Food Guide in Bangkok

What to Eat?

Seafood

Somboon Seafood

MUST TRY: Fried Curry Crab, Barbecue Prawns  

There are a total of 7 Branches for Somboon Seafood and the on i went to is near National Stadium BTS station. A walk-able distance of around 10mins from the station.

If you are afraid of being scam, fret not! Cause Somboon had opened a new outlet at Siam Square Building and its just beside Siam BTS station.So its very convenient for diners.

I had screenshot the addresses of all 7 different outlets below or you can choose to visit the branch i went to.

Check out the directions to the outlet i visited here

Somboon Seafood (Bantadthong)

895/6-12 Chula Soi 8, Bantadthong Road | Wang Mai, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

T&K Seafood

MUST TRY: Steamed Fish, BBQ Prawns, Fried Chicken, Tom Yum Soup, Shark Fin's Soup

T&K Seafood is the one with the GREEN uniform. There's another seafood restaurant just right beside it which is in red uniform. I Google and researched that most people patron T&K instead.

T&K serves cheap and good seafood. Their portion is quite big even though we ordered small portion for everything. I would suggest you to get the outside seats instead.

Getting there: Cab (Cost around 200baht from Pratunam Area)

T&K Seafood

49-51 Soi Phadung Dao | Chinatown, Bangkok, Thailand (Sathorn)

Operating Hours: 4.30pm - 2.00am

Thai Restaurant

Som Tam Nua

MUST TRY: Chicken Wings, Deep Fried Fish, Grilled Pork Neck, Stir Fried Noodle Rice

Som Tam Nua is famous for their Green Papaya Salad. Im not really a fan of papaya salad but your can try it. 

Their Chicken Wings were crispy and flavourful with juicy and tender meat. 

Som Tam Nua had a total of 2 branches and both were located at Siam area. One is at Siam Square Soi 5 and the other inside Siam Center Level 4.

Getting there: Siam BTS station

Som Tam Nua

Siam Square: 392/14 Soi Siam Square 5, Rama 1 Road

Operating Hours: 10.45am - 9.30pm

SabX2 Wanton Mee

  

  

MUST TRY: Dry Wanton Mee, Pork Trotter Rice

SabX2 had really springy noodles (QQ). The noodles are not the normal ones we had in Singapore with soya sauce. Their noodles are cooked with pork lard and its so flavourful. WARNING! SUPER ADDICTIVE!

Their portion is very small so a bowl might be too little for big eaters. Order at least 2 bowls to fill your stomach so save the space to try all other food.

Getting there: Chit Lom BTS station (Opposite Platinum Mall, beside Shibuya 19/Glow Hotel)

SabX2 Wanton Mee

4/32-33 Soi Petchburi 19 | Pratunam, Bangkok, Thailand

Operating Hours: 9.00am - 3.00pm

Ban Khun Mae

MUST TRY: Fried Chicken Wrapped in Pandan Leaves, Pad Thai, Tom Yum Soup, Thai Milk Tea

I would definitely get my Pad Thai mixed here. The dish is cooked to perfection that the sweetness of the noodle is just nice. It is best eaten together with the crunchy peanuts so that it will bring out the fragrance of the dish.

Tom Yum Soup here was good with the authentic Thai taste. A mixture of spiciness and sourness.

A meal definitely wouldn't be completed without having the Thai Milk Tea here.

Getting there: Siam BTS station

Ban Khun Mae

458/6-9 Siam Square Soi 8, Rama 1 Road, Patumwan District, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Operating Hours: 11.00am - 11.00pm


Cafes

After You Dessert Cafe

MUST TRY: Shibuya Honey Toast

There's always room for dessert at After You Dessert Cafe. Their Shibuya Honey Toast was toasted to perfection that it is so soft and fluffy. The maple syrup and ice-cream goes so well with the toast.

The waiting time during peak hours will be around 20mins as the toasting takes time.

There are a total of 8 branches and I visited the one in Central World. You can go to their website and check out the different locations here.

Getting there: Chit Lom BTS station

After You Dessert Cafe

Central World 7th Floor

Operating Hours: 10.00am - 10.00pm

Let Them Eat Cake

 

MUST TRY: Thai Ice Tea Tart, Lemon Tart, Mille-feuille

Thai Milk Tea lovers will love their Thai Ice Tea Tart. It tasted the same as Thai Milk Tea with the sweet aroma taste only in solid form. 

The first bite of Lemon Tart is sour but it has a sweet after-taste. It is a very refreshing dessert which I personally likes it a lot.

Getting there: Siam BTS station

Let Them Eat Cake

Siam Center 4th Floor

Operating Hours: 10.00am - 10.00pm

Hello Kitty House Bangkok

MUST TRY: Lemon Tart

Hello Kitty lovers MUST really visit this place! Hello Kitty House Bangkok is the nearest to Singapore and flying to Bangkok is damn cheap.

It is a three stories high cafe and the interior inside will make girls SCREAM! Everything is decorated in hello kitty! A very good cafe to spam all your photos and instagram.

Getting there: Siam BTS station

Hello Kitty House Bangkok

Siam Square 1

Operating Hours: 10.00am - 10.00pm

Coffee Beans By Dao

MUST TRY: Durian Cake

Coffee Beans By Dao have a ride range of cakes to try. I love the aromo of durian in my mouth after each bite. The creamy buttery taste of durian is so good.

Getting there: Siam BTS station

Coffee Beans By Dao

Siam Paragon Ground Floor

Operating Hours: 10.00am - 10.00pm


Petite Audrey

MUST TRY: Milo Volcano Crepe Cake, Thai Tea Crepe Cake, Say Cheese fried potato balls

Petite Audrey has a wide selection of cakes. They are famous for their Milo Volcano Crepe Cake. Milo lovers will definitely love this cake. The crepe cake is soft and fluffy top with Milo sauce and crumbles of Milo. You won't get sick of eating this cake.

Getting there: Siam BTS station

Petite Audrey

Siam Center 4th Floor

Operating Hours: 10.00am - 10.00pm

Mango Tango

Mango Tango had a various variety of desserts using mangoes. The one I had was the Mango Tango set which consists of Mango Pudding + Fresh Mango + Mango Ice Cream. 

I love the fresh mango there as it is so sweet and juicy. I love how they present their mangoes too.

I went with a group of 8 that time and there is a minimum order of 4 desserts before you get a seat. So there will be a minimum number of orders if you are travelling with groups.

Mango Tango had various outlets as well around Bangkok. You can check out their website here.

Steamboat

MK Restaurant

MK restaurant is like a fast food chain in Bangkok. You can almost spot it at every shopping mall in Bangkok like MBK, Central World, Siam Paragon.

The steamboat items are all in ala-carte but they are all very affordable. It is considered a healthy choice of dining at MK.

In MK, other than the steamboats items the other item that you definitely MUST TRY is their roasted duck!

The roasted duck is so tender and it goes SUPPER WELL with their sauce. We ordered the platter with consists of roasted duck, pork and barbecue pork. But i suggest you to just order the roasted duck. IT IS SUPPER GOOD!

Chatuchak

Chicken Noodle Soup

After spending a few hours in Chatuchak, why not come to this place to get recharge before continuing to shop.

The soup base is the sweet herbal soup kind and it goes SUPER well with the noodle. Each bowl of noodle comes with a chicken drumstick as well. The meat of the chicken is cooked till tender and the best part is it only cost 50 baht for a bowl!

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Section 21, Soi 29 (along the main road) facing Soi 47

Nearest gate 3

Coconut Ice Cream

Coconut Ice Cream is the best indulgence to cool down the heat in Chatuchak.

The Coconut Ice Cream comes with 2 free toppings and a free cup of coconut juice. They have plenty selections of toppings like corn, sticky rice, nata de coco, peanuts and many else.

The ice cream will be served on an coconut husk. The coconut ice cream is creamy and so refreshing. You will also be able to eat the ice cream with coconut meat on the husk.

There are many stalls selling coconut ice cream with the same concept but do check out the most popular outlet which I will state the directions below.

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Maprao Hawm

Between sections 1 and 2 near the entrance of Kamphaenpetch mrt station

Snacks/Street Food

Waffle

This waffle can be found at most BTS stations or food courts. The one I always had is in Platinum Mall Food Court.

When you set your first bite on the waffle, it is soooo fluffy and you can smell the aroma of the waffle.

There are many flavours to choose from and I will have mine with Maple Syrup.

Eggettes

Hong Kong egg waffle available in Union Mall! 

There are many exciting flavours for this egg waffles. The waiting time can be quite long during the weekends.

Egg-E-Egg-Egg

Can be found at level 2 of Union Mall

Bangkok is such a FOOD PARADISE! There are so many eateries i had yet to try like Victory Monument Boat Noodles, Greyhound Cafe, Grilled Salted Fish at the street stalls and the list goes on.

Will continue to update this post once I tried something new and worth recommending in Bangkok.

Travelogue: BB's 19th Birthday to Bangkok 24-09-2014 to 28-09-2014 Day 5

Bangkok Trip Day 5

Finally went to ISAO on the last day of our trip. ISAO is a fusion Japanese restaurant in Bangkok. We reached there 10mins before their opening hours because the place is quite small and its always full of people.

I had Chicken Katsu Set and i love the tenderness of the meat.

The boy had Unagi Set and THIS IS THE BEST UNAGI WE EVER HAD! The unagi is grilled to perfect that once you put it in your mouth, it will melt inside it. It goes so well with the sauce as well. And look how big portion they served! Not stingy at all.

JACKIE one of my all time favourite sushi! Jackie is the name of this sushi and its presented in a shape of a caterpillar. Almost every table will order this. The sushi is filled with tempura, avocado and wrapped over with ebi comes together with a sweet and savory sauce. Its SO GOOD that you will keep wanting to have more after each bite.

Nearest BTS station: Asok

ISAO

5 Sukhumvit 31, Khlong Toei Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110, Thailand

Operating Hours: 11am - 2.30pm, 5.30pm - 10pm

Next we head over to Hello Kitty Cafe at Siam Square. There was a long queue but it moves quite fast because the place is huge. They also provide benches for you while waiting. I LITERALLY GONE MAD INSIDE THE CAFE! No hello kitty lovers wont love this place. Everything is just so cute that you wanted to bring everything home.

On the table is rainbow mille-crepe and an ice blended drink which i forgot its name. The mille-crepe tasted mediocre and the drink tasted decent. Should have ordered the milk tea instead.

I love their lemon tart and it is also one of their recommended dessert. It comes with marshmallows, strawberries, chocolate sauce and also a cup of chocolate ice-cream.

Nearest BTS station: Siam

Hello Kitty House Bangkok

Siam Square 1, Bangkok

Headed to inter restaurant for dinner. This place is also located at Siam Square. I love Siam area a lot as there are lots of Thai restaurants and Cafes.

The recommended dish is fried pork with garlic pepper. Love how the pork absorbs all the essence of garlic and pepper. This dish goes so well with rice. 

Inter serves really affordable Thai dishes with a taste of home. 

Nearest BTS station: Siam

Inter 

432/1-2 Siam Square 9, 10330, Thailand

Our flight back is at 9pm so we still have time to do some last minute shopping before leaving to the airport. How i missed Bangkok's cheap and good food so much and all those shopping. Most importantly I had the best travel companion with me! That's all that matters for a good overseas trip.

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Travelogue: BB's 19th Birthday to Bangkok 24-09-2014 to 28-09-2014 Day 4

Bangkok Trip Day 4

Day 4 is a Saturday! So its time for Chatuchak weekend market. Its mandatory to get Coconut Ice Cream from Chatuchak and it is soooo good to have it when the weather in Bangkok is so hot.

The famous Coconut Ice Cream is the one with a flag on top. The stall is also decorated with lots of coconuts hanging at the top. They also give a free cup of coconut juice for each ice cream purchase. The ice cream is served in a coconut shell and you can choose 2 toppings. The ice cream is so refreshing to have it and it has the milky and coconut flavour in it.

Direction to this place: Between Section 1 and 2 near Kamphaeng Phet Mrt Station

After walking around Chatuchak, there are not much things for us so we headed to Union Mall instead. For Union Mall, you had to take the MRT instead of BTS. MRT is all underground in Bangkok. Union Mall is located 2 stops away from Mo Chit Mrt Station.

Nearest MRT station to Union Mall: Phathom Yuthin

So we had our lunch at MK Restaurant. Almost every shopping mall in Bangkok has MK Restaurant. Its like McDonald's there. MK Steamboat is actually very affordable there compared to Singapore's. Every item will be ala-carte. The ingredients are fresh and yummy.

And what's going to MK Restaurant without having their Signature Roasted Duck?! We ordered the Roasted Platter which comes with Roasted Duck, Meat and Char Siew. We both preferred the Roasted Duck a lot. The duck is so tender and juicy and it goes so well the sweet gravy. Their gravy goes well with anything.

Had these egg waffles which is addictive. Every bite is crunchy and fluffy inside. The queue is quite long for this stall as well.

This can be found at Level 2 of Union Mall

Union Mall had everything for both guys and ladies. The boy got a lot of shorts and shirts from there. Everything is more trendy here as lots of Thai Youngsters visit this mall.

We had Ban Khun Mae for dinner which is just located opposite Siam Square. Loving authentic Thai cuisine like this.

They had decent Pad Thai, the taste is just right for my liking. The boy had the Baked Rice in Pineapple it was pretty decent as well. The spring roll with shrimp is crunchy and nice with juicy shrimps.

This is the STAR of the meal. Deep fried marinated chicken wrapped with pandan. The chicken was well fry till tender and succulent. Almost every table will be ordering this dish.

Nearest BTS station: Siam

Ban Khun Mae

458/6-9 Siam Square Soi 8, Rama 1 Road, Patumwan District, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Durian Cake

Mango Yogurt Cake

Our last stop of the day will be Coffee Beans By Dao for dessert. We waited around 45mins before we get a table. Went there to try their Durian cake and we ordered another mango yogurt cake. Durian lovers should really try this! Loving the creamy taste of Durian in my mouth.

The mango yogurt cake tasted decent, not so much to rave about.

Nearest BTS station: Siam

Coffee Beans By Dao

Siam Paragon Tower, Ground Floor

The Boy's Loots

Mine

All of our loots for 4 days. We continued our shopping spree on the last day of our trip.

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