Jekpea Coffee Shop @ Dechanuchit Road, Hua Hin

Cuisine: Thai

Map: Jekpea Coffee Shop @ Dechanuchit Road, Hua Hin - ร้านกาแฟเจ๊กเปี๊ยะ @ ถนนเดชานุชิต หัวหิน

Price: THB50 per person (what I paid for)

Visited: 25 September 2011

Food: 6/10

Atmosphere: 4/10

Value for money: 7/10

Services: 4/10

Taking a short break at Hua Hin, indeed everyone always think "what am I gonna have for lunch/dinner?" or "should I go for seafood tonight?". But there is one place almost everyone will think of when cannot decide what to eat. It is surely "Jekpea Coffee Shop". This place is situated at a corner of the junction of Dechanuchit Road and Naeb Kehardt Road. You will notice the old looking house made out of wood right away. It is always pack with tourists (mostly from Bangkok) during weekends and public holidays. No reservation for this kind of place of course, however, you can grab seats in short time. People do come in and go rather fast.

Jekpea Coffee Shop - ร้านกาแฟเจ๊กเปี๊ยะ

The Exterior - บรรยากาศภายนอก

The Interior - บรรยากาศภายใน

I guess that this place started out as a coffee shop from its name and then develop through time to be a place that offers variety of food ranging from street food to seafood. Pricing of food here is also in line with other places and perhaps a little cheaper than some street food. Menu for day time is in the form of one person dish but dinner menu is mostly to share type. During breakfast time, there will be stalls of various type of food to be chosen from at the front of Jekpea. Everything here is rather good but not great. Nice for a quick meal.

Beverage Counter - โต๊ะชงเครื่องดื่ม

Menu Board - รายการอาหาร

Assorted Pork in Soup Stall - รถเข็นเลือดหมู

BBQ Pork with Rice Stall - รถเข็นข้าวหมูแดง

Congee Stall - รถเข็นโจ๊ก

Made by Order Stall - รถเข็นอาหารตามสั่ง

Hainanese Chicken Rice Stall - รถเข็นข้าวมันไก่

Noodle with BBQ Pork Stall - รถเข็นบะหมี่หมูแดง

This time we came here for breakfast and decided to have Assorted Pork in Soup - ต้มเลือดหมู. For those who do not know what this is, it contains minced pork ball, clotted pork blood, and assorted organ of pork such as stomach and liver. Those who cannot take organs just do not order this. However, I must say that this is actually a nice dish, especially the soft clotted blood. Even organs are nice, cannot detect any bad smell of organ. Supple and delightful soup I must say (7/10).

Assorted Pork in Soup - ต้มเลือดหมู (ตือฮวน)

Pork Blood - เลือดหมู

For beverage, we went for typical Thai drink: Iced Thai Milk Tea and Hot Coffee. Iced Thai Milk Tea was rather good and not too sweet but maintained some sweetness to give unique taste of milk tea (6/10). Hot Coffee came with a cup of hot Chinese tea. It was black coffee. Nothing special for this but good for morning wake up (5/10).

Iced Thai Milk Tea - ชานมเย็น

Hot Coffee - กาแฟร้อน

Jekpea Coffee Shop @ Dechanuchit Road, Hua Hin

51/6 Dechanuchit Road

Hua Hin

Thailand

ร้านกาแฟเจ๊กเปี๊ยะ @ ถนนเดชานุชิต หัวหิน

51/6 ถนนเดชานุชิต

หัวหิน

Open Hours: 06:15am - 08:30pm daily

Tel: +66 (0) 3251 1289

Ohana Fresh Cafe @ Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok

Cuisine: Cafe

Map: Ohana: Fresh Cafe @ Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok - โอฮานา: เฟรช คาเฟ่ @ ซอยสุขุมวิท 24 กรุงเทพ

Price: THB190 per person without alcohol (what I paid for)

Visited: 16 July 2011

Dessert: 3/10

Atmosphere: 6/10

Value for money: 2/10

Services: 5/10

Having heard about Ohana for a long time, we only this time had a chance to give it a quick visit and by all means it was a really quick visit. First thing to bear in mind for anyone, there is no parking space for this cafe. Hence, take BTS to Phrom Phong station or just park somewhere and walk: not so hard but cannot be annoying. What we rather impress was the atmosphere. It gives a relaxing and homey ambient within greenery. 

We found that many people do come here for a chit-chat with friends, some even come and stay for a long time with their work. As we had a glance at the menu, it was rather simple with things like typical pastas, salads, sandwiches, and home-made desserts such as chocolate lava, waffle, and other pastry.

Ohana from outside

Ohana: Fresh Cafe @ Sukhumvit 24

The Menu

We decided to go straight to desserts without trying any food. We had Chocolate Mauna Loa and Strawberry Waffle with Cappuccino, without thinking as they are presented on the first page of menu: presuming they must be good ^^. Bad toss this time perhaps for us.

Chocolate Mauna Loa was the typical chocolate lava cake that comes with vanilla ice-cream, of course. Texture was great: firm but soft on the outside while runny chocolate came out from inside. Nevertheless, the quality of chocolate flavour was not so rich as we had expected for the price we paid for. The vanilla ice-cream was acceptable but not creamy and contained icy bits. However, this is still better than the bad experience we encountered with After You (4/10).

Chocolate Mauna Loa

Strawberry Waffle on the other side was a big piece of waffle filled with whipped cream and strawberry that came with vanilla flavour ice-cream on top with honey syrup. We personally admitted that the best part of this dessert was the ice-cream but what do we know about food. The waffle was kind of soft and soaky and flavourless. Strawberry was not of good quality but what would we expect. Lastly the honey syrup, from our perspective, just ruined the overall flavour of this dish (2/10).

Cappuccino was perhaps the most reliable one here though we are not a coffee expert. Strong, rich, and foamy (6/10).

Strawberry Waffle

Cappuccino

Sugar Set

We were not impressed with this cafe though the rumour said it supposes to be a good one. It might, on contrast, be just a bad day for us. Perhaps we will give it another try when a chance comes by. But a specific choice for a meal here is surely not in our list, given its rather high price and quality we get.

Ohana: Fresh Cafe @ Sukhumvit 24, Bangkok

50/4 Soi Sukhumvit 24

Sukhumvit Road

Khlong Ton, Khlong Toei

Bangkok 10110

Thailand

โอฮานา: เฟรช คาเฟ่ @ ซอยสุขุมวิท 24 กรุงเทพ

50/4 ซอยสุขุมวิท 24

ถนนสุขุมวิท

แขวงคลองตัน เขตคลองเตย

กรุงเทพ 10110

Open Hours: 08:00am - 07:00pm daily

Tel: +66 (0) 2661 1930

Web: http://www.ohana.co.th/