Bamboo Chic

Guests arrive Le Meridien Bangkok's signature restaurant via a crushed glass catwalk to a bar before they are greeted by a sunken restaurant that is dimly-lit but offers clip-on lights to read the menus.

Bamboo Chic offers a blend of fine Japanese & Chinese cuisine with a touch of Thai influences. Not an easy challenge, it appears that Bamboo Chic has mastered the concept of this Asian cuisine.

From a list of 10 appetizers, we chose the Jumbo Harumaki. With prawns, shitake mushrooms, creamy bean paste, shiso (an herb much like parsley, often referred to as Japanese basil) is crisp-fried in brique pastry with tomato chili salsa. There's 5 salads to choose from before moving on to another 5 selections of soup. We chose a soothing choice of Chinese Shark's Fin overtop Japanese Egg Custard.

The raw bar offers an assortment of fresh fish displayed in a show case with about 7 choices each of sashimi and sushi. The three of us, each less adventurous than the other when it comes to most types of Japanese cuisine were astounded after tasting a couple of the contemporary sushi choices on the menu. The first being a Lobster Treasure with rock lobster tempura, mayonnaise, tobiko, wasabiko, salmon roe, avocado, rolled and wrapped with mango and avaocado. It was as delicious as the Foie Gras Splendor with its sauteed duck liver with Japanese truffle sauce, mayo, celery, lettuce, avocado, and cream cheese rolled inside out.

The menu offers 23 main dishes of which 9 are from the sea. Our first selection was the Steamed Marinated Snow Fish that comes with a refined bean reduction and Japanese lime (Yuzu) sauce. Our next choice was the Wafu Steak and Foie Gras. The meat was as delicious as you'd expect with soft foie gras & an avocado tempura accompanied by a mushroom Japanese truffle sauce. The taste of this dish was absolutely luscious and we enjoyed each and every morsel. Our final choice of mains was the Whole Braised Canadian Lobster. It comes with a sweet soybean paste, gorgonzola cheese and balsamico sauce and if you are a lover of lobster, you should not pass up this dish.

There are 2 set meals, one with an Asian twist and another set offering Thai cuisine. The bar offers a full range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages with a creative cocktail list with martini selections of Asian fusions along with a range of sakes, sojus and shojus with a wine list that includes more than 65 reds with some choices available by the glass

If you have room for dessert, try the hot sesame soup with red date and ginger ice cream.reviewed by JD

Unfortunately this restaurant is Not presently a member of our VIP Club.

• Whole Braised Candadian Maine Lobster (with sweet soybeen paste, gorgonzola cheese & balsamico sauce).
• Braised Beef Tenderloin in a Hakka Sauce infused with formented tofu
• Wafu Steak & Foie Gras (with avocado tempura, sauteed mushrooms & Japanese truffle sauce).
• Pan-fried Lamb Chops
• Seared Tuna Tataki

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