The Hit And Run Restaurant "review" Thread

[thailandbeachisland]

20 hours ago, kinyara said:

Just a little heads up.

 

Pleasant surprise today on Thappraya Road between Soi 7 and 9 left hand side on the way out of Pattaya to Jomtien a few hundred yards before the Pratumnak lights/intersection. What was the shuttered Legende European Restaurant has been replaced by the former long established " Buono Donne " Italian restaurant, the new "old" sign was going up as I went past so I stopped in for a takeaway.

 

This used to be a very popular place for years which only changed hands when the old Italian owner passed away. The inside has benefitted from the renovation the Legende owner carried out, you've got to feel for them as they only opened a few months before Covid shutdown started so really unfortunate timing.

 

The same pictures of the menu items are up on the wall, so if it's the old owners wife in charge should hopefully be the same fresh, homemade tasty Italian food as before at reasonable prices. ????

 

 

 

Legend failed not only because of covid but also because of ridiculous owner and pricing.

Who pays for expensive food in a basement ?

 

The italian wife was selling the building 25 millions, so maybe she didn't find better than an idiot to rent it and now she think she can start her business again ? so funny...

 

Cheap italian food is now everywhere, so nobody needs her and she will learn it quickly enough...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[thailandbeachisland]

On 5/23/2022 at 9:00 AM, vidgra said:

Their food is terrible, only breakfast is acceptable, but is it true that they now do not give real espresso coffee ?

It was different before ?

 

 

yes it's not a good coffee, they should be ashamed.

 

 

[NewGuy]

I thought Legend’s prices were good, given the quality of the food and atmosphere. It wasn’t crowded because many took sidewalk seats. Okay wine.

[Halfaboy]

I have been there a couple of times. Not too much to complain about. The only thing I did not like was their housewine. That was Montclear and did  expect something better.

[NewGuy]

I haven’t, knowingly, ordered that boring red since Cherry’s featured it.

[Rimmer]

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[LarrySR]

1 hour ago, NewGuy said:

I thought Legend’s prices were good, given the quality of the food and atmosphere. It wasn’t crowded because many took sidewalk seats. Okay wine.

Went to the Legende 3 times. Great menu. Prices OK.

First time, excellent.

Second time, food tasted a bit 'off.' Crab, not so fresh...

Third time, puking and sh!tting for 3 days after the burger. Thought I was gonna die. So severe it might have knocked a couple years off my life expectancy.

 

Always knew about the cheapo spaghetti joint located there previously (always ate at LaMerenda) and was a bit surprised when my cheapo friends met me there. Not as bad as I expected. Decent value. Wishing them good luck.

 

[dddave]

On 4/3/2022 at 2:16 PM, Jingthing said:

Sure but the vast majority of local Thai restaurants don't have it because its a regional Northern Lanna dish.

I realize this is nearly 2 months old but for the record, there is actually a passable Hung Lae available at most "Black Canyon" coffee shops.

[Jingthing]

54 minutes ago, dddave said:

I realize this is nearly 2 months old but for the record, there is actually a passable Hung Lae available at most "Black Canyon" coffee shops.

Thanks for that. I tend to avoid most chains so that's news to me.

[kinyara]

10 hours ago, thailandbeachisland said:

 

Legend failed not only because of covid but also because of ridiculous owner and pricing.

Who pays for expensive food in a basement ?

 

The italian wife was selling the building 25 millions, so maybe she didn't find better than an idiot to rent it and now she think she can start her business again ? so funny...

 

Cheap italian food is now everywhere, so nobody needs her and she will learn it quickly enough...

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't mind paying 20 baht extra for the pasta,  but I think I'd draw the line at 25 million for the building. "

 

"Nobody needs her and she will learn it quickly enough" - words fail me, you sound incredibly bitter. Why the hate ?

[Jingthing]

Zaab High

"Better" Isaan food

 

https://m.facebook.com/zaabhigh/

 

Pattaya Tai

Roughly across from Tukcom

 

Stopped in a for a light meal. Chicken wings Zaab High style, Squid Laab salad, sticky rice, and soda water. 300 baht with tip so "higher" than street food or shophouse prices.

 

Is it worth it?

I would say yes.

This is real deal real Thai flavor food but with an added modern twist.

While the menu is very well organized and accessible this is not f-rangatized food.

 

Pick your spice level from pictures on the menu. I went with hot instead of super hot but I was still breathing fire and I'm a chili head.

 

Overall it gets the Jingthing Seal of Approval.

[Yellowtail]

9 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Zaab High

"Better" Isaan food

 

https://m.facebook.com/zaabhigh/

 

Pattaya Tai

Roughly across from Tukcom

 

Stopped in a for a light meal. Chicken wings Zaab High style, Squid Laab salad, sticky rice, and soda water. 300 baht with tip so "higher" than street food or shophouse prices.

 

Is it worth it?

I would say yes.

This is real deal real Thai flavor food but with an added modern twist.

While the menu is very well organized and accessible this is not f-rangatized food.

 

Pick your spice level from pictures on the menu. I went with hot instead of super hot but I was still breathing fire and I'm a chili head.

 

Overall it gets the Jingthing Seal of Approval.

Clean, air conditioned dining room? Clean bathrooms?

[Jingthing]

17 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Clean, air conditioned dining room? Clean bathrooms?

Open aired.

Don't know.

[vidgra]

Anybody went to the cheap Italian on Thapraya road ?

[Jingthing]

Hong Kong Wok

??? Near Ferry port

Pattaya

 

On Grab

 

This is a premature review as I only tried it once (today) but I'm kind of excited about it, so here goes.

 

Is this place new?

I saw it for the first time searching for Chinese on Grab.

 

Focus is dim sum and roasted meats.

 

Menu is a hodge podge of Chinese, Thai, and English but google translate is needed for part of the menu.

 

I sampled three dim sum items but they also have roasted meats, noodles  soup, porridge, etc.

 

A large portion of the menu is grayed out so likely more to come later.

 

The dim sum was Chinese style not Thai Chinese. The portions are large and a typical price is over 100.

 

They do have the famous Xiao long bao dumplings with soup inside at 156.

 

I tried

 

Char siew bow roasted pork buns

Meat good but bun too sweet

 

Shrimp Cheong fun

Steamed rice noodle rolls

Very good

 

Bean curd roĺl

Kind of like large spring rolls with bean curd wrap.

Excellent

 

Others that may try this place sampling other dishes on their menu, please post about it.

[dddave]

On 5/25/2022 at 4:53 PM, dddave said:

I realize this is nearly 2 months old but for the record, there is actually a passable Hung Lae available at most "Black Canyon" coffee shops.

Update:  Sadly, now off the latest menu. Just checked a few days ago.

[Jingthing]

Update on 

 

Hong Kong Wok

??? Near Ferry port

Pattaya

 

On Grab

 

I've ordered numerous times from them by now so I have more information.

 

While I'm not doing cartwheels about the overall quality of their food I am very pleased that we now have this type of Chinese restaurant in town. 

 

As in dim sum, noodle soups, stir fried noodles and rice, roasted meats, full meal sets. Also big bonus big surprise some more rare and unusual Chinese regional dishes.

 

Food tastes are subjective. Some dishes I liked you may not and vice versa.

 

So in more detail.

 

 

Since I really disliked the one bun dish I had as way too sweet I am assuming they are all that way so I won't order again.

 

Where's the shrimp? Ordered shu mai dumplings. But they didn't have.

 

Porridges joks I find quite good for a bit of bland. Are they better than a typical Thai porridge? Maybe not

 

 

Old friend rice noodles 

Is very regional dish of Nanning.

An acquired taste perhaps which I have not acquired so I am no new friend of old friend noodles.

But glad of the chance to try them. I think usually a soup but their version is stir fried.

 

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/noodlenarratives/2019/07/08/helen-old-friends-rice-noodle/

 

Wonton plus noodles soup

Wontons good. Broth meh. They also have just wonton.

 

Regional spicy beef noodle soup dish.

Liked it. Sadly not currently on menu and I don't recall the Chinese name.

 

Set meals.

Various options 

I tried the chicken mushroom set. Decent value but i didn't like it much.

Set includes main dish option, rice, and sides, chopped greens, nut pickles, cukes, and soup.

 

Cheung fun

Steamed rice noodle rolls various fills

I like these a lor

 

https://redhousespice.com/cheung-fun/

 

Still a number of rate regional dishes to try!  Plus some mystery risks for dishes that I don"t understand what they are.

 

 

BTW can someone give more specific info on the location and perhaps post a picture?

[Jingthing]

Don't laugh too hard but I had some leftover old friend rice noodles tonight and I started to like them. Perhaps I am acquiring the taste. I usually love sour and spicy dishes. In fact one of my favorite dishes ever is a sour and  spicy Burmese dish.

 

Chin baung kyaw curry made with roselle leaves and shrimp. I've never found it in Thailand.

[Yellowtail]

14 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Don't laugh too hard but I had some leftover old friend rice noodles tonight and I started to like them. Perhaps I am acquiring the taste. I usually love sour and spicy dishes. In fact one of my favorite dishes ever is a sour and  spicy Burmese dish.

 

Chin baung kyaw curry made with roselle leaves and shrimp. I've never found it in Thailand.

And some things just get better better as the flavors meld...

[Jingthing]

10 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

And some things just get better better as the flavors meld...

True that and honestly my stomach was feeling kind of dodgy the first time. I will probably order it again sometimes. I should mention that the dish in addition to being sour is quite spicy. I think many people don't like sour foods.

[Jingthing]

17 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Don't laugh too hard but I had some leftover old friend rice noodles tonight and I started to like them. Perhaps I am acquiring the taste. I usually love sour and spicy dishes. In fact one of my favorite dishes ever is a sour and  spicy Burmese dish.

 

Chin baung kyaw curry made with roselle leaves and shrimp. I've never found it in Thailand.

One usual suspect couldn't help laughing too hard.

 

While I'm here I'm wondering if ALL the steamed bun dim sims are very sweet as the one I had the Char Sui pork? You see that one was in a different location on the Grab menu as the others. Perhaps that was an exception, a sweet one, and the others savory? If someone wants to try one from the section where they're bunched, please post if it was very sweet or not.

[TaaSaparot]

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

One usual suspect couldn't help laughing too hard.

Sorry I found the "old friend rice noodles" hilarious.

[Jingthing]

11 minutes ago, TaaSaparot said:

Sorry I found the "old friend rice noodles" hilarious.

Yes some Chinese food names are wonderfully evocative. Such as the origin name of the famous mapo tofu which is Pock-marked old woman's tofu. Hopefully an old friend isn't an ingredient in the noodles.

[vidgra]

if you like PANCAKES, the french type which is food, not sweet, go to jomtien night market !

I ate there the best pancakes with chicken since travelling to France.

and all the Georgian food at this beach market is so great ! made fresh daily, I couldn't believe that you can buy this for so cheap.

they sell crepes with chicken (what they call pancake) and also many georgia country dishes that are all as good !

market stakk a bit on the rear, but it's really worth going if you have an idea about what is good food.

 

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, vidgra said:

if you like PANCAKES, the french type which is food, not sweet, go to jomtien night market !

I ate there the best pancakes with chicken since travelling to France.

and all the Georgian food at this beach market is so great ! made fresh daily, I couldn't believe that you can buy this for so cheap.

they sell crepes with chicken (what they call pancake) and also many georgia country dishes that are all as good !

market stakk a bit on the rear, but it's really worth going if you have an idea about what is good food.

 

Thanks for that. Sounds like a possible real find. I love Georgian food. When there used to be so many more Russian types here, etc., there were multiple options for Georgian food so I have only tried it locally.

 

As far as French crepes, those don't really look like the kind of savory French Breton crepes that I know which are flat and darker grained not rolled but if what they have tastes good, then no problem. I guess those are Georgian and or Russian style.

 

BTW, I suggest this youtube channel of a colorful Russian guy exiled in Georgia.

NFKRZ

[Jingthing]

I want to add that posts like vidgra's informing the audience about food finds that most locals don't even know about yet are a large part of the reason that I started this thread in the first place.

 

I post about my own such finds when I can such as my recent discovery on Grab of Hong Kong Wok and their soon to become famous Old Friend Noodles.

 

So I want to express my personal gratitude to vidgra and everyone that has ever posted "new discovery" type posts.

 

Of course such discoveries may include info about specific dishes at well known restaurants especially new menu items.

 

Of course any (sincere) posts about any restaurants here are always welcome here including places that most everyone knows.

 

Gradually Pattaya is going to be opening up again  Many old favorite places are gone as pandemic casualties but there will be many new places to discover and consider.

 

Before the pandemic I was feeling Pattaya develop into a mildly credible destination for dare I say it foodies. Especially for those with a focus on international variety at affordable prices. Not now but maybe it will eventually build back to that.

[NewGuy]

Hong Kong Wok in Pattaya- where is it? My googling turns up nada.

[Jingthing]

16 minutes ago, NewGuy said:

Hong Kong Wok in Pattaya- where is it? My googling turns up nada.

That's right. Nothing. I guess its new. Do you have Grab? Its on it  The map there roughly shows it near the Ferry Port.

 

If someone goes please post location details and ideally photos.

 

Grab works for me. Only 10 baht delivery and their food type delivers well.

 

BTW their menu has been different every day! New stuff there. Old stuff gone. I like the drama.

[vidgra]

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Thanks for that. Sounds like a possible real find. I love Georgian food. When there used to be so many more Russian types here, etc., there were multiple options for Georgian food so I have only tried it locally.

 

As far as French crepes, those don't really look like the kind of savory French Breton crepes that I know which are flat and darker grained not rolled but if what they have tastes good, then no problem. I guess those are Georgian and or Russian style.

 

BTW, I suggest this youtube channel of a colorful Russian guy exiled in Georgia.

NFKRZ

 

 

 

 

[vidgra]

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I want to add that posts like vidgra's informing the audience about food finds that most locals don't even know about yet are a large part of the reason that I started this thread in the first place.

 

I post about my own such finds when I can such as my recent discovery on Grab of Hong Kong Wok and their soon to become famous Old Friend Noodles.

 

So I want to express my personal gratitude to vidgra and everyone that has ever posted "new discovery" type posts.

 

Of course such discoveries may include info about specific dishes at well known restaurants especially new menu items.

 

Of course any (sincere) posts about any restaurants here are always welcome here including places that most everyone knows.

 

Gradually Pattaya is going to be opening up again  Many old favorite places are gone as pandemic casualties but there will be many new places to discover and consider.

 

Before the pandemic I was feeling Pattaya develop into a mildly credible destination for dare I say it foodies. Especially for those with a focus on international variety at affordable prices. Not now but maybe it will eventually build back to that.

 

 

more and more stalls open daily at Jomtien night market and I think that people should understand how lucky we are to be able to eat cheap restaurant quality western food hard to find anywhere, at a fraction of what it should be sold if those people were not poor now....

 

I am happy to support this market that sells good food at reasonable price, a lot more than any overpriced restaurant selling basic food for 5 times what it should be ! Restaurant owners are mostly greedy scammers, but Jomtien market sells food at correct price.