Bangkok 17-22 jan 2006 --- Part 2

french cuisine

the french cuisine i raved abt....the pics are finally here. the restaurant's name is c'est bon! at ground floor of intercontinental bangkok hotel. they have a branch in hong kong also. in new territory, maritime square. previously i think i mentioned its a 9 course meal. i'm wrong, it shld be 6 course instead. pardon the lack of knowledge of the dishes. the menu was outside the restaurant and i forgot to take a pic of it.

first dish. some salmon thingy. the jelly thing...i dont know if it was supposed to be eaten or for decor...i ate it and pui... i wanted to spit it out but since its quite rude, i swallowed it.


foie gras with peaches beneath it. too much of it can be quite overwhelming. esp the fowl smell or taste (dont even mention the calories). cant imagine it without the peaches. BUT strangely, there's tis thing abt it that makes u wanna eat it. anyway, tis is probably the last time i'm eating it. i'll tell u why in a separate entry.


lemon sorbet to get rid of the overpowering taste of foie gras in the mouth.


green tea pasta? no? what's with the green color? mint? it tasted like liquorice to me. the telltale sign is with the black long stringy thingy. but liquorice in pasta? anyway, after the foie gras, i could hardly eat tis. it was left almost untouched.


my main dish: beef tenderloin that looked like a crab with his grasshopper snowpea/ french bean friend. dont tell me crab feeds on grasshopper. tis cow was not done my usual medium well but rather a cross between raw and medium rare. still nice though.


my colleague's main dish: seafood platter of some sort, scallop, prawn, fish.... looks good too.


the last dish and also my fave. warm dark bittersweet choco cake with oozing warm choco gravy and cold vanilla ice-cream. what an alternating warm-cold sensation!!! i was on the verge of licking the runny choco gravy and melted vanilla ice-cream off the plate!!! it was that good. i wanted to go back the next day jus for tis dessert.


now, the place... not many pics taken cos its quite dark and with flashes going off, its quite attention seeking. with the above pics on the food....i didnt dare take too many pics anyway.

italian cuisine - forgot to add that tis is also at intercontinental hotel (jus next to holiday inn bangkok so its convenient. after work, go back to hotel to drop off the files & docs and dinner is served within a 5mins walk. the japanese restaurant at intercontinental hotel is good too. very cheap).

light, crispy and warm. very nice...my colleague and i love tis to pieces.



how did tis dish fall under appetitizer? it was so huge. our eyes almost popped out when it arrived.


black fettucine. we asked if it was made out of black ink (squid ink), they said they dont know. the staff jus cant be bothered to find out (IMO).


thats all for part 2. i'll talk abt chatuchak market & miscellaneous in part 3. sorry that i'm taking a long time to post them. look out for the foie gras article too. be sure to read it.