Travelogue / Bangkok

A beautifully plated dessert with many components brought together. The highlight for me would definitely be the strawberry sorbet, not overly sweet nor sour, the icy refreshing sorbet tasted very close to the fruit but in a ice-cream form! The other ingredients such as the vanilla pudding, mousses, gels, meringues, lemon curd and star anise crumbles provided a nice contrast in the textures.

This was presented in a very instagram-worthy manner, with a Ecuadorian cocoa stick, dollop of whipped cream and a huge cup of steamed milk. Swirl in the cocoa stick (or in actual fact you gotta leave it to melt because it’s too huge a block to keep swirling) to get a warm comforting cup of hot chocolate. Probably too big a cup of milk, the end product tasted like a chocolate milk instead!

Rocket Coffee Bar’s cold brew - a blend of brazil, guatemala, indonesia and thailand coffee beans. What we tasted is a medium-bodied coffee that is smooth for the throat and finishes off on a chocolatey note. A slice of lemon comes with the ice which add a little citrus touch to it! The small size comes in handy when you just need a quick caffeine boost for the day!

The wafers were superb with it being thin and crispy that cracks upon lightly biting onto it. The entire wafer breaks into a sweet mess in your mouth with the varying textures from the wafer, fruit, cream and egg noodles.

The iced dessert soup had a citrusy lime taste to it, topped with jackfruit and fried shallots. The fried shallots did not work for us though. We found the taste combination slightly too peculiar! The dessert take here wasn’t too Thai-styled and I expected more!

Served with a sweet light soy sauce base, this reminded me very much of a chinese steamed fish! Fish was definitely fresh and nicely cooked. A comforting dish that allows your tastebuds to take a short break from the heat that’s going on in the other dishes!

The clear soup of roast duck is a non-spicy soup with thai basil and young coconut. Both the roast duck and coconut were succulent and tasty! I did not expect coconut meat to go so well in a soup! Soup had a sweet finish with a heavy tinge of mint leaves taste which I did not fancy that much.

This is the hot and sour soup that I was really looking forward to as it is said to be super spicy! The first mouthful was pretty alright, and then the fire kicks in shortly after it goes down your throat. I am able to take my spice quite well so I found it spicy but acceptable! There were chicken, prawn and mushrooms in it, but I loved the addition of some fried garlic which adds to the aroma of the soup!

This was another dish that the waiter had warned us to be spicy. The coconut based green curry was umami! That richness between the creamy coconut milk and curry just makes you yearn for more. It is undoubtedly spicy, but it does not linger for long and goes damn well with the rice (free flow!). There was a fair share of chicken in it, but all I can remember was that curry!

Big fat juicy prawns in this salad drizzled with a little of thai green chilli giving it a tangy spicy flavor. The prawn itself was slightly tasteless to me, but this is the beauty of Thai food - using the flavor from the sauce to spice things up! This is indeed one flavorful salad!

This was my favorite out of the whole set menu! Soft swimmer crab seasoned with a slightly spicy and sour sauce, sitting atop a very crunchy and light rice cracker. Perfect!

The texture of this was rather one dimensional with the stringy egg strands giving a savoury finish.