Meng Charoen: Hainanese Chicken Rice @ Sathupradit Road, Bangkok

Cuisine: Chinese (Hainanese Chicken Rice)

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Price: THB40 per person (what I paid for)

Visited: 21 August 2011

Food: 7/10

Atmosphere: n.m. (street food)

Value for money: 10/10

Services: n.m. (street food)

This time we, Deadly and Chubby, bring you to one of the best local place that serves great Hainanese Chicken Rice (ข้าวมันไก่). This kind of street food place is called "Meng Charoen" and is located between Soi Sathupradit 53 and 55. Unfortunately for those who can only come during evening as this place opens until afternoon when they usually finish off their chicken. Even order for take away, it still tastes fabulous. If you are thinking of ordering for many people, say for than 4, it may be a good choice to order rice and chicken separately. This way you can enjoy more of tender and flavoured chicken.

Meng Charoen @ Sathupradit Road

Hainanese Chicken Rice here is flavoursome and splendid. Rice was just perfectly cooked such that you can separate grain by grain and it was cooked from good quality rice (not the unbroken one). Chicken was really tender and juicy. When eating with chilli sauce, it was just wonderful. Gourd soup was also nice, though some may find this unpleasant due to hint of preserved lime (มะนาวดอง). We may give this (7/10) as it is just Hainanese Chicken Rice and there is surely nothing creative. If I have to score this among chicken rice, this would surely get 9-10 out of 10. By the way, when ordering you can just ask your preferred part of chicken such as drum stick, breast, or thigh.

Hainanese Chicken Rice

One with Chilli Sauce

Yummy Piece of Drum Stick

Gourd Soup with Preserved Lime

Just in front of this place, Grilled Pork Ball is also offered to those who visit Meng Charoen. It surely was not bad at all. A good one to eat along with chicken rice for personal joy (5/10).

Grilled Pork Ball

Meng Charoen: Hainanese Chicken Rice @ Sathupradit Road, Bangkok

661/14 Sathupradit Road

Bang Phongpang, Yannawa

Bangkok 10120

Thailand

เม้งเจริญ โภชนา (ข้าวมันไก่) @ ถนนสาธุประดิษฐ์ กรุงเทพ

661/14 ถนนสาธุประดิษฐ์

แขวงบางโพงพาง เขตยานนาวา

กรุงเทพ 10120

Open Hours: Early morning until run out in the afternoon daily

Tel: +66 (0) 2294 6036

The Garage: Burger & Grill @ All Seasons Place, Bangkok

Cuisine: American

Map: The Garage: Burger & Grill @ All Seasons Place, Bangkok

Price: THB280 per person without alcohol (what I paid for)

Visited: 27 August 2011

Food: 5/10

Atmosphere: 4/10

Value for money: 3/10

Services: 4/10

Talking about burger, you probably think about McDonald, Burger King, or the Japanese chain Mos Burger. However, on the 2nd floor of All Seasons Place, Bangkok, there is a restaurant called The Garage that offers premium grade burger. This place has been well known to those who work around Witthayu area. Walking into the restaurant you will probably notice straight away that this place serves American style food. Photos and portrait of Hollywood stars along each side of walls, USA car plates, USA flags, and etc. On the pricing side, this can be a lot more expensive when you compare to those of Burger King and McDonald but you surely get what you pay (on the quality of ingredient).

The Garage: Burger & Grill @ All Seasons Place

Restaurant Front

The Decor

It was burger and it was big, we hence could only try 2 dishes this time T__T. First one was the typical Cheese Burger. Well this came with a piece of beef burger, dense and cheesy, though not so tender. We ordered medium for this one. If it had been medium, this could be much better and juicier (4/10).

Juicy Lucy Burger was probably similar to Cheese Burger. But this one, 4 kinds of cheese were stuffed into mince making more tender and juicier: each bite there would be cheese running out of the burger ^^. We like this one more but the bread was rather hard and coarse (5/10).

Cheese Burger

Juicy Lucy Burger

The Garage: Burger & Grill @ All Seasons Place, Bangkok

Unit 203, 2nd Floor

All Seasons Place Retail Center (CRC Tower)

87/2 Wireless Road

Lumpini, Pathumwan

Bangkok 10330

Thailand

Open Hours: 11:00am - 10:00pm daily except Saturday open at noon

Tel: +66 (0) 2685 3626

Web: http://www.thegaragebkk.com

Me & Ice-cream @ CDC, Bangkok

Cuisine: Ice-cream

Map: Me & Ice-cream @ CDC, Bangkok

Price: THB49 per scoop (what I paid for)

Visited: 26 June 2011

Ice-cream: 3/10

Atmosphere: 5/10

Value for money: 3/10

Services: n.m.

Skimming through my record to see what to post, I somehow found this Me & Ice-cream @ CDC which I did give it a visit a while ago and forgot to post. This little tiny ice-cream shop produces home-made ice-cream to sell at CDC. So you can expect to see some different flavour each time you come by except the basic flavours. Though we did not find this place interesting in term of its taste, the lovely style of this tiny shop can also attract some visitors to pop by. This place has very limited place to eat in and it is outdoor, hence, forget about it when raining.

Me & Ice-cream @ CDC

The Tiny Shop

Price Board

Ice-cream Variety

At the time, we had a chance to try 6 flavours in total: Thai Tea, Vanilla, Double Chocolate, Coffee, Lactobacillus (Yakult and Jelly), and Banoffee. All of which were ok to eat. Texture was acceptable but with icy bits, not completely smooth and creamy. To be honest, vanailla, double chocolate, and coffee are below standard from our perspective. They could be more rich in taste. Out of all six, we found that Lactobacillus was the best one. Easy to eat and interesting: guess that kids will love this one. Unfortunately, we did not try the signature "Earl Grey" though.

Thai Tea Ice-cream

Vanilla Flavour Ice-cream

Double Chocolate Ice-cream

Coffee Ice-cream (middle)

Lactobacillus Ice-cream

Banoffee Ice-cream

Me & Ice-cream @ CDC, Bangkok

1420/1 Crystal Design Center

Pradist Manudham Road

Khlong Kum, Bang Kapi

Bangkok 10240

Open Hours: Monday – Thursday 12:00pm – 09:00pm and Friday – Sunday 11:00am – 11:30pm

Tel: +66 (0) 81 833 3849

Web: http://www.facebook.com/meandicecreamhomemade