BANGKOK AMAZING GOURMET
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Duck may fly
The youngest brother in the family of Bangkok's five-star (hotel) Chinese restaurants, Fei Ya (or flying duck), is an additive canteen to local gastronomy scene.
suckling pig HK style THB 1,600++ (authentic, skin crispy, flavorful meat, moist)
chilled lotus root in orange vinegar dressing THB 200++
deep-fried silver fish THB 200++ (crispy and moist, must try!)
lychee wood roasted Peking duck THB 1,080++, and
crispy duck skin skillfully peel to paper thin servings
a set of Peking duck with flour wrapper and sauce (garlic mousse, hoy-si, and lychee)
soup of duck meat (moist & tender) with preserved veggie and tofu (ultra good!)
stir-fried honey peas in preserved Chinese olive sauce THB 300++ (quite good)
stir-fried vegetarian combo with conjac noodle in preserved bean curd sauce THB 300++
claypot eggplant in spicy minced pork thick sauce THB 300++ (aromatic)
lamb shank casserole with CN herbs and fresh tomatoes sauce THB 480++
deep-fried live sand goby (cotton fish) on soy sauce THB 960++
this dome like dish, require at least 2 hours advance order, what is it?
beggar (/riche) chicken in lotus leaf THB 500++ (meat moist, very aromatic)
chestnut cream with sea coconut THB 120++ (truly throat smoothie after a meal)
kuay-ling-kauw CN herbal jelly THB 120++ (bland, but sugary pearl very special)
lemongrass jelly THB 120++ (non-CN dessert, happened to be most popular here)
Fei Ya Chinese Restaurant ***1/2
Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong Hotel
518/8 Ploenchit Road
Prathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.125.5000
Fei Ya
Open daily : lunch 11:30 - 2:30 pm, dinner 6 - 10 pm
(reservations highly recommended during Fri and Sat dining)
Pay (food only for two): expect THB 2,500
30 comments:
Too bad we missed this one due to their private function. Will have this one on the next agenda.
esp. the beggar chicken (advance order), last night someone ate one besides my table, i almost wanna ask him to share a piece with me ..
Decoration is very modern and a bit fusion, hope the food is not fusion la!
Lovely name. Flying Duck.. A bit like Blumenthal's Fat Duck in London.
Almost can imagine a duck trying to sing " How I wish I could fly.. How I wish I could touch the sky..."
Seriously. Chinese cuisine in BKK seems to be improving in leaps and bounds whereas KUL seems to be stuck in the muddy banks.
Thanks for sharing as usual.
This looks like a nice high-end restaurant. And reminded me of China House.
$50 US per person it not cheap in BKK. Must be good.
SS
@fillet-o-fish: the food is not fusion, multi-provincial cuisine, quite good but not outstanding, standard BKK 5-star quality, no surprise
@ P.Android: maybe Fei Ya (Flying Duck) try to fly but failed; yes, what happen to KL? used to serve very good CN cuisine, maybe it is because of the pork, serve no pork then many dishes r difficult to cook to standard ..
@Stella: this is standard hotel Chinese food dining price tag, $45 per head, not expensive, because 90% of citizens won't eat at hotel's restaurants, for high-so and expats, this price is jib-jib (a little) ..
This duck look very beautiful. So tempting to eat!
Yummy Yummy.
Enjoy your meal with your friends.
Please be reminded you can tell them to make the duck congee with thousand-year black egg instead of duck soup as an alternative.
Wow this Flying Duck restaurant is interesting. Chinese cuisine dining in chic.
That UFO stuff, maybe E.T.!
Finally I see something I missed last week. :)
This is look like crab in the bread.
Funny when I read this blog 20 minutes ago I cannot see the guessing and the bread. But now after reading SEA's blog and going back here, all of a sudden I can see the guessing and the bread. This is the funny thing about computer, sometimes not reliable.
OK, I guess this is some good food inside the bread.
Stay Renaissance before. Staffs very friendly. Breakfast is so-so. Passing by this Chinese restaurant when ate at La Tavola, thought it is fusion. Thanks for the review, next time I will try!
The bread dome food. Inside is chicken right?
If you need a tool to eat the bread, that means you can use this bread as a weapon in return. :)
Oops.. I watched it again. Maybe this bread is edible since it's just some knife and fork there. :)
now u c the 3rd pic of the dome thing, more easy to guess right! tmr, u will c the whole thing .. :-)
What a beautiful dome! Inside that maybe some special fried rice.
I think inside this edible bread dome is baked/stewed duck or chicken.
After looking at the photo again I found out this is not bread but lotus leaf wrap instead.
OK, I guess this is some noodle or fried rice baked with some kind of meat or seafood wrapped in lotus leaf. It is similar to "Ho Yip Fan" type.
So this is the famous beggar chicken, even Hong Kong now hard to find, but Bangkok can eat? Good!
This is something cool about BKK. The first time I was there, I found out a lot of missed things and nostalgic cooking technique. I guess why this one has faded out in HK is because people prefer eating "smooth" chicken (95% done with some blood in the bone area). Chicken in stew, or long hour cooking resulting in a mashy texture seem to be not too welcome for some HK people. Let me try this one next time. Thanks for showing it.
Interesting beggar chicken, why not beggar fish or beggar lobster! Peking duck and suckling pig both look delicious, and the desserts not bad through your lens.
So I got it right on this guess.
What is my prize?
This shall be called Prince Chicken instead of Begger Chicken.
Hi Fish Burger,
I think the chemistry effect and the aroma from this lotus leaf wrap comes out better with chicken instead of seafood. Maybe you can convert to Chicken Burger for a change sometimes.
Stella said got the guess right. Sea, what do u think? her quote "I guess this is some noodle or fried rice baked with some kind of meat or seafood wrapped in lotus leaf. It is similar to "Ho Yip Fan" type." And we shall thanks for her correction "This shall be called Prince Chicken instead of Begger Chicken."
Anyone buy her?
It'd better be right as this Begger Chicken consists of "meat" wrapped in "Lotus Leaf", which was my guess.
To my knowledge, this dish has 2 extreme names. First it was Beggar Chicken but later on people prefer to reverse it to Rich chicken for the fortunate name. Actually the more classic and proper name should be 教化鷄. I vaguely remember there is a story behind it, something like the beggar teaching the people in cooking the chicken with soil and earth heat and to enlighten some philosophy. :)
quoted "I guess this is some noodle or fried rice baked with some kind of meat or seafood wrapped in lotus leaf. It is similar to "Ho Yip Fan" type."
Yes Sea is right. This name was formed because the teaching and cooking skill was from a beggar on the street. But later people found out the beggar is actually a price, that is why it shall be called "Prince Chicken" too.
Another version is that this was from a Kung Fu novel by Kam Yung, where "Hung 7 Kung" teaching all the beggars(Calcium Gang Club) how to cook this chicken.
If you call this Price Chicken then I like the 1st version. If you call this Beggar Chicken then I take the 2nd version.
Sorry my typo, it shall be "prince" but not "price".
Har.. prince chicken is the first I have come across. Did you mix up the fairy tale "kiss the frog" to become a prince? Or do you refer it to King's chicken because the prince became a King later on?
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