What We Went Through

Dine in the Dark has been open for a few months, so it was high time that WWWT visited.  The basic premise is that you will choose a 3 course Thai (B850 / $28), international (B850 / $28), or vegetarian (B750 / $25) dinner which will be served by blind staff in a pitch black dining [...]

A lot of people think of Japan as cherry blossoms, high tech robots, bullet trains, vending machines (selling used panties?), sumo and sushi.  Probably something that most people who have never been to Japan think of is the traditional and amazing ‘Japanese breakfast’ that is a staple throughout the country.  Consisting of a fresh bowl [...]

Always trying to think of something different to do for the blog, last week I contacted the Hamburgler of Bangkok Burger Blog  to see if he would like to do a co-review of one of the few burger places he had yet to visit.  Heawen is purposefully spelled with a ‘w’ as Thais cannot normally pronounce [...]

By most estimates, Bangkok has over 100 Italian restaurants and in my experience 99% of them share one common trait: high prices.  It has always concerned me that the high prices for pasta, pizzas, fish and meat are almost the same from restaurant to restaurant and it was as if all of the owners sat [...]

When the new Skytrain BTS extension finally opened up last year there were hundreds of thousands of people who now had easy access to the central business district and all of the amenities that are part of the day to day life in downtown Bangkok.  I couldn’t think of any reason to make use of [...]

When foreigners refer to Thailand as LOS it would be more apt in 2012 to call it the Land of Shopping instead of the Land of Smiles.  Not that there isn’t smiling going on but there are just so many more places to shop than even a few years ago.  The pretty cool and unique [...]

Let me state the obvious right from the get go: Breakfast in Bangkok is usually crap!  You are almost definitely going to get a combination of poor quality, low quantity,  robotic service (if you are lucky),  no coffee refills, and high prices.  Think ‘Bizarro World‘  where everything is the opposite and nothing is allowed to be perfect [...]

  ” I would say that the best f_ckin burger I ever had was at a bowling alley, ’cause they surprise you there, some of them alleys hire some of the best cooks, and they ain’t a restaurant but that doesn’t mean that the cook ain’t gonna put some f_ckin pride in their burgers”.  Terry Cahill - FUBAR [...]

The Chernobyl disaster in Russia.  President Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines.  Prince Andrew marries Fergie.  The Red Sox fall victim to the curse of the Bambino.  1986 had more than a few notable events happen, that unless you were a Met’s fan, we would probably rather forget.  As a 10 year old boy in Vancouver, [...]

Melo is a recent addition to the ever expanding Sukhumvit Soi 11 dining scene which in a few short years has changed from being primarily a tourist dining destination to a ‘hood where probably an equal number of expats and a few Thais would go to get their grub on.  While I was away last [...]