Bangkok: Dai-chan

We supposed to have Japanese food for dinner on Saturday but N called it off coz she had to see her relatives so I arranged small gathering at Dai-chan, all you can eat Yakiniku, instead.


Dai-chan is actually a branch of the famous all you can eat Yakiniku restaurant, Giant, so the food that serves here are pretty much the same as in Giant (I also mean the quality). The only difference is probably Dai-chan is easier to access, with short distance from BTS' Ari Station.


Me and P arrived first and we just couldn't wait for others so we started off. The menu was very simple; 3 kinds of beef, pork, bacon, squid, chicken, salmon, prawn, eryngii mushroom for grill. You can also order Kimchi, vegetable mixed with sesame oil, plain rice, garlic rice and miso soup as much as you want!


We simply ordered everything to eat. The Kalbi was amazing, VERY VERY Yummy. It went so well with the dipping sauce which we can modify it the any way we like (Me = lots of garlic). The salmon took so long to cook though since they came straight out from the freezer.

With only Baht450 for 2 hours of all you can eat food and all you can drink softdrink, I think it is very good value esp. with the quality of food they are serving here. Their staff are quite attentive, always look out to fill your empty glass. Reservation is needed esp. for weekend.

Dai-chan
Soi Paholyothin 5 (Soi Ratchakru)
Bangkok
Tel. 02 619-5570-1
Opening Hour: 11.00-24.00
BTS Station: Ari

Sapporo: Sapporo Kaitakushi

We have heard about Genghis Khan BBQ/Jingisukan (ジンギスカン) from Hokkaido way ages ago. We knew that it is special dish of Hokkaido and seemed to be some special people's favourite food when they visited Sapporo. So when we decided to go to Sapporo, I started looking for good place where we can eat Genghis Khan BBQ and found that the best place to eat is at Beer Factory. We chose the authentic Sapporo Factory which have many restaurants inside to dine on the first night we arrived at Sapporo since it was only 10 minutes walked from our hotel, ANA Sapporo.

Sapporo Factory

"Sapporo Kaitakushi" restaurant decorated their dining hall like German Beer place. The ambience was very nice, makes you feel as if you were in Oktoberfest!

They have regular menu and all you can eat/all you can drink in 90 minutes. We opted for the 4 types of meat all you can eat and drink for the experience of Genghis Khan BBQ (and for the fact that we are meat-eating people).

The mutton came in 4 types; plain, salt, soy sauce and miso and vegetable.

How to eat: you first put all the veggies on the bbq pan and top of with the mutton. Then pour sauce on top of the meat and let it cook slowly.

Now that was my share of Genghis Khan BBQ with hot sake. The meat was very very tender, it was never like those muttons I ate in UK or Australia. It doesn't smell too strong and the meat was not chewy at all. I thought I had died and gone to heaven already! We munched down 3 or 4 plates of meat with hot sake and some shuuhei (Japanese cocktail with Soju base).

90 minutes gone and that was our BBQ pan - dirty, dirty, dirty!

Now the good thing about Japanese dining, if you plan ahead you can print the discount coupon from website and use it. As I planned ahead, we got 10% discount which was a great deal for us!

Sapporo Beer Mongolian BBQ beer cellar Sapporo Kaitakushi
Sapporo Factory Renga-kan 1F
Nijo Higashi 4, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0032
Gourmet Navi website (for discount)

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