Chanthaburi Restaurant Sairung

Last week I went to Chanthaburi Restaurant Sairung. Honestly, I don’t know the right name. I guess it is Chanthaburi and Sairung seems to be the name of the cook.

It is located on Feldbergstrasse 57, in 4057 Basel, which is not the place you would seek a good restaurant, even though the before mentioned Da Grazialla is a stone’s throw away.

From the outside, the restaurant looks not too inviting. There isn’t even a menu outside, which was one of the reasons, I didn’t go in the last time.

The front part of the restaurant has some simple benches and two to three tables. Looks a bit like Ikea. Past the kitchen, which has a window to look into, and the stairs to the restrooms, there posterior restaurant is divided in a non-smoker and a smoker part.

There are not too many tables, so to make a reservation on Friday and Saturday would be a good idea. You can reach them here ++41/61/683.22.23. They don’t seem to have an internet site.

The food was good. Some was even great, nothing disappointing, most just good.

We had two starters, a Tofu-soup and Fish-balls, followed by a Lamb-curry, some Shrimps with rice noodles (please use peeled shrimps!!!) and a duck-dish, kind of a soup.

The Tofu-soup was OK, not bad, but not really special. The Fish-balls were per se great, but there was far too much sweet-chilli sauce on top of it. The Lamb curry was very good. Hot but not too hot.

I didn’t like the unpeeled shrimps and there was too much ginger in the rice noodles. I prefer ginger paste to the pieces of ginger you get there.

The duck was ok, but the soup or sauce was great.

We didn’t have room for dessert which left us with a CHF 140.00 bill. Which was not a bargain but OK. Still, if you have the money, you could do a lot worse.