Decades before social media, we had colleagues stationed in Thailand and when we visited them, they will take us to places locals go (because our colleagues are like locals already 🤭 ). The food was out of this world. Problem is today, I don't have the slightest idea where these places were 😕
Last week, our Bangkok friends (not ex-colleagues) brought us to one such place. I am recording it to make sure I can find my way back there again (and you can too 😀).
The place is called Haew Seafood. A casual street side restaurant, with air conditioned section but the al fresco section was nicely cool in the evening. It's a hyperlocal place, bright, busy, filled with banter in Thai.
The spicy appetiser of crispy tender chewy battered fried squid tentacles and soft crunchy prawns with chili and spices got our salivary glands in gear 🤤
Fresh crab meat with crunchy leek in a savoury sweet sauce with just a touch of heat from chili and garlic.
Then, tomyam, of course, there will always be tomyam.
Pale looking but the spiciness was potent and loaded with flavours and aromas from seafood (squid, chunks of fish), herbs and tropical aromatics. This is the type of tomyam I like. Looks understated until you try it.
Then..., Wham!
Then, the fried rice, nutty tender with just the right moistness, savoury eggy sweet with pieces of prawn studded in the golden yellow mound.
Stir fried crunchy juicy stalky "morning glory" kang kong vegetable in a savoury sweet sauce laced with heat from garlic and chili pepper.
Oh wait, these were just the starters 😮
The main course is here 😀
The legend.
Four of us, each one, one.
Simply cooked by grilling.
The white meat was thick like rope, sinewy chewy yet tender crunchy to the bite. Unique sweet taste. Not like prawn, not like lobster, better than both in my humble opinion.
Then, the creamy thick ultra umami rich head butter.
The ultimate crustacean.
Stir it together with the fried rice and you get death wish fried rice worth dying a little for.
Heart attack fried rice of Singapore? Meet death wish fried rice.
Then, crab with glass noodles (tung hoon or mung bean noodles).
The crab shells were filled with creamy roe 😂
The soft subtly crunchy tung hoon were perfect in soaking up the umami flavours of the sauce and crab roe.
The crab meat was marvellously crustacean sweet too.
We were not done yet 😰
Next, horseshoe crab roe salad.
This was my third time having horseshoe crab roe. Still not quite my cup of tea, but I tried it again anyway.
The eggs look like BB gun pallets. They are quite stiff though chewable with effort. Doesn't taste like poultry or fish egg. Actually more or less flavourless and relied on the zesty and savoury sauce in the salad.
Nope, I still don't get it 😆 But, locals relish it, so I still need to learn.
Still, there are a lot of things to like at Haew Seafood 😆 This is a local eating place to try out, if you want to go local in Bangkok.
Restaurant name: Haew Seafood
Address: 430 พุทธมณฑลสาย 2 Bang Phai, Bang Khae, Bangkok 10160, Thailand
Tel: +666 2876 4595
Hours: 11am - 8:30pm
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Written by Tony Boey on 5 Jan 2024
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