Ginzado Yakiniku (3-Apr-2011)

Review of Ginzado Yakiniku, japanese bbq restuarant locates between Thong Lor soi 5 and soi 7, Panjitt tower,

                                    This is how its menu and price list look like, kinda affordable huh

                                                          Grilled bar and luxury charcoal
                                                                      

                                                                  Mixed-Veggie Salad                                    

                                                       Katabara - Front leg muscle grade A

        

                                                                     Eryngii Mushroom

                                             Tokujyou Karoubi - Marbled japanese short-rib
                     So tender and juicy, my favourite one, look at the marble, it already melt in the mouth !!!

                                                                          BBQ Sauce

                                                              BBQ sauce seasonings

                                                                 Yukke - Raw beef

I try this because of the reviews in the internet, sounded so good. But wasn't impressive that much and eventually I need to asked the waitress to cook it. haha

                                                                       Cooked Yukke

                                                          Eatable but still not so impressive

                                          Harami Grade A - Tender meat around the diaphragm
This one also taste very nice, tender and juicy but look at the fat, probably not so good for health compare to the kuroubi : )                                                    

                                                              

Restaurant atmosphere

                                                                             Bill !!!
The conclusion, i give 5 out of 5 for Gindazo, never taste the most tender beef ever like this before, gonna have to come back again soon.

Day 2&3 (Phuket Trip)

Day 2

Started the day off around 5.30 in the morning, we was trying to negotiate with our guide p’ya, but not successful, our trip to similan is too way far than what I imagine of, to finish the trip schedule to similan in one day we need to get up this early,  we took around 30 mins to finish washing ourself and dressed up, we were pretty on time, and when you walking down to the reception area, our driver was already there,

P’ya was packing breakfast for us, pretty big foam box one, we were supposed to eat them in the van on the way to  Pung nga speed boat dock, way is pretty long took around 2 hours , and all along the way we didn’t’ open the breakfast box until we got there , we opened it and it was like SHIT, what the F… , totally unpleasant food, crappy sandwich, black(rotten) small bananas and milk which is acceptable but anyway I threw all the stuff away,  getting a cup of instant noodle in the 7/11 instead,  which it caused a tragedy for me after that,

From here we got another guide to similan island, p’eddy ( I believe he’s gay) but he’s nice, around 9am  he took us to the speed boat (which is pretty new and powerful engine) I wasn’t realized yet that something ugly is gonna happen to me.  There are around 20-30 passengers going the same boat as us. after getting on the boat around 30 mins , I started feeling like dizzy and naucious , and it’s getting worse and worse, I feel totally bad, I think it’s because of the lack of restness body with the sucks breakfast cause me that, the boat ran with speed around 60-70 km/hr and to the first island it’s 75 km away , I was sitting with this freaking suck feeling for almost half hour, I was proud of myself to be this tolerant, haha

They first stop the boat around the 5^th island ( idon’t remember the name) but not landed yet, they just float the boat on the water away of the coast for ppl can go do the shallow snorkeling, I didn’t feel like doing anything but throwing up, I was trying to stay put on the boat , but when the boat stop ,it just shaking worse than when it runs. So I decided to jump in the water find some peace area and throw up, hope the fish there can eat my pugh for their lunch :D

I wasn’t getting much better after throwing up, I just felt like going on the coast and liie down as soon as possible, they stopped for shallow snorkeling at 5^th island for 45 mins, and then taking us to the 5^th island coast to free time relax and having buffet lunch there for few hours, this place I could get some lie down and recovered myself,  and I really got myself better after that.

The view of the island is pretty nice, sky is blue ,water is clear, wow I love it here, unfortunately we didn’t manage to see NEMO and those sea turtles, ( sea turtles are preserved animals , they stays around island 1^st , 2^nd and 4^th which we were not allowed to go that restricted area this time)

We spent most of time on the 5^th island taking pictures, haha thx my new CANON IXY-30 camera, we had lots of pretty colorful pictures there,

Around 2pm we left for another islands 7^th island, didn’t get on the coast , just the shallow snorkeling  spot again, the 7^th island landscape isn’t that spectacular , but we had chance to see some strange fishes , didn’t have chance to take photos, my camera isn’t waterproof, sorry for that ,haha

Then the high-light of the day “Similan island” or 8^th island, unlucky we only have around 45 mins to spend here, the landscape here is very terrific spectacular, with the horse-shoe shaped-like island, flagship rock and the soft and mild white sand, wow amazing Thailand, to get the bird-eye-view of this island we need to climb up to the top of flagship rock, and we didn’t hesitate it to go up there : ), way was pretty rough, the rock is hot so bad, we hurt our feet a lot , eventually we were on top successfully and it all worth it. Got lots of pretty nice view to take sweet photos with my GF and it’s gonna be one of the best memory ever for me. While we enjoyed taking pictures up on the top of flagship rock, our guide Eddy whistled to call us back to the boat, time to leave, oh no, so short time spending here.

On the way back I didn’t have the serious problem with naucious feeling at at all, but the new problem my face got burnt from the sun, oh no I’m gonna be dark I knew it

We got to the main land around 5pm and heading hotel directly.  I was a bit tired and hungry at the end of the day, we took showered to clean up from the sand and seawater, and heading out to find sth to eat, after walking around the street in front of hotel area, we decided to sit in the thai restaurant just in front of the hotel, we ordered few things, tempura, garlic steamed squids and ’ Koong Op Woon Sen”,  my gF was asking for dessert , so I asked the waiter whether they have ice-cream shop around and lucky he knows something. We walking to that ice-cream shop and had one set of banana split with couple of different flavor scoops of ice-cream, it was pretty nice, and my GF wanted to come back again tomorrow haha ,unfortunately the shop open at 1pm the same time we would leave for the airport.

DAY 3

Today we have no tight schedule at all, just relaxing day ( oh I love it) , we got up and rolling around on bed until 10am, then we start going in shower, checking out and heading in the patong beach to find sth to eat. Another disappointed restaurant pick by me, food sucks but the location was just nice, so it’s ok.

I love the southern sea, and soon enough me and my gF will be visitting there again : )

First Blog, Trip to Phuket (Day 1)

18 Mar 2011 , i took a day off, planned to go relax with my gf in Phuket, where they call it pearl of asia, i was quite excited , the first time to go south, i mean real south, not just like hua hin,

Got up not so late not so early 8am, took shower ,dressed up, moved out to see my GF at huaykwang station, we were pretty good time, maybe too good, we could have breakfast at the don-meung airport and still had like almost two hours before boarding time,

Orient thai ,one-to-go airline, with the name of this airline was really freaking me out before stepping up on board, heard lots of bad news about it, crash, slipped of the run-way. But this time they have totally changed my attitude, everything was just fine, just like the other airline, they probably learned something from the past : ) oh forgot to tell some bad thing as well, this flight was delayed almost an hour, but the delay of it made something good after all ,i will tell detail later , keep reading

We landed at Phuket around 1pm sth, Our guide p'ya came pick us up from the airport, the first time i saw her , she was quite aggressive and i had a feeling for myself that she was quite too aggressive and dont' have the technique to make customers feel comfortable at all, our flight was too delayed so our guide informed that we missed our buffet lunch at some hotel , she would take us for local food instead and it became great things for us after all, we had chance to try some real local food, i ordered "Mee Hokkian" which actually i wasn't much impressed about it, but my GF was making right choice to pick "OW TAO" , probably we weren't so full after all , so we ordered another dish of "Hoy Tod" , hahaha what a fat couple

"Mee Hokkian"

                                                                        "OW TAO"

                                                               "Hoy Tod" (phuket style)


After getting our stomach full of local food, P'Ya took us to the pearl factory and made me spent 4500 for one set of fresh-water pearl jeweling for my mom. hope she likes it. Then we headed to the souvenir store and then stopped by at the rest area somewhere on the hill of phuket so we could take a picture of the phuket city view.

After that , we went to the famous temple in phuket , recommended by our guide, she says this temple is very sacred and for our own good and luck we should go there, i wasn't hesitate a bit to go there, (after i met my GF and she made me quite more religious)

Finally the highlight time of the day came, Leam Prom Thep , one of the most famous place ever in thailand, we got here around sunset time, pretty cool, i was impressed a lot,

For the dinner time P'Ya took us to the buffet restuarant where she claims this place are all made of the real teak, this place looks nice but food totally sucks, i already kept thinking of hotel while having dinner, food wasn't attractive at all.

Haha finally hotel time, for me going for a trip, hotel is one of the most important thing i care about, i was quite a little bit nervous before arriving the hotel , i want my GF to be impressed and comfortable with the hotel and Palmyra didn't let me down, the place was clean and nice, and with the bathtub it more than enough for me :)
our hotel locates somewhere in Patong area (close to the Patong beach around 10 mins walk), P'Ya suggested us to go for night market street at night time , but i was too tired, probably tomorrow we would go out sightseeing the Patong city,