Baan Khanitha

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Nice food, the look only!

Baan Khanitha, a Thai restaurant in the heart of Bangkok, where no Thais will eat there with their family, except for entertaining overseas guests for expense-account dining purposes.

I found Baan Khanitha and Gallery (on Sathorn Road) served as an overpriced canteen (very noisy) for tourists; service and food were poor, as well as the wine list. Baan Khanitha may be a major sponsor for MSG, salt and soy sauce as they were the taste I found in my dishes sampled; not a trace of the harmony of the five tastes in a Thai cuisine found.



Baan Khanitha and Gallery **
69 South Sathorn Road
Sathorn, Bangkok 10120
Tel.: 02.675.4200

Baan Khanitha Thai Cuisine ***
36/1 Soi Shukhumvit 23
Sukhumvit Road
Wattana, Bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.260.9601

Open daily : 11 am - 11 pm
Pay (food only for two): around THB 1,400

Cafe Sweets

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Sweet tooth lover

Cafe Sweets. Her cakes. Soft in texture. Modest in sugar. High on quality. Sinfully delicious!




arguably best crepe cake in Bangkok!



Cafe Sweets Bakery ****1/4
at Secret Garden Restaurant
117/1 South Sathorn Road (Thanon Sathorn Tai)
Sathorn, Bangkok 10120
Tel.: 02.286.2464

Open daily : 11 am - 10 pm
Pay (cakes only for two): around THB 300

roof top dining 3

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The Vertigo

Imagine how wonderful if there is a restaurant that serves your visual pleasure while having your taste buds a lift; this has to be a view-to-dine-by restaurant. The surroundings elegantly decorated with tranquility ambiance; heavenly view of 360 degree panorama overlooking anywhere in Bangkok above the hustle and bustle of city living rarely found elsewhere.



Vertigo and Moon Bar ****1/2
Banyan Tree Hotel Bangkok
21/100 Sathorn Road
Sathorn, Bangkok 10120
Tel.: 02.679.1200
Banyan Tree Bangkok

Open daily : 6:30 pm - 11 pm (weather permitted)
Pay (food only for two): expect THB 7,000

Je Ngor's Kitchen

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Je Ngor’s Kitchen

If you are a regular in Bangkok, you must have already heard about Je Ngor’s stir-fried crab. If you like crab, whether it is stir-fried black pepper crab, steamed crab, wok-fried curry crab or stir-fried green onion crab, Je Ngor’s has them all. If you are a first time visitor to Bangkok, I recommend you should include Je Ngor’s Kitchen in your itinerary.

With 13 restaurants across Bangkok, Je Ngor’s Kitchen, one of Bangkok's prominent Thai-Chinese seafood restaurants, has become a symbol for affordable seafood dining. Generally when a restaurant opens many branches, odds are that the food at the flagship shop may take a dive. But Je Ngor’s has defied those odds. Although Je Ngor’s Kitchen is tourist friendly, some of Je Ngor’s branches are in the tourist area offering English menu and English spoken waitpersons, but original of Je Ngor’s recipes are spicy, so please tell your waitperson that you want mild heat or no heat at all, otherwise your tongue will be burned.



The most popular dishes in Je Ngor’s are Somtum-Poo-Kai-Dong (Thai spicy papaya salad with preserved mud crab), Boiled Prawn, Deep-fried Minced Seafood Spring-ball, Pad-Pak-Boong-Foi (stir-fried sliced morning glory/water spinach), Stir-fried Crab with Garlic and Black Pepper, Charcoal Grilled Sea Bass with Rocky Sea Salt, Four Color Seafood Hot and Sour Soup, Fried Rice with Chinese Black Olive, and Puak-Hima (deep-fried sweeten snow taro stick). Our great night with great food had all of them in the bill.

Je Ngor’s may not be the best and luxury seafood restaurant in Thailand, but Je Ngor’s shall be one of the easy and friendly seafood restaurants with a good culinary skill. Next time while transit to Bangkok, check it out!

Our Ratings (1 to 5 the higher the better): Je Ngor has [3.6]
(Ratings are based on Food, Service and Ambience, with Price taken into account in relation to Quality) Food =4, Service=3.5, Ambiance=3, Money Worth=4

Price range for two without drinks (incl. local water) in Thai Baht = BBBB
(B=below 200, BB=201-500, BBB=501-1,000, BBBB=1,001-2,000, BBBBB=over 2,000)

Details: open daily lunch 11:30am-2:30pm, dinner 6-10:30pm
Je Ngor's Kitchen Seafood Restaurant, (branch 1) 541/9 Charoen Krung Road Soi 39, Siphaya, Bangkok, Tel.: 02-2358537; (branch 2) 68/2 Sukhumvit Soi 20, Bangkok 10110, Tel.: 02-2588008; (branch 3) 11th Floor, Bangkok Insurance-YWCA Building, 25 South Sathorn Road, Bangkok 10120, Tel.: 02-6773927 http://www.jengor-seafoods.com/
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Saffron

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Happy New Year Bangkok
Saffron @ Banyan Tree Hotel

There is a hidden Thai treasure on the 52nd Floor of the Banyan Tree Bangkok.

Banyan Tree's signature restaurant, Saffron, offers Thai-inspired flavors. Located on the 51st and 52nd floor, the views are fantastic, the furnishings eclectic, and sophisticated live entertainment plays into the night.

The menu at Saffron is comprehensive containing the Kingdom’s most popular dishes. Food is not as outstanding as the view and service, but it is fair and not bereft of the spices and flavors making Thai food unique.

The restaurant’s complimentary snacks were Soft Shell Crab Puff and Khao Tan (seasoned crispy rice cake with crab meat curry dipping) came after the lemongrass scented hand towel and a glass of chardonnay was definitely pleasant to start the dinner. They were good.

Our appetizer served on expensive celadon earthenware, was the Kanom Bueng Chao Wang (traditional Thai egg crepe served with shrimp roe, roasted coconut, peanut, bean sprout eaten with tamarind palm sugar dressing). Followed was Yum Makhua Yaoo Goong Maenam Pao (spicy eggplant salad with grilled river prawn), the presentation of this dish was not good but the taste of the grilled eggplant and river prawn was yummy.

Gaeng Keao Waan Khai Kem Look Chin Pla Kray (green curry with salty egg and fish ball) was an innovative green curry dish. Gai Hor Bai Toey (crispy fried marinated chicken fillet wrapped in pandanus leaf) was outstanding and Pla Hima Neung Manao (steamed snow fish with coriander and chili lime sauce) was somehow bland.

For desserts, we had Woon Matoom Loi Kaew (bale fruit jelly in sweet iced syrup) and Fresh Ripe Mango, followed by the Whole Coconut Juice.

The service is good and the waiters hover, waiting for our every request. It was cheerful to start our 2008 New Year’s day with a superb dinner with a view at Saffron. Cheers!

Snugly conjoined with Saffron, the Latitude Lounge & Bar is the ideal haunt for an after-hours fix of fiery cocktails and chilled down tempo grooves. Lounge outside among the stars at 51 floors above the steaming bowers of 'the city of angels.' A must for those who love being at the top.

Our Ratings (1 to 5 the higher the better): Saffron has [4.1]
(Ratings are based on Food, Service and Ambience, with Price taken into account in relation to Quality) Food =3.5, Service=4.5, Ambiance=5, Money Worth=3.5

Price range for two without drinks (incl. local water) in Thai Baht = BBBB
(B=below 200, BB=201-500, BBB=501-1,000, BBBB=1,001-2,000, BBBBB=over 2,000)

Details: Open daily Lunch: 11.30am - 2.30pm; Dinner: 6.00pm - 11.00pm (Latitude Lounge and Bar 5pm-1am)
Saffron, Banyan Tree Bangkok 52nd Floor, 21/100 South Sathon Road, Bangkok 10120; Tel: 02-6791200
http://www.banyantree.com/bangkok/facilities/dining/saffron.html

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