Pig's knuckle rice, soi 38 night stalls, Thonglor BKK

 The third time I visited this place for a nice pig's knuckle rice.  Found out the portion is quite big.  So THB50/60 isn't expensive in this regard.

Mr. Jones Orphanage, soi 13 Thonglor, BKK

 Finally we could get a table for this crowded shop.  It's quite fun to check around but the cakes and desserts were another story.  The cakes were either too chewy or dry or tangy.  The tea was very bland.  The better one were the avocado shake and iced mocha.  The chairs are good as a display.  So overall, this place should be a museum rather than a dessert shop.  After all, it's quite fun to go in and check around.

After You, next to you, up to you and....

These 2 shops are just opposite or next to the famous dessert shop After You on soi 13 Thonglor. Wonder if there will be even more ongoing around this area, as "Before You", "Follow You"..., or in the other way "After Me", "After Him", "After It".... Very derivatively creative.

Witch Pie Factory, Thong Lor, Sukhumvit BKK

Never thought that we could try some authentic British breakfast in Bangkok. There it is a British run restaurant serving a wide variety of pies. The decoration of the shop is also very British.

No more secret with the Secret Garden, Thonglor BKK

This shop is really "secret" inside the soi of Thonglor. Came here at close to 9pm. The shop already packed their cakes in the fridge and the staff were busy with their phone or the PCs in the shop for FB/MSN...etc. Our arrival at the shop apparently annoyed them though the shop is supposed to close at 10pm. So my friends picked up some cakes in a hurry from the drawer of the fridge. I somehow didn't pick any in such a spoiled mood of the staff showing a black face. What a disgrace of them to insult the Thai friendliness culture. Their smile would only show up in their phone or PC. Later on, they even turned off the light and air-con. as well as the men's room at 9:30pm. As I wanna ask the staff who was so intense with his FB to open the men's room, I got yelled for going to the ladies' room. Definitely I didn't as I need to obey the local law. Good for them and good for me to delete this shop on my dessert list! If you wanna go there, please FB them first for order or service.

Bon Chon Korean chicken shop, soi 13 Thonglor BKK

Got curious to try this one as it claimed to expand a lot of branches in the States. The shop is quite in a fast food shop deco., but the price is not fast shop standard. So we ordered some deep fried chicken, stir fried beef, kimchi dumpling and tofu salad. Most of the food taste like "Calbee (triple shot)" food - heavily seasoned. The only good thing about the crispy chicken is that they had the deep frying in 2 steps in order to have the heavy syrup to coat the chicken in the final deep frying. They kimchi dumpling is very hot but it's in the chili paste hot, not the fresh chili hot. The other 2 are average. If you like some heavily seasoned food, this is the choice definitely.

Melt Me, soi 10 thonglor BKK (better out of the worst)

This shop is just opposite to the Noodle court. So the good thing about this shop is that it ought to be better after the visit of its neighbour noodle shop. To be honest, it's not good either.

Shops with an open kitchen has been a trend but it also exposed on the mistakes they would make. I ordered a "Shibuya toast". Naturally I got curious to go have a look at how they made it. So when they took a half loaf of bread sealed with some plastic wrap from the fridge in which I saw quite a lot of other food, I told myself "it's gonna be a multi-aroma" toast. Anyway, it turned out the outside wasn't toasted enough and the inside is too soft and in fact the bread wasn't raised and baked right. As a bread person, I left it untouched on the plate. So I could just take some ice cream. Yes, some. I had the yoghurt flavour to safeguard but it's too artificial.

大勝軒 soi 10 Thonglor BKK

After posting the worst Japanese noodle I tried in HK, I immediately recall this on in BKK and it's in a food square opposite to Melt Me on soi 10 Thonglor (something like Champion noodle food forum consisting of 6-7 Japanese noodle shops).

1. Pork with soy sauce on rice. Don't know what kind of soy sauce they used, but for sure it's 10 times more salty than a normal one. One word - horrible.

2/3. The dumplings are again "horrible", with some cheap shrimp and pork fillings but price not cheap. *supposed I should review their noodle but fortunately they forgot my order and so together with my checking on how they made noodle in that open kitchen, I had to cancel it from this horrible ride.

*BTW, pls bring a bottle of mosquito repellent to go in if you don't want to have a piggy head with you, or you simply "swing" your head, hands and body while taking the meal.

After You, Thonglor J-Ave., BKK

2nd stop is at After You for a Shibuya Toast. A must try!

1. Apple cider. Though I haven't tried it, it smells good. 2. OK, the long-awaited Shibuya toast. The first bite is so good that it brought back some old memory of my trying maple syrup in Vancouver. The ice cream is good too, and the whipped cream is very fresh. So I can say this is of devil with no regret. If I would name it, I would give it a title as "in love for 400 years". That's how old Dracula was and how long he had been fighting against the Christ for 400 years before he got stabbed for protecting his love (in reincarnation).

3. They served some very nice iced mocha. 4. Mango and passion fruit frappe.

5. The shop entrance (on soi 13).