhumvit 16, fine place, good coffee, western prices, international menu, prepare to jostle with the ex-pat mothers groups if sitting inside.
Gastro, RMA institute >Soi Nam Thip 2 (alley) — an offshoot by Bo and Dylan of Bo.lan fame. A cute little cafe, in the back sois between Sukhumvit Road and Phra Ram 9, so hard to get to.
Fancy Eating
Bo.lan, Sukhumvit Soi 53, near BTS Thong Lor. I know the owners Bo and Dylan. They care dearly about organic produce and sticking to their guns in terms of the quantity of chilli in their food. Thai cuisine, fine dining.
Red Sky, Centara Grand at Central World.
Sirocco Restaurant rooftop at State Tower. Nice venue, reputedly about 200USD pp.