Food

I wanted meat again and there were two options: in the Pavilion or in Changkat. But since it was raining I opted for the short route. The Empire is on the 6th floor and pretty easy to find. I had the set menu even though they also had a 150 day dry aged dish on … Read more

I’m off my usual path. Sao Nam is a Vietnamese restaurant. The menu is quite funny, as it sometimes even includes the recipe for each dish. I ordered mangosteen with shrimp salad and orange duck. Unfortunately, they didn’t have either, so I went back to the ‘classics’: spring rolls and beef noodle soup, along with … Read more

And once again ‘Arabic’, shawarma (we call it kebab). After last night, I was hungry for something light before dinner, so I opted for a shawarma, and here for the Damascus (2.5k reviews on Google). The place is almost always full, and there’s always a line outside (unlike all the others). You get a number … Read more

After walking past a dozen Arabic restaurants almost every day for the past three weeks, I decided on one: Tahrbush (it had the most reviews on Google). I ordered a salad (my first green salad in weeks 😀 ), hummus and aide (it’s called something different here), and an ayran to drink. The salad was … Read more

Somehow the selection appealed to me, especially the octopus (it was really good at the tapas bar). So I gave it a try. I should have left, though, when the vendor tried to sell me a sweetwater shrimp as a special lobster (which was supposedly particularly cheap, which isn’t exactly obvious when you consider it … Read more

Morganfield’s is a chain restaurant. I visited the Pavilion because I was short on time during the break and the next meeting was pressing. They had Iberico baby back ribs, peppered with truffle mashed potatoes and coleslaw (although the side dishes were rather homeopathic). The ribs were only peppered and not marinated (a glass of … Read more