Evergarden Restaurant Bangkok

In a word: excellent. The restaurant makes its mark with food that is well prepared and presented. One only need look at the well-heeled Chinese and Thai clientele to know that you will get nothing but the best here. Seafood gets top billing on the menu. The menu reserves an entire page each for abalone, crab and scallops dishes. Mexican abalone and bamboo pith in clear soup makes a refreshing start. Follow it with regal scallops with XO sauce; a tasty and surprisingly sweet dish is crab claws with carrot sauce. There is a wide range of duck dishes too; marinated duck tongue and jelly fish nicely combines two completely different flavours with the essence of sesame oil. A wide variety of fish such as gobi, snowfish and garoupa is also available, prepared in both Thai and Chinese styles.

Typical Chinese decor with round tables, elegant place settings, flower, and contemporary Chinese art.

Evergarden Restaurant Bangkok
Evergreen Laurel Hotel,

88 North Sathorn Rd, Bangkok 10500
Tel: 0-2266-9988
Cuisine : Chinese

Crystal Jade Restaurant Bangkok

Do not expect the renowned Crystal Jade Shanghai cuisine here. At this branch the menu is dominated by Cantonese fare with the exception of shao long bao. The impressive array of Hong Kong-style dim sum on offer at lunch is freshly made and authentic. It also serves the best roast duck with a delicious crispy skin, while the roasted red pork is top notch too. For appetisers, try drunken pork knuckle or smoked pig shank and jelly fish. Also do not miss out on authentic Cantonese double-boiled soup with black chicken and Chinese herbs. The menu offers a large selection of mains from extravagant seafood, lobster and prawn dishes to speciality bird's nest and shark's fin fare. Fans of abalone and sea cucumber will also be delighted with the choices here, and braised fresh abalone with oyster sauce is a must.

Decorated in an upmarket contemporary style, with dark wood and glass panelling, and seating available on two floors.

Crystal Jade Restaurant Bangkok
G fl, Siam Paragon, 991 Rama 1 Road, Bangkok 10330
Tel: 0-2129 4342-4
Cuisine: Chinese

Chine Chine Restaurant Bangkok

Chine Chine is possibly one of the very few non-hotel restaurants that possess the ingredients of a hotel outlet. Many of the inhouse recipes are made from scratch. From XO sauce to Shanghai chilli oil, the chefs have mastered the techniques of great restaurants in Hong Kong. For those working in the Sukhumvit area, dim sum lunch is highly recommended. More adventurous fare on the menu includes meaty crispy pigeon and fried duck tongue, with all the right flavours. The menu comprises both conventional Cantonese dishes and modern, more spicy Thai-orientated treats. The star of the house, lobster noodle, is near perfect. Drunken prawns delicately steamed with a touch of Chinese liquor is served with a clear broth, and is tasty. For dessert, sago with cantaloupe is a refreshing treat to end a flavourful meal.

Chic and chi-chi, Chine Chine is a modern Cantonese restaurant on the second floor of the hip haven of Bangkok's young professionals, J Avenue. Stylish Victorian meets with modern Chinese interior decorated with oversized chairs and crafted-tile wall in a modern pattern.

Chine Chine Restaurant Bangkok
2ND FLOOR,J AVENUE,
SOI THONGLOR 15,SUKHUMVIT SOI 55,BANGKOK 10110
Tel: 0-2712-6541-2
Cuisine: Chinese

Beijing 9 Restaurant Bangkok

The chef specialises in the cuisine of Beijing and Sichuan, but the food here also reflects Mongolian influences long incorporated into Chinese cuisine. The menu isn't large but features impressive varieties, with some quite exotic dishes to palates more accustomed to the flavours of Cantonese cuisine. There are some extraordinary starters including Beijing five-spice beef cold cut, which features tender slices of stewed beef redolent with Chinese spices and Beijing tortilla; fried chicken, cucumber and onion wrapped in lightly toasted pancake and hot-and-sour soup, which is especially flavourful and big enough for two. Meat entrees abound, from the highly popular goat's leg, which comes in a whopping 1-kg size and takes two days to prepare, to Beijing stewed pork ribs, carefully cooked so the meat is flavourful and tender. Seafood is creatively prepared; try prawns coated in egg yolk and stir-fried or garlic-rice wine New Zealand mussels. Finish the meal with red bean mochi or assorted beans in longan syrup.

Located in the basement of an office tower next to the Intercontinental Hotel, the restaurant has a cosy ambience with a mute colour scheme, plush chairs and stone tile floor.

Beijing 9 Restaurant Bangkok
B1,2,3,PRESIDENT TOWER ARCADE,
973 PLOENCHIT ROAD, BANGKOK 10330
Tel: 0-2656-0658
Cuisine: Chinese

Bai Yun Restaurant Bangkok

Bai Yun's arched, ceiling-high windows yield sweeping panoramas of Bangkok from atop the Banyan Tree. Diners settle into a bright, contemporary east-west decor: tallbacked, curved-arm chairs at tables set with simple brown tablecloths and white china.

Chef Thinarath Chutto, a nine-year veteran in the business, has a justified, quiet pride in his kitchen's offerings. The dim sum menu is extensive and hugely popular at lunch. Clay pot baked fresh abalone in ginseng is Australian abalone seasoned with ginger, ginseng, parsley root and garlic on vermicelli noodles and is exquisite, succulent and tender. Steamed giant crab claw in XO sauce is shellfree, flavoured with red peppers, coriander, spring onions, and is fresh, sweet and light. Meat eaters should try wok-fried kobe beef or rack of lamb with black pepper sauce. There are also several soups, including Sichuan seafood soup and double-boiled fresh fish maw. Sea bass with bell peppers, black beans, scallions, straw mushrooms and flat rice noodles is a hearty dish. Select from a variety of Chinese sweets to close a lovely meal while sipping jasmine tea.

Bai Yun Restaurant Bangkok
Banyan Tree Bangkok,

21/100, South Sathorn Rd, Bangkok 10120
Tel: 0-2679-1200
Dishes: Chinese

Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant Bangkok

This is a large, functional, non-descript restaurant with circular tables, recessed ceiling lights and wood-panelled columns. The middleclass, utilitarian decor is typical of Chinese restaurants elsewhere.

This is a place to take a break for a meal only if you are in the area. Seafood dominates but other Chinese dishes are also available. Sauteed sliced lotus, water chestnut and bamboo shoots is a delight, with the addition of carrots and other greens, all stir-fried for fresh flavours. Bean curd with bamboo shoots places big rectangles of braised tofu onto a plate heavy with mushrooms, shoots, greens and carrots on a hidden raft of asparagus stalks. Bean curd spring roll presents eight pieces which are crispy and not oily, and packed with munchable vegetables. As its name suggests, abalone is a speciality here and should be tried. If you stray from the extensive seafood list, best is to choose barbequed pork which is nice and slightly sweet. An adequate selection of Chinese desserts plus fruit and ice cream is available.

Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant Bangkok
MENAM RIVERSIDE HOTEL,
2074 CHAROENKRUNG ROAD, BANGKOK 10120
Tel: 0-2291-7781-2
Dishes: Chinese/Seafood

Je Ngor's Kitchen

Where is Je Ngor's Kitchen? If this is your question, then you're not a big fan of Chinese food or you've just been in Bangkok. If you have an appointment with anyone at Je Ngor, be sure to emphasize on the location because there are 5 branches. Je Ngor is a Chinese name, Je(big sister) Ngor(owner's nick name) is located on 11th floor of the YWCA Building at Sathon Road.

On arrival Je Ngor and Khun Linda, her daughter and another owner of the restaurant, amiably welcomes us by themselves. The setting of the restaurant was simple and clean. Being on the 11th floor in a centrally location as in Sathon the bird eye view of Bangkok is an advantage. For those who like privacy, the restaurant provides VIP rooms for large and small groups.

The main attraction of the restaurant is the Food. Well, I've got to say my tongue was spoiled so much here. The menu offers a wide variety of selections, Mainly Chinese, seafood and Thai, some menus are Thai dishes influence by Chinese cooking (Somtam Kung Maenam and "Somtam Pu Kai Dong"). Since main food here is seafood, so the price of each dish mostly depends on weight.

The service here is quite good. The waiter and waitress can speak English and some can speak Chinese. Also there's no service charge for alcohol. You can take wine or other alcohol to the restaurant.

There's no need to say how successful Je Ngor's kitchen is. You can see it from that Je Ngor has got five branches since she started the first branch at Chareon Krung four years ago.

Address:

Sathorn Branch: 11th fl, Bangkok Insurance YWCA Building,

25 South Sathorn Road, Bangkok 10120

Tel: +66 (0) 2677 3927 Fax: +66 (0) 2677 3958

Other branches

1. Chareonkrung Branch: 541/9 Soi Chareonkrung 39 Mahanakhorn Tadmai Rd.(between Si Phraya Rd. and Surawong Rd.), Bangrak, Bkk. 10500 

Tel: +66 (0) 2235 8537, +66 (0) 2234 8275

2. Rama II Branch: 24/2 Rama II Rd., Bangmod, Chomthong, Bkk. 10150 Tel: +66 (0) 24274936, +66 (0) 24271583

3. Narathiwat Branch: 2150 Narathiwat Bakharin Rd., Chong Nontri, Yannawa, Bkk 10120 

Tel: +66 (0) 2678 3182-3

4. Wiphawadi Branch: the 11thFloor, Sun Tower A Building, 123 Wiphawai Rangsit Rd., Chatuchak, Bkk 10900 

Tel: +66 (0) 2617 6422-3