Fai Sor Kam

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When aroma not aromatic

Fai Sor Kam refers to a Lanna style home textiles, scented candles and fragrant products manufacturer, with showrooms at Siam Paragon and Siam Discovery Center for over a decade. They recently extended their business ambitions to a culinary business, with the debut of Fai Sor Kam Thai Restaurant, adjacent to the original Fai Sor Kam Home Collection Store at the Siam Paragon.

The food, however, is not as commendable as their home collection products. I find that her Northern specialty dish - khao soi (Northern curried noodle) is ranked top, counted from the bottom, from my list. All dishes at Fai Sor Kam are mono-taste, pungent hot, and lacking of the essential balanced taste of the famous Thai cuisine. Maybe the existence of Fai Sor Kam Thai Restaurant is only to help those restaurants which serve mediocre food look smarter!



khao soi gai (fried & soup noodle with chicken in curry broth), THB 160++

khanom-jeen nam ngeow (rice noodle with pork in fermented soy bean curry), THB 160++


Fai Sor Kam Thai Restaurant **3/4
Food Passage on 4th, the Siam Paragon
991 Rama I Road
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.415.6605

Open daily : 11 am - 10 pm
Pay (food only for two): around THB 1,100

Gedhawa

BANGKOK AMAZING GOURMET
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Gedhawa

Chiangmai is the second largest city in Thailand; however, strange that northern Thai (Lanna Thai) cuisine is not popular in Bangkok. When I meet my Chiangmai friends who live in Bangkok, they never agreed to do Lanna. Their answer - too oily (of Lanna food) and they had enough back in their childhood days. That's also answered why Issan (northeastern Thai) food is relatively popular in Bangkok due to the heavy use of fresh and herbal ingredients with the less-oily cooking method.

Thanks to two expat foodies, finally I am able to sample savory Lanna Thai cuisine in Bangkok!


1. khanom-jeen nam ngew Baht 70; 2. larb moo northern style Baht 100

namprik oong (red) and namprik noom (green)

3. namprik oong-noom Baht 220

4. tord mun pla Gedhawa (spicy deep-fried fish cakes) Baht 85

5. Gedhawa omelet with fermented sausage Baht 95
6. laem mok (spicy fermented sausage northern style) Baht 85

7. yum jin gai (ultra spicy soup with chicken - northern style) Baht 100

8. daily-home-made tubtim krob (red rubies chestnuts) Baht 45;
9. chao kuay (herbal jelly) Baht 45

choice of garden seat or air-conditioned dining room


Since the discovery of Gedhawa, an excuse to visit Chiangmai just for sampling northern Thai cuisine became nonsense.

Gedhawa Lanna Cuisine ****
24 Sukhumvit Soi 35
Wattana, Bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.662.0501

Open daily: Lunch 11am - 2pm, Dinner 6 - 10pm
Pay (food only for two): around THB 500