Bamee — Restaurant in Oberding (VGem)

Getting there: I had to look around a bit to find the place, you have to follow T1, C to get there.

General setup: good, everything is clean, open kitchen, friendly people.

Menu: For a 'real Thai' restaurant I was bit disappointed that they didn't have Som Tam (spicy papaya salad), Tom Yam or even Pad Thai. Taste is ok, but not more. Except for the chili and the Thai names for the dishes, everything looks and tastes a lot like Chinese takeaway. (Probably included the Monosodium glutamate) München is not Bangkok if course, and I can imagine that getting the right and original ingredients here is difficult. Most probably I'm spoiled because I know what the original dishes taste like. This is a good effort. Nothing more.

Price: OK for Europe, but 5 times the price of the real dishes in Thailand. It's not cheap, neither overpriced.... for an airport.

Overall rating: 3 stars because it's Germany not Thailand. In Thailand this would get 1 star, not more. Should you go there? If you like Thai food, it depends on the fact if you got to enjoy 'the real deal' or not. This is a typical average euro-Thai, compromising on the taste to please European people and saving on the cost of original Thai ingredients.

Advice to the management: serve real Thai dishes, not semi-Chinese food with Thai names. Get original ingredients and you can earn the predicate of 'Thai...

I entered Terminal 1 and proceeded to eat at Bamee because I love this type of Asian food and I had a good experience at an Asian food outlet in the departure terminal at Berlin airport. Unfortunately the dish was disappointing ( I wish I explored terminal 2 before sitting down at Bamee because terminal 2 has some tempting food on offer ). It was one of two dishes on the specials menu (tofu) and was reasonable value (15 EUR) considering it is inside the terminal but the taste wasn't particularly good. It is brown as you can yourself see but I doubt even a single real peanut was used. If it isn't supposed to be a peanut dish I really don't know what it is supposed to resemble as it is certainly not red curry. I felt it was made with industrial flavour enhancing powders. Spring rolls are only available with shrimp inside of them (no vegetarian or chicken only option) and seeing this is Germany I am surprised people are fond of shrimps (obviously they hail from artificial pools in China that don't have adequate standards and are frozen during their Journey to Germany and just before they land on diners' plates. Why shrimp stars so prominently in the menu is a testament to how clueless a majority of the locals are regards healthy...

While waiting in the queue, I watched the woman readying plates to hand to customers pick up some rice that fell out of a bowl onto the countertop and put it back into the bowl (with her bare hands).

Moments later I saw the chef scooping vegetables into the wok with his bare hands, then grabbing a rag out of the sink to wash the countertop (still with bare hands).

At that point, I left the queue - don’t want to risk getting sick from cross-contamination. I’m surprised health inspectors don’t stop...