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Gyu Maru – authentic yakiniku

In Thailand, when I think of yakiniku, I think of the all-you-can-eat places that provide plates of very average meat for a fairly reasonable B400-500 ($13-17) price.  The meal isn’t ...

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El Gaucho: Raising the steaks

When my brother and sister-in-law went on their around the world trip a few years back I was probably most enchanted with their stories of life in Argentina.  They said ...

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The Bagel Cafe – A hole lot of love

It wasn’t that long ago that there was a huge hole in Bangkok’s bread scene where you could buy most of the European type breads but not the correctly made ...

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Gyu Maru – authentic yakiniku

In Thailand, when I think of yakiniku, I think of the all-you-can-eat places that provide plates of very average meat for a fairly reasonable B400-500 ($13-17) price.  The meal isn’t too exciting or memorable, and though your wallet doesn’t leave that much lighter, you feel like you’ve gained 5 pounds from stuffing your face trying [...]

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El Gaucho: Raising the steaks

When my brother and sister-in-law went on their around the world trip a few years back I was probably most enchanted with their stories of life in Argentina.  They said the people were very friendly, the beer flowed like wine and they felt like beautiful Beunos Aires could easily have been somewhere in Europe.  Being a carnivore, [...]

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The Bagel Cafe – A hole lot of love

It wasn’t that long ago that there was a huge hole in Bangkok’s bread scene where you could buy most of the European type breads but not the correctly made fresh bagel that many of us grew up eating.  The Bangkok Bagel Bakery started dishing up bagels about a year and a half ago on [...]

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Gold Curry Bangkok: 2kg Clean or Jerk?

I haven’t attempted a food challenge since 2010 when I put down 75% of Southeast Asia’s biggest (and quite tasty) 5.5lbs burger at Cafe Europe.  To prove that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, over the next 24 hours I went through extreme discomfort, very little sleep and a severe case of [...]

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Pigwit – This little pig went to the local fresh market

The Bangkok food scene has a lot of great things going for it such as variety, freshness, and if you can stay away from imported ingredients, reasonable prices.  What doesn’t rank very highly on most foodies list’s here would have to be the lack of creative sandwich venues.  Opened last year as a catering only [...]

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Donuts in Thailand – Corporate Chains 0 – Independents 1

There aren’t a lot Canadian restaurants around the world (if any) but something that is synonymous with Canadian cuisine would be the giant donut chain Tim Hortons.  ”Timmy’s” was started way back in1964 by the retired NHL hockey player (of course) Tim Horton and has now become Canada’s largest food chain with over 3,300 locations in [...]

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Firehouse – The sequel

  The sequels Die Hard 3, Rush Hour 2 and Terminator 2 are three of my all time favorite movies and unlike most sequels I would say these actually improved on the original.  I had the recent pleasure of meeting up with a pair of fellow food blog bloodhounds and we all sat down and [...]

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Dine in the Dark – doing it with the lights off

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 [...]

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Frienz – would you buy a knockoff when the original is almost the same price?

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 [...]

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Heawen for Burger Devils = hell for burger lovers

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 [...]

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