Im Thailand Ramen Life Center, Sathorn BKK

 Surprised with the less seasoning of the food from this shop.  If I cook at home, I also prefer cooking  with less seasoning or salt/sugar...etc.  Our body is severely burdened with lots of sodium and chemicals everyday.  Wherever and whenever possible, we really need to give our body's organs a vacation.   After all, the food isn't bad and some pretty fresh ingredients were used.

To be in Once Upon a Time, soi 17, Petchburi Road, BKK

Just as its name "Once upon a Time", the last time I was here was over 10 years ago.  The place is in a very nostalgic deco., and has distracted my attention from the food that I forgot taking photos on some dishes.  The food is not that bad though it's not the best.  Recommend to come here once upon a time.  Then you will have some good old fond memory for this once.  Too much would get ourselves spoiled and forgetful....

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.

Natai, Thai restaurant, Mai Khao Dream Natai beach, Phang Nga, Thailand

Simply the name of this restaurant already caught me for my dinner, esp. it's in Thai cuisine.  The hotel has an interesting 20% on 20% off.  The bill shows a 20% off of each item and then in total a further 20% off.  I have read it time and again and see if I made a wrong calculation, but that is really a 20% on 20%, i.e. 36% off.  Though the prices are a bit high, with this 36% off, it was then lower than the common 5 star resort restaurant prices (about 10-20% cheaper).  Some of the dishes are quite impressive - the crab soup is very sweet and fresh.  Som tam isn't that heavily sweet and with lots of nice fresh string beans.  The minced duck meat salad is very nice too - very aromatic.  The restaurant has some sliding doors.  On the fine night, it would be so good having the night sea breeze coming in instead of the air-con.

 

 

 

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.

Falling Basil, Thai Basil, Pacific Place, HK

Haven't been here almost a year. The long queue just discouraged me every time when I tried to visit. A few nights ago, I thought I had the luck but turned out this place isn't the same. The seafood is overcooked in the risotto and the risotto much too chewy (actually hard to chew as it's just stir fried with too much oil without enough stock. So it took away the seafood moisture and so the seafood is too dried out and overcooked.). The other hot dishes are so so. The worst is their ice cream. Very disappointing that the texture isn't firm enough and not smooth either.

Methavalai Sorndaeng, Royal Thai cuisine, Democracy Monument, Bangkok

It's been 4 years the last time I visited here and also one of the first few blog postings since I started this blog. Glad and thrilled to come here again. After this second visit, I would insist no matter how bad the traffic and no matter how difficult to walk from the pier of the riverside, I am determined to come back here again and again. The interesting thing for me to be so determined over everything that I dislike, e.g. the karaoke singing in the scene. Among all the food, I am so impressed with their eggplant salad (photo 8), fish cake (photo 5), gaeng som (photo 6), steamed fish (photo 10) and deep fried to fu (photo 4). The chef did a very good job in preparing all the ingredients so freshly made, like the garlic and chili was chopped only at the time of cooking. That's very important for not having such ingredients as garlic, ginger, scallion and veggie well prepared a long time before cooking. The egg veggie cake in the gaeng som (photo 9) is so good that I needed to take a photo of how the texture and the fresh veggie look. See on the photo 12 of all the cleaned plates. Except the chili, garlic and the bones, nothing left!