A food hall with around 20 kitchens, preparing one-plate dishes, representing regional food from all over Thailand. On arrival you receive a card, peruse each kitchen, select what you want to eat. Your card logs each dish and the price, and you pay on the way out.
A variety of soups, red and green curries with pork, chicken, squid or fried fish, Massaman Curry, Beef Rendang, spicy omelettes, stuffed mussels, noodle and rice dishes, carrot and papaya salads. And even stir-fried ox genitals.
It was difficult to choose but in the end we both picked relatively unexciting dishes. (Adam will go there eventually, I promise)
Adam chose a green curry with fish and got a green curry with pork (as you do when you don't speak Thai), it was served with steamed rice and a bowl of clear broth with shallots. I chose Stir-fried Kale with Crispy pork. It was very hot and garlicky, but sadly no crispy pork, the crispy was left in the wok.
Mouth on fire, I grabbed a lemongrass drink to cool down. I have only tasted lemongrass in cooking so I was curious. It tastes like it smells, a little overwhelming if you use too much. The drink was refreshing but a little sickly from the use of sugarcane syrup, too sweet for me.
It would have been a great introduction to regional food, all menus were translated into English but unfortunately didn't also name where it was from, so we missed out. With full tummies, we jumped into a taxi and fell asleep for 30 minutes stuck in Bangkok traffic.
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