What to eat in Bangkok - Part 1

Traveling during pandemic, didn't make us forgot the purpose of our trip to Bangkok - shopping and culinary. Bangkok known as a paradise for shopaholic and food lover. Since I ate many tasty food during in Bangkok, I'll share with you about every food that I ate. Not just the food that I ate at the restaurant, but also what we ordered through Grab Food. It's gonna be a long story so I'll divide this topic into 4 parts - which 1 part for 1 day.

Anyway, if you're wondering "How could I travel to Bangkok at this situation?', you can check out this post. I've written the reason why we're in Bangkok and also our experience during this trip.

Day 1

 

Go-Ang Pratunam Chicken Rice

    This chicken rice restaurant is really popular in Bangkok, and it's on our first list. Thankfully it's located right in front of Berkeley Pratunam Hotel - the first hotel that we stayed during in Bangkok. Once we arrived, we went to this restaurant directly for lunch. there's not much menu at this place. And it also seems like everyone come only for their chicken rice. So we ordered 2 portion of chicken rice, and a cold Thai tea because the weather was really hot and we need something cold and sweet.

Chicken Rice - THB 40 & Iced Thai Tea - THB 25

In my opinion, chicken rice in Bangkok is different with the usual chicken rice that I have in Singapore and Indonesia. Usually, chicken rice is quite oily and the chicken also soaked at the sauce and oil. In Bangkok, the rice is really dry, but it has a richful fragrant. The chicken was thinly sliced - with no taste. One thing that I love from this chicken rice is the dipping sauce. It is a perfect combination between dark soy sauce and other ingredients. While people use this sauce to dip the chicken, I poured this sauce over the rice and the chicken, and it's really tasty.

[Grab Food] Siam Seafood - Pratunam & Bear House

    Felt lazy to went out for dinner, so we ordered some food through Grab Food. We had no idea what to eat, and found "Siam Seafood" as a recommended restaurant nearby. Even though it's a seafood restaurant, we didn't order seafood meal. Instead, we ordered "Stir Fried Pork Belly with Chili and Basil (served with rice)" and "Seafood Pad See Ew". I love the pork belly so much. It has a perfect taste, especially when you eat it together with rice. However, it was too spicy for us who's not a spicy food lover. Yeah, we're in Thailand and their spicy food is extremely spicy :) 

Dinner from Grab Food

Stir Fry Pork Belly with Basil (Pad Kana Moo Krob) from Siam Seafood

About the Pad See Ew, it wasn't as good as we were expecting. It's not sweet like other pad see ew that we had before, and even we think it's quite tasteless. If you're wondering "What is Pad See Ew?", Pad See Ew is a stir fried rice noodles with soy sauce and other ingredients such as vegetables, pork, seafood, and chicken. You can choose your favorite protein as the toppings. Ivan really love this food and everytime we visit Thai restaurant, this dish is a mandatory. 

Bearhouse Milk Tea - THB 75

Besides food, we also ordered a drink. Since we're a boba - milk tea lover, tried the famous boba milk tea in Bangkok was on our "list". This time we ordered milk tea from Bear House. I've been eyeing on this drink before we're in Bangkok. It has a simple - cute packaging, and the drink itself looks different with the usual boba drink. When I tried, I found out this milk tea taste better than I was expecting. It has a perfect sweetness level, and the boba size was really small and not too chewy. Very different with the usual boba which has bigger size. Actually, besides boba milk tea they also well known for "Mochi Roll". However it was sold out at that time so I didn't order it. Maybe another time when I back to Bangkok again.

... to be continued to part 2