I think you both must be right about the duck, Damiano and Peter. I just had a meal of duck with egg noodles and fried egg at Duck 995 in Ko Tao and even though the 995 version was in brown gravy the flavor was similar to the duck half of the duck/crispy pork combo dish I had at Prachak. I think my brain was thinking “Peking Duck” and I was ordering “Thai duck”, so there was a disconnect between what I was thinking and what I was eating.
As to the pizza, I think I am becoming a bit of a pizza curmudgeon so I will take a break from ordering those for a while. There are so many Thai dishes I have not even heard of so that should not be too great a sacrifice.
Back on the Bangkok food scene, I did hit two recommended places on my last day there. Both Chandrphen and Krua Apsorn were winners. I started with the BBQ chicken at Chandrphen and it was delicious. I ended up wearing a good bit of it because I tore into it a bit enthusiastically. It was not fancy, simply lightly seasoned and perfectly roasted. The wait staff there were good sorts. The waitress seemed to enjoy the fact that I was going after that chicken. I like it when cooks and wait staff take pleasure in diners enjoying their food.
I also got an order of sweet duck in an orange sauce that tasted like lightly reduced orange/plum sauce? Not sure, but even though it is sweeter than I usually like, it worked well.
It was not open for the first couple days I was there but I also visited Krua Apsorn for crab meat in yellow curry with rice. Wow. That was a rich dish and perfectly seasoned. Just outstanding!
I also ordered something that I think was Yum Woon Sen-like. Glass noodles with seafood and a decent amount of chili. Nicely spicey and delicious. Yum Woon Sen type dishes are a favorite of mine.
Then I walked over to Petit Peyton for a Root Beer Float and made the mistake of submerging the ice cream in the root beer and had a minor root beer tsunami… No pictures of that.
Who knew that ice cream would cause root beer to foam like mad? I sure didn’t. LOL!
