The Rocket

Opened less than 3 months ago and already always packed with customers whenever we passed by. So obviously I had to google it up to find out why.

Apparently, their Green Smoothie is to die for. Most reviewers said that they will go all the way there just for the smoothie.

Wow. With reviews like that, how can I not go try right? Especially when it's ONLY a 2 minutes walk from where we stay!

We decided to go there for late lunch, and hopefully, skip the lunch crowd too. But when we got there, looked like everyone else had the same idea and it still took us about 20 mins to wait for a table.

The menu was a single piece of A4 paper. Printed front and back. That's all. No meat. No fried oily stuff. Just plenty of salad salad salad and greens greens greens. Rabbit food. Ha. Oh. And wine!

Not my kindda thing BUT if you're into eating healthy and organic and all that jazz, this is the perfect place for you!

I had to walk to the nearby 7-11 to grab 2 boxes of microwavable fried rice for the kids because there was nothing suitable for them on the menu. Yeah. My kids aren't rabbits.

The restaurant/cafe/eatery is VERY small. Most of it is taken up by the open kitchen where the food & drinks are prepared. And then, at a little small corner, there's a DJ console with a single DJ spinning cool jazzy-ish music.

While waiting for our food, the husband had their homemade orange muffins. A tad too sweet and sticky for me but it definitely had a strong orange aroma.

Naturally, with all the thumbs up reviews, I HAD to order the Green Smoothie. It was a blend of spinach, spirulina, young coconut, mango, pineapples and chia seeds (180baht) and it did NOT disappoint. If I were ever to come back here, it would DEFINITELY be for the smoothie.

Also ordered the well-reviewed Rocket Eggs Benedict. It was great except for the fact that it came only with half a slice of sourdough bread. HALF! How to eat la? I mean, for the price of 185baht, at least give me more bread!

However, even with only half a slice of bread, I licked my plate clean. Because it was good. No doubt about that. And I was also hungry.

The hubby ordered the Herbs Omelette, which came with NO bread. Hahaha! My benedict was tastier.

So in conclusion, we won't be going back again (except to takeaway the Green Smoothie). Not because the food wasn't nice because it IS nice, but because this is not really our kindda food. We're unhealthy like that.

But it's a GREAT place to sit down, order a drink and read a book, or surf the net (free WiFi) or even just chill with friends over wine and enjoy the relaxing music.

The Rocket:

CONTACT INFORMATION: +66 (0) 2 6350 404 | INFO.S12@ROCKETCOFFEEBAR.COM 

149, Sathorn Soi 12, Silom, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500, Thailand.

Cafe & Meal

They have branches everywhere - Siam Centre, Silom Complex, Mega Bangna, just to name a few, and they are ALWAYS packed! Everytime we walk pass, there's always a queue right outside.

It never came across our minds to give it a try because 1) we're too lazy to queue 2) we have kids with us so we just wanna go somewhere that's not too packed, eat and leave.

But then a good friend who's been living in Bangkok for more than 3 years told me that their food was not bad and they have pretty decent set meals, so I was like hmmm ok maybe one day we'll give it a try.

Well, that 'one day' came last week after a visit to the doctor's and so happened the hospital was just a stone's throw away from Silom Complex so we decided to do dinner here.

We were lucky too because they happened to have a table for four.

Deep-fried tofu.

Crispy. Juicy. Can't go wrong. And the chili dip was spicy and sweet. Again, can't go wrong.

Chicken Soup.

With white radish and Chinese mushrooms. Great comfort dish, especially when I wasn't feeling too well then.

House Special Omelette.

Now THIS has got to be the BEST omelette I've ever tasted (and trust me, I've tasted quite a lot because Bkk is famous for their omelettes)!

There's a whole page on the menu dedicated to this omelette. You can choose from 10 different toppings to add into your omelette - mushrooms, crab sticks, prawns, sausages, cheese, veggies, etc.

And the wonderful thing about this dish is right after it's done, they drizzle runny yolk all over it! Argh...making myself hungry now.

Stir-fried pork with snow peas.

Don't be deceived by the innocence of this dish. The green cili padis are hidden inside the snow peas as was found out too late. Fml.

Honestly, I wouldn't order this dish again. It was a little too dry for my liking and....yes, too spicy!

Cabbage & bacon.

This dish doesn't need a description. It's another 'can't go wrong'.

We also ordered fried rice for the kids and the bill came up to a total of about 800baht including drinks and rice.

Not bad for a clean place, good service and most importantly, they have high chairs for kids.

Somboon Seafood Restaurant

This was one of the first few restaurants that came highly recommended to us by friends who's been to Bangkok and friends who lives in Bangkok. Of course, it was also because this branch was just a mere 15 minutes walk away from where we live.

My first impression of this place before even trying it out was - overrated, commercialized and cut-throat.

It was a massive 3-story restaurant which took up a whole building on it's own. of course, it didn't help that there were always throngs of tour busses parked right outside and it was always ALWAYS packed.

Anyways, it took us more than half a year before we decided to give the place a try and see what the big deal was all about.

FORTUNATELY for us, we were in for a pleasant surprise.

(Please excuse the pictures. These were taken and uploaded from my phone).

Frog Legs Fried with Garlic

This dish was awesome.

It wasn't dry. It was fresh and crispy and the garlic was just nice without being too overpowering.

The only thing I didn't like about it was the fact that they chopped the frogs into such tiny pieces, thus making me spend more time spitting out bones than actually enjoying the meat.

Stewed Pork Knuckles.

I LOVE this!

Love love love love love!

We never fail to order this each and everytime we come here.

The knuckles are glazed perfectly. The sauce is thick and sweet. And it is always stewed just right, not too hard and not too overcooked.

Stir-fried Pucuk Paku.

Vegetable dishes can never go wrong.

More so when the veggies are fresh and crunchy. But this is always a little too spicy for me even though we always tell them to make it phed nid noi (less spicy).

Crispy Shrimp Balls.

Kids's all time favorite.

They can both wipe this clean. This and white rice. They're happy and we're happy. This can also get quite addictive.

All these dishes + rice + coke + singha beer cost us a total of 1150baht (RM115).

Their chef's specialty is the glass noodles with prawns and the curry crabs.

Somboon Seafood Restaurant

Branches:

- Narathiwas branch

- Bantadthong branch

- Surawong branch

- Rachada branch

- Udom Suk branch

- Sam Yan branch

Oh, and one more thing, CASH ONLY =)

Hello again...

Once upon a time, blogging was my life. I had a very active blog at femmefatale-s.blogspot.com. I blogged everyday, sometimes even more than once a day. I blogged about my work life, about my personal life, about my social life and about my night life.

Back then, I had loads of stuff to blog about.

I blogged about bosses who pissed me off.

I blogged about my weekly getaways to the beach (gah, how I miss those days!).

I blogged about my relationships.

I blogged about my crazy nightlife, clubbing and pubbing with my girlfriends.

I blogged about having a job that allowed me to run shoulders with celebrities.

And then....I got married. And HAD KIDS!

And I moved on to a new blog at kristygeraldine.blogspot.com where I attempted to continue blogging about life.

But then, the only things I had to blog about were about my kids, my life as a stay-home-mom, my kids, food I cooked everyday, house chores, kids....you get the picture.

Eventually, my blog entries dwindled down to once a month, and then once in 3 months and then once a year.

And then, few weeks ago, family members encouraged me to start blogging again, to blog about my new and exciting life living in Bangkok, Thailand (yes, this will come in another entry)!

My mum even urged me to write a book, and that she will financially support me to get it published. I'm still toying with that idea.

So here it is. My new blog. A diary for me to share my Bangkok life.

To share about eateries that are good or not so good. Interesting places to go to and about living life as a LOCAL.