What are you eating? (food porn)

[Naam]

On 6/9/2018 at 9:11 PM, roban said:

my home smoked bacon...

 

 

[Tippaporn]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 Yes, American...

 

I like several different burger places more. New York Style Steak and Burger nearby a ways down on Suk Soi 22 does some pretty good burgers, and by good, I mean their ground beef is VERY good, far and away better than BB IMHO. The price is higher (400b or so for burgers and fries), but the quality is better, and they often have discounted lunch specials available on their burgers.

 

And here's a surprise that I've never mentioned here before. In the ground level of Central Chidlom, at the back of the Central Grocery store there, there's a large and recently developed sit down eatery area run by Central called Food Story that has a variety of excellent farang food at terrific prices.  On the menu there is a 250b hamburger and fries menu item that has terrific beef and very good fries. As far as I'm concerned, it's the best quality to value ratio of any burger I've ever had in Bangkok. And I've had and tried MANY over the years.

Sorry about the Yank reference.  You could be a good ol' Southern boy which would make you a Confederate.  Joking aside, thanks much for the info.  I will check both of those out.

 

And since you're from the States I'd like to query you on a couple of other food interests.

 

Have you a favourite for Mexican?  I haven't checked out a lot but I did eat at Sunrise Tacos on the corner of Silom and Silom 4 Alley.  Very dissatisfying.  As I mentioned in a previous post, Buddy's Bar on Suk Soi 22 has very good quesadillas.  Certainly not the best I've had compared to what's available in the States but they were quite satisfying to me.

 

Chorizo quesadilla are easy enough to make.  Can find all necessary ingredients at either Foodland or Villa Market.

 

 

Another item I'm trying to hunt down is American style sliced roast beef for sandwiches.  I happen to be in possession of a jar of giardiniera (unfortunately not the hot version) and it's often used on roast beef sandwiches in Chicago (along with green peppers and topped with melted mozzarella) .  My mouth is already watering simply writing about it.  Is that an item you have experienced in Thailand or a source for American sliced roast beef?  Of course one would need au jus for the sandwich as well.

 

This one is a Chicago style with giardiniera but sans cheese and green peppers.  Looks to be generously soaked in au jus, too.  Just the way I like love 'em, nice and sloppy (and weighing in like a bar of lead).

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The Villa Market at Suk Soi 33 typically has a roast of beef cooked sitting in their refrig butcher section, and they'll custom slice it for you however thick or thin you like. I've used it for homemade RB sandwiches and thought it was pretty good.

 

They used to have the same at the Villa Suk Soi 11 branch until it closed. The Suk Soi 2 Villa doesn't have roast beef in its butcher section.

 

My wife advised, the Thai term for it, if you can't spot it yourself, is "nua oop", nua being beef. When I used that term, suddenly the Villa butchers understood what I was talking about.

 

 

[tutsiwarrior]

there was a place in the orange groves in eastern Orange County where I lived in the late 60s and they advertised themselves as 'World's Best' and they didn't do anything other than burgers and hand cut fries...and they were very good...their burger chef was the old boyfriend of my girlfriend and they were very friendly...big burger fed smiles all around...

 

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by tutsiwarrior

[Tippaporn]

7 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The Villa Market at Suk Soi 33 typically has a roast of beef cooked sitting in their refrig butcher section, and they'll custom slice it for you however thick or thin you like. I've used it for homemade RB sandwiches and thought it was pretty good.

 

They used to have the same at the Villa Suk Soi 11 branch until it closed. The Suk Soi 2 Villa doesn't have roast beef in its butcher section.

 

My wife advised, the Thai term for it, if you can't spot it yourself, is "nua oop", nua being beef. When I used that term, suddenly the Villa butchers understood what I was talking about.

 

 

Excellent.  The Suk Soi 33 Villa Market is the one we usually go to.  We never leave there without bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese, a hearty tomato, and some chives.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Have you a favourite for Mexican?  I haven't checked out a lot but I did eat at Sunrise Tacos on the corner of Silom and Silom 4 Alley.  Very dissatisfying.  As I mentioned in a previous post, Buddy's Bar on Suk Soi 22 has very good quesadillas.  Certainly not the best I've had compared to what's available in the States but they were quite satisfying to me.

 

I live and breathe Mexican food, and I've probably eaten at every Mexican restaurant in BKK at one time or another, and often multiple visits. But, my impressions of those are dated, since I've transitioned over time to fixing my own Mexican food at home where I can control the ingredients, fix things the way I like, and try to use healthier ingredients than might be the case at the typical restaurant here.

 

So I really don't eat out much for Mexican anymore, since I eat my own Mexican food at home pretty much every day in one form or another.  La Monita, Tacos & Salsa, Slanted Taco, Tacos & Salsa, El Diablo's, Charlie Browns, The Mexican, etc etc. Take your pick. They move, the owners change, the kitchens change over time.

 

I will say, of late, I found that I quite like the grilled beef fajitas dish at The Mexican, which is owned by an American and located on a side soi that runs between Sukhumvit Soi 2 and 4. The fajitas are pricey (500-600b if memory serves) and the beef used is quite good, but usually you can get a half price discount if you use Eatigo to make a reservation at one of the specified discount times.

 

But regarding quesadillas, I'll pass along one suggestion. The Food Story place at Central Chidlom that I mentioned above also happens to pretty regularly have a chicken and cheese quesadilla on their menu, the a la carte version priced at 95b for two large slices. Tastes pretty good to me, and I usually have it as an appetizer prior to having their hamburger there.

 

 

 

[Tippaporn]

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 Yes, American...

I missed your edit and just now saw the pics and menu.  Looks awesome!  I see they have French dip sandwiches, which are close enough for my purposes.  I'll just bring my jar of giardiniera!

 

My, oh my, what a find!  Hogies, Philly cheese steak, reubens . . . a helicopter can't get me there fast enough!  

 

As you said, very good prices, too.

 

 

[Tippaporn]

5 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I live and breathe Mexican food, and I've probably eaten at every Mexican restaurant in BKK at one time or another, and often multiple visits. But, my impressions of those are dated, since I've transitioned over time to fixing my own Mexican food at home where I can control the ingredients, fix things the way I like, and try to use healthier ingredients than might be the case at the typical restaurant here.

 

So I really don't eat out much for Mexican anymore, since I eat my own Mexican food at home pretty much every day in one form or another.  La Monita, Tacos & Salsa, Slanted Taco, Tacos & Salsa, El Diablo's, Charlie Browns, The Mexican, etc etc. Take your pick. They move, the owners change, the kitchens change over time.

 

I will say, of late, I found that I quite like the grilled beef fajitas dish at The Mexican, which is owned by an American and located on a side soi that runs between Sukhumvit Soi 2 and 4. The fajitas are pricey (500-600b if memory serves) and the beef used is quite good, but usually you can get a half price discount if you use Eatigo to make a reservation at one of the specified discount times.

 

But regarding quesadillas, I'll pass along one suggestion. The Food Story place at Central Chidlom that I mentioned above also happens to pretty regularly have a chicken and cheese quesadilla on their menu, the a la carte version priced at 95b for two large slices. Tastes pretty good to me, and I usually have it as an appetizer prior to having their hamburger there.

 

 

 

As an appetizer before downing a burger???  How tall are you?    Hollow legs perhaps?  

 

I might have to spend my entire Saturday there.  Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

28 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

As an appetizer before downing a burger???  How tall are you?    Hollow legs perhaps?  

 

I might have to spend my entire Saturday there.  Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

 

My TVF ID should give you some idea...

[The manic]

Just now, Tippaporn said:

As an appetizer before downing a burger???  How tall are you?    Hollow legs perhaps?  

 

I might have to spend my entire Saturday there.  Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Good info.

[The manic]

Just now, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I live and breathe Mexican food, and I've probably eaten at every Mexican restaurant in BKK at one time or another, and often multiple visits. But, my impressions of those are dated, since I've transitioned over time to fixing my own Mexican food at home where I can control the ingredients, fix things the way I like, and try to use healthier ingredients than might be the case at the typical restaurant here.

 

So I really don't eat out much for Mexican anymore, since I eat my own Mexican food at home pretty much every day in one form or another.  La Monita, Tacos & Salsa, Slanted Taco, Tacos & Salsa, El Diablo's, Charlie Browns, The Mexican, etc etc. Take your pick. They move, the owners change, the kitchens change over time.

 

I will say, of late, I found that I quite like the grilled beef fajitas dish at The Mexican, which is owned by an American and located on a side soi that runs between Sukhumvit Soi 2 and 4. The fajitas are pricey (500-600b if memory serves) and the beef used is quite good, but usually you can get a half price discount if you use Eatigo to make a reservation at one of the specified discount times.

 

But regarding quesadillas, I'll pass along one suggestion. The Food Story place at Central Chidlom that I mentioned above also happens to pretty regularly have a chicken and cheese quesadilla on their menu, the a la carte version priced at 95b for two large slices. Tastes pretty good to me, and I usually have it as an appetizer prior to having their hamburger there.

 

 

 

Good info

[The manic]

Today eating home made bone soup. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

36 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

I missed your edit and just now saw the pics and menu.  Looks awesome!  I see they have French dip sandwiches, which are close enough for my purposes.  I'll just bring my jar of giardiniera!

 

My, oh my, what a find!  Hogies, Philly cheese steak, reubens . . . a helicopter can't get me there fast enough!  

 

As you said, very good prices, too.

 

Like I said above, I think their beef burger and reuben sandwich are great tasting, price aside.

 

I tried the Philly and was really disappointed, really the only bad dish I've had there thus far. It had tough, stringy beef, fake cheese sauce and an overly big and bready bun that overwhelmed everything. That one, I wouldn't recommend.

 

I think I tried their french dip sandwich at point point, and wasn't overly excited. I think they used the same roll on the french dip that they used on the Philly, and I wasn't a fan. And the au jus came in a bowl that more resembled a sweetish onion soup in a vaguely beef broth base. I wouldn't order it again, but that's my taste and preferences talking.

 

I've tried their cod and chips, and the cod fish fillet is really good. Small in size for the price, but not the crap fish served in a lot of places. They also have a porchetta, roast potatoes and grilled veggies item on the menu that's really good. Likewise with their braised beef in wine sauce and mashed potato set.

 

Overall, although I've become a regular customer there, it's a bit of a confusing place. So I offer this as an orientation course: Food Story isn't exactly a restaurant, but instead, a series of eating islands with nice comfortable barstool type high chairs that ring the outside. Each island has a particular orientation -- one is the Grill Bar, which has the burgers and other sandwiches, the Deli Bar with a ton of farang menu choices, (those two are where I order most), another Spanish tapas, another called the Ocean Bar for Japanese and seafood, etc.

 

Each little island section has a paper menu on the table that only shows that particular island's dishes. But once you're sitting there, you can sit at any of the island locations and order off of any of the island menus, not just the one you're sitting at with that particular paper placemat menu. The service staff walk around with Ipads that have their full menu for every island available, and they'll give you an Ipad to sit and browse thru, and there's a lot of choices and a lot of different dishes (I didn't even mention the whole section of Thai food choices).

 

But what I ended up doing, instead, was collecting and taking home a selection of the paper placemat menus for each of the different island theme places I was interesting in -- otherwise, trying to sort thru all the different sections and menus on the servers' IPads just got to be a bit time consuming and complicated. In the end, no matter what island or islands you order from, the dishes are all brought to your location, and then in the end, you pay one unified bill (bank cards accepted).

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Here's a look:

 

Deli Bar Menu

 

 

I'd pass on the Philly Cheese steak

 

And I wasn't overly excited about the French Dip, although that was mostly over the "au jus."

 

 

The Porchetta set dish with roast potatoes and grilled veggies is quite good:

 

 

And a section of pasta and Italian dishes, ones I haven't tried yet:

 

 

My favorites thus far, all of which I can fully recommend, are:

--the beef burger and fries for 250b

--the reuben sandwich and fries for 250b

--the porchetta dinner set for 220b

--the braised beef in red wine sauce w mashed potatoes and roast veggies for 190b

--the cod fillet and fries plate for 350b

and the smoked pork shoulder set with cole slaw for 220b is enough meat for two people.

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Jeremia Juxtaposed]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I will say, of late, I found that I quite like the grilled beef fajitas dish at The Mexican, which is owned by an American and located on a side soi that runs between Sukhumvit Soi 2 and 4. The fajitas are pricey (500-600b if memory serves) and the beef used is quite good, but usually you can get a half price discount if you use Eatigo to make a reservation at one of the specified discount times.

 

 

 

I went in there last year with my Thai and Farang family. Everyone enjoyed it in there. Unfortunately we found it (by accident) on the last day of their holiday!!

 

I could spend an afternoon (and a whole lotta money) in there trying different dishes and definitely going through the tequila drinks menu..!!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 minutes ago, Jeremia Juxtaposed said:

I went in there last year with my Thai and Farang family. Everyone enjoyed it in there. Unfortunately we found it (by accident) on the last day of their holiday!!

 

I could spend an afternoon (and a whole lotta money) in there trying different dishes and definitely going through the tequila drinks menu..!!

 Yes, I like the place in general also. I just mentioned their beef fajitas because it happens to be a favorite of mine, but I've had a few of their other dishes and well, and they were pretty good.

 

Actually, let me rephrase that. I almost never order beef fajitas when I go to any Mexican restaurant. But I happened to try the beef fajitas at The Mexican for some reason in one of my early visits there, and it quickly became my favorite dish on their menu.

 

The restaurant's just got a bit of the Nana area vibe, although the restaurant itself and the interior are quite well done and comfortable.

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Tippaporn]

10 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Like I said above, I think their beef burger and reuben sandwich are great tasting, price aside.

 

I tried the Philly and was really disappointed, really the only bad dish I've had there thus far. It had tough, stringy beef, fake cheese sauce and an overly big and bready bun that overwhelmed everything. That one, I wouldn't recommend.

 

I think I tried their french dip sandwich at point point, and wasn't overly excited. I think they used the same roll on the french dip that they used on the Philly, and I wasn't a fan. And the au jus came in a bowl that more resembled a sweetish onion soup in a vaguely beef broth base. I wouldn't order it again, but that's my taste and preferences talking.

 

I've tried their cod and chips, and the cod fish fillet is really good. Small in size for the price, but not the crap fish served in a lot of places. They also have a porchetta, roast potatoes and grilled veggies item on the menu that's really good. Likewise with their braised beef in wine sauce and mashed potato set.

 

Overall, although I've become a regular customer there, it's a bit of a confusing place. So I offer this as an orientation course: Food Story isn't exactly a restaurant, but instead, a series of eating islands with nice comfortable barstool type high chairs that ring the outside. Each island has a particular orientation -- one is the Grill Bar, which has the burgers and other sandwiches, the Deli Bar with a ton of farang menu choices, (those two are where I order most), another Spanish tapas, another called the Ocean Bar for Japanese and seafood, etc.

 

Each little island section has a paper menu on the table that only shows that particular island's dishes. But once you're sitting there, you can sit at any of the island locations and order off of any of the island menus, not just the one you're sitting at with that particular paper placemat menu. The service staff walk around with Ipads that have their full menu for every island available, and they'll give you an Ipad to sit and browse thru, and there's a lot of choices and a lot of different dishes (I didn't even mention the whole section of Thai food choices).

 

But what I ended up doing, instead, was collecting and taking home a selection of the paper placemat menus for each of the different island theme places I was interesting in -- otherwise, trying to sort thru all the different sections and menus on the servers' IPads just got to be a bit time consuming and complicated. In the end, no matter what island or islands you order from, the dishes are all brought to your location, and then in the end, you pay one unified bill (bank cards accepted).

Thanks for the review.  I'm a Reuben connoisseur so that recommendation will make up for the poor Philly.  If I had to choose between the two (given they were both excellent) I would order the Reuben over the Philly any day.

 

Given what you said about the French dip I'm leaning towards purchasing some sliced roast beef and making my own au jus at home (easy enough).  One of my good Thai friends is a beef lover and we always get together over food.  It's been on my mind for awhile now to make roast beef sandwiches for him.  As I said, the giardiniera I have is mild but I can heat that up well enough by mixing in a few Thai chilis.

[Jeremia Juxtaposed]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 Yes, I like the place in general also. I just mentioned their beef fajitas because it happens to be a favorite of mine, but I've had a few of their other dishes and well, and they were pretty good. It's just got a bit of the Nana area vibe, although the restaurant itself and the interior are quite well done and comfortable.

 

The owner reminded me of a Californian that ran a small place on Soi Rangnam yonks ago. Great host and great company. I particularly liked the way they took time going through the menu explaining things ... especially the tequilas!!

 

I also liked the fresh salad in there ... something very rare for me..... did I mention the tequilas...???

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, Tippaporn said:

I missed your edit and just now saw the pics and menu.  Looks awesome!  I see they have French dip sandwiches, which are close enough for my purposes.  I'll just bring my jar of giardiniera!

 

My, oh my, what a find!  Hogies, Philly cheese steak, reubens . . . a helicopter can't get me there fast enough!  

 

As you said, very good prices, too.

 

 

And I should have mentioned, any and all of the stuff on their various menus they'll pack for take-out to go. Some of the islands there -- especially the Deli Bar with its smoked pork, braised wine beef, pork ribs, whole roast chickens, roast veggies and potatoes, etc etc. -- seem to do quite a big takeout business.

 

They also have a non-seating area island opposite the Central bakery there that has a whole section of freshly prepared salads that you can find on the Ipad menus... I'm a regular customer for their Greek Salad and Cauliflower with walnuts and cranberries salads there. And the same section has a whole section of Middle Eastern dips including hummus that are pretty good.  They have a dips sampler dish on the menu with a couple rounds of pita bread for about 220b that was pretty good, with four small bowls of dips included. I'd definitely order that again, although I needed to have an added order of pitas to cover the amount of the dips that were served.

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

14 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

Thanks for the review.  I'm a Reuben connoisseur so that recommendation will make up for the poor Philly.  If I had to choose between the two (given they were both excellent) I would order the Reuben over the Philly any day.

 

Given what you said about the French dip I'm leaning towards purchasing some sliced roast beef and making my own au jus at home (easy enough).  One of my good Thai friends is a beef lover and we always get together over food.  It's been on my mind for awhile now to make roast beef sandwiches for him.  As I said, the giardiniera I have is mild but I can heat that up well enough by mixing in a few Thai chilis.

 

Re Food Story at Central Chidlom, I'd definitely take their Reuben over their Philly steak sandwich, 24/7, 365.

 

Here's their 250b Reuben and fries:

 

 

The above photo was my Reuben eating there -- not an advertising promotion photo...

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Tippaporn]

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

And I should have mentioned, any and all of the stuff on their various menus they'll pack for take-out to go. Some of the islands there -- especially the Deli Bar with its smoked pork, braised wine beef, pork ribs, whole roast chickens, roast veggies and potatoes, etc etc. -- seem to do quite a big takeout business.

 

They also have a non-seating area island opposite the Central bakery there that has a whole section of freshly prepared salads that you can find on the Ipad menus... I'm a regular customer for their Greek Salad and Cauliflower with walnuts and cranberries salads there. And the same section has a whole section of Middle Eastern dips including hummus that are pretty good.  They have a dips sampler dish on the menu with a couple rounds of pita bread for about 220b that was pretty good, with four small bowls of dips included. I'd definitely order that again, although I needed to have an added order of pitas to cover the amount of the dips that were served.

Now I'm curious, would I be able to find salad there with authentic bleu cheese dressing (authentic meaning actual, real chunks of bleu cheese in the dressing)?

 

I ate at a German restaurant down in Texas years and years ago and they had a salad bar.  I filled up a huge plate with greens and veggies and was delighted to see that they had bleu cheese dressing with chunks in it.  A wooden cutting board was set up at the very end of the bar with a slab of bleu cheese on it and a small knife.  All you could eat salad bar.  Whoopee!!!

 

This would be absolutely ideal but I'm afraid I'm probably dreaming.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Haven't seen/noticed any blue cheese salad dressing there during my visits. But the prepared salads bar has a lot of really good choices. And the Deli Bar section has a German Goulash on the menu that I've tried and is pretty decent, though not one of my top favorites.

Edited June 13, 2018 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Tippaporn]

19 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Haven't seen/noticed any blue cheese salad dressing there during my visits. But the prepared salads bar has a lot of really good choices. And the Deli Bar section has a German Goulash on the menu that I've tried and is pretty decent, though not one of my top favorites.

Although bleu cheese dressing is my favourite I enjoy most salads so the salad bar sounds good.  I'm from Germany (emigrated when I was two) and my mom grew up in the days when all food was homemade.  She was an unbelievable cook (and she could bake as well).  Though we were German she made Hungarian goulash rather than the German version.  I'm probably so biased as to goulash I'd be afraid to be disappointed.  Not so afraid that I wouldn't try, though!  

 

[grollies]

Two of my kids coming over next month, spending a couple of days in BKK, cheers for the heads-up on the restaurant, definitely give it a go.

[Tippaporn]

51 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Re Food Story at Central Chidlom, I'd definitely take their Reuben over their Philly steak sandwich, 24/7, 365.

 

Here's their 250b Reuben and fries:

 

 

The above photo was my Reuben eating there -- not an advertising promotion photo...

 

Get out!!  This is for real?!?!  That seals my Friday, Saturday and Sunday plans!  Friday I fast . . . Saturday I indulge in gluttony . . . Sunday I take down that stupid landscape painting my wife bought for the living room years ago and replace it with the above photo!  Now that's shear beauty!  A true conversation piece!  There will be many grand tales to tell regarding that picture!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

For anyone whose appetite has been whetted by the above conversation and/or photos, just to recap:

 

Food Story in Central Chidlom is located on the ground floor, at the far back end of the Central Market there, just opposite Central's fresh bakery section. If you enter from the main mall part of Central Chidlom, it means going thru the fragrances section into the supermarket, then all the way to the back and guide to the right. That will take you past the cheeses room and bakery. And Food Story is right here opposite the fresh bakery counter section.

 

No signage saying "Food Story" that I could ever find or see. Just two parallel rows of these cooking islands with tall barstool type chairs ringing them, paper menu placemats at each chair (only for that particular island) and servers wandering around with Ipads that have all of their different menus available, and all of which can be ordered to any seat, regardless of which island you're sitting at.

 

If you don't want to order from the Ipads via the servers, you can also go around to any island yourself and order yourself. At your seat, they'll have a small wood block with your particular 3-digit seat number on it. You can carry that wood block around with you as you go from station/island to station/island, and show it to the server preparing your food/taking your order, and then they'll use that number to assign that food order/purchase to the bill for your chair/seat/location. Hope that makes sense.

 

Some readily available things, they'll just give you on a plate to go. But other things that need to be cooked from scratch like the beef hamburger, you order and then a server will bring the dish to your seat later when it's ready. Just depends on the type of dishes you're ordering. Obviously, if you order just from the Ipad menus via the servers, you never have to leave your seat and they'll bring everything to you.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, grollies said:

Two of my kids coming over next month, spending a couple of days in BKK, cheers for the heads-up on the restaurant, definitely give it a go.

 

One of the nice thing about the place is the tremendous variety that's on offer -- all in one place and via one check. They also have beers (Thai and German) and even bottles of wine available to have with your meal, obviously during permitted serving hours.

 

And for those with Thai wives or S/O's, there's two different Thai food sections available -- one a long counter of pre-prepared Thai stir frys and curries that's facing the bakery and deserts section, and the other a so-called Thai Street Food section with its own large semi-separate tables and chairs seating area where they have Thai noodle dishes, various kinds of porks, sticky rice, som tam and stuff like that. In both of those areas, you're often, but not always, ordering by weight, and each item typically has a price per 100gs listed on a little description card for each item.

 

So there's probably something on one of the many varied menus there to satisfy almost any taste.

Edited June 13, 2018 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[mogandave]

The Food Story place is not new is it? Seems like I ate there a few years ago. I’ll have to try it again.

I’ve given up on Mexican here as well. Macro has decent tortillas and cheese for the do-it-yourselfers out there.

Were I going to fix a French dip at home, I would not use deli roast beef. Just buy a piece of cheap fatty beef, wrap it in foil, bake and slice.

Last time I was at Sizzler the blue-cheese had improved exponentially....

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, mogandave said:

The Food Story place is not new is it? Seems like I ate there a few years ago. I’ll have to try it again.
 

 

Central Chidlom may well have had some kind of eatery space there in the same location in the past, but it wouldn't have been Food Story. From talking to their staff, the current setup was only established within the past year as part of a major remodel there, and I believe Central Chid is the only Food Story setup at present in the Central chain.

 

However, one of the managers I was talking with there recently mentioned that the chain is considering developing the same kind of dining concept at others of their locations for the future, including possibly Phuket and CentralWorld.

 

[The manic]

Rib eye of beef layered in Parmesan Cheese.