Seafood Supermarket

Motto: "if it swims we have it"

Sukhumvit Soi 24



I've been to this restaurant twice in the last week. That doesn't quite beat my 2 KFC meals in one day record but does certainly prove that I LIKE this place. I first saw this restaurant on cable TV when Anthony Bourdain did his Cook's Tour in Thailand. Here was this massive 1000-seater restaurant painted to resemble some bizarre happy sea-world, with surreal floating sharks and fish suspended overhead, port holes and fluorescent lighting. (Why not go the whole hog and dress the waitresses as mermaids and the waiters as seals, eh?)



The concept is simple: you pick the seafood and you tell them how you want it cooked. But everything is done on a grand scale. You whizz around with a supermarket trolley, pick your fish (still flapping), crab (still clawing) or shellfish, pop them into a plastic bag, grab any other sundry items like vegetables and check out.

Needless to say, I've fallen in love with another tourist / concept restaurant. I don't care! It's not for the squeamish but the food is magnificent. Curry crab is cooked with egg and that light yellow curry which you just want to scoop up and suck all evening. (The crab is also pretty cheap compared to the other seafood). Sea bass with ginger and spring onion was cooked to fresh perfection. Vegetables were crisp. Prawns with black bean very nice. The only down fall is that the rock lobster didn't have much meat!

Yum.