Welcome back to the legend of Chaophyra River

The power of music and a lunch at River Barge, Chatrium riverside BKK

 Music is a key part in many business venue for promoting the image, enhancing the atmosphere and generating more business.  However, when some negative music is played, all the above will be overturned.  When I had a lunch with my friends in this place, we kept on listening some very sad Chinese songs like 血染的風采 (bloody attitude)，嘆三年 (sighing for 3 years)...etc.  Our mood was definitely turned down and though the food we ordered wasn't wrong, we didn't feel like eating.

Harmonique, soi 34 Charoenkrung, BKK

It's been 12 years I haven't been here.  The place didn't change much, except that it was a lunch time on this recent visit.  The food is quite nice and the price is reasonable.  Enjoyed a cozy lunch in such a nice Indo-China atmosphere.

Silver Wave 銀波, Chinese restaurant, Chatrium riverside BKK

Gentle advice: choose the siu ma only from the a-la-carte and enjoy the panoramic view of Chaophyra river on this 36th floor, the top floor of Chatrium riverside. The other dim sum are not worth trying, not even mention their dim sum lunch buffet at THB695 net. The waitress asked for my comments on their food quality and insisted on why I said "average". I simply replied it's way below the Cantonese dim sum standard and in considering this price, it's not worth it. Interesting that she didn't say a word; so what an unnecessary question for an answer they don't wanna hear.

Ko Dang Talay, Thai seafood restaurant, Pier 7, Asiatique, Chaophyra river, BKK

The restaurant is right on the riverfront. At first, I didn't expect much from this restaurant. Turned out half of the dishes are not bad. The stir fried dishes, the deep fried prawn/fish cake and the dessert herbal jelly are pretty good. Tom Yam krung is quite nice too though a bit oily to me. The disappointing one is the prawn casserole which was overcooked.

Smoking lunch at Ah Yat Abalone restaurant (Forum restaurant), Ramada Menam riverside BKK

Most of the dim sums served here are very native Cantonese style. Among all, I like the beef ball the most - filled with a nice chopped parsley aroma and waternut sweetness. The har guo (pork shrimp dumpling on photo 9) is good too. However, the fish maw chicken roll (雞扎) isn't too good. The fish maw wasn't done right. Apparently it lacks soaking in the ginger scallion stock first to take out the smell. This time we got curious to try their bargain deal - 8 head abalone with mushroom duck feet at THB550. In HK, an average restaurant can charge a 16 head abalone at HK$380. After our last order the fried rice in lotus leaf with abalone sauce was served, the whole dining room was smoking. It was around 2:30pm. Such a real turn off from such a nice meal. There was a Chinese jostle stick burning ceremony. Checked even the waitress came to the window to get some fresh air. I don't know why we didn't get informed first so that we can get prepared from not ordering the rice. Besides, I noticed there are about 8 big pieces of pork (about 8 x 10kg each, total 80kg), tons of fruits and steamed cakes and many other food were placed in the entrance hall (filled up). As a respect, I didn't take a photo of it. I then made a comment to the restaurant's manager "wow, your ceremony food is 100 times than those restaurants in HK. They only have one piece of pork and several fruits.". That simply gave me the answer to why they hurried to have the ceremony.