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  1. Evil Penevil
    Has Hickory Butcher ended its retail operation? I planned to go on a meat-buying trip to Jomtien tomorrow and was checking their FB page for hours of operation. A fresh message says, "WHOLESALE ONLY. Sorry for the inconvenience." What's the story? Evil
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    Retox Game On, on Soi Honey near 2nd Road, deserves a full-scale review, but for now, I'll just mention one meal I had there: the gammon steak with eggs, thick-cut chips and fried pineapple for 275 baht. It was a a large portion with a thick piece of ham- once gammon is cooked, it becomes ham - two eggs, two slices of pineapple and plenty of chips. The eggs were fresh and cooked perfectly "sunny side up." The ham was a bit salty, but I like it that way. It was moist and had a lot of flavor, clearly a quality product. The pineapple added a sweet balance
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    I agree with the above. Leng Kee is probably better for a full meal but Fra Pattaya is good if you are in the WS area. And the duck at MK is excellent, plus the girls love the hot-point style cooking. Ecil
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    Lunch at the Coach House Diner in northern New Jersey across the Hudson from Manhattan. Today, it's a full service restaurant famous for its large portions. It also has one of the best salad bars I've experienced. I had one of the day's specials, all-beef knockwurst with homemade sauerkraut and boiled potato. The salad-bar starter and the main course came with five (!) pieces of bread baked on the premises. The special cost $10.00 and the bottomless glass of Coke Zero was $2.25. It was enough food for two meals. Evil
  5. Evil Penevil
    The "Blue Elk" burger at Bareburgers on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Elk medium rare, duck bacon, Amish blue cheese, tomato fig jam and stout onions. Delicious! The complimentary bottle of water in the 93 F heat (34 C) was very welcome. Cost of the burger was $15 and $2.75 for the white peach ice tea. With tax, the meal was $19.47 and I left a $3.53 tip, so $23.00 all in. I didn't want chips or any other side. It's interesting that the Blue Elk burger was cheaper than a Hooters' burger. I have a feeling the rent Barebur
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    A brief update on Yamato: I ate there with a friend in August and it was as good as always. We had quite a feast, with sashimi, appetizers and main dishes. The total cost was about 1,750 baht, but 550 baht or so went to alcohol, a flagon of saki and two large bottles of Asahi. The complimentary appetizer: Really high-grade sashimi: We also had an outstanding dish of grilled squid: My main dish was the tonkatsu set, which came with several "sides," including miso soup. The
  7. Evil Penevil
    I really like the squid in the sizzling pan! And another good noodle dish for the nights you've had too much to drink. Grilled pork: Evil
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    More pics from Fra Pattaya: Really good noodle soup with wontons! Another favorite of mine:
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    At the other meal, he again had the pumpkin soup as his starter. He had baked salmon with potato salad and garden salad as his main: I went with the roast duck breast, mashed potatoes and cashew salad. The dessert that came as his final course was Japanese cotton cake. I don't remember the exact prices, but my special was under 300 baht. Evil
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    A friend and I had a couple of meals at Bite Me last week. He went with the three-course special both times; I had the daily special once and some items off the a la carte menu the second time. Hus first special began with the pumpkin soup: along with a glass of kir and garlic bread: Bite Me's take on chicken cordon bleu was his main: He said the breading was light and not the slightest oily. "Delicious" was his overall verdict. I had the chicken tenderloin salad with a poached egg as my starter.
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    It's in the same dog-leg stretch of Beach Road as Bamboo, but at a diagonal across the street. Fra Pattaya is closer to the intersection with 2nd Road. Evil
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    Fra Pattaya offers Thai and Thai-style Chinese food at very reasonable prices. It's near the intersection of Beach Road and 2nd Road and a stone's throw from the Beach Road entrance to Walking Street. OK, I'll say it first to steal the thunder from the trolls: Tourist trap! Tourist trap! Because of its location, Fra Pattaya sometimes called a tourist trap, but that's unfair. The food that has been served up by Fra Pattaya to hungry tourists and locals for decades is tasty and inexpensive, even though it may cost more than at comparable restaurants away from Walking Stree
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    An update from a recent meal at Wooden Box. My friend had the salad (giant portion) and rib-eye steak; I had the chicken tacos and sea bass baked in parchment with riceberry rice and quinoa. Both were very good and value for money. I'll upload the pics first while I have a fast Internet connection and get back with more text later.
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    A simple but good meal- Panang beef curry and rice for 135 baht at a small restaurant on Soi Bukhao. Really good balance of flavors in the sauce with just the right touch od heat. The beef was tasty and not tough! Evil
  15. Evil Penevil
    Eggs Benedict is a tricky dish to make and it doesn't allow for substitutions. The Hollandaise sauce has to be freshly made as it doesn't tolerate long periods under heat. American-style side (streaky) bacon doesn't go well with Hollandaise, so it has to be the leaner, more subtly flavored Canadian-style back bacon. The eggs have to be poached properly, which depends on split-second timing, and it has to be a muffin as the base because bread gets too soggy, even when toasted. It's a lot for a busy chef to get right, which is why many restaurants don't offer it. Just like the little girl wi
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    PLEASE NOTE: This review concerns a restaurant called the Wooden Box, not some of the other wooden boxes that can be encountered in Jomtien, whether in condo buildings or in bars. The Wooden Box has been open about six months on Thapphraya Road in Jomtien, next door to the Pattaya Provincial building. It specializes in salads and other healthy food, although it is by no means vegetarian. There's plenty of meat, fish and seafood on the menu to keep the veggies company. According to its Facebook page, the Wooden Box is Thai owned and operated. The Facebook page also says the
  17. Evil Penevil
    This is a restaurant that will warm the cockles of every thrifty diner's heart. You can get a decent, albeit small, portion of steak, French fries and salad for 119 baht. Or pork steak with the same accompaniments for baht. It's called in English Steak 9 Rai Sai 3 and is located on the east side of 3rd Road about halfway between Soi Lengkee and Pattaya Klang. More on how to find it at the end of this post. It's a small open-air restaurant that is easy to miss. Let's be realistic. For 119 baht, you aren't going to get the best steak in Pattaya. Also, the steak I got w
  18. Evil Penevil
    Punch and Judy has a very good special on Wednesdays: In fact, P&J has decent specials every day . Tomorrow, for example: And the rest of the week: P&J's Sunday roast has long been popular among Pattaya expats. I've had mixed results at P&J's on Sundays- mostly excellent but occassionally disappointing. Definitely the best idea is to get there as close as possible to noon (start time for service of the Sunday roast dinners). Some memorable Sunday meals at P&J over the years in the pics below. Portions are very large and the price re
  19. Evil Penevil
    No, it's not. You order dishes from the menu. ShabuShi, which is an all-you-can-eat buffet that also belongs to the Oishi group, is located in Central Festival. It's a hot-pot style arrangement where you grab the ingredients off a conveyor belt, but it also has sushi and other dishes for a very reasonable 375 baht. Both Fuji and ShabuShi are often rammed with customers. That's one advantage of Oishi at The Avenue, it gets busy but I've never seen it full. Evil
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    Yes, that was something I missed in the review: Oishi has two open "kitchens" where food is cooked is cooked to order. You can order tempura, for example. I'm normally happy to fill up on sushi and sashimi, as well as the soups, small warm dishes and a dim sum bun or two, so I haven't paid too much attention to the cook-to-order option. The dim sum corner: Evil
  21. Evil Penevil
    Oishi is a Thai food and beverage group that operates several hundred restaurants under six different brands including Shabushi, Oishi Ramen and Oishi Japanese Buffet. It also sells bottled teas and chilled and frozen food products through retail stores like 7-11. This review covers the Oishi Japanese Buffet on the second floor of The Avenue Mall on 2nd Road. It's an all-you-can-eat buffet of mostly Japanese food where for a fixed price- 539 baht per person in Pattaya- you can glut yourself on sushi, sashimi, warm dishes, soups, salads, desserts, etc for 90 minutes.
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    The Sailor Restaurant offers some of the cheapest, if not the cheapest, Western food of any sit-down restaurant in Pattaya. However, it is very much a case of you get what you pay for. Of the four meals I've had there, one has been inedible (food was rancid) and two were merely bad, but the most recent (last week) was acceptable if not good. No question whatsoever that Sailor qualifies as under 300 baht ... I believe every dish on its menu is less than 200 baht. But whether the food is good, well, that much more problematic. However, no discussion of cheap eats in Pattaya would be comple
  23. Evil Penevil
    As others have said, a tourist visa is the way to go. There's still enough time to apply via mail or courier service for a visa from the Royal Thai Embassy in Canberra: http://canberra.thaiembassy.org/Home/visa Or you can pay a few bucks more and have a visa service handle it for you. Just do a Google search for visa services. Either way, DIY or paid service, it will be less money and hassle than a trip to a nearby country. Of course, you may want to visit Cambodia, Singapore or Malaysia for a few days, which would also solve the problem. A friend of mine was faced with a situation
  24. Evil Penevil
    The lamb burger at Bite Me is exceptionally good, one of the most flavor-packed dishes I've had anywhere. If you haven't tried it, now's your chance. Evil
  25. Evil Penevil
    A had a very good meal in Xinn Tien Di, a Cantonese restaurant on the third floor of Gaysorn Plaza in Bangkok. The restaurant is noted for its Peking Duck and that's what we had. The exterior and interior shots have been lifted from the Internet as I had the wrong set of lenses with me for such pictures. The star of Peking Duck is the crispy skin, not the duck meat. The skin is sliced from the duck and eaten with spring onions, cucumbers and a special sauce, all wrapped in a very thin pancake (actually a crepe). The duck carcass is then taken away and the meat is
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