Seafood Market and Restaurant, Bangkok

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Excellent ambience and great food with excellent service. Though the price is a bit on the higher end, it is a worthwhile experience in this large well maintained restaurant which is said to be the largest seafood restaurant in the world. You can Pick your own live seafood and decide upon the way it should be cooked. The host lady accompanying you, will readily guide you. Also interesting to watch an army of cooks preparing the different recipies in great style.

Favorite Dish: The grilled king lobster and chilli crabs.

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It an unique place where you can buy the seafood from the "market" and pay for it first and the customer service personnels will trolley it to your table and you can asked for it to be cooked in many different ways and that's a separate charge.

On display, however, aren't a great variety of different types of seafood. Some of the more popular ones are displayed for sale in the "market". Didn't tried to order seafood dishes that weren't in the menu or displayed in the market though.

Getting there was not a problem (if by taxi or tuk-tuk) as the restaurant has a signboard hanging across the Sukhumvit Soi 24 road. Only thing, make sure the driver takes you to the restaurant instead of bringing you to another location and passing it off as it.

I was was curious about this place when I saw the sign and I eventually went and checked it out. A unique experience, that's for sure.

Basically you walk in and you are led to a table. From there, you place your drinks order and then you are assigned a 'personal shopper', with whom you wander around and select your dinner from all the fish in the deli at the back of the restaurant. I got a bit carried away here but the choice was amazing. I think I ended up getting about twenty oysters, not to mention prawns and lobster. Anyway, once you have picked out your seafood, you pay for it at the cash register and then it's back to the table, where the chef marches out and asks you how you would like each dish prepared.

Favorite Dish: The food was great and if I could recommend anything, it would have to be the tiger prawns in chilli sauce. This restaurant is a bit expensive for Bangkok (if you have a big appetite) but it's the kind of thing you should do once.

Probably one of the most popular places to visit is the Grand Palace and the Emerald Buddah, located at the same site. However there are many many places that tourists visit while in Bangkok. Temple of the Dawn, Reclining Buddah, Jim Thompson Silk, China Town, Golden Mount, just to name a few. You can find all of these on the web, to include the floating markets. When you ask about the floating market I assume you are asking about Damnoen Saduak. I think that most tourists would be split on this. I always suggest going to this place the night before, get up early and hit the floating market at about 6am to beat the tourist rush. Once the other tourist get there it's no fun. You can also take advantage of the floating markets around Bangkok, just as fun and a lot less tourists. You'll have to hire a long tail boat on the river, access points all along the river, but if you need a reference point you can go to the Oriental Hotel or Royal Orchid and catch on there. Again, go early. The food is the only reason I ever go anymore, breakfast noodle soups, fruit, little snacks, etc...

Restuarants in Bankok, you don't say what cuisine. You can virtually get any type of cuisine, european, american, thai japanese, chinese, great seafood, etc.. the price ranges vary as much as the many restaurants. Once you get there you will not have any problem finding a decent place to eat. There are maps at hotels and/or ask the hotel staff. Just a piece of advise though, as is the case of many big cities, expensive doesn't always mean better food! There are some great cheap places all over Bangkok, to include some of the street food. We've had some of the best noodles and noodle soups right on the streets. Don't know about the bed club, seen it but not interested in visiting myself.
Hope that helped

Really fresh sea food! you can choose your own fish on a huge variety ( prawns , lobster, snapper , oysters ecc ecc ) and the way to cook it express for you.
there is also a good sushi maker with very nice tempura and shushi and sashimi!
you pay for the fish and for the cooking separately depending how you want it to be cooked.

Favorite Dish: rock lobster in oyster sauce
fried prawns
crab in chinese sauce

I can suggest a couple other options for dinner. Check out www.fishermanseafoodmarket.com located near the river so it's not far away from the sunset cruise. Not a bad place, good food and good prices, I think within your budget. Also I may suggest that you check out China Town located again, close to the river, only a few blocks away on Yaowarat rd. Lots of Chinese restaurants with a wide variety of food choices and they would definitly be within your budget range and have great food. You may have to scout a bit during the conference and set it up but it would be easy and most establishments would be more than willing to accomodate you and almost any number of people. I would suggest going there at night to scout. Then you can see which restaurants and frequented by the locals and busiest. I doubt there are any web sites to contact ahead of time. Also, depending on where you are staying, they may be able to help you with suggestions in China Town or any other place.
Good luck!

Maybe not unique, but close to it. Like a supermarket for fish eating. You choose your food from what's on display at the counters, tell them how you want it cooked, and then go away and wait.

Its always good, and always fresh, and you always order too much!

Highly recommended.

Favorite Dish: Anything and everything - I love my seafood!

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As this reataurant being highlighted every time when we in bangkok .we decided to give a shot.from seafood until vegetables .like supermarket ...pay first at the counter then tell them how you want it to be cook.the Best part is you pay first what to eat then you pay again how it to be cook ...hahahahahahah a good business man ....!!!we end up paying 4000 bath for 2 fish ,some crab and some prawn!!!!!!a good experience to be slaughter by the local........

Favorite Dish: every thing good here ,we even eat all the garnish ..hahahahahahahaah

Soi 24 seafood is really impressive, with a huge selection of seafood. All seafood is alive and you carry a cart to shop for the seafood you like. The seafood range in the resturant is really a lot. Then you can choose the cooking style. The resturant is very popular with tourists. One thing is that the restaurant is quite expensive. A big prawn cost about 600baht and a big crab cost 1200baht. The cooking fee came up to 800 baht. Overall, we spent about 4000baht in the restaurant. Expensive, but to tell you the truth, it is the best meal I ever eaten. Qin Qin and I have very good memory about this place.

Favorite Dish: The fish. It is very nice. Very fresh.

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The slogan of Seafood Market is "If it swims we have it" and certainly the array of fresh fish, shellfish, lobsters, crabs and other seafood seems to bear this out.

It is more like a large food court that a restaurant, seating I would imagine into the hundreds. your A waiter helps you choose what you want - not just seafood but vegetables and other accompaniments - from what looks like a huge fresh fish/deli counter at a supermarket. Fun in itself as you try and decide whether you want another huge shrimp or that extra bit of cuttlefish. If you are unsure the waiter is there to advise and, later, advice will also come on how best to have the food cooked and served such as in a in a Thai Curry Sauce, a soup, deep fried, boiled etc..

The standard of cooking is excellent and the service speedy. Seeing your piece of fish return having been tuned into a delicious chilli based curry is like the food equivalent of "Stars in Their Eyes".

The cost is based on what you choose, its weight and the way it is cooked so you can either choose carefully and keep the price down or - especially if you go for the lobster - splash out and rack the price up. I would imagine a good average would be 30.00-40.00 sterling for two including drinks and a good amount of food. This is certainly not going to be the cheapest meal you can have in Bangkok but it will probably be one of the most memorable.

Favorite Dish: We had lobster, cuttlefish, huge shrimps, white fish and so much more I can't remember. It was all wonderful!