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tezza wrote:
Well done ATL. I like your upfront approach
Bringing your ‘3 friends’ to dinner (TG1, TG2, & TG3) would have shocked mom and left mrs atl unimpressed, but explaining the concept ’This Is Thailand’ over dinner would have at least got you a pat on the back from dad
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Thanks, it didnt start out very well...especially when one of the TG's ordered a bag of "tukatan" and Lao Kao at an upscale restaurant, another kept referring to my dad as "bukseeda" while the last one had a tattoo on her exposed stomach that said "Short Time" (I will give her that it was in a pretty classy font lol!)
oh and the management didnt seem very pleased with the constant cell phone ringing followed by a very loud "Haalow" 
atl
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:15 am on May 24, 2008
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Went back to Saigon 38 and need to temper a lot my former praise. Still very nice set up but the food was lousy tonight.
It didn't start very well after they served us a lousy Alexander and came back from the kitchen saying there was no Hong Kong style suckling pig tonight, just thai style... why was that, and why can't they manage a chinese speaking waiter or two? Can they even afford a chinese cook was the next question... Some thai maniac must have been in the kitchen and even the duck sauté with black pepper sauce tasted sweet. Before that I had to wonder WTF were the waitresses doing before they took away all the different ingredients necessary to roll the pekin duck skin from our table and cared to do it themselves, yet the ignorants started to roll all of them before starting serving the rolls, hence they came cold as another disapointment. Missus hardly touched the tasteless pigs intestines and I sent back both styles of the pekin duck servings very pissed off. This restaurant has a great setting and the price is very reasonable but now I understand why it's so empty even on week ends.
So where else to go for good chinese food preferably in posh and quiet surroundings?
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 1:38 pm on June 7, 2008
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latenight
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A couple of days ago in SriPaya, a friend who has the chic to take me to off the way roots chinese restaurants, like the ones behind Chong Nongsi where you can enjoy exotic specialties like snake or turtles (not bad, at least when it doesn't come with Beef penises, like it happened to my order not so long ago in Shanghai - wife laughing, told me later what the litle things spread among the turtles slices were).
This friend opened a new place on Sri Phaya, it's a Teochew restaurant, with a very simple entrance at road level where mostly regular fishes are on display along several preprepared dishes and 3 to 4 stories of private rooms upstairs. There are are only two large plastic tables downstairs, but we sat there so this friend could greet the customers on arrival and check his staff.
There forget about Yawarat joints where ugly lao waiters are the norm and know as much about China and the local lingos as about Catalunya.
Everybody speak Teochew in this restaurant, staff included - although they hired some hilltribes waitresses who speak mandarine, but I haven't heard them mutter a single world. A couple of dozen people stopped at our table and I haven't heard a single word muttered in thai nor mandarine - all tiochew. Quite special. Actually never been to a place like this in BKK. Some of the customers look like your typical low key chinese businessman and others have the worst teeth you will see even in a horror movie. Must see. Food was nothing to rave about, but it was fresh and quite decent. I hope they get some fancier dishes in the near future though, the restaurant is just starting but is already quite busy.
Besides it's open until 5 in the morning and punters with their hos are most welcome. Don't ask me where they get their girls from either but it seems they were also chinese mainlanders.
Sorry about the direction, I took the business card but the directions are in thai, dunno how to type it in - nor how to read it. When you come from Maehsak you just go straight ahead past Suriwong and it's a couple of hundred meters on the left hand side. Cars park on the walking side around the restaurant. Quite a dinner it was! Had a smooth epilogue as well in Long Beach ;
Phone number : 022381620, 022381621
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:08 pm on Aug. 15, 2008
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latenight
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曼谷潮州酒楼
"Restaurant Teochew Bangkok" That's all they seem to have for a name so far.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 3:50 am on Aug. 16, 2008
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sorry, the Google maps did not post properly, I will post later when I can find a better way to map the locations.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 8:48 am on Aug. 16, 2008
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Noone tried the Teochew restaurant on SriPaya yet ? Was there again lately and it was still weird. Had dinner upstairs this time and saw well over a dozen chinese hookers in there. Still no idea where they come from but they feel home in that place and appear to have an ethusiastic male following. Food was still decent, at least less sweet than what they served us in The Peninsula chinese restaurant last night, but one has to be able to deal with the house style, no menu nor price list of any kind, just select what you want from the display and pay whatever you are asked, although somehow the owner popped in during the dinner and the bill had already been settled when we left. It still seems to open late at night and they don't care about booze free election nights and such. Not bad at all.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:53 am on Nov. 12, 2008
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BKK Blues
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Anybody catch the latest version of 'No Reservations' - Thailand?
Bourdain went to chinatown to eat roast suckling pig. The food looked delicious (as does all the foods on the show) but was wondering if any of you guys have tried the restaurant, if not you should check it out, let us know how it is. Curious to know the prices. Name of the restaurant is Tang Jai Yoo, he went with a local chef named chef McDang, supposed to be popular chef in LOS.
Other places he went to was the Amphawa floating market. Sitting on the steps of the river, the food looked really good. Gotta try these places if I ever make it back to LOS.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:12 am on Aug. 31, 2009
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Thursday 20 May 2010 :-
Well worth the wait - Chinatown's culinary wizard add more dishes and tables to his humble yet impressive eatery
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To this day, no matter how much Bangkok's gastronomic scene is inspired by star-studded celebrity chefs from all over the world, the favour for Chef Jok, a homegrown culinary wizard who in 2004 turned his shoddy residential shophouse in Chinatown's wet and slippery alley into the city's least usual yet most talked about eatery, hasn't yet faded.
With only a few dining tables set in a small, decor-less, air-conditioned room, Chef Jok's restaurant, which has now shifted from the best-kept-secret eating place to an internationally famous restaurant, still sees a long list of reservations. Discerning gastronomes - from ordinary families to high-profile politicians, top bankers and superstars - don't seem to mind waiting weeks or even months to simply be delighted by a small selection of tasty delicacies prepared according to Chef Jok's special recipes and techniques.
A former seafood wholesaler who spent much of his life among crabs, prawns, fish and shellfish, Jok certainly knows his ingredients. His cuisine, though basically represented by as few as seven or eight dishes, combines the primest quality seafood with an ingenious touch of Chinese cookery.
The best-selling dishes of all time here are steamed sea crab (800 baht per crab), steamed homemade shrimp dumplings (100 baht for 20 pieces), smoked duck (300 baht for a medium order) and seared snow fish with iceberg lettuce (700-1,500 baht per order) - all of which I've reviewed in 2007.
Even though these items are still the most recommended to this day, Jok has recently created some new dishes to offer his regulars new alternatives. At the same time, he has also managed to get more space and added a couple more sets of dining tables to his humble joint.
Read more at :-
http://www.bangkokpost.com/leisure/restaurant/37321/well-worth-the-wait
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:42 am on May 20, 2010
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Sunday 29 August 2010 :-
Celebrations at the Chinese table - The 'to jeen' meal has become a force in Thailand's culinary culture
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The term to jeen, which translates as "Chinese table", refers to a Chinese style of restaurant dining where many people sit around a round table. The table is big enough to accommodate 10 people and the food is served in quantities sufficient to make sure that everyone has enough to eat. This means no fewer than eight dishes will be offered, and sometimes there are more than 10. To jeen-style dining, which originated in China, has been popular for a long time.
In Thailand, a to jeen meal will feature Chinese food with no more than 10 people at a table. The tradition has established itself firmly in Thai society and is so popular for important occasions that few people will opt for anything else. To jeen-style dining is not confined only to restaurants. Meals can be organised anywhere, with to jeen caterers setting up tables at private homes or any public place that is suitable. As a business, to jeen catering is a practically fail-proof income earner.
In Thailand, this style of dining began with Chinese restaurants. In the past they would introduce their services to potential customers by saying that they served Chinese food and offered to jeen services, meaning that they would organise to jeen banquets both at the restaurant itself and off the premises.
In Thai society when an important but small-scale event is going to take place _ a wedding or an ordination, for example _ relatives, neighbours and members of the immediate community would be invited to attend, meaning that they would have an opportunity to offer congratulations and to take part in the merit-making activities. The family celebrating the event would prepare food for all of the guests, and would set up a large food preparation area. This would mean marshalling people to do the cooking and obtaining the necessary ingredients. The food would invariably be made up of Thai dishes, and a great deal of time and effort was required to bring it off.
Read more at :-
http://www.bangkokpost.com/leisure/restaurant/193515/celebrations-at-the-chinese-table
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 11:55 pm on Aug. 28, 2010
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Sunday 5 September 2010 :-
Eat and Get out at Yaowarat - One neighbourhood in Chinatown is full of culinary landmarks
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People who like to eat, to get out and about, and have an interest in the past all probably love the Yaowarat area in Bangkok. It never seems to change. The shops and their style of doing business are still what they always were. Food is very prominent there too, and the kitchen skills in Yaowarat's restaurants and food shops is of a very high order.
No matter if the prices are high, people still show up to order things, so the area is full of places that have been open for many decades and have become culinary landmarks for those who know. This means that new restaurants that open in the vicinity won't last long if the food they serve is not delicious and they are not ready to remain open long enough for the word to get around.
The Yaowarat-Charoen Krung Road area is quite extensive, so in writing about it today I will focus on a specific part, the neighbourhood around the Ratchawong-Yaowarat intersection extending up to Sua Pa Road. Off to the left on Yaowarat, heading north and before reaching the Ratchawong intersection, is Soi Mangkon. It is popular with shoppers because of the many kinds of goods sold there. You can find things there for everyone, from children to the elderly, but most customers buy them in quantity, to take away and resell elsewhere.
Read more at :-
http://www.bangkokpost.com/leisure/restaurant/194675/eat-and-get-out-at-yaowarat
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:14 am on Sep. 6, 2010
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