Bangkok: random eats!

I have quite a number of small eats going on while I was posting my Japan eats. These aren't big meal so decide to stick them up together and post them as one big entry instead of mini review one.

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The other holiday last month, I opened my fridge and found nothing to eat apart from some salad vegetable and my frozen tamagoyaki from Shurou. So I decided to microwave it and ate with the salad. Texture of the egg was almost as a chiffon cake, it tasted almost like castella (without flour - of course!). I had the egg with some shoyu which helped bringing out the taste of tamagoyaki. I still got some of these left in my freezer so maybe I should do traditional Japanese breakfast with miso soup, seaweed and tamagoyaki someday.

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Two weeks ago, I went to Central World to buy dress for one of my best friend's wedding. My tummy was growling quite loud. I was craving thick french fries so decided to stop by at Mos Burger which was just re-opening.

I love Mos burger. I think they are so much better than American franchised burgers like McDonald's (of course) and even better than Burger King. I know, I have been Japanised in so many way but you have to see how thick the beef patty in Mos burger and compare that with McDonald's one. It's undeniable that Mos burger is worth the money more!

my set

clam chowder

Just look at the beef patty - so thick!

I ordered the premium beef burger set (comes with their thick french fries and soft drink) and clam chowder. I love their clam chowder. You can still taste tiny cubes of potatoes and plenty of clams in the soup. It was very pleasant. The burger was nice. They didn't put too much sauce on which in a way is good coz you can really get the taste of beef and its juiciness. However, being Thai, I love my food with tangy flavour. So if you asked, I think it wasn't season enough. Nonetheless, it was close to my favourite tasty beef burger I had in 2009 while I was in Japan so I wasn't complaining!

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On new year's day, I went to see N and F as we were the only people in our group that stuck in Bangkok. We played around at N house for a bit before took for Vietnamese food (forgot to take pictures, too hungry!). It was only 7.30pm so we decided to waste our lives away at Nawamin City Avenue. It was sort of like an area with shops and restaurants stuck together. After browsing through Daiso shop (it's Baht60 for everything, comparing that with Japanese Daiso which every piece is 100yen), we decided to have some dessert at Iberry Cafe.

Iberry is famous ice cream shop-comes-famous franchised dessert shop/restaurant. They have variety of ice cream esp. those you cannot find in regular ice cream shops such as Horlick, Lychee, Durian or tamarind. It's everyone's favourite ice cream, even my mum since she can go with Thai fruit sorbet instead of general artificial vanilla or chocolate flavour. However, it wasn't cheap. One scoop is Baht49 which like almost 1 pound. That is expensive considering you can get a bowl of noodle for your lunch for only Baht30!


We ordered waffle with a scoop of green tea and double chocolate. Their waffle was really nice. You can get a taste of saltiness in waffle as well so it went well with ice cream and maple syrup. We also ordered an extra scoop of Spicy mango ice cream to share. This is very Thai taste so would recommend anyone who come here to try. Basically it is a flavour originating from sour mango which we usually dip with salt-chili dipping. It was funny for first trial I'm sure since it would be sour and a bit of spicy. It was very pleasant anyway!

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Shouro Tamagoyaki
Chuo-ku, Tsukiji 4-13-13, Tokyo
Website: http://www.shouro.co.jp/top/3.html

Mos Burger
3 floor, Central World,
Ratchaprasong road, Bangkok

Iberry Cafe
Nawamin City Avenue,
Kaset-Nawamin Road, Bangkok

Bangkok: Siriwan Hoy Tod (ศิริวรรณ หอยทอด)

Friday is the day I look forward to read "Daily news" newspaper as the famous food critic & chef, Khun McDang will write a column about eating place. It is a good source for me and family to choose place to dine out. This week, he wrote about 'Siriwan Hoy Tod', the restaurant which is famous for, well if you can understand Thai you will be able to guess, 'HOY TOD'. (Hoy Tod is quite similar to oyster omelet, just that it is more crispy and use mussels instead of oysters)


I have eaten at Siriwan before but that must have been like 10 years ago at their original branch at Muang Thong Thani. Fortunately yesterday was my last day as vegetarian so me and mum drove to eat out at one of their branches on Kaset-Nawamin Road today.


We ordered Poached Fish Ball to try as Khun McDang said it was good. It was not the best in my opinion but better than some place for sure. There was no fishy taste or smell in the fish ball. Anyhow, the spicy seafood dipping sauce was very very nice. Just the right taste of spiciness, sourness and sweetness!


I ordered Crispy Hoy Tod in sizzling pan. It was very crispy so people who love crispiness, like my mum, would love this. Although the mussels were quite small but I don't think I can complain since it was very nice.


Mum ordered Kway Teow Kua Kai (stir fry noodle with chicken and preserved squid). I took a taste and it was quite nice. You can smell the scented of sesame oil mixing cooked with noodle which gives out very aromatic yummy scent.

This meal is surprisingly cheap as we paid only Baht190 (only about $7) and we even left some food on plate as the portion was quite huge. I felt very satisfied esp. after my vegetarian life.

Talking about vegetarian life, I feel like it is not about the food. It is more like the will power of how I would "hang in there". The ironic thing is my office provide lunch for staff every working day so usually they would cook a lot of vegetable dish for us. But this past week, they have cooked a lot of meat dishes and even some are my favourite dishes like garlic pork, chicken tom yum etc. It is as if I was being tested whether I have the will power to go on as vegetarian or not. I did not succumb to those delicious food so quite proud of myself for that.

Siriwan Hoy Tod
on Kaset-Nawamin Road
(just before Phranakorn Honda Automobile, New Kaset Branch)