Chinese Food in Pattaya

[Gaybutton]

Some friends and I have been looking for a good Chinese restaurant in Pattaya. We are well aware of the Rice Bowl in the Marriott and the Chinese restaurant in the Montien Hotel, but we're looking for something a little more "mom-and-pop," at more "mom-and-pop" prices.

 

So far we haven't had any luck finding anything. A couple nights ago we even ate dinner with a Chinese gentleman from Hong Kong who comes to Pattaya for months at a time. Even he can't find anything in Pattaya.

 

Have any of you found a halfway decent Chinese restaurant?

[Guest ReneThai]

Maybe NamSing Second Road near Royal Garden . I havent been there but I think its worth to try it :

 

http://www.pattaya-at-night.com/display.ht...msing/index.htm

 

Rene

[Gaybutton]

Maybe NamSing Second Road near Royal Garden

 

Thank you very much, but that's not what we're looking for. I've been there a couple times. It's primarily seafood and, in my opinion, quite overpriced for what you get.

[Guest TOQ]

I keep hearing about Chow Soy on Soi Buakao but have never been there.. Here is a link from Door 2 Door.. I have been meaning to go there but never seem to get around to it.

 

 

http://www.door2doorpattaya.com/chowsoy.php

 

 

john

[Gaybutton]

I keep hearing about Chow Soy on Soi Buakao

 

Thank you very much. That's beginning to look a bit more like it. I wonder if their in-house menu is more extensive.

[Guest TOQ]

Sorry, dont have a clue..

 

 

john

[2lz2p]

GB,

 

It has been my experience that the Door to Door menus are a portion of what the restaurant offers (same with the new WOW service). I used to be a big fan of Chinese food in USA, but with the advent of Vietnamese and Thai, I quit going to them (except for a few that had large all you can eat buffets with snow crab legs, etc.).

 

Nothing wrong with Chinese food -- just preferred the cuisine of Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, and Korea over Chinese.

 

[Gaybutton]

Nothing wrong with Chinese food -- just preferred the cuisine of Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, and Korea over Chinese.

 

From among all of them, Chinese is still my preference. It strikes me as a little bit strange that Thailand, being so close to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, has so few Chinese restaurants, with the exception of Bangkok's Chinatown. Pattaya has plenty of French, Italian, Korean, and Indian restaurants, to mention just a few foreign style restaurants. There's even a Uzbekistan restaurant on Soi VC, just off of Sunee Plaza, for crying out loud.

 

Meanwhile, I think there may have been more Chinese restaurants within a couple miles of where I used to live in Florida than there are in all of Thailand . . . including Bangkok's Chinatown.

[Guest joseph44]

On second Road opposite Soi 7, next to Hotel-restaurant Klein Vlaanderen, there is a Chinese Restaurant.

I only know it from passing by, so no idea about quality and/or pricing, but it looks nice and certainly clean.

 

 

[Gaybutton]

On second Road opposite Soi 7, next to Hotel-restaurant Klein Vlaanderen, there is a Chinese Restaurant.

 

Thank you. I'll definitely have a look.

[PattayaMale]

I tried the Chinese food delivered by door2door. I too was hoping to find a "traditional" American style Chinese Restaurant. Like GB it is one type of food I really miss.

 

I had the sweet and sour ball pork, special fried rice, and chicken noodle soup.....no fortune cookies were delivered with the meal .

 

The sweet and sour sauce was not to my liking. It tasted like tomato sauce instead of the red sauce I like. The special fried rice had a good taste but both of us that were eating it felt it was way too wet instead of dried and fried.

 

The chicken noodle soup was pretty good.

 

I am glad I tried but will continue to search for one more like "home"

[Guest gwm4sian]

I think you will continue to be disappointed if you are searching for "traditional Chinese food as served in America"

My experience of both the UK and the USA is that the chinese food served in those countries is far removed from food served in China - and I speak as someone who lived for quite a few years in China and travelled extensively.

If I remember right, China is home to some 50 different ethnic groups, with many distinct cooking styles - just compare Cantonese with Sichuan or Chui Chow styles.

I think the American and British styles are closest to Cantonese.

[Guest joseph44]

It's a bit like eating Thai food in Europe.

The main ingredients may be the same, but composition and taste are way different, as well as the size of the portions.

I regularly eat Chinese food here, but it doesn't come close to what I was used to in Europe however it's very tasteful.

 

 

 

 

 

[Gaybutton]

Last night TOQ and I tried Chow Soy. I'll suffice it to say that neither of us will eat there again any time soon. Not that it was bad, but it just isn't what either of us are looking for.

 

In other words, we're still looking for the right restaurant, if one even exists in Pattaya.

 

[Guest ReneThai]

LENGKEE RESTAURANT , Thai/Chinese Pattaya Klang , near Soi Buakhaow , very popular and the best Chinese food in Pattaya , populair with locals and expats/tourists. Ask for the Chinese menu , the duck is mouthwatering.

 

This is my final bid :D

 

Rene

[Guest Bi4Thai]

Dining Out: Footpath Dining in Style

by Miss Terry Diner

With so many top class restaurants to choose from, why would the Dining Out Team end up sitting at a side road eating dinner? The easy answer would be to say that it was to cover every aspect of Pattaya eateries, for you, our readers. The more correct answer is that we fell over this place one evening and since then it has become one of our favourite ethnic eating places and the Team felt we should share it with you.

Plenty of waiters at Leng Kee.

Leng Kee Restaurant has been a fixture on Pattaya Klang for many years. Clearly signed, it is about 200 metres before the Pattaya Klang-Pattaya Second Road intersection. On a street corner, it expands every evening with tables and chairs spilling out into street beside it.

This could not be considered a pretentious venue. The tables have worn laminex tops, the chairs are too low for the tables and the floor is concrete (inside) or bitumen (outside). It is bustling and noisy, with the waiters jostling each other for positions at the tables. In many ways it is a typical "Chinese" style restaurant. So why are we sharing it with you? Quite simply, it has some of the nicest food around and the bill at the end is ludicrously cheap. Value for money, it is hard to beat this place.

The menu is large and ten pages and is also in English, again typically ethnic, with several variations on the same theme, be it beef, chicken, pork. There is a page for prawns, mussels, cockles, oysters and the like. This is a "cost by the weight" page. From there you go on to crab, fish, a designated "Chinese" page, fried items, soups, stir fries, even fast food and fruit. The ways the food can be cooked is extremely varied. You can have, for example, your whatever with corn, pineapple, spring onion, oyster sauce, basil, garlic, kale or in an omelette. The variations on a theme seem to be endless. If you get totally stuck with the menu items, there is also a picture menu to assist, so you can get an idea of what it actually looks like!

The waiters, and there appears to be lots of them, are all enthusiastic and a couple have reasonable "Thinglish". However, sometimes it is necessary to point a lot.

The cost of the individual plates generally range from 60 - 80 Baht, with some of the soups going up to 100 Baht, but these will easily feed two people.

Beverages are simple - most local beers (although no Singha Gold, more’s the pity) and a choice of the more usual whiskeys.

On the night we decided to "do" the Dining Out we also splurged. Madame began with fresh oysters and fried vegetable which turned out to be fried garlic and some sprigs of an unknown green thing! I replied with a Kai Yat Sai (Thai omelette) and followed it up with a pork with garlic and pepper. Nothing daunted, Madame topped off the table with a pork belly with bean sprouts and bean curd.

We washed this lot down with a large bottle of Carlsberg and a couple of orange juices (to which we added some of our own whiskey).

As ever, the food was well prepared and cooked. Flavoursome and succulent veggies and the omelette is one of the best in Pattaya.

That little lot, which was more than enough for both of us, cost less than B400, including the drinks.

If you want an inexpensive fun night in an ethnic eatery with good food Leng Kee is highly recommended by the Dining Out Team. See you there. (Pattaya Mail)

[Gaybutton]

LENGKEE RESTAURANT . . . Ask for the Chinese menu

 

It's been about four years since I last ate at the Leng Kee. I didn't know they had a Chinese menu. When I ate there I was with Thai people and I let them do all the ordering. Of course, everything they ordered was Thai food. Ok, great! Now that I know they have a Chinese menu I'll give it another try.