Random Meals in Bangkok

We ate quite a bit in Bangkok, all over the city and at various eating places. The first night, we found this restaurant on the top floor of Central World at Siam. We were initially looking for another restaurant instead, but this looked pretty authentic, plus there were lots of locals waiting for a table. There was no English name, but I'm guessing with my limited Thai that the restaurant was called Tha-Siam.

They had mostly pork-based dishes, and also served sticky rice which we were very pleased about.

Sticky rice goes better with larb than steamed rice...which works better with curries.

The husband and I love larb. Unfortunately, we forgot that Thai people love innards...so the larb came with a variety of heart, lung, intestines and other unidentifiable objects, making up about half the plate :(

The tom yum goong was really tasty. We enjoyed this very much.

The chicken wings were very good as well - crispy and not at all oily.

What's a Thai meal without som tum - phet nit noy : ) The entire meal cost us 300 baht, including drinks = approximately S$20. Not bad for 3 people dining in air-conditioned comfort.

The following night, we decided to try this restaurant called Somboon somewhere near the National Stadium. It took up almost 3/4 of the street. It reminded me of Jumbo restaurant - very popular and full of locals.

The signature dish is the curry crab. We found it decent, but not particularly mind-blowing.

Kangkung with garlic

Squid with garlic

Vermicelli with large prawns....this was pretty good.

Tom yum talaay - fairly ordinary.

The next day, we headed for a nearby coffeeshop to have lunch. We ordered standard coffeeshop stuff, including fishball noodle soup (kuey teow nam sai look chin), phad thai and fried rice (kao phad gai).

At the airport, after checking in, we had our last fix of som tum and kuey teow nam neua : )