Ranking: top restaurants - Pattaya

[BigDUSA 71]

And about those tiny street food places, I read a lot of diarrhea and upset stomach warnings on pattayasecrets yesterday. One guy was suggesting using bottled water even for brushing your teeth. Are those street food places (that I assume are assembled overnight) healthy?

 

No. Lack of sanitation will cause food poisoning. I don't eat off them. I use bottled water for brushing my teeth. Some guys with cast iron stomachs can eat anywhere and not get sick. I'm not one of them.

[Emil 0]

This M&K place, do you do the cooking or do you just pick the things to be cooked, just like the Mongolian Barbecues in the US?

 

And about those tiny street food places, I read a lot of diarrhea and upset stomach warnings on pattayasecrets yesterday. One guy was suggesting using bottled water even for brushing your teeth. Are those street food places (that I assume are assembled overnight) healthy?

 

MK you select the items you want and then put them in a pot of boiling water. Some item off the menu are prepared in their kitchen.

 

I eat from the street side restaurants and brush my teth with tap water and have only had a problem once and I've spent over a 1000 days in Pattaya during the past six years. On this current trip I left my home on the 6th of July. I had the shits before I boarded the aircraft and the first day in Pattaya, go figure.

[fountainhead 1]

It's a great place to take a lady for dinner. After dinner you can just go down the stairs and take a stroll on the beach.

 

stroll on the beach? do you hold hands too?

 

try stay on topic stinger, this is about good restaurants, not wooing women 1950's style.

 

 

 

my comments on this thread:

 

grimm, yes, pattaya food sucks on the whole, but phuket wholely sucks. at least pattaya has good pussy.

 

cabbages & condoms: one of the few good restaurants in pattaya (don't go on family night when you might run into stinger wooing his woman)

 

kiss food: the food is crap. people eat there because it's a sit-down restaurant not far from walking street open at all hours. the only thai women who will eat there are the ones dragged there by their ATM for the night, so it's not even a good place to pick up indies.

 

there's a pizza place across and to-the-right of heaven above gogo off soi walking. don't remember the name, but damn good pizza.

[heraclitus 0]

Now that's some name for a resturant , I wonder where the name comes from?

 

Cabbages & Condoms is owned by a very wealthy Thai businessman who has made his life's work a charity for AIDS prevention by spreading condom use.

 

I forget his name but there was an interesting piece on him on (I think) CNN not so long ago which showed him going round the streets of Pattaya distributing condoms to all and sundry.

 

He's got quite a sense of humour hence the name. I believe that the profits from the restaurant go to support the charity.

 

http://www.cabbagesandcondoms.co.th/

[Hub 203]

Cabbages & Condoms is owned by a very wealthy Thai businessman who has made his life's work a charity for AIDS prevention by spreading condom use.

 

I forget his name but there was an interesting piece on him on (I think) CNN not so long ago which showed him going round the streets of Pattaya distributing condoms to all and sundry.

 

He's got quite a sense of humour hence the name. I believe that the profits from the restaurant go to support the charity.

 

http://www.cabbagesandcondoms.co.th/

 

His name is Khun Meechai - and meechai has become Thai slang for a johnny

[CheshireTom 1,377]

His name is Khun Meechai - and meechai has become Thai slang for a johnny

 

Khun Meechai, Thai father and Scottish mother (hence his sense of humour ). He is the brother of the guy that runs PIH/PIC/Jazz Pit and Sugar Hut. He recently received a 1m USD donation from Bill Gates in recognition of his work.

 

His work wasn't originally about Aids but population control in the provinces and the profits from Cabbages and Condoms and the Birds and Bees Resort go to the PDA (Population Development Agency or something similar).

Edited September 19, 2007 by CheshireTom

[chuckrivera 1]

jimmynewrider,

 

 

i practically live off the street food vendors when i'm in thailand (grilled meats, fresh fruits, etc.) i actually miss it when back home. i've never gotten sick though, but then again it takes quite a bit to mess with the cast iron stomach. brushing with bottled water may be overkill. i have always used tap and nothing has happened to me. immodium is cheap, so bring a box with you if you're worried.

 

 

 

cr

[repeter 1]

Globetrotter is the best restaurant i have visit in Thailand.

http://www.globetrotter-thai.50megs.com/

 

Dont miss the "swedish smörgårdsbord" the first saturday in each month. 50 different dishes to chose from.

 

They have good thai food to.

 

repeter

[joekicker 53]

i practically live off the street food vendors when i'm in thailand (grilled meats, fresh fruits, etc.) i actually miss it when back home. i've never gotten sick though, but then again it takes quite a bit to mess with the

 

Most of the stuff on the street is very safe, because it is cooked on the spot well above the temp needed to whiff the parasites. The soup is boiled, the chicken is well cooked, etc. Anyone who looks for that kind of stall is very unlikely to have a serious stomach problem. You can get the xhits from other things, even by just a change in the water/diet, but you won't get seriously ill eating on Thai streets. I have had real food poisoning three times in quite a few years -- all three from very high-class expensive restaurants. They inevitably have some food that sits around and sits around -- and breeds thingys.

[btm1735 232]

Most of the stuff on the street is very safe, because it is cooked on the spot well above the temp needed to whiff the parasites. The soup is boiled, the chicken is well cooked, etc. Anyone who looks for that kind of stall is very unlikely to have a serious stomach problem. You can get the xhits from other things, even by just a change in the water/diet, but you won't get seriously ill eating on Thai streets. I have had real food poisoning three times in quite a few years -- all three from very high-class expensive restaurants. They inevitably have some food that sits around and sits around -- and breeds thingys.

 

I always have eaten street food. Never had a problem. Only problem was with a room service burger. Most street food is fresh (chicken, pork and seafood were usually less 24 hrs from slaughter) and has actually less exposure than meat we buy in the States due to the long supply chain before it hits the table. This is why all menus in the States now recommend that all meats should be over cooked.

[torrenova 644]

Sushi bar - Zen in Royal Garden.

Basic Japanese - Osaka / Oshima (always forget name) 100m on a soi to the left of Tukcom.

Lunch set Japanese - Fuji has a good set but some other stuff way overpriced for what it is.

 

Thai - Vientianne - gone from Walking Street but still on Pattaya Tai. Fish etc. overpriced but dishes very good and soup excellent.

 

The setting in the Sugar Hut is good but the mosquitoes are a pest. Food good though.

 

Pizza - Soi 33 Naklua, nothing else comes close for Italian style pizza in Pattaya.

 

Bread - Continental bakery

 

English breakfast - actually looking for a new one after being disappointed in the Pig the last couple of times.

 

Sunday lunch - 1 plate - surprise newcomer here with Witherspoons on Soi Buakhow. Unbelievably good roast potatoes. Large portion as well.

[psychodad 0]

I always have eaten street food. Never had a problem. ... Most street food is fresh

 

Fresh...yes...full of dirt from the street and polution of cars.

Never eat food thats openly presented, escpecially if cars pass by.

[fountainhead 1]

Fresh...yes...full of dirt from the street and polution of cars.

Never eat food thats openly presented, escpecially if cars pass by.

 

FACT: streets have dirt..

FACT: if you eat dirt, you'll die.

FACT: there is no cure for death.

 

thank you for reminding us psychodad.