My Favorite Restaurants

Summary

Although the emphasis is on Cajun food, that spicy delight from Louisiana USA, everyone can find something to their taste at Bourbon St. My preferences run to the Cajun food, though, and that is what I'll talk about the most. I once recommended Bourbon St. to a group of Thai businessmen and was pleased but not surprised at how they marveled over the spicy Cajun food.

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However much I love the ribs, man cannot live by ribs alone. At Bourbon St., there are many other good things to be had. My second favorite is a whole class: blackened items such as Blackened Red Fish, Blackened Salmon, Blackened Rib eye Steak, Blackened Shrimp, Blackened Chicken and so on. This dishes are popular with my farang and Thai friends alike. Dusted with spices and seared in a hot cast-iron skillet, the taste and texture are a delight. A cold beer sure goes great with this dish.

And the Gumbo! You won't find finer gumbo outside of New Orleans, Try the chicken and andouille or the crab meat and shrimp, but try the gumbo. Speaking of sausage, Bourbon St. has a number of Louisiana sausages available for dining and for take home: Andouille, Chaurice, jalapeno Chaurice, Boudin, spicy breakfast, Italian, and Italian cheese are the currently-available choices. All are good, all are used in the restaurant's recipe's, and you can take some frozen sausage home with you when you visit Bangkok from up country or wherever.

For appetizers, try the Booming Onion or the Popcorn Shrimp. Correction: try anything on the appetizer page. I've never had anything I didn't like; I just prefer some things to others. Special note for Norte Americanos: Bourbon Street serves Mexican Food. There are only a few places in the Kingdom where you can find decent Mexican Food, and Bourbon Street is one of them. The Tuesday Night Mexican Buffet was excellent, although I needed to add some Tabasco Sauce to raise the chili to the requisite level of vulcanism. Every day all day they also serve a very good breakfast. I'm going to stop now. I'm sitting in Chiangmai wishing I were in Bangkok at Bourbon Street right now. But after reading this far, that should come as no surprise to anyone.

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