[2025 Bangkok Restaurant] Travel Guide for Zong Ter (Updated Mar)

### Food Adventure at Som Tak in Bangkok’s Chinatown Bangkok’s Chinatown is famous for its rich cultural atmosphere and rich food options, among which Som Tak is a restaurant not to be missed. Not only does it offer traditional Chinese cuisine, but it also incorporates local Thai flavors, making every dish full of surprises. As soon as you enter Songde, you will be attracted by its simple decoration full of Chinese elements. Red lanterns and classical wooden furniture create a warm dining environment. The restaurant's service staff is warm and attentive, making every guest feel at home. At Song De, their fried food is excellent, especially the pandan sauce, which is definitely not available in other places, especially the spring rolls, which are wrapped with fresh vegetables and meat, crispy and delicious, and paired with sweet and spicy sauce, it is even more unforgettable #### Drinks recommended While enjoying the food, don't forget to taste Song De's homemade **Thai milk tea** or **plum juice**. The perfect combination of the rich aroma of Thai milk tea and the fragrance of milk makes people feel happy after drinking it in one sip; while the sour plum juice is refreshing and thirst-quenching, especially suitable for enjoying in hot weather. "Songde" is not only a restaurant, but also a cultural fusion point. Every dish here tells the story of Bangkok's Chinatown. Whether locals or tourists, they can find a taste of home here. Next time you come to Bangkok, you might as well come to Song De to check it out and enjoy this food feast. #November2024

#CafeReview As time goes by, businesses have to adapt to the times. This is the case with “Song Tek” – a 50-year-old wholesale shop in Leng Buai Ya Market, which the grandchildren have transformed into a contemporary Chinese-style cafe. The shop’s name has been changed from Teochew to Mandarin, “Song Te”, which means “the pine tree of virtue”, just like the original name. The interior design of the shop is beautifully decorated with paintings of young women, bright red Chinese lanterns, alternating neon lights, and dark stairs and corridors that are reminiscent of scenes from Wong Kar-wai’s movies. Social media users are happily taking pictures. The food here is not restaurant-style, but rather homemade Chinese food made for family consumption from grandma’s secret recipes. The meticulous attention to detail and use of quality ingredients has resulted in a taste that attracts both the older and younger generations to visit continuously. This time, we’ve selected the shop’s signature menus to try: 🥢 [Dim Sum Snacks] ➡️ Fried Chives The chives dough is light, soft, and chewy. Fried until the skin is crispy and fluffy, packed with the aroma of Chinese chives, sweet soy sauce with a rich flavor, dip and eat continuously, before you know it, it's all gone in no time. ➡️ Songte Fried Spring Rolls A signature menu that the name of the shop guarantees. It looks like a regular fried spring roll, but the filling is soft taro, mashed together with pork and mushrooms. Eat it hot with plum sauce, it's as good as the shop calls it the family's signature menu. ➡️ Shrimp Chest Crispy fried spring roll wraps shrimp inside. The texture of the filling is similar to shrimp balls or shrimp cakes. Dip it in plum sauce like the previous menu. ➡️ Hokkien Pork Dumplings Hokkien style pork dumplings have a special feature in the well-rounded sauce with a fragrant sesame oil flavor, sprinkled with crispy fried garlic to add more deliciousness. It's really fun to eat. 🍛 [Main Dish] ➡️ Soft Chicken Rice with Fragrant Fish Sauce Served as a large set, start with iced tea to cool down before having a heavy meal topped with mushrooms and large pieces of soft and tender chicken. Served with a delicious sauce with a fragrant fish sauce and chili sauce to enhance the flavor. Served with soft-boiled eggs and “Khun Lek’s Mushroom Mustard Greens”, a special recipe of the shop that you will love so much that you have to buy a whole jar to take home. Finish with hot oolong tea and it’s perfect. 🫓 [Xiao Bao] ➡️ Xiao Bao with Shredded Pork Soft Xiao Bao, cut in half, smeared with butter and baked until the skin is crispy and fragrant, topped with sweet and sour salad cream and sprinkled with crispy shredded pork. This is another version of shredded pork bread with salad dressing that is quite interesting. 🍧 [Dessert] ➡️ Refreshing Oh Aew This shop’s Oh Aew is authentic Oh Aew, made from Oh Aew seeds (or Aiyu seeds) ordered from Phuket, soaked in water to extract the mucus until it becomes a slippery jelly. Eat with oolong tea jelly and sweet and chewy brown sugar jelly, topped with real honey and freshly squeezed lemon juice. It's a refreshing dessert that's just like the name of the menu. I really like it. 🥤 [Drinks] ➡️ Jasmine Tea Hot jasmine tea served in a beautiful Chinese ceramic teapot. The jasmine scent is very fragrant and refreshing. It goes well with dim sum or Xiao Bao. ➡️ Traditional Plum Juice Cold plum juice with a nice sweet and sour taste. I heard that the shop uses whole pickled plums. The plum scent is very strong. It's really refreshing when you sip it. 🚅 Public Transport: MRT Wat Mangkon (วัดมังกร) 🚗 Parking: China Tower Building (เหล็กอาคาร) / Pichaiyat Building (Phichaiyat Building - Cathay Fish Maw Shop)

The shop is at the beginning of Soi Charoen Krung 16. Don't walk like us. I didn't think it would be that easy to get there. 🤣 We arrived at the shop at almost 4 pm. When we got a seat, the staff brought the menu for us to choose and pay right away. We ordered and ordered and ordered until my boyfriend had to take a break. 🤭 After ordering, I asked the staff to walk around the shop and take some pictures while waiting for the food. I should have taken a lot of pictures. 🤭 Because there were a lot of people coming into the shop all the time and the shop is quite small, it was a bit difficult to find a quiet corner to take pictures. But we were able to do it. We took pictures all the way to the bathroom. 555 We didn't have to wait long for the food to arrive on the table. 🤩 It looked so good! It was exactly as advertised. Plus, the price was cute. And the taste of the food was so good, everyone. Everything was delicious. I didn't expect to be this happy with the food. I just intended to take pictures. But this was wow, so surprised. No wonder there were always customers coming into the shop. 🤤 I would like to recommend something that was especially delicious. But I can't remember the names of what I ordered. But overall, everything was delicious. My boyfriend and I really like it. We definitely have to find a chance to come back again. 😋🥳 Note: The shop is quite small. If you come in a large group, it might be a bit crowded. When you talk, we can hear you. 555 Songteo shop location 🧧 📍Soi Charoen Krung 16 🚅 MRT Wat Mangkon Exit 3 📞 02-222-4490 ✅ Open daily from 09:00 - 18:30 (last order 18:00) 🚙 Parking is available at China Tower or Phichaiyati Building, Mangkon Road (parking fee applies), only 3-5 minutes away from the shop. #LAZYBABETRIP #TravelingAccordingToTheStatus #SecretLocation #cafe #CafeReview #RecommendDeliciousRestaurant #CafeLife #GoToChicCafe #MustVisitCafe #BangkokCafe #RecommendDeliciousRestaurant #DeliciousFood #DeliciousTellOthers #DimSum #DeliciousFood