A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

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[FONT=&quot]Laab minced pork balls deep fried - laab is a style of marinating, with lots of Thai herbs and lime[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]More fermented crab somtam this time with dried chili[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Padi rice fish[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]River fishes[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Giant red ants eggs tomyam[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The spread[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]All went well with half a bottle of Double Black Jophnny Walker with soda for this lunch, very happy I must say[/FONT]
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[Froggy]

Had a great rub here after the long lunch

 

[Froggy]

[FONT=&quot]A colleague introduced me to a beef noodle shop in Bangkok, said its good but the place is old and hot. Last week I went.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Indeed its bloody hot at 3pm[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]My order - consists of braised beef and beef balls in soup and a plate of lean beef[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]So tender and soft simply melts in the mouth[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Add in the vegetables consisting of kangkong and taugay[/FONT]
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[Froggy]

Lunch at a nice restaurant Brasserie by Water Library at Crystal Park Mall - I highly recommend this fine dining restaurant (but not fine dining prices as in Singapore) great food and service.

No wine just this

Freshly baked bread still steaming hot with home made butter

Shared 2 starters Hokkaido scallops

and Cold pasta with truffles and lobsters

After mixing

Started to rain outside

My lamb, perfectly done to my request

My lunch companion's lunch - Peruvian seabass

Shared a dessert - chocolate lava

Flowing lava

 

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[Froggy]

Thaniya is a street in downtown Bangkok next to Silom Road and in the area of the infamous Patpong area. Thaniya is frequented by Japanese who work in Thailand and Japanese tourists. There one can find anything Japanese including Japanese bars and nightclubs, restaurants, banks, golf shops etc etc all catering to Japanese. Seafood there are freshest arriving from Japan every Tuesdays and Fridays.

Went to Sushi Tsukiji on Tuesday for dinner, this is Thaniya street

The restaurant front

Starter drink

Sushi master cutting up our fat tuna

Sushi master preparing our sashimi plate

Grilled gingko

Grilled chili

 

[Froggy]

The real drink for dinner, sake

Special sashimi

Hokkaido scallops

Fatty tuna

Prawns

Suck it all up

 

[Froggy]

Ordered 2 types of clams, big and medium both different species

Started with the smaller clam tasted so sweet and succulent ordered another portion

Then came the big clam, was pretty bloody when they cut it, just don't look

Serving the big clam

 

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We love the big clam we ordered another one

Chef preparing fresh white wasabi

Fresh wasabi with big clam

Fantastic uni sashimi

Too jelat have to take some of this

Fermented squid

Wash down some with tea

 

[Froggy]

Finally finish off the dinner with some sushi

Salmon roe

Fatty salmon stomach portion

Sea eel

Wagyu

Boiled and then ice chilled sea eel in plum sauce - strange sweetness very delicious

After 2 bottles of sake its good to have hot mushroom miso

Got the team 2 rounds of beer, really appreciate them for a great dinner

 

[Bonut]

泰国食神 ...

 

[Froggy]

Thursday night went for a Thai massage near home

After the massage about 11pm went for Teochew porridge Thai style

 

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Teochew porridge Thai style

Selection at the front

 

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Diner

Minced pork with salted egg yolk

Lup cheong

Yellow leek

Wonderful porridge

Kailan

Delicious duck

Total 650 baht $27

 

[Froggy]

Saturday night had a light seafood dinner at Laem Charoen near the house along Ramintra Road. Laem Charoen started in Rayong Province long ago and today has many branches in most Central Malls all over Thailand. Seafood is very consistent and affordable with a very big menu. http://www.laemcharoenseafood.com/

The front deck

Whisky soda, Japanese will call this Highball

Salad with shrimp paste sauce

Cold raw crab with chili and cpices

Laem Charoen is the first restaurant to invent this famous and popular dish called seabass deep fried with fish sauce

Melon vegetables stir fry

Salted fish fried rice

The spread

The restaurant

 

[rusty]

Walau Frog, now your photographic skill have improved tremendously with testosteronic teaser.
Knn good food, wine and woman even the monk envied.

 

[Froggy]

Walau Frog, now your photographic skill have improved tremendously with testosteronic teaser.
Knn good food, wine and woman even the monk envied.

Thank you. I try to contribute more if have the time.

 

[Froggy]

The 7th Lunar Month Ghost Festival is celebrated in Thailand in a much smaller way as rituals only on 15th day which is today.

This table supposedly for higher beings

This area for the good brothers

Offering joss sticks and prayers

Burning of incense

Finished with a bang

[video=youtube;8Gs7TleXcqg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gs7TleXcqg[/video]​

 

[Froggy]

Had a small party, lunch for office staff about 40 of them, very local food.

Raw veges - Thais like raw veges as a salad

These are boiled vege and flowers

The raw vege salad goes with this shrimp paste (balacan) sauce - nam-prick-kapi

Short mackerel (pla tu) - when you bought this fish it had already been boiled in sea water in other words its ready to eat from the stall however most of the time it is fried and then eaten with the above salad and shrimp paste sauce. This is one of my favourite dish

Bamboo shoot soup

Chicken green curry