Chandrphen Restaurant — Restaurant in Thung Maha Mek Subdistrict

I decided to go to this restaurant because it has been around for many decades and I wanted to taste good ol’ fashion cooking.

Bad mistake.

Food taste terrible. Their signature bbq chicken is overpowering with garlic and that’s all I can taste. The quite fresh sea bass was again overpowered by the peppercorns and chillies (by the way I can handle super spicy). I don’t taste fish at all. To add insult to injury, I ordered a whole sea bass at a substantial premium in price to sea bass slices. But they chopped up my whole fish into small chunks with lots of bones in between.

I don’t know what possessed me to pay them a visit but I rest assured this will be my...

Incredible Thai Chinese food and dim sum. Their green sauce ("nam jim seafood" aka "seafood sauce") is spicy and extremely addictive.

Individual items:

sunflower sprouts - really nice, cross between beansprouts and spinach

prawn glass noodle - good, gingery, but nothing too spectacular. soaks up the green sauce and goes well with the dim sum.

dim sum - absolutely fantastic, especially the Stuffed Prawn. Best one by far. Crab's a bit tough. Very good with the green sauce.

black sesame balls in ginger tea - first time trying this and it's incredible. definitely get this. warm and not...

This is a very centrally located old time restaurant in Bangkok. We actually have a house near it but we have never went inside as it appeared to be a tourist restaurant for Chinese food. Recently, we went back to Bangkok and found ourselves guests of a close family friend. Our host heard his brother singing praises of this place and how it is now totally different and great. This restaurant is in a large house and its own grounds but there were no customers besides us. Oops, not a good sign. The food was, well,...