Foodies love this area, and it's easy to see why... You could easily eat out for a year, and never touch the same place twice...

Here are some of the eating opportunities we especially enjoyed:






It's not Thai at all, but I can't help but give a shout-out for Snapper New Zealand, Sukhumvit Soi 8, where we ate with a friend. I've probably never had such succulent chowder, with huge, juicy pieces of fish.

I've already mentioned the very prominent Japanese presence in these parts. And where there are Japanese, there are fluffy pancakes... Souffl and Souffl Pancakes Cafe, Sukhumvit Soi 55, is one source of such indulgence. Here, in sweetly kawaii surroundings, they turn out amazingly soft, yielding pancakes, which they serve up with maple syrup and two types of cream... Shlup, shlup, shlup... As it was Valentine's Day, they gave me a red rose. Awww...





There have been other fine things, too, of course. Humble, pavement-bought concoctions of sticky rice and beans, or pandan and coconut. Little pumpkin and coconut puddings, purchasable from your nearest 7/11. Tasty pad thai from a mall food court. Prawn salad and crispy pork and greens from Kaomangai, the place on Soi 53, right next to the hotel, which we thought was Japanese, but eventually discovered was Thai-in-a-Japanese-environment. From a roadside food court, noodle soup with those big wide noodles you rarely get in Malaysia. And the ubiquitous, and unfailingly refreshing, cha yen (Thai iced tea).

Such a nice little world of eating...