Any recommendations for good Thai food Bangkok

Hello Dears, Queers and Steers

I am passing through Bangkok for a few days next month, and unlike my last visit in April, I might actually try eating some nice food rather than drinking piss and buying crap to eat on the way home, or ordering room service.

Can anyone please recommend a nice, good value for money, Thai restaurant. I particularly like fresh (live) seafood. I am taking a very special friend I met last time ;)

I would be happy to pay a few thousand Baht or so for a nice meal and drinks, I am staying in Silom again but don't mind cabbing or going on the BTS if its good.

can anyone please help

Thanks

Simon

[krobbie]

Simon,
First I have to say that food prices have little to do with the food being good or not good. All it means is you will probably be sitting in better surroundings.

Personall when I want a good Thai meal I will go to one of my favourite places.

These are: A "pop-up" restaurant opposite the the Sate Tower at the bottom of Silom Road.

Also another restaurant that turns up nightly is down by Royal Orchid Sheraton across the road from their restaurant at 2 Charoen Krung Road Soi 30 (Captain Bush Lane).

This also seems quite down market but the woman who does the cooking is a very good cook. You sit at tin tables on metal or plastic chairs and the lane-way is quite busy with cars and buses and the like but the food ... really, really good.

If you wished though you could cross the road and spend up in the Sheraton International restaurant. It receives very good reports.

Also I can recommend The Blue Elephant (google it) on Sathorn Road. Wonderful Thai food and is also a cooking school by day.

I hope this helps.

Cheers
Krobbie

[mahjongguy]

I second the vote for the Blue Elephant. Other places may have better food or lower prices but overall the Blue Elephant is a very good choice for a dinner date, and it's convenient from Silom.

But, it's Royal Thai cuisine. There are seafood dishes but it's not the place to go if you want to pick a fish or a crab from a tank.

[cameroncat]

Keep in mind that Shellfish is the #1 way visiting farangs get food poisoning in SE Asia (outside of drinking the water!). Highly unlikely if you eat at nice Hotel Restaurant, but be careful about shellfish from small street restaurants.

Thanks guys, I saw the Blue Elephant from the BTS so I might try that

Thanks

Simon

[thonglor55]

There's a very good fish restaurant in Pratunam, at the major intersection there of Ratchadmri and Phetburi Roads (so I'm told; I don't eat fish usually and would never go to such a place). Coming from the Silom direction you cross the bridge over the canal that's just beyond what everyone still calls the World Trade Center, and when you reach the intersection it's on your left, in Phetburi Rd. If you walk further along Phetburi Rd you reach Panthip Plaza, home of pirated software, sex DVDs and computer hardware, for those who aren't familiar with Bangkok street names. Farang Friendly (http://www.farangfriendly.com/Restaurants-International/bangkok/) is a useful site (the link I've given is for restaurants), and if you use Google Maps but want the street names displayed in English then use a URL that states English as your preferred language eg. maps.google.co.th?hl=en.

I realise that such an answer has hopelessly compromised me further in the eyes of our resident Presbyterian lay preacher who believes that every one of us should be proficient in both spoken and written Thai, and indeed not speak to one another while we are in Thailand so as to maintain our moral purity.

[Sen Yai]

If itтАЩs sea food you want, and for a special occasion, you should consider the imaginatively named Seafood Market Restaurant (http://www.seafood.co.th/index.php) which is located on Sukhumvit Soi Kasaem, near Emporium. This place is quite famous and has featured on various TV programs with celebrity chefs touring тАУ such as Anthony BourdainтАЩs тАШA CookтАЩs TourтАЩ which features the Seafood Market Restaurant from 07:15 in clip one through to 02:50 in clip two below. ItтАЩs not just a tourist trap and is well worth the experience as the fish is fresh and the cooking, whilst simple, can be quite good. The concept is that you choose your fish and shellfish (some of it live) from the market area and then have it cooked in the style of your choice before it is brought back to your dining table.

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Alternatively, if you want good Thai food in a more conventional environment I recommend Naj (http://www.najcuisine.com/webnaj/home.html) which is located on Convent Road just off Silom, right opposite Soi 4. Whilst this is traditional restaurant, they of course feature seafood on the menu тАУ check out the lobster, garoupa and scallops in this clip. (Sorry if you donтАЩt understand Canto, but itтАЩs worth watching anyway as the video is HD)

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[dorayme]

My Thai b/f and other Thai I know like the Banana House at 68/1 2nd Floor Duangtip Bld, Silom Road (Phone 02 234 9967). A lot of Janapese eat there. Open from 10 AM til 10 PM, closed on Sunday.

We tried the Blue Elephant and the food was expensive and so bad we never went back.

If you need a good place for breakfast try the Coffee Society near the Saladang BTS. Their eggs benedict is good as is their coffee

Thanks boys this is great

[pong]

warning for chang see fah=blue elefant. really this is a high-priced tourist trap, with same-name sisters in many places around the world. Almost any Thai taken there complains that the Thai food is very bad and ''jeut''=non-spicy, hence its appeal to the farangs. The sheer fact that it advises you to drink wine (from out of Thailand of coruse) as best to go with that meal says it all- a most unThai thing.
Also take a deep and critical look at your favoured boy- if he is the usual Isan farmer boy, he will not be very impressed with those suroundings, but rather scared to hell if he does not make a mistake in such shiny hi-class surroundings. Then follow Krobbie's advice.

Pong,

When I studied Thai, ' jeut ' meant without taste, tasteless. not spicy =mai phet!

Not trying to be clever, trying to assist.

[Sen Yai]

A common Thai expression is: р╣Др╕бр╣Ир╣Ар╕Ьр╣Зр╕Ф� �╣Др╕бр╣Ир╕нр╕гр╣Ир╕нр ╕в ~ mai phet mai aroy ~ Not spicy, Not Delicious!

[Beachlover]

Try Nahm Restaurant:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/res ... 15qi2.html (http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/thai-by-any-other-nahm-20100924-15qi2.html)

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/f ... 18m2s.html (http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/food-and-wine/from-street-to-fine-dining-20101206-18m2s.html)


I might actually try eating some nice food rather than drinking piss and buying crap to eat on the way home, or ordering room service.
Heh... That's what I usually do when it comes to eating in Bangkok... street food or the hotel.


I particularly like fresh (live) seafood.
Don't know about Bangkok, but I always enjoy the very fresh seafood in Phuket.

Most seafood served in the larger Bangkok restaurants is safe, you will of course always get the exception now and again. As a rule of thumb never eat or buy seafood from roadside stalls.

[cdnmatt]

Wander around, and tell everyone you want some lap neuua pet jang leuuy, and keep going until you find some. Excellent stuff!