Since I am heading to Krabi in a few hours’ time, it is appropriate that I write about the awesome dinners Mell and I had during our visit to Bangkok last February. Something that I shouldn’t have waited so long to do, but there’re just so many things and so little time, oh well!
this guy sells a few types of typical Thai dishes
Our first dinner at Bangkok was infact our second night there, after a long day at the city, we came back to our hotel at Reflections Rooms and decided to dine right by street next to the hotel lobby. I ordered two plates of Pad See Yew for dinner.
Pad See Yew, with plenty of chili padi if you need them
The pad see yew is basically fried flat rice noodle with vegetable, egg, pork (sometimes substitute with chicken or beef), and vegetable. Fish sauce, soy sauce, and pepper are also among the ingredients that made up this dish. I’ve had pad see yew quite a number of times, and this must be one of the best tasting I’ve tried yet.
The dinner was around 70 baht, water was free.
a stall offering variety of dishes with rice
After having a pretty tiring first day at Chatuchak, we decided to try the other stall right next to the first one we ordered pad see yew from. This is one of the many stalls that littered the streets offering a wide variety of dishes that goes with rice. They only have 2-3 tables set up by the pavement, I guess most of their business are the drive-through type.
long bean with chicken, and seafood tomyam
We ordered a bowl of seafood tomyam, and with some sign language mad skills, I managed to also ordered long bean with chicken to go with two rice.
The tomyam was so good! Very sour, spicy, and full of that authentic tomyam that is so tough to find outside Thailand. Though the ingredients were nothing luxurious (some small shrimps, a bit of squid, mushroom, ginger, green onion, shallots, chili padi), the overall taste was just superb.
yes, the tomyam were spicy!
The chicken with long bean too was a very tasty dish that goes really well with rice. Though not quite as hot as the tomyam, this vegetable dish too came with green pepper (jalopeno?) and some chili padi. The base had a strong taste of fish sauce that worked well with the chicken and provided good contrast to the tomyam.
Everything came to only 110 baht, again, ice water was free.
fried egg, squid with cabbage, and tomyam
We went to the same place again for the third consecutive night cos the food was just so good. This time we asked for (by pointing and sign language yet again) fried egg that looks and tasted much like our local telur dadar; a squid and cabbage dish that for once, isn’t really something spicy, but pretty tasty nonetheless; and of course, the very same tomyam again.
It costs a something like 140 baht this time, and oh so delicious!
another stall further to the west of our hotel
Tragically, when we went back to the same place on our last night at Bangkok, we discovered the hard way that the stalls are closed on Mondays. We then walked a few minutes to the west of our hotel (still on Pradipat Road) and chanced up upon this other hawker stall that offers similar type of foods. As usual, my super limited Thai and some hand gestures came to rescue.
tomyam, pork with brinjal, kangkung with chicken
We ordered tomyam with fish, a pork dish, and a kangkung with chicken to go with rice. The tomyam was different this time, a bit more sour than previous, less soupy, and a lot more spices. I feel that I prefer the previous version but some might like the intensity of this one.
Cooked with sweet sauce, peppercorn, basil, and a type of brinjal, the fatty pork slices soaked in the flavor and made the pork dishes rather delicious. As for the kangkung, well, it wasn’t very different from what we get here, but did provide a contrast to all the meat dishes we had.
If I remember correctly, this meal was around 200 baht. A bit pricier probably due to the fact hat we had more meat dishes.
map of Reflections Rooms Hotel
Address:
Outside Reflections Rooms Hotel
224/2-18 Pradipat Rd.,
Samsennai,Phayathai,
Bangkok 10400 Thailand
GPS: 13.790110,100.545947
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By cindy khor on May 26, 2009 | Reply
all the food looks tasty and i adore spicy food… the thais really do offer a variety of food… mellisa looks pretty in all the photos…
By calvaryzone on May 26, 2009 | Reply
how you managed to order so many dishes without knowing thai still amazes me.
By KY on May 26, 2009 | Reply
cindy khor,
Yahh I love spicy food too!
calvaryzone,
Hahha, hand signal is very powerful!
By eiling on May 26, 2009 | Reply
Ooh I am salivating at the fried egg! hehe… Thai tom yam ze best!
By aud on May 26, 2009 | Reply
i <3 your bangkok posts! and i <3 seeing mell in your blog!
By ShaolinTiger on May 26, 2009 | Reply
Yah sign language wins at life haha, tom yam….nom nom!
By lb on May 26, 2009 | Reply
Pad See Yew looks something like pan min..minus the soup..yummy.
By J2Kfm on May 26, 2009 | Reply
wah … gotta be something extraordinary, to warrant repeated visits in one trip!
so cheap lah! at 1st i was havin trouble converting baht-RM, thought half pulak. =P
By JD on May 26, 2009 | Reply
looks delicious! have a safe trip in krabi. and may the best team wins….
By Kit Kat on May 26, 2009 | Reply
KY, you’re hot. After eating those spicy food, you’re become even hotter than before :p Anyway, the map is funny, can’t stop laughing at it :p
By Suertes on May 26, 2009 | Reply
Pad See Yew=Soy Sauce Fried Flat Noodles? Have fun again in BKK and a new colourful T-shirt perhaps??
By 550ml jar of faith on May 26, 2009 | Reply
Jeepers love how you guys whack on the heat! I’ve always been resistant to other accom areas away from Banglamphu area, coz the street food there’s amazing, but you’ve just changed my mind!!
By Robb on May 27, 2009 | Reply
looks so yummy!
By Victim on May 27, 2009 | Reply
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One more secret thing i wish to share with you all is that this bastard’s “little brother” is really small.. i really got no feel making love with him, he is such a poor thing in that way.
By KY on May 27, 2009 | Reply
eiling,
Oh tomyam’s defninitely best!
aud,
Naisss!
ShaolinTiger,
Hahaha I did that again today at Krabi
lb,
Hahah more like wat tan hor without the hor.
JD,
Thanks, yah can’t wait!
J2Kfm,
Oh it was very very good! Conversion is around 1-10
KitKat,
Don’t be ridiculous
Suertes,
Hahha this time I’m at Krabi, we got free Heineken towels tho!
550ml ar of faith,
I think generally street foods in Bangkok’s pretty awesome anywhere
Robb,
Oh yes!
Victim,
@.@ interesting. I think I’ve seen this on Cheerserland too. :S
By Mellissa on May 27, 2009 | Reply
Bangkok street food was so awesome! I’m fed up with hotel food @ Krabi, MORE STREET FOOD PLEASE!
By Pureglutton on May 27, 2009 | Reply
Ahh… how i miss the great cheap food in BKK! Most stalls on the sidewalks serve good food at a pittance.
By fatboybakes on May 27, 2009 | Reply
haha, as usual KY, priceless facial expressions.
BKK has great food. i wouldnt mind emigrating there, if it wasnt for the language barrier. and traffic.
By kit kat on May 27, 2009 | Reply
Am I being ridiculous? lol Anyway, KY, you should recommend more BKK food so that we can use it as reference when we’re going BKK in future.
By Jade Zheng on May 27, 2009 | Reply
hahaha! mell’s spicy face looks so kiut~
By Satisfyingtummy on May 27, 2009 | Reply
Omg I extremely like spicy food! When I see chilies appear in ur photo, my taste bud get stimulating!! TOmyam~~~
By Satisfyingtummy on May 27, 2009 | Reply
And 1 more thing unrelated to your post, I asked my senior Jolene Lai knows you or not,she said yes! Haha~~u are such a super duper famous blogger!
By KY on May 28, 2009 | Reply
Mellissa,
Luckily we had some!
Pureglutton,
Agreed!
fatboybakes,
Hahhaha spicy ma! Language can be learned
kit kat,
Hahaha will try will try.
Jade Zheng,
Hahaha yah she does.
Satisfyingtummy,
Hahha hardcore! Oooo she blogs too!
By vialentino on May 28, 2009 | Reply
hey ky….shucks…been more than a week i did not visit and comment liow…really miss ur food recommendation….lately also no mood to eat cause stress with new job….now getting better…..yummy food…but at bangkok…darn…so far.
By KY on May 28, 2009 | Reply
vilanetino,
Ooo, haha stress? Bigger pay must come with some sacrifices
By Myhorng on May 30, 2009 | Reply
y our dinner was not like that in Krabi?
By KY on May 31, 2009 | Reply
Myhorng,
Cos Aunang is just too touristy!
By Huai Bin on May 31, 2009 | Reply
Sign language kung fu eh? I had to pull that out last time I was in Bangkok too, with the street vendors. Mell still looks like the stuff is too spicy in the second pic.
By KY on Jun 1, 2009 | Reply
Huai Bin,
Oo they were definitely spicy, but in a good way