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I just realised that I have not done a blog on most bloggers favourite subject - "my blog: my life is so boring I am going to blog on what I ate today"
Yes I am being rude, but really as a blogger who cares what you had for breakfast.... what? OK then, your mum cares but we don't....
...so I am going to blog (very little) about what I ate, do a mini review of the excellent and long standing German restaurant Bei Otto (Bangkok Branch) and then do my typical rant that some find interesting/entertaining/annoying...
But having said that I feel left out of the blogging crowd, and believe me it isn't only beginning bloggers who do this. I have seen some bloggers who pull in 6 figure incomes annually write this tripe too.
So here is my addition:
Bei Otto Restaurant Sausage Platter
But rather than talk about how nice it tasted I will make it a mini review of Bei Otto, my favourite meat restaurant in Bangkok.
Bei Otto has been a landmark in the Bangkok culinary scene for 24 years now, in fact some unofficial rumours are due here.
A close friend who has been working in the region for about 16 years talks of how Bei Otto was THE place for wealthy Thais to come and eat western food in it's early days, so on any random night you could find yourself dining next to Generals, Politicians and even members of the Royal Family. Try that at home.
I heard that Bei Otto was in fact one of the first fully western restaurants in Bangkok. As such it was hard to come by the correct ingredients. The owner of Bei Otto is rumoured to have bought a farm in Chang Mai and makes all his own produce at the farm, leading of course today to eating better German food in Bangkok than you get in Germany itself. The sausages, cheese, meat and authentic breads are all made at the farm using traditional recipes.
I remember in Australia when I was a kid sausages were a favourite of mine, ground meat with some fat filled into a sausage tube (intestine?) and then grilled and served with potato and vegies... yum. Gets the stomach juices flowing just thinking about it. (Much tastier than the tuna omlette I just ate)
Last year I bought some sausages in Australia, they were pale things, filled with a pink paste with the consistency of toothpaste. Eating them was a different experience, they tasted ok but they were not sausages, well not real ones anyway. I checked the ingredients rice flour, corn stuff, something about meat, lots of chemicals.
Compare this with Bei Otto. Natural ingredients, no cost cutting measures, no sugar, soy pulp or
modified corn starch, no ingredient 145 or colouring 167 or emulsifier
or other big agriculture products like have been added like 95% of the
manufactured foods available in the west. Your sausage tastes like what
it should be - meat, and quiet tasty meat at that.
Now the above platter at Bei Otto costs about us$30 which is expensive when you compare it to the price of Thai food ($1-$2 for a small meal) but when you need a meat fix it is great value, in fact knock back a couple of litres of real German beer and the platter will easily fill 2 people, or better yet bring your Thai girlfriend and get to eat 95% of it :)
The best part about the Bei Otto restraurant is that the service is impeccable, contrary to the hit and miss style of most places in SE Asia.This is in itself a wonder to behold after fighting your way around Bangkok for a day and you begin to wonder how other places cannot get at least the basics of customer service sorted out.
Back to the Bei Otto rumours. Apparently in the old days there was an old German gentleman who used to drink there when after a few too many would get up and start singing German marching songs and throwing around a few stiff armed salutes - gone are those days. Like many places in SE Asia the characters who made up the interesting tapestry of ex-pats these days is somewhat more sedate.... until you get off the beaten track a bit... but more on that later.
Ok I feel better now, I don't feel left out anymore, I have my food article, now I really feel like a qualified, one of the pack, nothing to write about, blogger.
Maybe one day I'll eat one of those sugar coated, sugar filled manufactured food stuffs that the Americans call "Breakfast" and write about the sugar high and accompanying insulin rush follow by blood sugar crash then the 5 cups of coffee to try to normalise my system and then the sugar drink fix with the saturated trans fat manufactured potato/soy/corn snack for brunch....
Oh wait I am sure you know someone who does this already, ask them how they feel, how their life is, how much energy they wake up with in the morning, and how overweight are they?
Yes, yes I am now moralising - eat good natural foods like at Bei Otto and you will feel good and perform well and interestingly you will most likely lose fat.
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