Day 2 Foodie’s paradise

“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” – Paul Prudhomme

7th January 2023

There is an amazing array of food available at all hours in this most cosmopolitan city. Just about everything is on offer here from street food and pop ups to the highest of haute cuisine in the city’s many gourmet restaurants and luxury hotels, representing the cuisines of many countries of the world.

Bangkok has 30 Michelin Star restaurants, 24 with 1 star, and 6 with 2 stars, for a total of 36 Michelin stars. It also has a wonderful variety of fresh fruit and produce that is very inexpensive.

There are a surprising number of restaurants serving various world cuisines in the immediate vicinity of this hotel. Right across the road there are two Ethiopian restaurants and an Egyptian restaurant that sells very nice baklawa and other Arabic pastries.

For dinner tonight we went to a Punjabi restaurant called Amritsr that is a short walk away from the hotel. Mr. Google gives it high ratings and, happily, it met our expectations, both in terms of ambience, food and service.

We were served by a softly spoken, helpful and polite young man called Sunil who it turns out comes from Myanmar. We ordered Punjabi samosas to start, followed by a veggie thali for me and a chicken curry thali for Michael. The little dishes were full of flavour and the potions were just right. The price was also very reasonable indeed. A very good dinner. 🥘