Flavors @Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong Hotelotel

Flavors at Renaissance Bangkok Hotel is holding Malaysia food festival under the title of  "A Real Southeast Asian Treat.
Price : Sun-Thu 1,390B++  / Fri-Sat 1,690B++

To me, Flavors has their expertise on meat dish.Among all countless treats they provided, Raosted Tenderloin or Oven baked Lamb Shank are the start of the meal.

There were these 4 kinds of fancy herb infused salts at hot station. Lemon / Rosemary / Coffe / Vanilla. A nice boost up to meat dish.

Seafood on ice was also in good quality. If you fancy Foie gras, you have came to the right place. Pan fried thick cut Foie gras are served here with choice of Orange sauce or Red Wine sauce.

 

Another enjoyable meal to satisfy my greedy stomach. Cheers!

Tokachi Hokkaido Butadon

Any of you who is familiar with Manga might heard of Hiromu Arakawau, The writer of Full Metal Alchemist. Now that the legend of golden eyes brother has ended, Hiromu is now writing a series of Agriculture High Schoolers in Hokkaido.

I must say daily life of these farm boy/girls in Agriculture High School is filled of mouth watering dairy product and fresh vegatables or meats. There were a scene these kids stuffed their mouth with a mountain of grilled pork bowl.

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Oh god, This Manga sure gives me a big appetite.
And what am I to do other than but finding myself this kind of grilled pork bowl. 

I later found myself atTokachi (Silom soi6) a famous Hokkaido Style Grilled pork bowl joint.

We went there with party of 2. One big size of grilled pork bowl for each of us. And an extra dish of grilled pork.

 Big size pork bowl (230B)

Extra grilled pork 210B

Then I started to make my own a 'Tokyo Skytree Pork Bowl'

 

Under construction.

Complete!

It was one of the biggest lunch I had in a while. Took us quite an effort to finish this. 

This pork bowl tower is sure nice to look at, and taste even better then its look. 

Tokachi Hokkaido Butadon

8/4-5 Soi Anumanrashaton, Surawong Rd.,

Suriyawong,Bangrak, Bangkok

02-634-3935

Mon - Sun: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Torihada 鳥波多゛

Torihada is a famous Yakitori (Grilled chicken skewer) joint from Ningyochou district, Tokyo. Not long ago their newest branch has just opened at Surawong, Bangkok.


Specialty of Torihada is rare part of chicken you won't find elsewhere, like Sori (Dark meat), Chouchin (Immature Egg) or Obi (Waist).

Front: Sori (Dark meat Chicken Thigh)
Back : Momo (Common Chicken Thigh)

Mune : Chicken Breast

Chouchin : Immature Eggs

Tsukune : Chicken Meatball


Also unique appetizers like Raw chicken Liver or Chicken Sashimi are available. These raw menus can only be served because they use very fresh chicken prepared daily. 

 Raw chicken Liver

 Chicken Sashimi


Another a must would be Smoked Potato Salad. Imagine a potato smell like smoked cheese. An indeed playful and creative twist given to potato. If you are looking for a savory to goes with drink, Blue Cheese&Preserved Squid would be the perfect choice.

 Blue Cheese&Preserved Squid 

Smoked Potato Salad


Chicken Hotpot is one of the best treat in their house. The soup for hotpot is 8hours stewed chicken broth. The outcome is full-falvor white muddy soup. The most delectable Chicken hotpot ever encountered, I must say.

Torihada 鳥波多゛  

43/1 Soi Anumanratchatorn Surawong Road, Bangkok

02-634-5860  

5:00 pm - 11:30 pm




Chicken, Yakitori, Nabe, Hotpot, Torihada, Japanese Food, Silom, Suwawong

Magnum Cafe

The global campaign Magnum Cafe has arrived Bangkok eventually. And the success is proven by the number of overwhelmed number of customer.

We were there on weekend and the place was completely packed. Anyway, we have got a flawless service.

The drink was very fancy and come in many varietions from Smoothie to Cocktail. This one was Summe Mango; Magnum smoothie blended with ripen mango and chocolate chips. (120B)

Bittersweet Addiction; Campari, Grapefruit Juice, Sparkling Wine and wild berries (220B) 

Magnum Temptini Magnum blended with Dark Rum, Bailey's, Tia Maria (220B) 

We had a plate of cheese and Charcuteries to go with our drinks. (190B each)

Most of the food is based on Chocolate theme. Chocolate is infused in both savoury and dessert. This one was Nemo : Chocolate Linguini with Blue crab meat. Intensified with garlic and caper. (260B)

We also had a plate of pizza. Which was an oriental one, called Sussie Wong : Cripsy Duck with Hoi Chin sauce Pizza. (190B)

The high light of the meal would be dessert. We had Green Tea Stogie (140B) . A Magnum with Green Tea powder, accompanied by a piece of brownie smoked with Hickory Chip. 



 

The second Magnum plate dessert was Diana's Secret Love (160B). A Magnum ice cream topped with crunchy caramel. This comes with dark(52%) chocolate mousse.

Special 'Make your Magnum' idea of the month was in Coffee theme. We has one of those, Bubble Bee Coffee (80B). A Magnum ice cream coated with White chocolate and coffee powder. Topped with Honeycomb. We found this was the best among all dessert.

Overall it was another relaxing meal with friends in a relaxing place. The food was creative and available in such reasonable price. No wonder it's packed all the time.

Firehouse Pub and Restaurant

Firehouse Pub and Restaurant is a Fire department themed American food joint in Soi Sukhumvit 11. Here lies the best burger in town for price range of 200B IMHO.

Once you are seated, you will find these trio waiting on your table. They are self service roasted peanut and pickle cucumber. These are free of charge. We had a few peanut as starter. And the rough cut pikle was very satisfying.

The burger, approximately 5inches tall. The beef patty was very juicy and tender. Original Burger starts from 200B. I ordered New York style burger (240B), that's original burger added extra bacon and coleslaw salad. All together, this was juicy, yummy ,nasty and all that jazz for a one good burger. I rarely encouter a burger this good with this price range. I can't figure why would I bother going to any fastfood for burger if Firehouse Pub and Restaurant serves a burger this delectable wit same price range. By all means, this a must for burger lover to try out.



Firehouse Pub and Restaurant

Mon - Sun: 11:30 am - 3:00 am

33/25-26 Soi Sukhumvit 11 (Chaiyot), 
Sukhumvit Road, Klong Toey Nua, 
Wattana, Bangkok, Thailand 10110

02-651-3643  

  

Ruen Thai

Not often I would step out of Bangkok for only a meal. Thanks to this exceptionally nice weather of winter managed to bring me to Ayuthaya for a short trip.

I found myself at a river side local restaurant called 'Ruen Thai'. As the sign says, grilled river prawn is their speciality.

It was a blissful day with nice weather. We were lucky to get a table right on river side. Panorama view of the river was spetacular.

The menu is very simple. Fresh catches from river can be cooked in any style. Price is mostly pinned at either 150B or 180B.

We had a river fish called 'Pla-Kao' stir-fried with herb. Fish was very fresh and packed with juice. The size of each bite was very large and plump.

For the soup, we chose a kind of clear soup Tom Yum. This was made from another river fish called 'Pla-Kang'. The taste of Pla-Kang isn't as full flavor as Pla-Kao, yet this was also perfectly fresh. Well balanced spiciness and sweet&sourness. A good Tom Yum it was.

Here comes the star of the meal. Grilled River Prawn. 1,100B per kilo. Look at the gigantic size of these river prawn. These are nothing less than a size of lobster.

My favourite part is the yellow creammy fat inside the head.

Mix this fat with nice white rice, sprinkle with a dash of Nampla. The outcome is my very own prawn risotto.

The prawn flesh from legs and claws can be cooked into another dish (Free of charge). We asked the restaurant to stir-fried these with broccoli. This is also delectable.

Considerable another good short escape from Bangkok. Especially when the weather is chiled enough. Ruen Thai is a place where prawn lover should drop by if they have a chance to go to Ayuthaya.