Fei Ya

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Duck may fly

The youngest brother in the family of Bangkok's five-star (hotel) Chinese restaurants, Fei Ya (or flying duck), is an additive canteen to local gastronomy scene.


suckling pig HK style THB 1,600++ (authentic, skin crispy, flavorful meat, moist)

chilled lotus root in orange vinegar dressing THB 200++
deep-fried silver fish THB 200++ (crispy and moist, must try!)

lychee wood roasted Peking duck THB 1,080++, and
crispy duck skin skillfully peel to paper thin servings

a set of Peking duck with flour wrapper and sauce (garlic mousse, hoy-si, and lychee)

soup of duck meat (moist & tender) with preserved veggie and tofu (ultra good!)
stir-fried honey peas in preserved Chinese olive sauce THB 300++ (quite good)

stir-fried vegetarian combo with conjac noodle in preserved bean curd sauce THB 300++
claypot eggplant in spicy minced pork thick sauce THB 300++ (aromatic)

lamb shank casserole with CN herbs and fresh tomatoes sauce THB 480++

deep-fried live sand goby (cotton fish) on soy sauce THB 960++

this dome like dish, require at least 2 hours advance order, what is it?

beggar (/riche) chicken in lotus leaf THB 500++ (meat moist, very aromatic)

chestnut cream with sea coconut THB 120++ (truly throat smoothie after a meal)
kuay-ling-kauw CN herbal jelly THB 120++ (bland, but sugary pearl very special)

lemongrass jelly THB 120++ (non-CN dessert, happened to be most popular here)

Fei Ya Chinese Restaurant ***1/2
Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong Hotel
518/8 Ploenchit Road
Prathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02.125.5000
Fei Ya

Open daily : lunch 11:30 - 2:30 pm, dinner 6 - 10 pm
(reservations highly recommended during Fri and Sat dining)
Pay (food only for two): expect THB 2,500

Red Lantern

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Lantern, red, prosperity

Chinese bistros run by the Mainland Chinese always mislead me to one impression - owners don't care for restaurant hygiene. Luckily there is an exceptional one - Hong Teong Long (Red Lantern) Chinese Restaurant.

Red Lantern is one of the (small) restaurants I always come for authentic Shanghaiese wanton soup (forget about that big chain shamelessly invades to almost every shopping malls with the name "Shanghai" and "xiao-long-pao" as the brand, that chain insults the cuisine of Shanghai and Chinese food), and home-style Chinese provincial delicacies, such as steamed meat bun, stir-fried fish fillet in wine and vinegar sauce and Szechuan minced pork with tofu in chili sauce (ma-po tofu).

A foreign journalist from San Francisco claimed that Red Lantern serves the best xiao-long-pao in town; although I couldn't 100% agree with him (as for me the best one still awarded to Nam-tao-hu Yong Herh) in such aspect, but I agree that Red Lantern does serve very good provincial cuisine in Bangkok.


meat bun / vegetable bun THB 30 each
beef noodle Mainland Chinese style THB 60

arguably best (real) Shanghai wanton in town, THB 50

Sichuan chili live frog leg casserole THB 180
spicy green eggplant with minced pork THB 120

bite-size steamed xiao-long-pao dumplings, THB 60, average

deep-fried live sea bass in sweet and sour sauce THB 350
stir-fried long bean with minced pork THB 120

Hong Teong Long (Red Lantern) CN Restaurant ***3/4
149/16 Surawong Road
at Soi Anglo Plaza
Bangrak, Bangkok 10500
Tel.: 02.238.3379

Open daily : 11 am - 3 am
Pay (food only for two): around THB 400

Man Ho

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Feast of a roller roaster ride

Man Ho Chinese Restaurant in J.W. Marriott Bangkok is fun to dine in, for a decade, more than forty times of visit, eating there is equal to the excitement of a roller coaster ride, up and down, and down and up - I mean the quality of her food served!

A revisit yesterday, my friends and I enjoy the meal three times much much much better than the previous visit. So lucky! So I will treasure this hard to have happy palate memory at Man Ho for a while until my next adventure to the Restaurant.

Man Ho Chinese Restaurant ***1/4
J.W. Marriott Hotel Bangkok
4 Sukhumvit Road (at Sukhumvit Soi 2)
Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.656.7700
Man Ho

Open daily : lunch 11 am - 2:30 pm, 6 - 10 pm
Pay (food only for two): expect THB 2,500

Royal Kitchen

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An imperial banquet

This decades old Chinese restaurant serves decent Cantonese cuisine and seafood on Soi Thonglo; arguably the best shot in upper Sukhumvit area to hold a table of banquet for special occasions.



Royal Kitchen Chinese Restaurant ***1/2
912/6 Soi Thonglo
Sukhumvit Soi 55
Wattana, Bangkok 10110
Tel.: 02.391.9634

Open daily : lunch 11 am - 2:30 pm, dinner 6 - 10:30 pm
Pay (food only for two): around THB 1,200

Krua Apsorn

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Eat well, share them, sleep happily

Krua Apsorn, a decades old no-frills noisy eatery with minimal decoration, is fan of Thai royalty and local connoisseurs, also on radar of foreign journalists and foodies.

Choices of order are limited to a single sheet ordinary laminated menu, offering Thai household dishes with a small selection of Thai-Chinese favorites. All dishes are delightful. With focus on quality of food and authentication of taste only, Krua Apsorn is surely one of the most unpretentious eateries in town.


spicy salad with seafood (yum talay) THB 100
braised pork and eggs in thick broth (kai palo) THB 80

a slice of fluffy omelet with crab meat

fluffy omelet with crab meat (kai foo poo) THB 85
green curry (gaeng kieo-wan) THB 90

fried river prawn in tamarind sauce (goong-maenam phad sauce ma-kam) THB 300

stir-fried crab meat in yellow curry (poo phad phong karee) THB 320
vegetable clear soup with tofu and minced pork (gaeng juud) THB 70

Krua Apsorn Thai Restaurant ****1/4
503-505 Samsen Road
(near corner Samsen Soi 9)
Dusit, Bangkok 10300
Tel.: 02.241.8528
Krua Apsorn

Open daily (except Sunday): 10:30 am - 8 pm
Pay (food only for two) : around THB 450