Couple Of Tips On Nights Out In Bkk! Please!

[scratt]

Hi there,

Been living in Bangkok (well Muang Thong Thani actuallly) since the beginning of the year and have really only done downtown Bangkok with the multitude of familly visiting us now they know they have a base in Thailand!!! ;-)

On Thursday night my Father wants to go to a nice restaurant to say thanks for us hosting them here and he wants to do it somewher downtown.. He has even mentioned 'credit card' and 'meal' in the same sentence! I am wondering if anyone can recommend a good downtown restaurant which is not gonna be exhorbitant but a reasonable price, good food (Thai of course) but that can cater to my little sister who is a bit picky and prefers fairly plain stuff..... If there is an upmarket version of the great little out door places that do the BBQ over a charcoal grill that would be fab... Thanks for any help / suggestions. They are gonna be staying near Baiyoke.

Secondly, myself and my other half really like to go to a good Trance / Techno / House rave from time to time.. and are obviously not wanting to land ourselves in trouble the first time we venture out downtown... Is there anywhere for this kind of scene that is safe and doesn't have all the crass loonies running around obviously off their faces trying to get put in the Bangkok Hilton for the rest of their lives... We are mature ravers (mid 30s) so would prefer a more subtle crowd... or should we be looking to the provinces and beaches at the end of the year...

Cheers for any help...

scratt

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Cabbages & Condoms, Sukhamvit Soi 12.

Don't be fooled by the name, it's actually a very nice and upmarket place in a beautiful setting, especially at night.

It does very good quality Thai food and isn't too expensive and you get condoms instead of mints with the bill.

If you think I'm pulling your plonker then take a look at the websight.

I can't post up a link because I'm useless but somebody will no doubt read this and do it for me, if not, just type the name into a search engine such as Ask Jeeves or Google.

Bon appitite!

Scamp.

[Speedy]

Secondly, myself and my other half really like to go to a good Trance / Techno / House rave from time to time.. and are obviously not wanting to land ourselves in trouble the first time we venture out downtown... Is there anywhere for this kind of scene that is safe and doesn't have all the crass loonies running around obviously off their faces trying to get put in the Bangkok Hilton for the rest of their lives... We are mature ravers (mid 30s) so would prefer a more subtle crowd... or should we be looking to the provinces and beaches at the end of the year...

Cheers for any help...

scratt

why would you land yourself in any trouble if you are only planning on a nice night out and stick to alcoholic drinks?

try Mystique, Suk Soi 31 if you wanna go chique

try Lucifer, Patpong Soi 1 (above radio city) if you are out on the pull

try Q Bar, Suk Soi 11, for cozzy mozzy

or just go to splurge in the mega big Narcissus, but stick to fri-sat. since the rest of the week it tends to be empty...

Good luck and enjoy yourselves

[NoAjarn]

You may wonder how "C&C" got its peculiar name. The Cabbages and Condoms Restaurant or C&C is PDA's public benefit restaurant used for the promotion of family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in Thailand. World-renowned for family planning, PDA's programs contributed to lowering the number of children per family from 7 to 2 in just 12 years.

C&C has both indoor and outdoor dining, in the true Northern Thai Style. You will experience the wonderful tastes of the north, while helping our local communities.

In addition to free condoms, C&C is famous for its delicious Thai dishes. Try our "KAI YOK" breaded and pan fried, minced chicken and shrimp fillets, or "Kai Hor Bai Teuy" deep fried chicken piecs wrapped in and served with luscious sweet sesame dip i a palm leaf "bikini", or "Yam Tung Yang" our famous Spicy Condom Salad.

Remember : "Our food is guaranteed not to cause PREGNANCY"

Menu

Appetizers

Thai Spicy Thai-style salad of raw papaya, tomato, peanuts and shrimp (for vegetarians, order without shrimp)

40

Thailand's world renowned spicy shredded papaya salad tossed with shrimp and mussel

50

A delightful spread of fried minced pork with egg, garlic and pepper served on toast

50

Crispy rice crackers served with a warm dip made from minced chicken and shrimp

45

Fermented Northern Thai pork sausage served with baby red onions (shallot)

50

Breaded and pan fried crab fillet served with carrot

80

Pan Roasted cashew nuts

60

Deep fried shrimp cakes served with a honey dip

60

Raw shrimp pickled in fish sauce and garlic

70

Hors D’oeuvre,Traditional Northern style roasted green chili salsa served with a selection of steamed vegetables, tasty fried beef and a variety of Northern Thai sausages

120

Salad

Vegetable salad (lettuce, tomato, onions and cucumber)

40

Sliced hard-boiled eggs over lettuce, tomato, onion and cucumbers

50

Vegetable salad with slivers of chicken

50

Vegetable salad with slivers of pork

50

Vegetable Salad with shrimp

60

Spicy and sour fried eggs with onions and chili

50

Spicy and sour glass noodle salad with crispy mixed vegetables

50

Minced pork, dried shrimp and an water mimosa (a floating vegetable common in Thailand)

50

Cabbages and Condoms famous condom salad. A spicy and sour Thai salad of Shanghai noodles, shredded cabbage and shrimp.

50

Fermented Northern Thai sausage, minced and tossed with peanuts and young ginger

50

Spicy Thai Salads

Pickled black eggs (century eggs) flavored with peanuts, onion and young ginger

50

Sour and spicy glass noodle with coriander, shrimp and minced pork

50

Thai salad with boiled eggs, chicken, cucumber, onion and vegetables

50

Spicy and sour Thai seafood salad with shrimp, squid, mussel and crab

60

Spicy Thai salad of fried and minced catfish and green mangoes

50

Sod Spicy Thai squid salad

60

Skinless pork sausage with onions, tomato and chili

50

A tart and spicy salad of lemon grass, minced pork, pork rind, baby shrimp, peanuts and lemon

50

A tangy salad of shredded unripe mangoes, squid rings and cashew nuts squid salad

50

Stir - Fried and Deep - Fried Dishes

Stir-fried sweet and sour mixed vegetables

40

Pork sausage with onions, tomato and chili

40

Stir-fried morning glory with yellow bean sauce, chili and garlic

40

Water mimosa stir-fried with yellow bean sauce, chilly and garlic

40

Assorted vegetables stir-fried with shrimp, pork and chicken

60

Crispy pork and Chinese Kale, stir-fried in oyster and soy sauce

50

Straw mushroom with onion and soy sauce

40

Stir-fried Kale with pickled mackerel

50

Stir-fried bitter gourd with fermented pork sausage

50

Stir-fried Chicken or Pork with basil leaves and fresh chili

50

Pork/Chicken stir-fried with chili powder, curry and kafir lime leaves

50

Spicy red curry with a hint of coconut milk and your choice of chicken or pork

60

Stir-fried sweet and sour chicken, pork and shrimp with tomatoes, pineapple and cucumber

60

Stir-fried pork, chicken and mushrooms with a hint of onion

50

Deep-fried catfish, stir-fried in a spicy red curry with green pepper and kafir lime leaves

60

Stir-fried chicken with cashew nuts and dried chili

60

Stir-fried minced chicken, bean curd, onions, tomatoes and beans

60

Stir-fried shrimp with straw mushrooms with a hint of onion

60

Stir-fried shrimps with Shiitake mushrooms

80

Stir-fried shrimps with Shiitake mushrooms

70

Stir-fried chicken meat with chili and basil leaves

60

Plain Thai omelet

30

Thai omelet with minced pork

40

An omelet of sauted vegetables and minced pork

50

Thailand’s well known deep fried fish cakes with green beans served with a sweet and sour dip

60

Sweet sun-dried pork seasoned with sesame seeds served with a chili dip

60

Northern Thailand's famous sausage served with young ginger and hot chili

60

Thai Fried pork with green pepper corns and garlic

60

Tempura-style deep fried shrimp with a honey dip

70

Deep fried chicken pieces wrapped in pandan leaf bikini and served with a luscious sweet sesame dip

70

A delicious deep fried and crispy dish of fermented pork short ribs

60

Breaded and pan fried minced chicken and shrimp fillets served with fried kale

80

Soup, Curry and Tom Yam (Spicy and Sour Thai Soup)

Mild clear soup of glass noodle and minced pork, chicken or shrimp

40 - 70

Mild clear soup with minced pork and Chinese cabbage

40 - 70

Soft tofu, seaweed and minced pork in a mild, clear soup

40 - 70

Mild clear soup with soft tofu and glass noodles

40 - 70

Spicy yellow curry with vegetables (no coconut milk)

40 - 70

Spicy yellow curry with chicken or pork and vegetables (no coconut milk)

60 - 80

Country-style green curry with assorted vegetables, native eggplants in coconut milk

40 - 70

Green curry with coconut milk, native eggplants and your choice of chicken or pork

60 - 80

Green curry with coconut milk, native eggplants and shrimp

80 - 100

Indian-style yellow sweet and sour curry with chicken, potatoes and coconut milk

60-80

Burmese-style sweet mild red curry with roasted pork or chicken with onions and young ginger

60 - 80

Sweet Indian yellow curry with chicken

60 - 80

Bitter gourd and catfish curry with coconut milk

60 - 80

Spicy vegetarian curry

40 - 70

Sweet and spicy roast duck cooked with coconut milk and pineapple

80 - 120

Spicy red curry with coconut milk and your choice of chicken or pork

60 - 80

Mixed vegetables and shrimp in a spicy soup

70 - 120

Famous spicy sour soup with your choice of chicken or pork

60 - 80

Spicy sour soup with serpent-head fish

70 - 120

Spicy sour soup with baked serpent head

80 - 120

Spicy and sour shrimp soup cooked with chili and lemon grass

80 - 120

Serpent-head fish souffle with red curry, coconut milk and wrapped in steamed banana leaves

60

A very delicious mix of tender seafood and young coconut souffle wrapped in banana leaves.

80

Chili dip

Steamed bean curd dip served with a plate of fresh vegetables

50

Cold chili dip made from shrimp paste and served with fresh vegetables

60

Northern Thailand’s most famous chili dip made from minced pork and tomato served warm with steamed vegetables

50

A very spicy dip of pounded young chili and garlic served with vegetables

50

Fish

Minced serpent-head fish served in a mouthwatering Northeastern style sauce

130

Northeastern style steamed serpent-head fish

130

Whole cotton fish deep fried with spicy sauce

140

Roasted cotton fish with Siamese ginger, kafir lime and butter

140

Ruby Tilapia steamed in soy sauce

140

Charcoal broiled Ruby Tilapia

140

Fried Ruby Tilapia garnished with a sweet chili sauce and other exotic spices

140

Meals for One Person

Fried rice with mixed vegetables

20

Fried rice with Chinese-style sausage

25

Fried rice with fermented pork sausage

25

Fried rice with fermented pork sausage

30

Fried rice with shrimp

30

American fried rice

50

Sweet fried rice with vegetables and baked ham and served in half a pineapple

60

Boiled rice soup with your choice of pork or chicken

25

Boiled rice soup with shrimp

30

Spicy, sweet and sour noodle soup with minced pork

30

Stir-fried rice noodle served with a topping of pork or chicken and vegetables

30

Stir-fried rice noodle served with a topping of shrimp and vegetables

35

Stir-fried Shanghai noodle served with a spicy topping of pork or chicken and vegetables

35

Stir-fried Shanghai noodle served with a spicy seafood topping

40

Stir-fried pork or chicken with glass noodles, vegetables and a spicy sauce

30

Stir-fried seafood with glass noodles, vegetables and a spicy sauce served with our without soup

35

Deep-fried oysters

40

A delicious stir-fried Thai noodle with peanuts, pork, spring onions wrapped into an omelet (served with noodles)

30

A delicious stir-fried Thai noodle with peanuts, pork, spring onions wrapped into an omelet (served without noodles)

50

Plain Rice (for 1 person) 10

Western Food

Smoked Pork Sausage 120/180*

Cervarat 120/180*

Veal Sausage 120/180*

Sirloin Steak 250

***Sausages are served with sauerkraut and fresh tomatoes***

Dessert

Ice Cream Todd Fried Ice Cream

50

Fruit of the Season

50 - 80

You may wonder how "C&C" got its peculiar name. The Cabbages and Condoms Restaurant or C&C is PDA's non-profit restaurant used for the promotion of family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in Thailand. World-renowned for family planning, PDA's programs contributed to lowering the number of children per family from 7 to 2 in just 12 years.

C&C has both indoor and outdoor dining, in the true Northern Thai Style. You will experience the wonderful tasted of the north, while helping our local communities.

In addition to free condoms, C&C is famous for its delicious Thai dishes. Try our "KAI YOK" breaded and pan fried, minced chicken and shrimp fillets, or "Kai Hor Bai Teuy" deep fried chicken pieces wrapped in and served with luscious sweet sesame dip i a palm leaf "bikini", or "Yam Tung Yang" our famous Spicy Condom Salad.

Remember : "Our food is guaranteed not to cause PREGNANCY"

[NoAjarn]

A Restaurant with a Mission:

Cabbages and Condoms, Bangkok

By Kit Snedaker

A free vasectomy from the clinic next door is one of the perks for males dining at Bangkok’s Cabbages and Condoms. All diners get a condom with coffee, instead of an after-dinner mint because C&C is the only restaurant in the world dedicated to birth control. Luckily, it also serves delicious and innovative Thai food. Spicy Condom Salad, for example–fried Shanghai noodles spiced with herbs.

In the adjoining gift shop, bouquets of condoms, looking disconcertingly like bunches of Black-eyed Susans, stand in vases next to silver bracelets, vests and other handcrafts made by villagers. Piles of T-shirts are emblazoned with the message, "Cabbages and Condoms, Our food is guaranteed not to cause pregnancy." Proceeds from the sale of these items and the restaurant’s meals are given to the Population and Community Development Association, a non-profit organization founded in 1974 by Mechai Viravaidya, the former Thai Minister of Health.

Viravaidya, whose Scottish father and Thai mother sent him to Australia to be educated, is Thailand’s leading philanthropist. His non-profit association backs birth control, environmental conservation, rural development and AIDS awareness. Although Viravaidya has held four cabinet posts in the government, his champion cause continues to be birth control.

To this end, he wants to make condoms as common--and as accepted--as cabbages. He has passed them out to surprised bankers and CEOs at sober World Bank meetings and paid farmers to paint ads and public service announcements for condoms on the sides of their water buffalo. Thanks in part to his effort, Thailand’s birth rate has dropped below 1 percent a year.

Cabbages and Condoms is only one of his many attempts to make birth control a popular and populist message in Thailand. And business at the bustling downtown eatery is excellent. It’s been consistently rated one of the best restaurants in Bangkok. So far, however, there’s no rating--good or bad--for the vasectomies next door.

[scratt]

Fantastic!

Cabbages and Condoms it is then! Should get exactly the right end of holiday mood going for our rels! Cheers to all..... and what a lot of comprehensive information. I can sound very informed when I brief our tribe on their night out!!

Also on the partying front thanx for the tips too...

Too many replies to do individual thanx to but rest assured if we bump into you we owe you a drink!!

Thanx once again,

scratt

[samran]

Poor bugger, living in Muang Thong Thani. I suppose its handy for seeing concerts though

[scratt]

Don't feel too sorry for us!

It's 200Baht to get into town in a Taxi.... 75 if you travel Thai style.

We have clean air, a lake, and it is indeed great for concerts and corporate shows... plus we have new hotels being built here and when the Airport moves down your way Sukhumvit is gonna be at a constant stand still!!

oh yeah... and my huge condo with swimming pool etc.. only cost me a mil!

[mbkudu]

Cabbages & Condoms, Sukhamvit Soi 12.

Don't be fooled by the name, it's actually a very nice and upmarket place in a beautiful setting, especially at night.

It does very good quality Thai food and isn't too expensive and you get condoms instead of mints with the bill.

If you think I'm pulling your plonker then take a look at the websight.

I can't post up a link because I'm useless but somebody will no doubt read this and do it for me, if not, just type the name into a search engine such as Ask Jeeves or Google.

Bon appitite!

Scamp.

Another useless <deleted> who can't make links; now I don't feel like the Lone Ranger.

Cheers mate.

[Darlek]

Poor bugger, living in Muang Thong Thani. I suppose its handy for seeing concerts though

it must be like living in Timbuktoo.

how does he get in and out of the place ?

taxis run in horror when you mention the name !

imagine trying to get there when they open the new airport , it could take weeks

[Insight]

I'm heavily into my techno / trance (cheese free) - the best deal in Bangers I reckon is Lucifers, Patpong. Occasionally some naff "Eurodance", but the majority of tunes are decent enough.

Obviously, don't expect Van Dyk / Oakenfold / Tiesto standard, but it ain't bad...

Also, IMHO, it doesn't have the pretentious (and pointless) element of Q-Bar, Bed Supper and Mystique - prices are reasonable also. Yes, it is full of bar slappers, but UK clubs are full of, well, slappers! No intimidating atmosphere by any means if you’re with a couple.

[appleman_thai]

Soi 23 on Sukhumvit has some great restaurants..... Baan Khanita (thai) and CONFUSION (fusion). http://www.thaiconfusion.com

Central location and only a stroll away from Narcissus and also FAITH clubs.

I live out in Laksi so I know what you are going thru.......