I’ll be using this blog to assist my poor addled brain in remembering where all of the good restaurants are that I get taken to throughout Asia. I’m fortunate enough to work with many local people, who, once they find out I’ll basically eat anything, are happy to take me to all of the “good” local places. This, as you can imagine has lead to many “Great Moments in Food”, such as a night spent drinking coconut wine and Guinness cocktails, whilst using hammers to beat the shit out of amazingly fresh crabs at Klang in Kuala Lumpur, particularly satisfying and cathartic considering the bad behaviour our customer was engaging in. Then there was the dinner at Breeze Restaurant on top of State Tower in Bangkok, all at Large American Corporations expense and who can forget the famed Desker Road Satay stand in Singapore, where the beers are ice cold, the satay possibly the best on the island and the local clientèle, colourful and usually heavily tattooed.
Enter this place in Bangkok. I don’t know the exact location, or the name in English, but it is two stops from Silom Road on the underground and a moderate walk through the back streets near the Bangkok university.
I’ve been here twice now, across two different business trips and it is an amazing place. The Thai style chilli crab, the cotton fish buried in a mountain of oven roasted garlic flakes, the roast pork, accompanied by a “to die for” smokey tasting chilli sauce and my personal favorite and possibly best thing on the menu at this place is the crispy catfsih, flaked, fluffed, deep fried to perfection, heaped with crisp salad greens and vegetables and drizzled in an amazing hot, sour and salty dressing, i’m hungry just thinking about it.
It’s pretty cheap as well, last time I was here I fed four people, including many, many beers for around 1,000 Baht. You will need to speak Thai to order (in case you are wondering I don’t speak it), or bring your phrasebook as the staff don’t speak any English.
