Snapper

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Bye the fish and cheap

Bangkok has too many fish and cheap (chip) eateries but almost all of them treat their customers with either greasy chips and fish, fishy, unapproved sauce, or overpriced, and some luxurious hotel restaurants even serve fish and chips with rather inexpensive dory fish but cast an expensive price tag (guys, dory sold less than two hundred Thai baht per kilogram at Marko) on it.

I am a fish and chips eater, I have been long waited for a proper chippie in Bangkok, one like Rock and Sole Plaice or Golden Chippy in London; but not those that serve in a pub while the beer is the show, which is very popular in Bangkok.

The recent opening of Snapper, a seafood eatery with mostly New Zealand catches to offer, let me finally see the light (to eat good fish and chips here); this Kiwi seafood eatery serves gorgeous, lightly battered, non-greasy, ocean fresh fish and chips, with six choices of fish (all) from New Zealand. Snapper also has a brief seafood menu on service, eventually it is a seafood restaurant with wild-caught catches from the New Zealand waters to offer, but her fish and chips just steal the spotlight on her. Snapper, arguably the best chippie in Bangkok, is also the only New Zealand restaurant present here.

Their service, enthusiastic, prompt and kind.


NZ thick cut home-style chips, THB 120+; NZ red gurnard, THB 180+

NZ lemon sole, THB 220+; NZ Southern hake, THB 180+

a scrumptious fish and chips feast at Snapper New Zealand Restaurant

chunky seafood patties, THB 260+, slow cooked, w/ tangy mango salsa

jalapeno tiger prawns, THB 280+, sauteed in NZ butter with onion,
garlic, capsicum, lime and jalapenos, served with toasted ciabatta

pan-fried NZ lemon sole, THB 300+; marinated mixed olives, THB 110+

spiced fish salad, THB 240+; NZ style seafood chowder, THB 240+

Snapper New Zealand Restaurant ****1/2
1/22 Sukhumvit Soi 11
Wattana, Bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.651.1098

Open daily : 6 am - midnight (except Sat & Sun, opens at 11 am)
Pay (food only for two): around THB 700

Akbar

BANGKOK AMAZING GOURMET
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Solid Indian cuisine - since 1979

Thailand (particularly the capital - Bangkok) maybe the country has more Indian restaurants to offer in our globe outside of India herself. I am a long time fans of Indian cuisine, due to her mysterious layers of taste and texture, strong and tender, wild and mild, as mystery as the country herself.

Numerous Indian restaurants sprawl out the city and most of them were stamped the authentication approval seal. Akbar, established in 1979 (before I was born? I dream!), is one of my favorite choices to crave for Indian food. Nowadays in Bangkok, many Indian restaurants go chic and high-so to dig our pocket deeper, Akbar is still cooking her humble dishes, the unpretentious way. And with good value!


tandooori chicken THB 150+

naan THB 20+; mutton korma THB 260+

alu gobhi THB 120+; samosa (served with thali set)

thali special vegetable set with 3 kind of curry dishes, biryani, dessert THB 250+

Akbar Indian Restaurant ***1/2
1/4 Sukhumvit Soi 3 (Nana-nua)
Klongtoey Nua, Bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.255.6935

Open daily : 10 am - midnight
Pay (food only for two): around THB 800

Petra

BANGKOK AMAZING GOURMET
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Fragrant vs. fragrance

Very unusual! Today I went to Sukhumvit's Soi Arab twice. During the afternoon I was there to meet my tour driver to hand him a map of a Hua-hin resort. At night, I went there (again) to eat.


Lebanese salad; mutton masala

Yemenese mutton soup, grilled lamb

hummus, eggplant mousse, and nan bread

pickled vegetables with dips; barbecue chicken

nan bread; biryani chicken

Petra Restaurant ***
75/4 Sukhumvit Soi 3/1
Nana Nua, Bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.254.9226

Open daily : 5 pm - 5 am
Pay (food only for two): around THB 500

Rosabieng

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Sukhumvit off-steam railway dining

Rosabieng, or dining car in a train. Lesson one to Thai cuisine for first time visitors.

The food do taste good!


1. fried marinated chicken in pandanus leaves wrapper (gai hor bai toey)
2. Thai eggplant salad Thai style (yum makhuea yaao)

3. stir-fried bitter gourd stem (phad pak yod mara)
4. red curry with roasted duck meat (kaeng phet ped yang)

5. deep-fried king fish with sweet and spicy green mango dressing (pla samlee)
6. home-made coconut cream ice cream (i-tim kati)

Rosabieng Thai Restaurant ***
3 Soi 11, Sukhumvit Road
Wattana, Bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.253.5868

Open daily : 11 am - 11 pm
Pay (food only for two): around THB 700