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Baan Restaurant Bangkok: Flavors of Home Cooking
WRITTEN BY: MARK WIENS 5 COMMENTS MONDAY, JULY 6TH, 2015
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Baan Thai Family Recipes – Restaurant in Bangkok
A few nights ago Dwight invited my wife and I to join him for dinner at a newly opened restaurant in Bangkok called Baan Thai Family Recipes.
Baan is a restaurant in Bangkok owned by chef Thitid “Ton” Tassanakajohn, the owner of the heavily praised Le Du.
While Le Du is pretty high end, and serves a fusion of different dishes, Baan is the chef’s take on Thai home cooking – family dishes.
So Dwight and I showed up ready to eat…
Baan Thai Family Recipes - Bangkok restaurant
Baan Thai Family Recipes
While some of the fancier Thai restaurants attempt to make their dishes fancy looking, but lack the taste, one of the things I liked about Baan immediately is that the dishes weren’t over-decorated, or garnished, but pretty normal looking, just using high quality ingredients, and great ratios of spice and flavor.
Baan restaurant Bangkok
Explanation of the ingredients they use on the front of the menu
The Menu
The menu at Baan Restaurant is a clipboard with about 6 pages of classic Thai dishes to choose from, including a range of regional dishes, and some restaurant unique creations as well.
At the front of the menu there’s an explanation of where the restaurant sources their meats, produce, and other ingredients, and their overall philosophy of slow food, natural and sustainable – and I especially liked that many of the ingredients are local from Thailand.
A lot of higher end Thai restaurants source ingredients from overseas, but they seem to keep it quite local at Baan.
Baan Thai Family Recipes restaurant
The restaurant is small and cozy
Unfortunately the lighting in the restaurant was a bit of a challenge, so using my wife’s phone flashlight, Dwight and I managed to get some photos – not the best, but I think you’ll get a good picture of the food.
Moo satay (หมูสะเต๊ะ)
Moo satay (หมูสะเต๊ะ)
Moo satay (หมูสะเต๊ะ)
We started off with an order of moo satay.
The skewers of meat were good size, and they included a mixture of meat and fat on the stick, both of which melted together to make the meat juicy.
It kind of reminded me of eating yakitori in Tokyo.
Ok, anyway, the spice on the meat was mild, but fragrant with a dust of curry powder and marinade of coconut milk.
The peanut dipping sauce was creamy, not too sweet, and the pickled shallots and cucumbers were sliced beautifully thin and extremely fresh.
Price – 250 THB
deep fried pork
Deep fried pork
Moo tod
Also to get our tastebuds going, we had a plate of moo tod, fried strips of pork. I failed to write down what exactly this dish was called on the menu, but it basically fried pork with a bit seasoning.
I think the pork was dusted in some kind of starch, maybe cornstarch, seasoned lightly, and then deep fried. The pork was definitely tasty, a little fatty and greasy, but it tasted good.