Monday, August 18, 2008

Wong Hong Seng Kitchen, Pak Kret Nonthaburi, Greater Bangkok





After one hour boat ride to Nonthaburi, we found this interesting Thai Chinese food restaurant called Wong Hong Seng Kitchen. What a pleasant surprise for finding some Thai Chinese food:

1. See all the press critics on the side of the shop's reception. It's a highly recommended restaurant by the major newspapers in Bangkok.
2. 3 spices spare ribs: in Thai cuisine, you often find the sweet, hot and sour. It looks like sweet and sour pork but it tastes totally different. The chef used 3 different types of hot and spicy herb. From what we taste, we think they put basil chili paste, birdeye chili and paprika. It's extra hot and subtle smell of all the various hot.
3. Moonlight Prawn cakes: Hong Seng's special recipe. Interesting that they put some bean sprout to make it taste like a Cantonese dish Fu Yung Omelette.
4. Ginger pepper salty marinated deep fried chicken: According to the Chef, they first marinated the chicken with ginger first for over night. Then on the second night, they put the pepper for marinating overnight. So the third night is rock salty marinating for over night. So the Chicken after deep fried has 3 different layers of taste and aroma. Must try.
5. Don't think it's just a stir fried morning glory. It's a Cambodian stir fried morning glory. Pak Kret used to be a Non ethic legacy (a Cambodian ancient ethic group). They quick stir fry the morning glory and then put the garlic on it. And this type of glory morning is only found in Pak Kret but be careful with this extra hot dish. Cambodian food is so hot!

10 comments:

Fillet-O said...

Wow Thai-Chinese cooking! Seems it is some Thai food use of Chinese cooking skill. Must be delicious.

in the sea said...

Correct. At first, we looked at the dish and thought it looks quite similar to some Chinese dish. However, when we had our first bite, it's way too different.

Anonymous said...

Thailand really has endless good restaurants for us to explore. I cannot believe Sea went there so many times and yet he still has some new place to go. Hard to believe.
Stella

Anonymous said...

The dishes look very Cantonese. The fried Chicken look like those Chinese wedding dinner "fried chicken". Cambodian morning glory look interesting.

Man

Yai said...

I know in Pak Kret there is a famous Hong Seng, don't know if same same to Wong Hong Seng or not. Its Thai-Chinese dishes are quite interesting. So you guys are real good at food hunting.

in the sea said...

I didn't do anything but just Thailand did the research. I just had a talk with my local business friends and he told me there are indeed lots of good restaurants along the river area, like what Thailand Club said.

Anonymous said...

The egg dish looked like omelette and this restaurant seemed like very Chinese. The plate of morning glory is different. That one looked like Thai. The plate looked not matched. When will you be back In the Sea?

Man

Thailand Club said...

Man, we don't expect this kind of local (very local) open-air pochana (a small old-style Thai-Chinese style restaurant) will have a set of matching tablewares, the decor was none, the tableware was collected from different flea markets, but the food was superb

so pls excuse dishes put on different plates

in the sea said...

Hello, I'm back just before the Typhoon is hitting HK. Got a very smooth touch down as the Typhoon outer skirt didn't affect the Airport that much.

Oh, this restaurant is very interesting. I think because of its long establishment, they used a wide variety of tableware. Some are very nostalgic like our grandma's favourite bowls and dishes.

Anonymous said...

So this is some traditional authentic Thai food. But a bit far from the city!

/William