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This is perhaps one of my best investment so far from my trips to Bangkok… I was actually looking for an electric powered bbq grill which are a widely and commonly use appliance in Thailand. From shops to food court, you will see them using this to grill meat or sausages and in hypermarket there, price starts at closed to Baht 700-800 onwards, that’s a lot more cheaper than what is offered here in KL.

Me and Joe was looking for one in Robinson store and suddenly Joe saw this portable unit that uses small gas canister, this means you can go anywhere and just start a mini bbq! No electricity needed, just simple mechanic like a portable stove. I was reluctant at first cause I had set my mind of the electric unit but after must persuasion and deviling from Joe, I finally go for this.

This unit cost about Baht 1,000 (House Worth brand) and I had the first go at it during the new year eve and it was a satisfactory experience for me! I bought the better gas canister, Pensonic brand and I have been using for like 4 hours and there’s still balance in the can, not bad.

We use it to grill all sort of stuff, from sausages (nickname Jari by Andrew) to kimchi, pork, etc. It was just great. There’s a bottom try to put water to reduce the chances of burning your food and easier for washing, just gotta remember to fill up the water as it runs dry quite fast! Your food doesn’t really get burn by the fire as the fire is used to heat up a metal cover which cooks the food. The manufacturer call this the infrared heat, hehehe.. technically the metal covers turns red when heat up.

After bbq washing was ok but lesson learnt is that its suitable to bbq and grill dry stuff but things with a lot of sauce will make it difficult to wash. So conclusion is I will stick to my Tefal hotplate for meat with sauce and use this for less wet meat or food and one thing though, grill kimchi can be very nice .

Me and Joe stumbled upon this stall when we were dying for some supper near our hotel in Ratchada area in Bangkok, I find the food pretty good and you get very good company of quite a number of what Tien Soon term them as “mickeymouse”.

So this round when I was in BKK again, I took Tien Soon there for supper and again, the “mickeymouse” never fail to show up. I think probably because most of the Thais are Buddhist and don’t believe in harming other lives. That is why the “mickeymouse” are left alone as long as they don’t disturb the people. Anyway the “mickeymouse” here just go about their own business, but some can be quite cool and just hang on looking at you eating… hehe…

Anyway.. the main thing is this Pad Thai stall… its located in the night market near to the Huey Kwang underground train station. Pad Thai which is a national dish there is like our version of char koay teow but instead.. these rice noodles are fried with fish sauce (cannot run away in Thailand), eggs, prawns, taugeh (beans sprouts), etc. The main difference is that the noodles comes in dry pack, which are then cooked and fried first. When you are ready to order, then only the noodles are fried again with the proper ingredents.

Some of the additional stuff pad thai have are like peanuts, sugar, lime, chili powder, etc. Its a bit sweet in taste already but you have to option add more fish sauce, chili powder, vinegar or sugar!

For me its sweet enough, so some chili powder and vinegar is good enough. Each plate goes for Baht 25 here, a very decent price and the taste is really good and fantastic too!

GPS: N13 46.706 E100 34.180

The Thai people are always regarded as very creative people to me.. they amazed me with their ability to design and create new and interesting things… not only from all the nice home decor stuff but also in terms of the various kinds of food and beverages.

One of the thing I discovered is their sliced bread… these bread sells for Baht 6 each, that’s like RM0.60 each.. they come in various flavour e.g. pandan kaya, coffee, etc.

The brand that I tried is Le Pan and I just picked this bread up at 7-11. Its really a very convenient way of a bread to go. Imagine you are rushing for work but dying for say kaya with bread. Instead of making your own.. just go to 7-11, pick these sliced bread (complete with kaya) and go.

The packaging is very good.. once you open it up, there’s another layer of plastic inside so the spread doesn’t stick to the plastic all over the bread. So just remove that and as if you have a bread spread with toppings of your choice.

The coffee flavour is like butter with coffee in it. Other than that, its really just normal bread but very cool idea, absolutely love it .