Bacco - 04.12.11

Ummm... I haven't updated my blog for a while.  Let's do backward blogging here.  :)  

After taking the kids to have their vaccinations, we decided to go to kids-friendly restaurant around the Sukhumvit area.  Yes, it's our family favorite restaurant, Bacco on Sukhumvit 53.  

Bacco always greets their customers with their warm garlic pizza bread served full on the long wooden board.  A good call for appetite.

This time, we ordered the Pumpkin Soup for the kids.  It comes in a size that was enough for 2 small kids.  Very smooth and creamy soup.  Love it!

My new favorite soup is this Truffle soup.  With couple pieces of slice black truffles, this soup gives such a good scent and good taste, served in a coffee cup, that you can just drink it away  :)

When we visit Bacco, we always order this dish, the Filletto.  It's tenderloin and the meat was so tender and juicy.  This time it was a bit under cooked, it would be better if it's cooked a bit longer.  We asked for Mushroom sauce and Bernaise sauce on the side.  My hubby loves mushroom sauce, but I preferred Bernaise.
 

Next dish was Seabass cooked in Southern Italian Style.  I didn't like this dish that much, it's too soaky for me.  I would prefer just the grilled seabass rather than this dish.

We finished our meal with a cup of cappucino for me.  Perfect foaming!!

Aoi & the Mandarin Oriental Shop@ Emporium - 04.12.11

My first celebration of 2011 Songkran holiday started off at Aoi @ Emporium.  People asked me if I wasn't afraid of the radioactive leakage from the Earthquake incidents in Japan that will contaminate the food.  The answer is both yes, and no.  Yes, we are aware of the leakage and No, I think it should be fine.  Food for exporting should pass many inspections before arriving to us, therefore, I think if the radioactive level is that high, then we shouldn't see it in the market.  

Let's get started.  My first dish was Sunomono Moriawase.    Shrimps, octopus, some fish sashimi with thinly slice cucumber and seaweed in a slightly sweet vinegar. This dish is a good appetizer, it was light and so refreshing. 

Our second dish was Hotate Cream Korokke - deep fried scallop cream croquette.  This dish was served with the special katsu sauce and the dressing for the side-dish salad.   After you break the wall of crispy flour, inside, you'll see the creamy sauce and 2 big chunks of Hotate.  Very smooth taste for this dish.  I love it even without the sauce.

Next was the Tempura Moriawase - 2 shrimp tempura with assorted veggies served with traditional hot sauce with the turnip and the special salt.  The tempura batter was well prepared, it was crispy and not too oily.

I can't finish a trip to Aoi without having Sashimi.  And with a slightly afraid of the radioactive leakage, I compressed my order from the big Sashimi dish to just an a la carte small dish, just to complete the day.  I decided to order a dish of Kampachi.  

The last one, we ordered Hokkai Kamemashi - a set of hot bowl of Salmon and Salmon Roe over rice, served with a big set of one deep fried dish, one steamed dish, one other side dish and steamed egg with clear soup.  A really big set, and I have to admit that I've never be able to finish this set myself  :)   I always shared the rice between two to three people.  This rice pot is our family favorite, all the children in my family love this dish, especially they have to find and look for the gems (the Salmon Roe) when they are having this dish, give them a joyful eating experience.

  

After the meal dessert, Japanese melon was served.  It's served cold, so refreshing.  We love it!!

Since we're at the Emporium, we had a little shopping and then came the coffee time.  We decided to sit down at the Mandarin Oriental Shop for a drink and some dessert.  I ordered Creme Brule.  It was so nice after the long walk, to have this creamy, and smooth dessert.

And of course, my favorite cup - a cup of cappucino.  I expected the better foaming from the Oriental Shop.  A bit disappointing, but not that bad, overall.

Kuppa @ Sukhumvit 16 - 04.09.11

Saturday late lunch at Kuppa.  BaoBao, my son, cancelled his afternoon Shichida class so I get to have a change to have lunch with my sissy.  We picked Kuppa as our destination.

The first dish we ordered today is Baby Spinach, Avocado, Mushroom and Crispy Bacon Salad.  This is the first time we tried this dish.  It is a good choice, indeed.  The walnut completed this salad and made it so delish!!

Poom's mission is to try as much as Egg Benedict in Bangkok and see who'll be the best for this dish.  So far, the cafe @ the Mandarin Orientel Hotel is still at rank #1.  Here at Kuppa, I was ok with the taste and all that, the muffin was freshly baked, the sauce was nice, the eggs were cooked right :)

Our next favorite dish at Kuppa is Moo Yang - Grilled pork with sticky rice.  The pork was well marinated and grilled to perfection.  It was tender and juicy.

The next dish is Hoisin Crispy Duck Pizza.  This dish made us think of the Peking Duck Pizza of our old-time US favorite restaurant - CPK - California's Pizza Kitchen.  Here at Kuppa, the duck was shredded and made crispy.  It went very well with the sweet Hoisin sauce.  Ummm, yummm yummm!!

We had quite a load of food for two.  Nice food selection today!  Last, we end our meal with a cup of cappucino, my foamy favorite cup.

Arirang @ Sathorn - 04,08.11

Today is the last day before our long Songkran Holiday.  We planned to celebrate our holiday at the Normandy today, but we were unlucky, the restaurant was fully booked.  So we changed the plan to try the new French Resto name "Capsicum" on Narathiwas Road.  But when we got there, we had to change our mind.  The surroundings have a big influence on our restaurant selection.  It wasn't that bad, but it's just made us somewhat reluctant to walk in.  So we changed our destination to Arirang, our promising Korean Food which is not far away from there.

There is a lunch buffet promotion for all-you-can-eat Pork BBQ for 290 B per person.  We decided to go with the a la carte menu, since we love to have variety of food.  Today we ordered one marinated pork bbq, and one marinated beef ribs.  When you order two main bbq dishes, you'll get one free steamed egg.  :)  Good deal, eh?

 

 

Other than those BBQ dishes, we also ordered our favorite dish - Chap Chae - potato noodle stir fried with vegetables.  I'm not sure if the word "chewy" can be used to describe the noodle.  It's very well cook and very tasty, especially for those who love sweet taste.

Next is Ja Jang Mien - black bean noodle.  This is Poom's favorite dish.  I think the taste is ok, it's just not my favorite.  :)

This last dish is my all time Korean favorite - Pajeon - Korean pancake.  We ordered this dish from lunch menu which is cheaper than in the full menu.  I just found out that it happened to be a veggie pancake instead of what we normally have, the seafood pancake. I think it'll be better if we order it from the full menu, so that our pancake comes equipped with squid and some other meat.

T. House @ K Village - 04.06.11

At first, we decided to have lunch today at one Korean Restaurant in K Village.  After we got there, see there menu, we changed our minds, okie, let's try Yum & Tum.  We've never tried it here before neither.  


After sat down, and look at the menu for 5 mins, still there's no one to come to take order, we decided to walk out and go for our promising resto, "T. House".  Although we didn't bring our killing Hoisin sauce, Pho still should be ok here.


Pookie didn't join us today and we have our regular joining, yes, Khun Mai.  Let's see what we ordered for 3 people.  :)


First comes the Veggies Basket, fresh from the fridge  :)

Goui Saigon: Seafood, chicken and pork sausage salad with spicy herb sauce.  This dish was delish, served with Sesame Rice Cracker.  I love it!!

Can't leave the resto without having this dish, my favorite Australian Beef Pho with extra Pork Sausage.  Although we didn't bring our killing Hoisin Sauce, the Pho still tastes goodddd!!!

Nem Nuong - my favorite dish of all time.  Grilled pork ball with all the sides and rice paper.

Another tasty dish, Banh Hoi Tid Nuong - Grilled marinated pork served with rice noodles.  I like that the pork was so tasty and tender.  

I guess this is Khun Mai's favorite.  She always ordered this fried spring rolls.  

The last dish of the day would be Vietnamese Suki.  This is a very refreshing soup.  I think it partly made from fresh coconut,  no! no! no!  I can't tell just by tasting the soup, but I can see there's a fresh young coconut meat in the soup, LOL!.   It's the seafood (shrimp, and squid) soup with a little sour taste. 

We end our lunch grabbing a cup of Lemon Iced Tea from Tom N Toms before coming back to work. 

Shabu City @ City Viva and Coffee @ Dean & Deluca - 04.05.11

Today I feel like eating hotpot.  At first, we were heading to Hachi on Narathiwas Road, but while we were trapped in the traffic, we turned to the left and see the big sign "Shabu City" in the City Viva.  Then I make immediate left trying to get there.  And I made it!!  Sorry for those whom I cut in front of, I was in a hurry and have a mission to accomplish.

This is the new restaurant that we've never tried before.  I hope it'd be ok.  The restaurant is quite new.  The offer traditional sharing big hot pot and also personal small hot pot.  Poom and I chose to have our individual pot.  Poom's a non-meat diner, so she ordered a pork shabu set.

I'm a beef-eater, so I ordered the Australian Beef set.

Here's the Kurobuta Loin.  It was ok.  The one that we had at Hachi was much more tender and delish.

These are the sauces, fresh egg, ponzu sauce, and sesame sauce.  They also provide chopped garlic, spring onion and chilli for fixing your own sauce.

At first, we ordered Lunch Set, but since the portion was quite too little, we changed to have buffet instead for 399 B / person.  The weird thing is that this price wasn't include the soup.  They will charge 40 B extra / person for soup separately.  Another weird thing is that they won't serve the lettuce which was normally served with Shabu or Suki, but they only serve cabbage with the set.  If you'd like to have the lettuce, it'll be separate order.  To me, the cabbage just doesn't fit well in Shabu or Suki Soup.  It creates a weird taste, just not my type.

Apart from the menu, I found the service was pretty good.  The waitresses and waiters show their willingness to serve, to recommend the menu to the customer.  I love the way they serve the customer.  Good Spirits!!



After lunch, we went a bit further to Dean & Deluca to grab after-lunch coffee and a dessert.  A promising Latte and my favorite Millefeuille.  Yummy Yummy!!

Zalute by Sorrento - 04.01.11

Zalute was recommended by my mom.  This restaurant is the same owner as Sorrento on Sathorn Road, they changed the name to Zalute after moving from Sathron to the new location.

There's a valet parking service for customers, so no worries about parking.

Okie, let's go straight to our interests.

I started the meal with Lemon Iced Tea.  I just happened to like the lemon iced tea not too long ago, say a month, before that my drink will always be Pepsi.  To me, I think iced tea is kinda healthier than Pepsi, don't you think?  It's just my cheap excuse to get away from drinking pure water.  Anyway, here at Zalute, they served Iced Tea with the tea ice  ...  LOL... a nice drink.

Bruchetta was served to each customer to call their appetites.  

We ordered Caesar Salad.  We're quite surprised to see they had a side table cooking for Ceasar Salad during lunch hours.  They started from scratch, even the dressing.

These are the ingredients for Caesar Salad.  Now she's making the dressing.

Here's the finished product.  Looks good, eh?  

Next was the Hokkaido Scallops with Sabaglione Cream & Porcini.  Looks good.  The scallops was served over the bed of cream porcini, and topped with some egg sauce.  There was crispy bacon in between the scallops.  This dish was ok, it was kinda a little too creamy to me.  The bacon helps a lot.  

This was my favorite.  Foie Gras with baby onions.  The Foie Gras was well prepared and went very well with the caramelized baby onions.

Here comes the main dish.  Grilled Lamb Tenderloin.  The lamb was tender and nice.

For pasta dish, we ordered Spaghetti Ai Gamberoni.  Spaghetti with sun-dried tomato, porcini and prawn.  A bit spicy.  

Zalute by Sorrento
Address:   73 Soi Sathon 10, Bangkok, 10500
Tel:              02-234 9933
URL:            http://www.facebook.com/ZaluteRestaurant

Indus: Indian Lunch - 04.04.11

Today Indus was our destination. My very first time to really try the Indian foodies. It was not bad as I expected. Actually it was a pretty good experience, thanks to lil sissy...Pookie.

Let's see what we had today!!


Started off with these Munchies. Crispy bread with three different types of dipping sauces and a side of pickled shallots.

Kebab-E-Malai : Charcoal BBQ boneless tender chicken marinated in yogurt, cheese, coriander and lime.   Look at the marinating ingredients, no wonder why the chicken came out so tender and juicy.

Left pot: Indus Rogan Josh - Kashmiri style rich mutton curry.   The mutton mead is well cooked, so tender.  The curry taste really great!!  Middle pot: Chicken Tikka Masala - chicken tikka cooked in a cream & tomato spicy soup. A very tasty dish!!!  Right pot: Palak Paneer - Homemade cottage cheese immersed in creamy spinach soup. A very light taste - no no dish for next time.  At the back, we ordered 2 types of Naan, cheese naan and plain naan.