If you are passing through in Bangkok and happen to be at Suvarnabhumi Airport and in a mood for a hot bowl of pho, then stop by Eat-tion Restaurant. It is located on 3rd Floor Concord-B and has a slogan or theme of “Thai Inter Food” at a price that won’t break your wallet.
I noticed the restaurant back in 2007 but didn’t check out their menu. This was the place was quiet since it was December 06, 2008, the second day after the airport has been open for business as usual. I walked by to check the menu and the guy holding the menu was walking around in his “get a customer zone” spotted me and was more than eager to talk to me. I told him that it was too early for me to eat and will be back in an hour for dinner.
Anthony Bourdain from No Reservations visits Hong Kong food stalls in 2007. He sampled various seafood dishes, from deep-fried mantis shrimp, fish fins, black-ink squid balls with noodles, stir-fried prawns and clam soup at Tung Po Seafood Restaurant.
A Cook’s Tour in Thailand and Singapore with Anthony Bourdain. During his stopover in Bangkok, he made a visit to Bane Lao Restaurant to try some Lao dishes. He then did some shopping, tried some Thai food and then headed to Singapore for some spicy food.
ABC News’s segment: The Hungry Hound, found a Laotian restaurant in the north side of Chicago.
Southeastern Asian flavors on Far North Side
By Steve Dolinsky
Only one restaurant in town focuses on the food from Laos, and ABC7′s Hungry Hound has tried everything on the menu.
If you like Thai food, chances are you’re going to really like the food from Laos. There are plenty of similarities– mainly coconut milk, fish sauce, young ginger and lemongrass, but there are also a few differences. As I found out on a recent trip through a tiny Laotian menu, they make the trip to uptown worthwhile.
It’s easy to find Southeast Asian dishes from Vietnam and Thailand while roaming around Uptown, but you’ve got to look a little harder to find the city’s only Laotian option, Sabai-dee, which simply means “hello.”
“Our food is less sweet and it has more spice, salty; to me it’s more flavorful,” said Kevin Wong, Sabai-Dee.
Since Wong is Chinese, he offers a small assortment of native items from a long, heated display case, but it’s the Laotian dishes that are worth the trip. A Nam salad begins with rice, flavored with shallots, lemongrass and a beaten egg; the rice is formed into balls, which are then deep-fried. Those crispy-crunchy rice balls are then broken up, along with fresh herbs and vegetables, plus chopped nuts, to form the eventual salad. Green papaya salads are commonly found in Northeastern Thailand, but in Laos, it’s a little different.
If you are ever in Rotterdam and has a craving for dim sum, stir fry noodles, soup, or sushi, then make a stop at Dim Daily for a pick yourself up meal. The restaurant in right behind Beurs World Trade Center and at the heart of Beurs Shopping area. It’s a casual restaurant that you can dine in or take out food. It’s quite busy right after shopping closing hours so make sure you beat the rush by getting there half an hour before all the stores are closed. The price is reasonable for a bowl of stir fry noodles with your choice of meat or seafood for around 7 Euros.
