As I am out and about I am always looking for some tasty breakfast joints. Coming from California, the breakfast diner capital of the world, I was usually out every weekend on a long motorcycle ride that always started with a big breakfast. I don’t have a real bike yet in Thailand but that does not stop me from trying to find breakfast. For a while there McD’s kept me going but not anymore. Mentioned a few places in this post and even found some decent but not amazing grub here. So I happened to be searching for some stuff on Thong Lo and found this site. Mike mentions the Little Home Bakery as being somewhere near Thong Lo soi 20 but it is actually between soi 23 and soi 25. I emailed Mike but nothing back yet - let’s see if this link gets his attention. Anyway - tasty grub. More on that in a sec.
We keep adding some stuff to the guide. You will notice on any venue item there is a button that will allow any user to easily send us information about a venue in order to correct us or alert us information we don’t know. Bkk is a big place and sometimes we find venues that until we visit them - we have very little information on them. So this will hopefully encourage people to help add what we don’t know. Places like The Best Room - for instance. Added an Angelina review. Akane vs Akane is up for debate.
Back to breakfast. The Little Home Bakery is an old style Thai joint with a big Thai menu but the first 3 pages of the menu are devoted to breakfast. Egg dishes, pancakes and waffles. It was all very tasty and affordable. This is for u JD. I hade the bacon and eggs - the bacon was awesome. A plate of silver dollar pancakes and an iced coffee. All in I think it was 150 baht. I was stuffed. The pancakes are the best I have had in Bkk. There seems to be other outlets but I am not sure of the exact addresses yet. Will let u know. The nice bennie about any place on Thong Lo is that usually there are some cuties there as well. Same with this joint.
Hoping to hit some new venues soon. Just gotta find the time.
On the Guide: there are places I’d be happy to review, but those places aren’t listed yet. Is it possible to have a function where we can submit a venue for addition to the guide. By way of example, I visited the Absolute 7 Bar last night, and even though most other bars on soi 7/1 are listed, Absolute bar isn’t. Just wondering…
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The Absolute 7 bar drinks are a bit expensive, but it offers a similar fun atmosphere as the Hillary 2 bar, with live music from good bands. Often, bands finishing their sets around 1 am at the Hillary 2 head over to the Bamboo Bar on Soi 3 or Absolute 7 on Soi 7/1 for late night performances.
Absolute 7 is sometimes open as late as 4 am with, and popular with freelancers who earlier graced the Beergarden, Gullivers, and/or Nana Disco.
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ww: Sure. On the Contact Us page at http://guide.tfs2m.com/contact-us/ it mentions that you can add a venue using the Change Form at http://guide.tfs2m.com/change-form . We will try and make this more user-friendly in the future with a proper form and a way to upload photos. Thanks.
DJ/ww: Thanks for the info. I will add the Absolut 7 bar to the guide and put this information in.
You guys rock!!!
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Can I rock, too? I’d like to suggest a review for Cheap Charlies, it’s a really neat and happening bar where you can pick up sadsack farangettes and have a whine about the baht with a groovy bunch of expats and - (POST DISCONTINUED OWING TO BANDWIDTH RESTRICTIONS)
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I’ve always enjoyed some of the morning street food. Do you guys have a favorite area or street vendor to get some delicious Thai food?
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Thonglor 25; is that the last stop before Aranyaprathet and then on to Poipet?
I’m like Garfield on this one; Did someone say bacon and eggs?
California “the breakfast diner capital of the world”; That’s funny. I like that.
Try to never tell anyone what to do but you may need to get on your hog and get out more often say to New England and the mid-Atlantic states (i.e., Pennsylvania) where they really know hot to make an omelet.
(although when in LA make sure you try to try The Orginal Pantry).
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little home is actually a filipino joint strangely enough, hence a few filipino national dishes on the menu. there is also a branch in the basement of silom complex.
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ww - absolute is in the guide. just type something into the search box if you don’t think it is there.
http://guide.tfs2m.com/thailand/bangkok/bars/freelancer/sukhumvit/nana/absolute-7-bar/
pe - for this guide we are only doing the naughty nightlife.
arttv - bangkok
jd - funny man. what is a hog? a pig? I only ride BMWs since they start every time and don’t feel like they are shaking into a million little pieces. Is LA in California?
n - thanks. did not notice the filipino influence but the food is tasty.
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If it doesn’t contain black pudding (congealed pig’s blood fried in pig’s fat, mmm) then it isn’t breakfast.
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t - please. pig blood for breakfast is so disgusting
tried the silom branch of LHB today. good stuff.
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The McDonalds on Sukhumvit by Asok (Robinson’s/Westin Grande Sukhumvit) had a sign outside advertising their breakfast menu a couple of days ago.
I have eaten breakfast there twice and I was almost the only customer in the place both times. One good thing is that you can have a cafe latte, cappuccino etc instead of a regular coffee or cola from the coffee bar for the set meal price. Does anyone drink Coke for breakfast?
Whole I think of it: does Coke and Pepsi sold here have more caffeine than that formula sols in the States? I can get quite buzzed on the stuff here and don’t remember the same effect in the US. Maybe it’s a sign of old age. I read somewhere that Thai Red Bull has more caffeine than the US product.
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BTW, the McDonalds breakfast sign is still up at the Victory Monument Mickey D’s. If u go, can u get me a couple hash browns?
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california breakfast…
what’s the name of the resturant near Eureka right on the coast that serves the best breakfast i’ve ever had anywhere ?
it’s an old house looking place. very good and very busy.
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Anyone who doesn’t enjoy black pudding is a Big Gay Puff. Stick to your pantywaist diet granola, smitty!
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I hate black pudding……………
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p.e. Too funny. - Big Gay poofs!!
I’m with Smitty on this one… Dried pigs blood? Reminds me of my bedsheets after a long session and a good sleep.
Next time you have some ‘pudding’ on your plate.. try leaving it there. “why don’cha? Nobody’s looking. Nobody cares”.
I stole that line from your previous posting of doing a bloke up the nought?!
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Day Walker, if you eat meat, you eat blood. One of the things the French (amongst whom - grammar - I lived for many years) and the Brits have in common in a healthy respect for the parts of the animal that delicate, fine-mouthed creatures like yourself find “unappealing” - offal, in English, abats, in French. You’re missing out on some truly delicious (and very nutritious) meals because you go all shivery when “blood” is mentioned. I draw the line at vampirism, mind you. And your squeamishness means a lot of the protein value of every slaughtered beast is just wasted. Never had rognons de veau? Tripes? Oh well …
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Hey Daywalker:-) Isn’t a “daywalker” a sort of daywalking vampire that brain-vomit-mistress of the macabre, Anne Rice, cooked up to get herself out of a story jamb and move the whole stinking, steaming hulk of one of her shitwagon yawnfest “plots” closer to some kind of limp-dicked excuse for resolution ;-?
If you can get thru an Anne Rice novel you can surely get thru a few boiled scabs jiggling there next to the fried bread.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Anne Rice or her books, mind you.
Or a nice fry-up
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When I use the search function it takes me to a blank page:
http://guide.tfs2m.com/?s=absolute+7
When I copy and paste the link from your comment reply above, everything is okay.
I didn’t find it in the ‘tree’ before because I was looking under ‘beer bars’ instead of ‘freelancer bars’.
I guess that’s why it says ‘BETA’ at the top.
(You may want to check the search function on this one, or maybe it’s the way I spell 7)
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Geez Day Walker, I am new to this medium (or, rather old to it if you prefer) I let a visceral hatred of Anne Rice’s typing get the better of me. I then leapt thoughtlessly into my response to your blood pudding comment.
Before doing so I really should have Wikied that Day Walker moniker.
Apparently everyone BUT Anne Rice (Sao Udon, mai chai, la?) uses day walkers Ms Rice copes with plot knots by just not bothering to run her characters into anything resembling a real story.
I’m so embarrassed.
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If it happens again… I’ll use my Blade.
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ww - your link works fine. brings up absolute as a choice. I put it under freelancer bars since it is not technically a beer bar since they don’t employ girls. That was my thinking anyway.
on the mcd breakfast saga - silom has taken down the signs but they have breakfast items. However there are using the burger buns. A sausage mcmuffin without the mcmuffin is just not the same. So I wonder if they places with the signs out still habe real breakfast or are doing the same thing as silom?
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smitty - absolute 7 defitely belongs as a FL bar… not questioning that, just explaining why I didn’t find it when I looked for it. I’m still getting used to the overall organization.
The search link puzzles me… I tried it 3 or 4 times before posting so you wouldn’t tell me it works fine. Sort of like having the help desk ask you if you’re computer is plugged in - D’oh!!
Ah well. I love the Guide so far, and look forward to its continued development!
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ww - not sure what happened. the built in wordpress search function is not the best but works. we would like to build something a little stronger especially as we get into multiple cities. A lot of what we are using is off the shelf with some serious pmmp hacking. We will tweak as we go.
thanks for pounding on it.
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I love black pudding with applesauce.You should try it once.
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black pudding is amazing, provided you don’t think too much about the source (i guess that goes for most any animal based food). northern california gets my vote for breakfast capitol of the US - new england never cut it for me perhaps because it couldn’t source the fresh goodies as easily as the places in Cali. although i’ve been there a dozen times and love the nostalgia of the place, the original pantry is a bit of a greasy spoon. why the hell are they using hamburger buns for the McDonald’s breakfasts? Just tried it this morning. never again.
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ggg - when they were officially serving breakfast they used the real mcmuffin but not anymore. Sucks.
nor cal rocks for breakfast. end of story.
the origins of the black pudding did not help me but I just don’t think the stuff tastes good.
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