รับประทานอาหารเย็นที่บ้านกลมกิ๊ก

Went to Baan Glom Gig บ้านกลมกิ๊ก for dinner. The 'celebrity' restaurant has been much raved about by tourists and unsurprisingly, Singapore food blogs. I've eaten there a few times, but I'm still undecided about it. The standards of food aren't particularly consistent. Look at the menu- there's spaghetti with salted fish. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I'm sure it isn't the awesome sort of spicy anchovy pasta aglio e olio. The spicy spaghetti with seafood and basil, on the other hand, is pretty all right. The restaurant doesn't do anything mind-blowing, but its dishes don't suck too badly either.

It is however, in a very convenient location if you want to take visitors to have decent not-too-spicy Thai food. It's easily accessible via public transport and it's just a ten-minute stroll from Ploenchit BTS station. Being in a two-storey refurbished Thai house on a dead-end soi means that it lends some sort of uhhh local vibes instead of a restaurant in an unexciting mall.

Whatever you do, do not order that Khun Sucha's omelette, regardless of how special they describe it as. Tonight, the table wanted safe and familiar dishes- stir-fried kangkong, green curry chicken, fried rice with sun-dried beef and chillies, steamed white rice, and a fried sea bass rounded up their orders. We asked for everything to be 'extra spicy', and extra servings of chilli padi in fish sauce.

I was very interested in the naam prik kapi with mackerel (น้ำพริกกะปิ). Glorious pungent fermented shrimp paste. The restaurant does a surprisingly good version of it. The fried mackerel goes swimmingly well with the smeowlly shrimp paste. But it's the boiled and raw vegetables that serve as the best conduit to slurp up all the stinky goodness.

Naam prik kapi with mackerel (น้ำพริกกะปิ).