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03-24-19 21:44 #10307
Posts: 93Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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03-24-19 18:20 #10306
Posts: 92Soi 11 grub
I had a place for a month on Soi 11 in the Prime 11. Generally I agree, food prices and quality are shit but there are a few standouts.
Between Soho and Thaiger is a street vendor who makes the best Pad Thai I've eaten from a street cart. All the elements are well balanced and he really loads it up with the extras (chicken, egg, veggies) for 100 baht, you will be both full and happy. They are generally on the right hand side but sometimes, not often the left. It's the only pad thai cart I've seen down there.
In front of the parking lot for the japanese restos (shit all of them) is a lady selling fried chicken legs for 20 baht. They are pretty good, she spices up her batter and doesn't over cook the bird.
There is an Indian place down the alley across from el Goucho (which is not, I repeat NOT an Argentine parrilla and should be avoided at all costs) called Little Spicy that's pretty fucking good. It's a husband and wife operation, she speaks english, they are actually bangladeshi not Indian and if you ask her for suggestions just take them. Not cheap but not terrible. You're going to spend between 4-600 baht but you will be full and should be happy. In that same alley is a street vendor that makes a fiery fucking chicken red curry dish that's the shit.
Heading down the street towards Suk past the Au Bon Pain but not quite to the tourist trap on your right is a thai guy selling meatcicles (chicken, pork, and beef) they go for 40 a piece and are good.
Cross Suk to soi 8 on your left is a street cart that has a lot of tables with great soup and if you turn down the alley it kinda blocks (that doesn't show on maps) there is a place on your left that is good, not great but consistently good and very inexpensive. If the young (or old, I can never decide) girl tells you it's spicy it means you really shouldn't eat it unless you come from a tradition of REALLY spicy food. They have a spicy fish dish that I got against her advice and I had to run around the corner to 7-11 and buy some milk.
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03-24-19 17:37 #10305
Posts: 784Originally Posted by Mogwai [View Original Post]
My suggestions would be:
1) Many schwarma stands around soi Arab serve up tasty chicken wraps for 60 baht. The best I found was on soi 3 adjacent to the Grace Hotel driveway.
2) Download the eatigo app and save up to 50% at participating restaurants. The "restaurants near me" search will list the available options in order, beginning with the closest to your current location.
3) For an introduction to the wonderous world of Thai street food (LOL) walk down soi 4 a ways, there will be options on both sides of the street.
SL.
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03-24-19 17:01 #10304
Posts: 1512Food in the Suk area that is not stupidly tourist priced is hard to find, and Soi 11 is some of the worst. I don't eat down there often but here IMHO.
Burgers: The last burger I had down there was Taigers place and they sucked. Bullys is OK, just OK. Same with Kiwi. Kiwi has a nice Steak Sarnie that's almost US style.
Pizza: all overpriced yuk except for Vesuvio. The one under the BTS at Asoke is OK, but I never go there at night because of possible BIB action and I don't want to be pissing in a cup, Ja Irie.
Mexican. Margarita Storm. Superb.
Bamboo. Fabulous Rooskie food. Try the Plov when available and the Uzbek bread.
If I was staying down there, which I never would, but if I did I would, BTS out of there to Bang Rak or Silom or Ari or even Thong Lor.
Everything else is hit and miss down there. I find the Malls to be overpriced and farangy. ID rather eat at that place on Suk under the metal roofs past Soi 3. The street food in general in that area is not the best, although its hard to screw up noodle soup.
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03-24-19 14:36 #10303
Posts: 48Does anyone have some advice or general guidelines on "renting" a girlfriend for a few weeks? I see lots of information coming from some guys that seems a bit lowball, and of course lots from the ladies that seems a bit upper limit. Does anyone have experience with this? I want to be fair. Even a little generous, but I always get the feeling if I quote a price, it's always much higher than what they usually accept. I know it's a complicated question and depends on a lot of factors, but I was just wondering if anyone had some advice or details they'd like to share.
Thanks a lot.
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03-24-19 10:56 #10302
Posts: 2216Originally Posted by FunLuvr [View Original Post]
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03-24-19 10:25 #10301
Posts: 2216Originally Posted by FunLuvr [View Original Post]
Took Lae Dee in the Foodland supermarket in Soi 5 has cheap and reasonably good food. It's about 200 meters into the soi on your left hand side.
Look for 'Took Lae Dee, Sukhumvit 5 Alley' in Google Maps.
There are also some good options at the beginning of Soi 8, like Monsoon for example. Still relatively expensive but you can have a good meal and a beer for about 500 Baht. Including pizza ;-)
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03-23-19 20:53 #10300
Posts: 1047Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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03-23-19 20:28 #10299
Posts: 1047Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
I have been in or looked at the menu of most of the restaurants on Soi 11 north of the BTS train and on two floors of restaurants in the Terminal 21 building. I know what I am talking about. As with most places, if you go outside the tourist areas, things are probably cheaper.
Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
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03-23-19 19:49 #10298
Posts: 5560Originally Posted by FunLuvr [View Original Post]
The 310 baht hamburger with no sides also sounds like one of those mile high stacked burgers you get at, oh, maybe Firehouse, right across Soi 11 from Insanity. Personally, I'm not a fan of those burgers but they've got quite a following.
IMO, one of the best cheeseburgers you can get in the area is, believe it or not, right in Nana Plaza, at any one of the Stumble Inn group of bars; Stumble Inn, Big Hog Bar, Lucky Luke's, Nana Beer Garden, a couple of other places. Not to be confused with the burger at the Hillary bars, which, imo, is not as good. Anyway, if anyone reading this has not had one of those Stumble Inn/Big Hog Bar cheeseburgers in over a year or so and your memory of them is they weren't very good, you're right. They weren't very good up until about a year or so ago. They have improved greatly since then. Check them out. It is a large burger, good quality meat, very tasty, noticeably good cheddar cheese, soft fresh baked bun, includes a handful of pretty good french fries and misidentified "cole slaw" (it is actually just shredded lettuce, maybe a trace of cabbage in there somewhere, with a drizzle of mayonnaise on the top. I don't bother eating it). 220 baht. Worth it.
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03-23-19 19:24 #10297
Posts: 93Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
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03-23-19 14:31 #10296
Posts: 6407Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
Odd you say Jakarta doesn't have good food. Part of the reason why I like Bangkok and Jakarta is good eats. Tons and tons of amazing restaurants in large malls like Kota Kasablanka and Grand Indonesia. Great US Steakhouses like Holycow for 500 baht. If you are on a budget there are 100 baht dishes at Jonisteak all around the city including one right beside Classic Hotel. I would also recommend Ta Wan Chinese restaurant in Harris Vertu Harmoni but a bit pricy. Agree the Indo food sucks and all tastes the same imo.
Using Bluebird taxi and Grab also make Jakarta very easy to get around, unlike the scamming taxi drivers in Pattaya who want 200 baht for 1 km.
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03-23-19 14:08 #10295
Posts: 12856Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
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03-23-19 13:49 #10294
Posts: 3040Originally Posted by Syzygies [View Original Post]
So, good will hunting, FunLuvr. I hope you have the time of your life.
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03-23-19 13:31 #10293
Posts: 12856Originally Posted by FunLuvr [View Original Post]
You should get an internet SIM card at the airport and then use Google Maps, because you don't know where anything is, right? Okay Go to some other shop for SIM card now.
With Google Maps, you would know the Smart Suites are very close to Makkasan, and you should show address to taxi driver. Hopefully can find one can read enough English. I agree some taxi drivers do not know how to read a map. So if he does not know your hotel could be a problem. More likely he decided to rip you off. He did not want to take someone so close for maybe 50 Baht.
You have to get taxis to use meter, and make sure they go in the right direction using Google Maps. It is true, there are one way roads so best way may not be direct from Makkasan. He probably should have used Soi 3 and then back Sois. Try to find out though what fares should cost in advance.
Food is not expensive in Thailand. Many things will be 5 times cheaper than a western country, but that applies to Thai Food. However no one would pay $25 for a Pizza, here normally. I don't normally eat Pizza in Thailand but I have eaten one at Little Italy on entrance to Soi 23, and I doubt would be as high as $10. Wild guess 200 Baht, which could be off either way. Too long ago.
There are places selling a piece of Pizza for maybe 40 or 50 Baht each. I sometimes get a burger in Soi Cowboy stand (at night) for 130 Baht maybe, that is with egg, bacon, salad, cooked onions, cheese just about everything. In the Sports pub nearby a bit more expensive, but a Pizza would be way under $25.
So you are choosing overly posh places to eat it seems, then complaining about the price. Maybe the forum can recommend some good priced eating places. Try some Sports pubs, you can find them on Google Maps. I sometimes go to Thai market areas and but prepared dishes in a plastic bag to take back to eat at my room. Some of these dishes whether stir fry or soup can cost only 40 Baht. So one can eat a meal exceedingly cheap if we want. Food courts where buy vouchers, have plenty of cheap options (Thai food). Foodland is a good place to order breakfast at a good price with western food available. There is one in Soi 5. German Pub in soi 11? (I might have that wrong) would have a good breakfast available.
Plenty of Cafes have reasonable prices. You should try to know the reasonable prices around before you decide. I don't generally recommend to order A la Carte at a Hotel, high price and standard questionable sometimes, but some Hotels maybe okay.
Yes if weather is okay, use motorcycle to get through the traffic short distances.
On the streets there are always people trying to find someone to rip off. So when a Thai accosts you and asks where you are going, just remember is he thinking of himself and not you most likely. I prefer to ask timid non aggressive people minding their own business.
So you can be given good info or bullshit. You really don't want to use taxi drivers that approach you. Hail a taxi going past is way better than one parked. Don't accept offers of guys wanting to take you sight seeing, to gem shops, to Massage Parlours etc. You need to decide where you are going by yourself, first. If the taxi tells you your destination restaurant is closed, he is probably making up a bullshit story.
Have to be sceptical all the time, especially if someone tells you its your lucky day. Ha ha. I get less problems, one because I speak thai, secondly years of being here, and thirdly very sceptical nature. I had to make mistakes as a newbie too, naturally. Taxis taking me not to where I wanted to go. Just one example.
Last piece of advice is very important. Thai working girls try to build up many western boyfriends to keep them supplied regularly with money. So you don't want for fall some Thai girl in a big hurry. Yes enjoy the fucking, but it takes years of knowing someone to find "real" love. My buddy married a girl he met on first day in Bangkok. She got citizenship in another country, took him to the cleaners, his house and car, and found a new boyfriend. He came back here, went to Cambodia and within 2 weeks had a new Girlfriend. She has used all his remaining money, hooked on Ice, had two babies, one his and one to someone else (on the side). He would 65+, she 25.
Thai girls are not all bad, it just takes a very long time to know if you found a good or bad one. I know a young pretty Laos girl now. I am too old for her. I like sex with her but I don't really know her deep down well. Met her maybe 1 year ago or so. No intention she should be a GF, just a Gik (girl on the side). Don't get Thai girls Pregnant. Abortion is against their religion, mostly.
Allow plenty of time for taxi to get to the airport. Traffic jams can be bad.