Sawasdee Khrup,

 

I'd like to take a friend for a treat; friend, and I, don't eat chicken, pork, beef,  but do eat seafood.

 

Ideally, buffet would be like that great river front buffet-lunch restaurant in Nong Hoi that closed several years ago; lots of Thai food, as well as the other. Dim Sum a plus.

 

thanks !  ~o:37;

Grandview Hotel lunch buffet usually has at least one Thai fish dish, pasta and a selection of sushi.  Usually a vegetable soup, somtam, and a  salad bar, where the produce is good quality.  Plus, they've got the best desserts for a buffet at that price point -- I think it's still 199 baht.

 

The buffet at Lotus Hotel, behind Kad Suan Kaew is a more expensive at 299, has selections similar to Grandview, but the desserts aren't as good.  The atmosphere is more relaxed and there is always a man playing the piano -- a nice touch.  You can carry on a conversation there, while the Grandview can get very noisy sometimes.

Maybe a bit out of the way, but I happened on to a nice buffet at Ruamchok Mall, just near the front entrance. The selection of dishes was really large and I thought it was tasty as well, with Thai, Western and Japanese. I believe that had dim sum as well. I don't eat chicken, pork or beef either and found plenty to eat. Not bad for 88 baht.

 

 

Hello agree grandview good lunch buffet and one of the best I would also recommend eat@rincome .. But check it was weekend evenings only and by appointment.. At top end of your budget at 300 baht last visit plus coffee you should not be disappointed.

 Another lunchtime buffet is at sirpana but it dies get busy with lots of Chinese tours ....

 

2 hours ago, bubba said:

Maybe a bit out of the way, but I happened on to a nice buffet at Ruamchok Mall, just near the front entrance. The selection of dishes was really large and I thought it was tasty as well, with Thai, Western and Japanese. I believe that had dim sum as well. I don't eat chicken, pork or beef either and found plenty to eat. Not bad for 88 baht.

 

 

88 baht for eat as much as you can? That's a bargain!

BTW, dim sum is chinese not Japanese

In town and out of town locations.....

Opens at 5:30 week days & 11:30/12:00 on Sundays....

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11 minutes ago, EricTh said:

 

88 baht for eat as much as you can? That's a bargain!

BTW, dim sum is chinese not Japanese

This was about a month ago, and I believe they may have limited you to two trips or something, but I had plenty on my plate in one trip.

 

Yes, have lived in HKG for a while, I was pretty sure dim sum is Chinese. ?

 

 

Siripanna Hotel on the road past Gymkhana golf course has a quite extensive weekday lunch time buffet for 189 baht.

4 hours ago, EricTh said:

 

88 baht for eat as much as you can? That's a bargain!

BTW, dim sum is chinese not Japanese

 

4 hours ago, bubba said:

This was about a month ago, and I believe they may have limited you to two trips or something, but I had plenty on my plate in one trip.

 

Yes, have lived in HKG for a while, I was pretty sure dim sum is Chinese. ?

 

 

It's 159 now.

Do you know whether that is unlimited or the one or two trips deal?

 

Seems like they were offering both options when I was there a month or two ago for lunch.

4 minutes ago, bubba said:

Do you know whether that is unlimited or the one or two trips deal?

 

Seems like they were offering both options when I was there a month or two ago for lunch.

As far as I know they got rid of the 88 Baht option. But there is a sign now that says something about a la carte options. Don't know what is offered - just saw the sign recently.

Sizzler salad bar.  I believe it is on special 139 b.

Sizzler salad bar.  I believe it is on special 139 b.

What choice of seafood do they have?

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3 hours ago, bubba said:

Do you know whether that is unlimited or the one or two trips deal?

 

Seems like they were offering both options when I was there a month or two ago for lunch.

I went there today. It is 159 baht and  there're no other options.

 

So it's not worth it bcos I don't eat that much.

8 hours ago, EricTh said:

I went there today. It is 159 baht and  there're no other options.

 

So it's not worth it bcos I don't eat that much.

El cheapo...... ?

16 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Siripanna Hotel on the road past Gymkhana golf course has a quite extensive weekday lunch time buffet for 189 baht.

This "Lanna Revival" style Hotel is near where I live. They have a special Sunday buffet-do for 289B pp. link to Siripanna

Business Lunch
From Monday to Saturday

Innovative twist to local and international cuisine, a lunch buffet at Slee Banyan will offer you the best meal of the day. A variety buffet menu consists of fresh salad bar, northern appetizers, warm soup of the day, pasta station, pizza, Kao-Soi and local noodles, mouthwatering dessert counter for a sweet ending to the perfect meal.

 

Business Lunch Buffet starts from 12.00 – 15.00 hrs. at Slee Banyan Restaurant.
THB 189 net per person inclusive of drinking water.
Special 50% discount for children age 4 – 12. Children age 3 and below dine with our compliments.

9 hours ago, EricTh said:

I went there today. It is 159 baht and  there're no other options.

 

So it's not worth it bcos I don't eat that much.

 

No offence intended, but going to a buffet if you do not want to eat much might not be a cost-effect lunch solution.

 

Anyway, thanks for the price update. It still looks like the cheapest buffet in town, and I thought the food and selection was fine. What did you think of the food?

 

Also, the question that keeps coming up: was there seafood this time?

 

Regarding the MeeChokePlaza buffet:  Is this the one located in the newer building which also houses the supermarket (not Rim Ping)?  I ate there only once, and won't return.  They issue a plate at the time of payment.  That is the only plate the customer has; no other clean plates are seen at the food line.

With everyone going back for additional portions of food, placing the food on used (saliva contaminated) plates is not sanitary enough for me.  Let your imagination run wild with this thought.  Chances are one probably won't pick up a deadly disease, but why take the chance?

 

There is a reason why buffets have and recommend a clean plate for each visit to the food line.  Most people do comply.

 

6 minutes ago, MrBrad said:

 

 

Regarding the MeeChokePlaza buffet:  Is this the one located in the newer building which also houses the supermarket (not Rim Ping)?  I ate there only once, and won't return.  They issue a plate at the time of payment.  That is the only plate the customer has; no other clean plates are seen at the food line.

 

 

With everyone going back for additional portions of food, placing the food on used (saliva contaminated) plates is not sanitary enough for me.  Let your imagination run wild with this thought.  Chances are one probably won't pick up a deadly disease, but why take the chance?

 

 

There is a reason why buffets have and recommend a clean plate for each visit to the food line.  Most people do comply.

 

 

 

Do you patronise restaurants here, whose kitchens and dishwashing facilities you have never seen?

 

Let your imagination run wild with that thought.

38 minutes ago, MrBrad said:

They issue a plate at the time of payment.  That is the only plate the customer has; no other clean plates are seen at the food line.

 

With everyone going back for additional portions of food, placing the food on used (saliva contaminated) plates is not sanitary enough for me.  Let your imagination run wild with this thought.  Chances are one probably won't pick up a deadly disease, but why take the chance?

 

Let me try to throw a lasso on this buckin' bronco of a counter-factual: you suggest you will contaminate yourself by the repeated use of your own plate ?

 

Surely, you do not describe using other people's used plates ? 

 

~o:37;

4 minutes ago, orang37 said:

 

Let me try to throw a lasso on this buckin' bronco of a counter-factual: you suggest you will contaminate yourself by the repeated use of your own plate ?

 

Surely, you do not describe using other people's used plates ? 

 

~o:37;

On come on, surely you understand what Mr. Brad is saying.  That if other people are scooping food onto used plates, then the serving utensils become contaminated.  I agree, I wouldn't patronize such a buffet.

14 minutes ago, NancyL said:

On come on, surely you understand what Mr. Brad is saying.  That if other people are scooping food onto used plates, then the serving utensils become contaminated.  I agree, I wouldn't patronize such a buffet.

That double dipping thing just doesn't work.....

53 minutes ago, NancyL said:

On come on, surely you understand what Mr. Brad is saying.  That if other people are scooping food onto used plates, then the serving utensils become contaminated.  I agree, I wouldn't patronize such a buffet.

Hi, Khun Nancy,

 

I find your contamination-via-shared-serving-utensils hypothesis as strange as Khun Brad's !

 

Have you ever seen a buffet where the serving ladles and such are swapped out for sterilized ones ... other than in an operating room ?

 

While I am always careful to drop food on the serving ladle onto my plate from a height of at least 2.5cm., hovering over the appropriate landing zone, I observe most other helicopter pilots actually landing said ladles on a plate they have re-used ... obviously with no control tower guidance. Is that wild enough for you ?

 

If you want to find food contamination: look in the kitchen and on the hands of food preparers and servers; look in the air cranked out by the venue's cooling system. If you want to find vulnerability to bacterial-food contamination, look in your gut (microbiome).

 

Your nose and eyes are your best preventive resources,

 

Perhaps you and Khun Brad might consider sponsoring a local branch of "Queunliskanphobia [spit phobics]  Anonymous" ' remarkable twelve-step program. Remember that spit actually heals wounds:

 

mens sana in corpore spittamus

 

cheers, ~o:37;

1 hour ago, NancyL said:

On come on, surely you understand what Mr. Brad is saying.  That if other people are scooping food onto used plates, then the serving utensils become contaminated.  I agree, I wouldn't patronize such a buffet.

I do understand what he is saying; however, put things in perspective: How many times have you eaten at a shop where the staff are washing dishes together in a soapy washing tub? Do you ever eat som tum where the preparer is handling all the ingredients by hand? Or how about khao gaeng places where all the food is left out in trays for hours? What's going on in those kitchens where you eat? Do you also not patronise those places or perhaps only cook at home?

 

Honestly, a buffet were customers re-use their plate is very far down on my list of concerns here.

8 minutes ago, bubba said:

I do understand what he is saying; however, put things in perspective: How many times have you eaten at a shop where the staff are washing dishes together in a soapy washing tub? Do you ever eat som tum where the preparer is handling all the ingredients by hand? Or how about khao gaeng places where all the food is left out in trays for hours? What's going on in those kitchens where you eat? Do you also not patronise those places or perhaps only cook at home?

 

Honestly, a buffet were customers re-use their plate is very far down on my list of concerns here.

Well, yes, and it's probably part of why they can charge just 88 baht.  Perhaps they intend for people to go through the buffet line just once.  In any event, the OP was asking about a buffet where he could take a friend for a special treat.  It doesn't sound like this place fits the bill.  Might was well go to an outdoor noodle stall where you can sit on a plastic stool and breathe car exhaust fumes while slurping your noodles.

Nancy, my comment addressed your unconditional "I would not patronize such a buffet". I might suggest you visit the buffet there and see for yourself whether you would compare that to "an outdoor noodle stall where you can sit on a plastic stool and breathe car exhaust fumes while slurping your noodles." Actually, being the pathogenic bacteria thrill seeker that I am, I enjoy noodle stalls as well sometimes. I even know of some without car exhaust fumes, although I tend not to slurp.

 

As the thread turned to inexpensive buffets in response to Orang37's query, I thought the Ruamchok buffet was a reasonable option at 159 baht. I would eat there again myself. 

1 hour ago, NancyL said:

Might was well go to an outdoor noodle stall where you can sit on a plastic stool and breathe car exhaust fumes while slurping your noodles.

Khun Nancy, I am beginning to think the fever you're running today may be higher than the one I'm running today. Thought I had knocked mine out with zinc yesterday, but, it's back.

 

cheers,  ~o:37;

I believe I saw either Khun Brad, or, Khun Nancy, today, at that buffet mentioned here:

 

but, which one was it ?    link to family safe .png file

 

cheers, ~o:37;