San and Siew Yoong were in town 3 May 2015. Decided to treat them to a top end Thai restaurant. Osha is considered one of the top high end Thai restaurants that just recently opened in Bangkok. No longer confined to street food or standard green curry or pad thai, Thai cuisine is now given this 5 star treatment – fresh and expensive ingredient, modern presentation and new infusion of western style. This means that the prices are definitely much higher than your ordinary street food, hawkers and even the likes of Kalpapreuk. Located not far from the American embassy, it is in a quiet neighbourhood in the evening. Very posh and elegant interior fittings, very much sembling a top tier restaurant. we were seated in one of those divan seating – which is not my favourite seating arrangements – I like just basic round table. Food were very well presented and top end ingredients. The tom yum goong was done at the table – using the double bulb coffee suction paraphernalia – the lower bulb has the soup and was heated by blow torch so that it then rises to the upper bulb which had the lemongrass etc, and then filter back down to bottom to pour out into bowl for consumption. It took the attendant quite some time to heat up the bulb and the amount of time the soup spent with the lemongrass etc was quite brief, so wondered whats the point?
Overall a great evening with good friends in an elegant surrounding, but well, the food was not mind-blowing enough for me to say, wow.
chingsmiley 