Pastrami

[Guderian]

Is there any good deli-style pastrami available in Pattaya? I usually bring it back with me from a deli in the UK, but this last year that hasn't been an option. I tried the TGM locally-produced pastrami but wasn't very impressed with that, it's better than nothing but that's about all the praise I can give it. I've looked in Villa on many occasions but have never seen it there. Has anybody seen any in the various supermarkets, locally-made or imported, I don't mind as long as it's good?

[ThailandRyan]

Villa is the only place I have found it, and as you have said it is the TGM product.  Not very good stuff when your used to the real thing from a Jewish delicatessen. 

฿99.00/100g

Tgm Beef Pastrami 1 Pk

[Eindhoven]

12 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Is there any good deli-style pastrami available in Pattaya? I usually bring it back with me from a deli in the UK, but this last year that hasn't been an option. I tried the TGM locally-produced pastrami but wasn't very impressed with that, it's better than nothing but that's about all the praise I can give it. I've looked in Villa on many occasions but have never seen it there. Has anybody seen any in the various supermarkets, locally-made or imported, I don't mind as long as it's good?

 

Not sure if they still make it at the Big Kahuna on Thappraya. You might enquire.

[Guderian]

36 minutes ago, Eindhoven said:

 

Not sure if they still make it at the Big Kahuna on Thappraya. You might enquire.

 

Never been there, but it looks like a restaurant, or do they have a deli counter inside?

[Cisco]

Has this place survived? Haven't tried it, but the pastrami looks to be a better option than TGM.

 

https://primepattayasmokehouse.com/product-category/smoked-smallgoods/

[4reaL]

I was spoiled growing up near this place.

 

 

[treetops]

22 minutes ago, Cisco said:

Has this place survived? Haven't tried it, but the pastrami looks to be a better option than TGM.

 

https://primepattayasmokehouse.com/product-category/smoked-smallgoods/

 

I think it must have as this is available in Siamburi's on line shop.

 

[ThailandRyan]

I am searching out the other outlets that make meat and can mail it in a iced cooler box but so far no luck.  I like my Pastrami on Rye sandwiches with a nice cold beer once in awhile.

[champers]

I have seen it in Best Supermarket at Dolphin Circus. I cannot attest to the quality.

[Guderian]

5 minutes ago, champers said:

I have seen it in Best Supermarket at Dolphin Circus. I cannot attest to the quality.

 

Do you remember the make, was it TGM?

[champers]

5 minutes ago, Guderian said:

 

Do you remember the make, was it TGM?

Don't think it was TGM, but was local. I am going there in a couple of days so will put it on my shopping list to remind me to look for it. German rye bread is sold in the bakery department too.

[Eindhoven]

23 hours ago, Guderian said:

 

Never been there, but it looks like a restaurant, or do they have a deli counter inside?

 

I meant that you should enquire with them. ????

 

https://food.grab.com/th/en/restaurant/บิ๊กคาฮูน่า-big-kahuna-ถนนทัพพระยา-delivery/3-CYWCVCMGVCCBJX

 

Seems like only corned beef now, but again, you should check with them to see what they can organise for you.

 

[scotinsiam]

Foodland on Pattaya Klang sell pastrami at their Del counter. It's decent and as I recall not too expensive.....might wander up for some now that I think about it.

[tontraveller]

Foodland has it too

[RickG16]

On 1/21/2021 at 11:07 AM, 4reaL said:

I was spoiled growing up near this place.

 

 

Where is that from?

[Kerryd]

I was going to say Foodland on Pattaya Klang as well. 

They have the whole pastrami loaf (as opposed to the small plastic packaged type). However, if I recall correctly, it's the little size (kind of oval shaped, about 8 x 5 cm in diameter).

I remember hungering for a pastrami on rye a couple years ago. Bought the pastrami and one of those little packages of rye bread from the bakery at the front of the store.

During the first bite I knew it had been a mistake to try it. I had to drink nearly a half bottle of water to wash that first bite down. The pastrami wasn't that flavourful and the bread would probably be better used as sound-proofing insulation in walls. (I'd actually bought 2 packages of the rye bread. One sat in the fridge for over 6 months and never went bad. I threw it out anyways. If I had tried to eat it, it would have absorbed all the moisture in my body and left me a desiccated shell that even the ants would ignore.)

Never tried making another pastrami sandwich after that.

[Susco]

I have by coincidence today the beef pastrami from TGM bought at Big C extra.

 

They also have the loaf and slice it to your requirements. Will let you know tomorrow how it tastes.

[4reaL]

3 hours ago, RickG16 said:

Where is that from?

 

Corner of East Houston Street.

[Susco]

20 hours ago, Susco said:

I have by coincidence today the beef pastrami from TGM bought at Big C extra.

 

They also have the loaf and slice it to your requirements. Will let you know tomorrow how it tastes.

 

Tried the Pastrami from Big C this morning, not a bad taste, in fact no taste at all, so will not bother again. Lucky I bought only 100 gram'

 

The black forest ham at Foodland is my go to. Taste good and inexpensive

[champers]

In Best Supermarket today at Dolphin Circus. Plenty of stock.

 

[LALes]

Katz's deli on the lower East Side of Manhattan.  My mom was born a block away on Orchard St. over a hundred years ago.  My parents used to take me into Manhattan from Queens once a month for a Katz's Pastrami sandwich.  Still the best in the world.  I was last there in November of 19 with my cousin right before Covid hit.

For  Pattaya, the pickins are slim.  The TGM stuff is <deleted>.  Sloane's is found occasionally in Villa or Central near the imported cold cuts.  He's a Brit butcher in Bangkok and his pastrami is OK.  A bit on the tough side but a decent taste.  It should be cut thinner.

Not cheap, either.  A 200 gram package is 290 baht.  Take it or leave it.

When they can get it, Central makes a pastrami burger that is decent in the upscale food court.

[Guderian]

What happened to the Pastrami on Rye restaurant in Jomtien after it was bought and closed down, by someone in Bangkok I think? Did they start a new shop/restaurant up there, or even a chain, and if so then why haven't they opened a branch in Pattaya? I never tried it myself, but I recall a lot of positive comments about their pastrami.

 

[1FinickyOne]

On 1/23/2021 at 12:27 AM, 4reaL said:

 

Corner of East Houston Street.

Katz's Deli?

 

I lived in the West Village... 

 

ps - some decent pastrami here in CM

[Yellowtail]

Just another of the things you are better off getting used to doing without....