Krung Thep Restaurant Ubon Ratchathani Thailand.

Last night being Monday, Miss Noot decided we needed to go out and celebrate my belated birthday and also that she had finally received her degree. I asked where she was thinking of going and I had hardly finished getting this out of my mouth as “Krung Thep” (some spell Krung Tep) came blurting out of her mouth.

This restaurant has become Noot’s favourite, an ex Ubon expat would take his family here and introduced me to the place. I am so glad he did as it is the best food. The owner used to run or own a restaurant in Japan from my terrible memory was what my friend had mentioned.

The restaurant was very busy for a Monday night; there were only two tables available and we quickly made our way to the one in the corner, this was lucky as we had Nong Ja along for the ride and she can be a little bit adventurous at times.

The menu was quickly produced and Noot and her younger sister Benjawan (Ben) started gibbering away in excited Thai on what to order. I ordered some water to drink while the two girls oblivious to Ja and me kept on throwing dish choices across the table to each other. Ja insisted on flicking through the menu but kept saying as she always does "Kow Phat" or fried rice.

The girls decided to ask me what I would like to order and I told them I would go with the flow, as long as they ordered my favourite dish from Krung Thep, I was told that this had already been ordered; so I had missed that!

So the order was taken and the ice and water arrived, often I would have a very cool beer but tonight I didn’t feel like one. Two and a bit year olds, well young kids in general like to be hands on, and Ja is always like this. After watching the waiter fill the glasses with ice and then water, Ja was off her seat and copying him.

Ja returned to her seat and managed to drink some water but also tipping over her face, onto her top and also the table.

Ja is multitalented and quickly cleaned up her spill with one of the cloths I always keep handy when we take Ja out.

The food started to arrive and this was a salmon dish, I have had this many times now and is so delicious.

And some wasabi mixed with soy sauce to dip the salmon in, I am not a big wasabi fan so I just dipped into the soy or not at all as the salmon is so fresh and tasty.

Then came the spicy squid salad, it wasn’t so spicy but actually a little mild. But very delicious, all the food I have eaten here is.

The some sushi arrived, another dish that is so yummy and these rolls disappeared pretty quickly.

Then my favourite arrived, well it is on top of the other dishes I call my favourites as well. It is a prawn bread and comes with a sweet chilli dipping sauce, a real mouth waterer.

In this coconut is a seafood curry, and probably the best I have had anywhere else I can think of. We nearly order this every time, we cannot help ourselves as we like it so much.

I am so hungry looking at this and thinking of the other dishes and going across and buying a 25 baht dish of food for dinner tonight is just not going to cut it.

Ja was really hungry, so she started on her prawn bread which she likes while waiting for her fried rice. I had mentioned and asked it be brought out first as she was hungry and it also keeps her busy.

Finally Ja had her rice and she tucked in.

I think this means bellissimo.

And this I have no idea!

As you can see by the table, we had pretty well polished everything off, Noot was just finishing the last of the curry off, scraping the coconut flesh from off the inside and devouring it happily.

Why is Ja praying?

She saw this image on the wall and thought it was an image of Buddha so she wanted to pay respect. It is funny as she does this in any place and at times in shopping centres, or the market can make people smile widely.

Finally it was time to go home, my three girls walked with full tummies to the car, well not too full as we did stop at Swensens for ice cream. No photos allowed there but it was good ice cream.

Brunty

Oh the cost, cheap as chips. Only 605 Thai baht or about $20 Australian dollars.