San Yod Chinese restaurant, Central World Plaza, BKK

The shop has been renovated lately by taking away those plastic duck dummy in their display open kitchen.  So it's much different that we then gave it a try as the shop has quite some history about their flat rice noodle in gravy and BBQ duck.  Turned out most dishes are pretty good.  I guess they have the biggest shrimp patty I have ever tried - almost double.

Som Boon (建興) restaurant, Central Embassy, Phloenchit, BKK

There are several renowned restaurants somehow I haven't been since my first trip to this city.  Som Boon is the one.  Personally I don't like curry crab much, nor do I find this recipe of heavy oil, egg and sugar appealing (sorry for me to say so).  However, I do enjoy the other dishes like deep fried crab cakes, fish cakes, fried rice, stewed pork knuckle and the steamed fish.  The good thing about this branch is in a convenient location inside this new mall.  

和成豐 Hua Seng Hong, Central World, Bangkok

Missed the headquarter of this shop for some acquainted friends.  Some left for good.  Some weren't in contact somehow.  Not in any need for a FB search, nor care for opening an account being searched for.  Rather put some memory in a frame, like a photo of the time and the light particle being frozen without any subsequently intruded.  Life is in moments.  To keep every moment intact, then to keep moving forward to create moments.  That's how I tried this new branch of Hua Seng Hong in Central World.  Still love their fried rice with preserved olive (photo 2) and their house signature dish stir fried rice noodle (photo 3) and their stir fried fish maw (photo 4).

555 Ice cream - Leo Lieng Seng Rama IV (Sam Yam), BKK

When TC told me it's a Thai style Hagen Daz, after I finally got to try it, I do agree to it since the texture is very condensed but smooth and melty enough. Yet, it's not too sweet at all. So who would think the look of this restaurant serves ice cream at Hagen Daz's quality, just like my friends consider the look of Mandarin Oriental?

1. The restaurant is located inside an old entertainment area which was once a glory over the time when I still didn't start my trips to Thailand. 2. the signature dessert of this shop.

3. I often told the others that to judge how good the restaurant is is to check on some minor things. The shine of this peanuts capture my eyes. Considering Bangkok is a humid hot city, keeping deep fried peanuts fresh and crispy is not that easy. Peanuts can become soft and "wet oil smelly" in a few days if the frying process, oil quality and storing is not handled well. This shop simply surprised me with this one and I kept on taking it. Besides, the light salt isn't overwhelming at all. So my first impression is "ok, something exciting is going to take place.". 4. the various sauce dipping.

5. Think it's a lost recipe. Steamed roll with pork but with some nice water chestnut. Texture wise it's not too mashy but not hard to chew. Quite a classic roll. 6. Deep fried crab meat pastry. Some semi-fat pork is inside and it's another classic one.

7. Stir fried "Shy" grass (not sure the exact term). This may be one of the few I found in BKK that be a real quick stir-fried dish. See it's not with any heavy sauce left on the plate. 8. Shark's fins. Nice broth, but the fins could have been double boiled for a longer time as it's a bit too hard to chew.

9. Salted veggie fish chunk soup. Again the broth is nice but somehow the fish chunks were not too fresh. If I made this one, I would first brown the fish chunks with some ginger, and put some Chinese celery in it to balance the fish smell. After all, I still took 2 bowls of the soup. 10. Oyster omelette. The chef is very good at cooking but the way the shop keep the seafood may have something wrong. When I checked out their kitchen's fridge, I found out they put everything in the same fridge. Next time I hope I can give them some advice in separating the seafood with some better seal boxes.

11. Stir fried black olive veggie rice. I took almost 2 bowls of it. Quite impressive - a very nice one and as good as the one I tried at Thung Kruen. 12. OK, 555 time. My first pick is Choco. Wow. the way they did it is very professional. Making ice cream requires much attention in the stiring and coolng process. During such process, better avoid as least air as possible getting inside of it. The chef really did a perfect job.

13. Vanilla. 14. Coffee.

15. We should have had 2 more cups. 16. When we tried to order the coconut ice cream, it's finished, but got told it'll be ready at around 3pm the next day. So the next day, we came here again for the coconut ice cream but the shop still isn't ready, we took a round for the choco. and green tea again.

17. OK, the coconut ice cream. Actually it's young coconut ice cream - very fresh in flavour. 18. the shop's poster about their ice cream.

A day of eating eating and eating, Bangkok, Thailand

Have you ever thought of a breakfast taking a grilled chicken and stir fired bitter gourd leaves and a strawberry shortcake as a pre-lunch snack? So on 19th Feb., I made an upside down journey for keeping on eating eating and eating.... Note not all the food would be posted below.

1/2. first stop is Thung Kruen for a grilled chicken, steamed roll and a stir fried veggie.

3/4/5. taking cakes at 12noon at Mousses and Merringues plus an iced coffee.

6/7. stopped by Cake Walk on soi 13, Thonglor.

8. this table used to be a preferred seat of our Angel. 9. Earl Grey Choco. cake at 12:40noon

10. the decoration. 11. a refreshing iced tea. *warning.... the iced coffee was too sweet for me to finish. So I didn't drink that iced coffee at Mousses and Merringues. Taking coffee with condensed milk and lemon iced tea would upset your stomach.

12. late lunch at Another Hound at 1:40pm. Took a somtam (with bacon and guava and green apple). This recipe is really innovative and I love it. Never thought guava, green apple can go so well with green papaya. Bacon is also good with dried shrimp. 13. a Strawberry shake.

14. chicken wings. a must. 15. banana shake.

16. before taking a tea snack at triple O's, I took a frozen yoghurt at Buddhi Belly. OK, a mushroom burger at 5pm. 17. some chips too.

18. dinner at Tung Lai Shun soi 41. sea weed. not recommended as it's a bit smelly. 19. preserved egg with tofu. Quite average.

20. cucumber. Also average. 21. Dry fried string beans. Should have been fried a bit longer until more burnt.

22. dumpling. also at average. 23. Lion head meat ball on veggie. Personally I don't like baby cabbage 娃娃菜 and some restaurant often cook this veggie to replace the original big cabbage (津白). I really don't like some people often mix those up by not telling the customers in the first place. These 2 veggies are so much different in flavour. The former one is just some shallow sweet without the fragrance of veggie. The latter one is so good for being braised to release its original aroma.

24. pan fried dumpling. Also at average. 25. smoked chicken. First it's not that smoked aromatic. Second it doesn't have any chicken flavour.