Lieo Lieng Seng — Restaurant in Pom Prap Subdistrict

Three of us had a most interesting and memorable dinner savouring traditional Teochew food cooked over charcoal stoves. This way of cooking is a dying art and demands good control of handling the wok and other cooking vessels.

Eating here is like dining in some grandfather's kitchen. Don't expect modern restaurant ambience and speed in serving the dishes. This is a simple very traditional Chinese eatery run by family, 7 days a week in a shop house in Chinatown.

The chef team is father and son. Restaurant started 138 years ago by the young 24 year old chef's great grandfather. Super friendly. They will come out and explain the dishes if you wish to engage in conversation.

We ordered a lot of dishes for 3 pax. Served course by course. Cooked the old way using pork lard and no msg is used. All the photo in the photos are excellent. Highly recommend to food connoisseurs who appreciate traditional cooking. No msg used - chef said so and we couldn't detect any

Dishes we ate: steamed pomfret, braised goose feet noodles, crab claws tunghoon, fish maw pottage, oyster omelette, durian ice cream. Remarks: goose feet braised 36 hours, durian ice cream and egg noodles are made in house. Pork lard used are fresh and not the...

This being one of the oldest Chinese eats in Bangkok, it drew in media attention and the hype which we could’nt resist.

I was there for yesterday’s dinner. Ordered fish and taro hot pot, fried noodle, stream noodle, wonton and ice cream scoops. Sadly, the taste for most dishes was “awkward”, fish and taro soup being the extremely oily and tasteless.

Last night I did throw up couple times and just threw up again in the morning. The waiting queue was long, the food was bad and overpriced (90 THB for one scoop of ice cream). The only upside was server (owner) was very smiley.

In short, it was disapppointing. I didn’t know how other people sat and ate there. Am I being the weird one?

I hope this would be a constructive feedback...

Based on a friend’s recommendation, we took a 200 baht taxi n walked 10 mins to find the restaurant. At the entrance we were not even sure we came to the right place. The first order of 1500 baht shark fins for two was just average. A bit “gilly “though. The second order of fried vegetables ( Kai lan? ) was crispy n n fresh. Then the crab rolls came. Gooey. How could my friend say “they are to die for??? “ 4/10 at most. We waited half n hour for our yam-fishhead. Only 10 mins passed when I realized our order went to the next table, who came later. When it finally came it was like drinking thin water soup n the broth was lukewarm. I only rate it 2/10! Big big disappointment. Will not eat here again even if free. Final...