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The Iron Chef's cuisine
With stunning view overlooking the Rajprasong lifestyle hub, Su Tha Ros, is an elegant and classy Thai restaurant at the Muse Hotel Bangkok that serves time-honored Thai cuisine with a modern touch. For a few visits I did over the year, young chef culinary presentation did live up to expectations.
Su Tha Ros ***1/4
19/F Muse Hotel Bangkok
55/555 Soi Langsuan, off Ploenchit Road
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.630.4000
Su Tha Ros
Open daily : 6 am - 10:30 pm (full Thai menu during lunch and dinner only)
Pay (food only for one): around THB 900
(lunch set at THB 299++)
*Updates (2015-Feb): Su Tha Ros is now replaced by Babette's | the Steakhouse Bangkok.
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Double happiness
For high-so(ciety) figures who would like to sample a bowl of hearty beef noddles but couldn't stand for the heat by the sidewalk or worry about the hygiene for dining roadside, Nuer Koo at Siam Paragon Shopping Center is the answer for them! This new additive to the Siam Paragon's Food Passage on the 4th floor is a nice beef noodle joint in an unpretentious comfortable ambiance, and its premium beef noodle selections are the best way to help well-off shoppers to solve the problem of where to spend money wisely. As it labeled herself as using premium beef, therefore we can expect to contribute more cash to the owner's bank account.
Nuer Koo Premium Beef Noddle Bar ***
Food Passage, 4/F, the Siam Paragaon
991/1 Rama 1 Road
Patumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.610.9773
Open daily : 11 am - 10 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 400
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498
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On Narathiswas Road
Phaka-krong is not just another Thai restaurant near Bangkok's C.B.D. for the after-work white collars, but it is also one of the few Thai restaurants on Narathiwas Road where its food doesn't hurt our taste buds.
Phaka-krong Thai Restaurant ***
100 Narathiwas-rajanakarindra Road
Sathorn, Bangkok 10120
Tel.: 02.676.1213
Open daily : lunch 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, dinner 5:00 - 10:00 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 300
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493
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The great Hu cuisine
The three-decade old Great Shanghai is a longstanding Chinese Shanghai cuisine (a combination of Chinese Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine) specialty restaurant in Bangkok, though its food is far from outstanding, it is the only authentic and banquet-grade Shanghainese restaurant present in Bangkok.
Two decades ago, while her food quality was good, I ate at Great Shanghai quite often; and for now, I eat there only once every five years. A few weeks ago I went there to exercise my 'every-five-year' duty and I found that her wok-fried Chinese eel in garlic and dark gravy and the sour and spicy soup are so good not to be missed.
Great Shanghai Chinese Restaurant ***
648-652 Sukhumvit Road
Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.258.7042
Open daily : lunch 11:30 am - 2:30 pm, dinner 6 - 10 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 500
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Cheerful and playful
Thailand's first London-meets-New York-meets-Bangkok gastro bar - the Hyde & Seek, was arguably the best gastro bar in Krupthep Mahanakon (the City of Angels), when I reviewed her one year ago! Food wise, not as good today as her booze offered!
Hyde & Seek Gastro Bar ***
65/1 Athenee Residence
Soi Ruamrudee
Lumpini, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.168.5152
Open daily : 11 am - 1 am
Pay (food only for one): around THB 500 (there, booze is the hero anyway!)
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484
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A day in New England
I really love this place - the Chocolate Ville, especially the scenic setting, so I would just show the ambiance of this restaurant instead of their food, as, to keep only the good memory be recorded.
Chocolate Ville ***
Thanon Kaset-navamin Km.11
Bueng Kum, Bangkok 10230
Tel.: 083.077.3738
Open daily : 4 pm - 1 am
Pay (food only for one): around THB 400
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Another palace to dine at
I am a fan of the Iron Chef Thailand (and also Iron Chef America), a TV program that puts chefs in the cooking contest arena, which was originated in Japan by Fuji Television Network. Earlier this year, when I witnessed two Chinese chefs from one of my favorite hotel chains - IHG, Crowne Plaza's Xin Tian Di and InterContinental's Summer Palace, beat the Iron Chef of Chinese cuisine from the Iron Chef Thailand, I had a mixed feeling.
I agree that Chef Lam of Xin Tian Di (Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park) deserved the victory in the Iron Chef Thailand contest, as I always enjoy his culinary service at his restaurant, whether it is home-style menu when I dine alone, or a banquet feast that I celebrate with friends. And for Chef Khor of Summer Palace (InterContinental Hotel Bangkok), I have a neutral view on that. I do sometimes enjoy food there!
Summer Palace Chinese restaurant 夏宮金殿 ***
InterContinental Hotel Bangkok
973 Ploenchit Road
Patumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.656.0444
Summer Palace
Open daily : lunch 11:30 am -2:30 pm, dinner 6:30 - 10:30 pm
Pay (food only for one): expect THB 2,500 or more
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The Prawn kingdom
Krua Or Pochana served tomyum goong (spicy and sour soup with prawn) noodle and tomyum Sukhothai noodle in decent portions and at a very affordable price. Normally I don't review a restaurant that allows a cockroach to spy on my eating, but for Krua Or, I can make an exception, for once.
Krua Or Pochana ***
68/51 Soi Surao
Petchburi Soi 5
Phayathai, Bangkok
Tel.: 02.612.9013
Open daily : 11 am - 9 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 100
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I am full
A sibling of See Fah Restaurant, im Thai Ramen is a Thai-Chinese style noodle bar at Life Center, serving street-stall noodles at a restaurant price, and in the comfort of air-conditioning. It is good for a fix of a quick meal or light meal before going to the gym upstairs.
im Thai Ramen ***
G/F Life Center, Q House Lumpini
1 Sathorn Road
Sathorn, Bangkok 10500
Tel.: 02.677.7244
Open daily : 8:30 am - 8:30 pm
Pay (food only for one): around THB 100
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