Market Friday: having lunch at Amarin Plaza, อาหารกลางวันที่อัมรินทร์พลาซ่า

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ช### This is my entry for #marketfriday hosted by the poetical and artistic @dswigle. Today I drop by to see my old friend who has a Thai sweets stall at Amarin Plaza. So, I might just as well have my vegetarian lunch in the food court on the fourth floor.

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This is typical north eastern (or Isaan) dish called ‘som-tum’ or papaya salad. The cook has to pound raw sliced papaya with garlic, dried shrimps, fresh chili and sliced lemon,roasted peanuts and various ingredients together in a big wooden bowl.

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This noodle stall got Michelin Star in 2018.
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There are photos of the dishes and prices in front of each stall. Vendors proudly display the names and areas or provinces of their origins. In the past, we had to travel to distant locations to taste these famous street food. Now they are together in this food court.

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Tourists regularly come here to enjoy delicious lunches at cheap prices. A noodle soup starts at 40 bahts or about $1.30 less than half the price of those in restaurants!
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The food court at Amarin Plaza has almost three hundred street food stalls, snacks, sweets and drinks kiosks. It is best to avoid the lunch hour as hundreds of office workers from nearby skyscrapers will be descended into this food court. There are always long queues and the noise level becomes impossible to have quiet conversation.

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The choices of street foods here are incredible with very high quality food at reasonable prices. The management does a good job of screening many well known street food vendors from various parts of Bangkok and nearby provinces to open small branches here.

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My friend is having this special duck noodle which she says it’s the most delicious duck noodle. I notice that the vendor actually makes their fresh egg noodles themselves.
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There are local dishes from each region of Thailand; northern food to southern dishes and famous Chinese vendors from the old area of Bangkok near China town. These vendors cook their food fresh at their allotted stalls. I like to see my food being cooked in front of me so I can be sure that it is clean and nicely cooked.

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Seats with a view of the other shopping malls nearby: Gasorn and World Trade Center.

วันนี้เราแวะไปเยี่ยมเพื่อนเก่าที่อัมรินทร์พลาซ่า เราก็เลยแวะกินอาหารกลางวันที่นั่น ที่ชั้นสี่มีสวนอาหารที่ดีมาก แต่อย่าได้ไป
เวลาเที่ยงเด็ดขาด เพราะจะเจอกองทัพพนักงานที่ทำงานอยู่ตามตึกระฟ้าในระแวกนั้น ลงมากินข้าวกลางวันหลายร้อยคน ทำให้มีคิวยาวมาก และเสียงในห้องอาหารก็ดังอย่างกับตลาดนัด เราจึงชอบไปตอนบ่ายโมง เพื่อให้คนกลับไปทำงานกันก่อน สถานที่จึงมีความสงบเหมาะสำหรับนั่งกินข้าวกับเพื่อนๆ

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เราชอบกินอาหารตามร้านแบบนี้มาก เพราะเราสามารถรู้ว่าอาหารที่ทำสะอาดและปรุงให้เราเห็นสดๆ เราก็ได้อาหารที่ร้อนและราคาถูกกว่าไปกินตามร้านอาหารหรูๆ มีร้านขายก๋วยเตี๋ยวเย็นตาโฟร้านหนึ่งที่ได้รับดาวจากมิชิลิน และมีร้านก๋วยเตี๋ยวเป็ดที่อร่อยมาก เพราะเขาทำเส้นหมี่สดทุกวัน เราชอบกินพวกเส้นมาก แต่ก็อดใจไปกินอาหารมังสวิรัติเหมือนเดิม แล้วไปต่อของหวาน เช่น นํ้าแข็งใส ไอศกรีมและชากาแฟ.

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Quite a selection of Thai sweets!
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For a map to Amarin Plaza see: http://www.bangkok.com/magazine/amarin-plaza-food-court.htm

Wishing you a very nice weekend!

Cheers.

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Wow so much good looking food. This is a really great selection of photos! I can imagine it could get hard to decide what to eat with SO MANY choices! 😆
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Hey! Thanks a lot! I also don’t know which way to go! So confusing! LoL

JoI totally agree with you and I love my food cooked in front of me although not too many American restaurants will do that. Occasion, you will find one but they are usually foreign sources or the restaurant is not American. They have pretty strict Health codes, but I would rather have it cooked in front of me also.

I cannot even imagine what 300 boots look like for 300 stalls of food in one place. I can only imagine the people descending upon them at lunch time. It looks like a pretty decent place and I'm sure they'd a wonderful time and if I ever get to Bangkok I can assure you that food is going to be the one that that I indulge in because no matter where you look yeah, there seems to be something on a stick! Thank you so much for bringing your Market Friday to us and I want you to know that I appreciate the time and effort spent and putting a post together.

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😊 looks so yummy and such a nice place

Thanks for your visit! Hope you’ll be able to visit one day!

Food looks fabulous :-)

I think my cats would like it here too! So much food! They will be puzzled and don’t know where to start!

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Ahhhhh....just love them food courts they just have the best of everything i love the Tum Thai especially with lots of roasted peanuts :)

Oh! You are more of an Isaan person than I am! That’s always too hot for me!

Haha..this is true i love my village :)

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Oh! You must come to Bangkok to try out this food court! So many food stalls, more than 200, for you to choose!

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