Bangkok Bites — Restaurant in Berlin

Summary: overrated, mediocre food with high price for low quality meat with rash and not so friendly service

Best dish: none

Dishes (- negative / = ok / + positive): Tom kha gai: ok flavor but I have had a lot better Tom kha gai soups in Berlin; the worst was the meat quality of the chicken, it was so chewy that I could barely chew it. €8.5 for the appetizer is quite high compared to other places in Berlin. chicken with cashew nuts and vegetables: the taste was mediocre, but the chicken meat quality was the same awful quality. I only know such quality if you use defrosted chicken, maybe that is the case here. As a Swiss I rarely complain, it’s not in our culture to be very direct, but after having chewed through the appetizer, I was not willing to chew through the main dish and decided to complain. The waiter offered me other chicken dishes but after the same experience in two different dishes, I thought this was not a promising path forward. After some back and forth and initially saying she couldn‘t cancel the dish, in the end she did.

Service: = mediocre service the back and forth about a solution about the complaint was very unpleasant. She also tried to tell me that there was no issue with the chicken.

Price: high price for low quality

Atmosphere: nice seating outside ? Don’t know about the inside

My rating system - I focus on the food first and foremost. I aim to be truthful and try not to be biased by friendly service or other circumstances. 5: excellent - I am rigorous in handing out 5 ratings 4*: good 3*: ok 2*:...

um. i had high hopes for this place but it's an approximation of the dishes it promises at best. my veggie pad kee mao (standard noodle stir fry) had no noodles (?!), but was instead some sort of stir fry (with an irrelevant assortment of bamboo, tofu, and green beans) served with rice on the side. my partner ordered khao mun gai (chicken rice) and there was no mun (chicken fat) in the khao (rice), which is kind of the whole point.

it's meant to be thai comfort food, and it's the right set of dishes, but as someone who grew up in thailand on this precise comfort food it turned out to be more a creative interpretation of those dishes than the dishes themselves. that said, the food did not taste bad - it's just mis-labeled relative to what you might expect any of it to be, so if you're looking for anything like what you might eat in thailand...

I've been here two times in the last month, so I feel quite comfortable writing a review here.

The clear Pros: Good location directly at Wasserturm Actually, good food - I can recommend the Tom Yam Gung soup, the Pad Krapao Pamück, the Barsh and the Mango Sticky Rice Nice spice

The cons: Pricing is in my opinion to high - dishes are typically 20+ EUR, drinks are rather high, too In the winter, this place is packed - seating is okay, however quite optimized and it can get quite loud The waiter was, both times, rather overwhelmed and thus, service is clear con here

Pricing needs to be taken into consideration, Umami (directly across the street) is rather high in pricing, too. Still, in my opinion too much.

Was it good: Yes. Will I am come back:...