Bar B Q Plaza at MBK

While shoppping in MBK one day, we passed by Bar BQ Plaza and found ourselves looking curiously at the diners inside the restuarant, watching how much they enjoy themselves. And i must say their bronze grilling plate sure pulls your attention away from the shopping for a while.

Made a mental note to try it some other day an we continued with our shopping. MBK is huge. Make that very huge. Everything u need could be found here in MBK. So much so that i do find prices here cheaper than say Suam Lam Night Market. But then that's my personal opinion. Well at least they are airconditioned and having a meal in some creature comfort is not a problem here.

Back to Bar BQ Plaza. We were prompty served upon arriving. As usual there were some problems with communications but i guess some simple hand signals ( plus lots of Ji Tong Ya Jiang - Chicken and Duck Talk ) we managed to convey our message to them.

One thing i learnt from my trip to BKK is that the restuarant operators there are relatively generous in providing that special touch to their customers. Stuffs like providing free ice buckets, ice-green tea, ice chrysanthemum tea. I mean these are simple ( and inexpensive ) gestures but they goes a long way to show that they care about their customer's needs. Right here even in some cafes, pubs, eating joints, ice-PLAIN-water is chargable. I mean if you serve me Evian bottles water i LL but for some good-ole tap-water on the rocks you gonna charge me, then i'll probably say bye bye to you. Yes Tong-Shui-Cafe, i'm talking about you.

Flipping thru the menu, we were greeted with pages and pages of Thai. The only things i understand from the menu were some simple English translation of the items and their prices. Stating out preference for a non-beef menu, we were recommend Pork Set and Seafood Set. Perhaps we were surprise by how cheap the meal cost, we quickly ordered a Family Set ( with both Pork and Seafood sets ). Perhaps we were too ambitious cause the waitress looked at me in a "what-the-fark, you-mean-you-2-can-finish-our-Family-Set meals?" look. I admit we were both hungry and we weren't sure how big the serving would be. And did i mentioned we had ordered a serving of Fried Vietnamese Spring Rolls?
The Spring Rolls were very nice. Served hot, the outside was cripsy and the inside pipping hot. Radish, carrots, prawns, meat and spices made the filling. Wrapped them with the raw cabbage and thai mint leave, dipped the rolls into the thai sweet chilli sauce before popping them into the mouth. One work... S-H-I-O-K...

The Seafood set came with lots of fresh vegetables, fresh prawns, sotongs, chicken breasts, fish noodles, slices of fish and fishcakes.


The Pork Set came with lots of finely sliced pork tenderlion, livers, bacon, fish noodles, fishcakes and lots of vegetables.

The idea is simple. Basically to sort of pan-grill the meat of the round plate of to cook them shabu-shabu style in the groove around the outer rings of the bronze plate. Slices of pork lard were given to greeze the plate to prevent the meat from sticking to the plate.

For the vegetables, we dumped them into the outer ring to sort of shabu-shabu-ed them. Some how we could really figure out how the rest managed to scopes the soup out. Anyway we paid to cook our own food but we enjoyed it! The accompanying dipping sauce was damn shiok too. Taste like some sweet sauce with a hint of nutty flavour and a healthy mix of salt and sour in it. Dipping freshly cooked pork slices into it before sending it to you mouth... heaven...

GF's bowl of fried rice. Read "thai rice fried with EGGS and OIL".

On a hind note, Bar BQ Plaza. originated from Thailand, had started it's invasion down south. The last time i heard from my ex-NS buddy, now plying his trade in Malaysia, Bar BQ Plaza have set up shop in KL. Anyone can verify?