Bangkok Jan 2013 - Fuji Japanese Restaurant & Som Boon Seafood

Continued from Part I and Part II.

 

Our second last day at BKK.

 

Both of us slept in till late morning and was about to go out for shopping when our friends text us for an early lunch at Fuji Restaurant, Siam Paragon.

 

I think we outdone ourselves once again, just let the amount of food do the talking :p

Seafood salad.

Pan fried beef.

Grilled unagi.

Salmon and Hotate sashimi.

 

Tamago.

Stir fried mushroom.

Sweet beancurd with rice.

Grilled mussels with garlic.

Pan fried bacon wrap with golden mushroom.

Potato croquet.

Tuna, squid and ikura sushi

Udon

Tuna and Hamachi sashimi.

Gyoza.

Futomaki.

 

Assorted tempura.

 

That was indeed a very hearty lunch, wasn't it? Imagine the amount of food just for four of us!

 

After lunch, all of us parted ways for our shopping before meeting in the evening for dinner.

 

 

This time round, we ventured to SomBoon Seafood at Surawong, apparently a very famous seafood chain in BKK. Had to queue for around 45 mins just to get a seat and we were there quite late in fact.

Grilled sotong.

Prawn cake with plum sauce.

Tom Yum Seafood soup.

Oyster in omelet.

Stir fried chicken.

Specialty of the restaurant. Crab in special sauce. We expected the sauce to be like curry and spicy but it was not, couldn't really describe the taste though. A little creamy, a little milky, slight sweetness.

Stir fried bitter gourd leaves. This was a bad dish, the stems/leaves were too fibrous and hard to chew and shallow.

Not sure if it was due to weekend, service was quite bad and the waiter only informed us that one of the dishes we ordered was sold out, after we waited for a long time and enquired. Food portion was also very small considering the price of the meal. We may or may not give this restaurant a second chance in future. Will see.

After dinner, we took a stroll at the nearby night market and thereafter headed back to Siam Square area. Wanted to do foot reflex at Chang Massage but it was full house. Hence, we retired early to the hotel. The next day was early flight back home.

Bangkok Jan 2013 Part II - Or Tor Kor Market & Ban Khun Mae Thai Cuisine

Continued from Part I

The next morning of our BKK trip, we decided to pay a visit to Or Tor Kor Market. Interestingly, we've been to BKK so many times and this was our first visit there. In fact, I only learnt about Or Tor Kor Market recently. The market boasts of around 600 stalls selling seafood, meat, local fruits, dry ingredients, vegetables, traditional sweets and desserts, cooked food etc. It's very clean and well-organized and easily accessible by MRT and is just opposite Chatuchak Market.

Thai durians, with signature long stems.

Seafood stalls.

Vegetable stalls, all neatly stacked and packaged.

Dried seafood stalls.

Hubby saw these salted fish which was very "fresh" and decided to buy some.

 

 

The stall owner was very friendly and when she learnt that we were tourists, she vacuumed packed the salted fish for us so that there won't be a problem for us to pack the salted fish in our luggage.

 

 

All the vegetables are neatly packaged and displayed.

 

 

Then we saw the Thai durians and decided to buy 2 seeds to eat. Each seed or each pair were neatly wrapped for the convenience of customers.

The durian meat was very fleshy, thick, sweet and creamy. Not bad, but I don't think I could eat more than 2 seeds coz it was quite heavy on the palate. I still prefer the rustic kampung bitter type of durians.

Stalls selling rice and all types of grains.

Cooked food stall selling all sorts of pork items including intestines.

Drinks stall.

Cooked food stall, same as our local mixed rice stall.

 

The roasted pork looked so inviting, we bought a packet. The crackling was very crispy and the meat was succulent!

There were also many hawker stalls. I saw this coagulated blood fish maw soup and immediately ordered a bowl. Turned out that the coagulated blood was not pig's blood but duck's blood!

Cooked seafood. It was an eye opener to see cooked seafood sold in this manner.

Dessert stalls.

Hubby ordered some rice noodles soup with pork, intestines and coagulated blood.

 

Hubby also ordered this interesting dessert, with some springy stuff, coconut and water chestnut (red rubies)

 

After spending the morning at Or Tor Kor market, we were in need of some food massage and proceeded back to Siam Square.

The service at Chang Massage was quite good and most importantly the seats were very comfortable that both of us dozed off in the middle of our massage.

In the evening, we met P and N for dinner at a restaurant located at Siam Square, highly recommended by them.

This was where our feasting started again!

Tom Yum Gong. Very tangy and spicy!

Steamed fish with green chilli sauce.

Green curry.

Minced pork with Thai Basil.

Spring roll.

Pad Thai fried noodles.

Pandan wrapped chicken.

Papaya salad.

Chap Chye.

Honey grilled pork.

Steamed river prawn in milk and egg.

Sticky rice and mango.

Steamed tapioca.

 

Red ruby. Water chestnut in coconut milk.

 

Amazed by the amount of food we ate? Stay tuned for Part III w'here's there was more food to come!