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Let Me Eat Cake
Let Them Eat Cake is a newly opened patisserie at Mille-Malle (the community shopping arcade of the Millennium Residence) with a modern vibe, that offers pretty nice cakes. There, we may pair our cakes with a pot of freshly brewed TWG tea; that means our palate will no longer be bothered by those 'supermarket grade' teas while eating a piece of nice cake.
Let Them Eat Cake ***1/2
G Floor the Mille-Malle
66/4 Soi 20 Sukhumvit Road
Klong Toey, bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.663.4667
Open daily : 10 am - 11 pm
Pay (cake only for one): around THB 200
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Eating by the river
Eating at a night bazaar is (usually) the last place that I would like to dine at, such as the recently opened Asiatique the Riverfront. By chance, a few days ago I ate at Ko Dang Talay, and I found out that the food is good and the price is decent. Ko Dang Talay is not the place that sucks the tourist spending budget, but an honest seafood restaurant that really aims on cooking people a meal. Finally there is a place for me to eat, after a round of exhausted night bazaar shopping with heat and sweat.
Ko Dang Talay Seafood Restaurant ***1/2
Warehouse 7
Asiatique the Riverfront
Charoen Krung Road
Bang Kho Laem, Bangkok 10120
Open daily : 5 - 10 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 400
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Salad of Issan
Somtum Der is a clean and modern somtum (spicy shredded raw papaya salad of Issan style) joint with her debut in Silom area few months ago; the air-conditioning and comfortable ambiance do not wash down the authentication and genuine flavor of this Issan street food - somtum.
Somtum Der ***1/2
5/5 Soi Saladaeng
off Silom Road
Bangrak, Bangkok 10500
Tel.: 02.632.4499
Open daily : 11 am - 11 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 400
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The falling sun
Tokyo Shokudo is another fast food style Japanese restaurant that serves mediocre food, of which there is already an over-supply in Bangkok.
Tokyo Shokudo Japanese Restaurant **1/2
B1 Floor, United Center
Silom Road
Bangrak, Bangkok 10500
Tel.: 02.237.6717
Open daily : 11 am - 9 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 300
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Cheap eat, good eat!
Recently, my local friends complained that Bangkok's food court meal is not wallet-friendly anymore since a small portion of any single menu dish (such as khao mun gai, or Hainanese chicken rice) cost at least THB 50 as norm at the food courts of all Central Plazas, the Emporium, the Siam Paragon and the MBK Mall. Nowadays, the lunch cost is a burden to all local salarymen.
I don't blame the vendors as I realized that they only earn a minimum profit to make their ends meet at the end of a day, while the high food price was reflex action by the bullying rental charge (or profit share) in shopping centers, but not the cost of ingredients and raw materials.
Not all property vampires are bloodsuckers. At Pier 21 Food Terminal, a standard size of order costs from THB 30 - 40, that is 20 - 35% cheaper than those served in other major shopping mall's food courts with the same serving size, and even with better quality and taste, as the operator only enrolls a shortlist of the city's most renowned street-food vendors to serve. There, it is not just cheap eat but also good eat!
Pier 21 Food Terminal ****
6/F the Terminal 21
288 Sukhumvit Road
Klongtoey-nua, Bangkok 10110
Open daily : 10 am - 10 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 100 (three dishes/courses)
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The charm of an ancient topaz!
This long time royal cuisine pioneer restaurant - the Bussaracum, has been (finally) moved back to Sathorn/Silom district, after a short operation period at Thonglo under the shelter of its group property; it was her forth relocation since the restaurant debut at Dusit Thani Hotel around thirty years ago.
Recently I revisited Bussaracum at her latest location, Si Wang Road, with some foodie friends.
While many established restaurants will lose their edge on food standards after they earned some 'history', and the kitchen teams started to show that they are exhausted, at Bussaracum, this scenario is a non-existent. In general, the food at Bussaracum is not only kept to their good standards; but in my opinion, it is better!
The only dissatisfaction is their service. The junior waitpersons are nice and attentive, but the manager-look-alike is nothing more than a dumb vase that had been just treated with Botox.
'sangwa' savory dips, fresh vegetables, served with deep-fried ground catfish
leaf-wrapped appetizer 'mieng-kam'; deep-fried 'chom-suan' prawn appetizer
'pha-goong' spicy herbs tossed salad with prawns; savory eggplant salad
massama curry, world No. 1 dish 2011 voted by CNNgo readers survey
grilled river prawns in 'chu-chee' red curry sauce 
home-made fish cakes; red curry with roasted duck meats
stir-fried eggplant in basil and hot sauce; deep-fried sea bass, raw mango dressing
phad Thai with prawns
Bussaracum Royal Thai Restaurant ****
1 Si Wiang Road
off Soi Pramuan
Silom, Bangkok 10500
Tel.: 02.620.2216
Bussaracum
Open daily : lunch 11 am - 2 pm, dinner 5:30 - 10 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 500
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