For the first time in my life, i celebrated Eid out of the country in my second home town, Bangkok, with my special someone...no special reason but i believe it was due to my departure to Perth on the 4th day of Eid which made me had a second thought about going back to my "real" home town of being not worth the traveling a day before the Eid.Well..as long as my family didnt make a noise about it..i will follow my feet to whichever it will take me.Thus, when all people in the country were stuffing themselves with lemang, rendang ketupat and all other raya delicacies, at 6pm i was already up in the air enroute to Bangkok.
I had never blogged about Bangkok food eventhough ive been commuting from KL to Bangkok numerous times before.As Thailand is famous for its foods, as much as its culture, this post will feature a halal restaurant which specializes in "Isan" or north-eastern Thai cuisine as well as other famous thai dish such as the Tom Yam Goong (Prawn Tom Yam). Coincidentally (or not) T comes from Isan as well and he loves his home town very much that he planned to build a house in the countryside.
Esarn Fungdhon is located at 257/10-11, Arun Amarin Crossroad, Bangyekhan, Khet Bangplad, Bangkok. It
will take you around 15 minutes from central Bangkok to reach this place. It's very easy to find as well once you reached the Pinklao Bridge, turn right at the traffic light at Arun Amarin, drive slowly and keep to the left until you see a row of shop lots.The restaurant is located at the first lot of the shops row.
Now lets see what are being offered here:
Menu
As you can see the above are only some of the dishes offered here and i do find the selections are quite extensive. Price are affordable for the portion size of the dishes.They do serve some "exotic" dishes such as cow's liver, cow's tongue which (i believe) are for those adventurous eaters..unfortunately im not. The last time i ate something exotic was Isan styled Som-Tum (young papaya salad) which was T's favorite and he wanted me to try. I nearly vomited on the first taste of that Som-Tum as it was nothing like the sweet and spicy version that im used to eat. This Isan version tasted bitter and sour with dark-muddy gravy. Mind you, they also put in small and smelly mud-crab in the salad, which gave a strong fishy taste and smell..sorry T..next time you eat this smelly thing you will have to sleep on the couch :)
After much deliberation, we decided to order the following dishes:
i) Tom Yum Goong (Prawn TomYum)
The portion is big and even the prawns were big and juicy. I really love this as the soup was neither to sour, sweet, salty or spicy, they had it all perfectly combined.
ii) Pad Pung Faideng (Fried Kangkong)
T's favourite vegetable, i like it as well.Not too soft or overly cooked and you can still taste the crunchiness of the stems.
iii) Winged bean salad
A little bit sweet but still delicious
iv) Grilled meat with sweet chilli
i really-really love this dish. The meat was tender and the chilli sprinkled on top of the beef nicely compliment the grilled slightly burnt taste of the meat.I do like grill meat to have some burnt parts on it.
ambiance of the restaurant
We really had a great lunch in this restaurant.Though it's located outside the city centre, the foods here are delicious and affordably priced.They have ample parking space in front of the restaurant so parking should not be a problem. I really look forward to visit this restaurant again in the future and to sample the wide variety of dishes offered here...all in all the foods here are very delicious as the Thais said "aloi mak" -yes..now i can speak a little bit of Thai (nitnoy) thanks to T :)
Rating out of 5: 4
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