Texas Suki — Restaurant in Samphanthawong Subdistrict

There will be a long and short version of this review.

The short version is this: for the love of God and all things sacred, do NOT, we beg you, indulge in the "Authentic Chinese cuisine" of Texas Suki.

Now, the long version. For some context, the preceding 12 hours to our Texas Suki meal were rough. After all, it's not every day that a man steeps himself in the hellfires of Thailand's abysmal education system for 8 hours before then slogging through farang-filled riverboats and labyrinthine alleyways in search of the perfect Chinese dinner. All of this is to say, we spent HOURS seeking out "A man's portion at a man's price," if you know what I mean. We'll spare you the unprintable details of our quest, but we will say this: it ended in disillusion and despair.

Upon first staggering into the atrociously-named and sparsely populated Texas Suki - whose only attractions were its rock-bottom prices and the fact that they had "food" - we were led to a standard restaurant booth. As of this moment, the play place in the back corner raised the only red flag in this seemingly harmless eatery. Hungry as hippos, my colleague and I turned our attention to the menu.

Before even having a chance to order our food, though, what at blush appeared to be attentive service turned out to be a draconian assault on liberty. Unwanted dish after unwanted dish was placed on our table, and my colleague's noble attempts to regain control of the situation with his limited knowledge of the Thai language fell short. Thankfully, after much hullabaloo, we were able to place additional orders of our choosing: pork egg rolls, pineapple fried race, and pork fried rice, in addition to the unwanted chicken feet (?), shrimp (?) dumplings, and "imitation crab" dumplings.

Annoyed, but not deterred, my colleague and I eagerly dug into the appetizers (which, again, we never ordered) while we awaited our main courses. A few uncomfortable crunches later, our eyes met across the booth. "Anderson," my dear colleague grimaced, "This ain't that good." I concurred: the chicken feet had no meat, and the imitation crab's description was accurate insofar that it was, indeed, an imitation of the great sea denizen. Out of respect for Texas Suki, we will not discuss the shrimp.

Struck by the absurdity and stupidity of the situation, we momentarily contemplated fleeing the restaurant, but wound up succumbing to raucous fits of laughter instead. Mind you, Texas Suki is a quiet family restaurant, so our cackles aroused the ire of the poker-faced Thai staff. Sensing our displeasure with our appetizers, the waitresses quickly brought out our main courses, likely to ensure that we did not "dine and dash" them. While the pork fried rice did manage to pass the edible test, the egg rolls tasted like months-old Panda Express egg rolls heated up in a microwave, and the pineapple fried rice tasted as bland as a lamb's fart.

Realizing that staying in Texas Suki for a minute longer would obliterate any remaining self-worth we still held onto during our time in Bangkok, my colleague wearily signaled for the check. A different server, a more severe gentleman than our previous three retainers, brought us a bill and waited with obvious impatience while I said my last goodbyes to the wasted 500 baht I was handing over to this lamentable excuse for a restaurant. Needless to say, our departure was as exciting for us as it was for the staff of Texas Suki.

On the bright side, the men's restroom happens to have no shortage of trashcans.

Respectfully, Two Weary Outlanders Self-Exiled From Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, United...

We chose this restaurant because it had decent reviews. Unfortunately our experience did not reflect those positive reviews!

We were shown to a table and given a very comprehensive menu, within a minute a waitress came to take our order. As we hadn't had chance to look at the menu properly we ordered drinks and asked if she could give us a few minutes. First mistake!

It took ages to get her back again - we had to ask several other waiters who kept calling her.

Eventually she returned and took our order. We asked for shrimp spring rolls to come as a starter and then the roast duck and a chicken noodle dish. Our order was also checked by another waitress to confirm everything.

Within a couple of minutes the duck arrived but nothing else. The portion size was generous but it was nothing special- skin wasn't crispy just lots of fat. Meat was lukewarm although vegetables were hot.

My partner's noodles and the spring rolls to share still hadn't arrived by the time I had finished my duck - despite trying to catch someone's attention to chase them up. Eventually our waitress came back to say the spring rolls weren't available!! But there was no explanation as to what had happened to the noodles!

By this point we had enough of the poor service so we cancelled the noodles, paid and left in search of street food.

I can only think that we were ignored and received such poor service because we are foreigners.Thai people who arrived after us appeared to receive their food very quickly and without any problems. Not a...

Had goal of visiting Chinatown in Bangkok, found a few restaurants reviewed, and figured we could walk by and see before deciding. Yaowarat Rd is the main drag through the area, and we began there.

Most of the recommended spots were on, or in, the streets. Most all were filthy and stunk to a point nothing would have been acceptable. Texas Suki was indoors and had fans, and maybe A/C. It's a Sukiyaki place, so they bring you stuff to cook / boil, at your table. They also offer prepared dishes and we sampled two.

The trays of ingredients delivered were small, but ok for the price. We ordered beef, bok choy, noodles, shrimp, etc. You dump it in a hot broth and eat. Ltd seasonings were available and we used them. We also ordered some BBQ pork & crab rolls.

There is a play area near where we were seated and screaming children left our ears ringing.

Relative to other places close, it was clean-ish, had some selection and was ok priced. They took MasterCard. Probably won't go back as BKK has many...