Bangkok Supper Club — Restaurant in New York

Take a bit effort to get a reservation and heard they are the same team with the phenomenal Fish Cheeks and decided to give this place a try.

Booked the kitchen counter: highly recommended over the bar counter (still less good than a table if you are going for intimacy settings). I personally loved how kitchen counter is basically facing the kitchen, and you get to see how the food is grilled, charred, whipped, tossed etc. like a Thai omakase where all the chefs do arts.

We didn’t order small bits or the off-the-menu special small bits due to the stomach capacity. (Yeah there is off-the-menu stuff occasionally)

Small plates: Hokkaido Scallop Ceviche This one was served first and we were told to eat this first as it is a time-sensitive dish: it contains watermelon rinds and cubes ICED with scallop sashimi. It contains chilis so it has spicy notes beside the obvious melony note. The sweetness of scallops is a bit missing under the cold temperature of the melons so only the sweet, citrus, and chili came through. The scallops are there mainly for the texture I think.

Yum Khai Dao Fried duck egg salad, never seen any there else. I am amazed at how they still get a runny yolk when they fry the egg. The dish is salty and spicy. The trout roe on top adds saltiness, and cilantro leaves gives aromatics. The only nitpicking thing I have is about the fried egg whites. There are just strings of these laying in the dish because they are hard to pick up and not mixed well with the greens, and they taste very greasy. The proportions can be fine-tuned.

Mains: Pork Jowl Spicy, and inviting. The pork jowls have a bit of a chew and are nicely charred on the edges. The garlic friend rice topped with pork cracklings (majorly pork rinds and fat-reduced pork belly things I suspect) tasted surprisingly light compared to the dish’s look. Quite deceiving in taste for a dish made with all the fatty components but turned to convey elevated garlicky, lemony, chilly flavors.

Ba Jang Lobster My personal favorite main of the day, another spicy and smoky dish. The black pepper sticky rice makes this dish a must-try for whose who like glutinous rice texture with a savory twist. I tasted the spices and I loved how the crunchy garlic chips stood out for combining different textural elements. The lobsters are cooked more than succulent, a bit chewy. I taste the butter if I eat lobster alone, yet the butter taste went missing if I taste the lobster with the rice as only the peppery smoked notes are being picked up.

Dessert: WARNING: the pandan-coconut cream cake in the coconut shell is LIMITED QUANTITY. We asked our waitress to get us one on hold (yes you can do that) so we got to try. The dessert is divine! The coconut cream is light, and there are layers of pandan crema and panda cakes with hidden strips of coconut. And I even finished the coconut meat in this little coconut (which was recommended but not everyone knows). The dessert is not sweet (best compliment I can give) and I loved pandan (grassy vanilla) and coconut. The cherry on top is the toasted coconut: it compliments the dish sooooo much by brining out the toasty coconut aroma, and it adds textures besides soft cream and cakes.

The services were a bit slow, the decors are really modern at the main dining room yet the restroom is more conventional decorations. Not disappointed and will be back for the curry and prawn...

everything about this place met the hype that i had seen. the inside is gorgeous and its a pretty big space. the service was also outstanding, shoutout to melody for being so helpful with recommendations. the food was other-worldly! we ordered the uni and crab tartlet, pork jowl, chilean sea bass, sweet potato ice cream and the pandan coconut. the prices are a bit steep for the portion but the food was so amazing that i don’t care. the uni crab tartlet was filled with both crab and flavor. it was sweet from the uni and there were subtle notes of citrus from the lemongrass. i WISH the tartlet wasn’t $19 per piece because i easily could have eaten 2-3. for entrees we ordered the pork jowl and the chilean sea bass. again i think both were small but i feel like i’ve been complaining about that a lot lately so i think i just have to accept that prices are going up and portions are going down😔regardless the quality was amazing. the pork was so soft and it was not tough or chewy. it sat on rice and garlic, the dish was overall very garlic forward for if you don’t like that then you may not like this but i thought it worked well. the bass was in a curry which was extremely spicy. i asked what the spice level was before ordering it and our server said a 3/5 but they would make it milder for me. i don’t think they did that because the spice level was a 5/5 for me and i was burning after i finished the dish. that being said i did finish it because the flavor of the curry (aside from the spice) was delicious. the curry had some coconut milk on top which definitely toned down the heat and added a little sweetness. chilean sea bass is normally a sweet fish but it did not have much flavor so i do wish the bass was a little sweeter because i think that would have helped the spice level of the dish. nonetheless it was one i would gladly get again. as for dessert neither me nor my mom can choose a favorite. the sweet potato ice cream was served with a almost mochi like cake. the ice cream reminded me very much of trader joe’s pumpkin ice cream but a more elevated version. it was sweet but not overbearingly so. the pandan dessert was another star. served inside a coconut shell it is layers of pandan cake and cream which was also described to us as being similar to a trifle style cake. it also had coconut shavings in the cake and there was a cream on top that was also coconut i believe. this dessert blew us away. pandan has a mild flavor and it is reminiscent of the coconut so they pair perfectly with one another. this dessert is also subtly sweet. the cream is the best part but don’t forget to eat the coconut fruit off of the shell when you finish the cake. i cannot wait to go back and try other dishes! i normally try to wait at least a year before returning to a place because new york has so many great restaurants but i do not think i will make it longer than a month, this place has definitely moved to one of my top...

Excellent meal at Bangkok Supper club with a couple of minor caveats. Loved the ceviche (spicier than expected but the cooling watermelon component was the perfect foil) and the beef tartare (delicious with ample kaffir lime leaf and a great pile of rice crackers) and the fried duck egg salad (my son in particular thought that was incredible - from the mouths of teens). The octopus is like every octopus dish in the city: ridiculously, annoyingly small with half a tentacle cut up in 3 pieces. Skip it - it was irritatingly tiny.

The chicken is INCREDIBLE. Holy hell, how do they make it so tender and juicy? They should bottle the Nam Jim Jaew sauce. I would put that on everything. The sticky rice was kind of awful - chewy bordering on a hockey puck, nearly inedible (I love sticky rice - this misses the mark).

The branzino was fine but just that. The pork jowl was excellent and the garlic rice it came with was incredible.

So, we wanted to love the drinks but I have to say: we didn't. The guava drink and the peach were probably the best we tried. We ordered the longan drink for our underage daughter at the recommendation of the waitress. It wasn't good - none of us at the table enjoyed it. We asked if we could order the mango for her instead. The waitress offered to take it off the bill but we ordered it so we said it was fine to leave it. When she brought the mango drink, my daughter took one sip and handed it to her brother (he had ordered the mango the first round) and asked him to taste it to see if it was the same as his. He said it tasted different. We tasted it. It had MEZCAL in it. My kids are, well, clearly kids. We saw the waitress bring the drink to the bartender who confirmed she had taken the wrong one and indeed served our kids the boozy cocktail. Oops.

I have to say, the waitress wasn't particularly apologetic. We were cool about it as it was a mistake, but honestly? They should have taken THAT drink off our bill (they didn't).

There were a couple of other service missteps that have forced my hand to bring it down a star. Overall, it's a sleek, sexy place with really comfy seats, a great sound system that makes each table feel intimate and not too loud, some truly excellent food (and some kind of small stingy dishes - looking at you, octopus), some interesting but not universally great drinks and finally, some hit or miss service. It's not a cheap meal. For 4 of us, it was nearly $450 with tip. I expect a pretty impeccable meal at that price, so here's hoping they keep getting towards the truly elevated experience for which they are...