Dining on 5th
Dining on 5th is a special dining zone on the 5th floor of ICONSIAM. Not only is it home to 6 all-time favourite restaurants that all foodies love, as every restaurant also promises views of the Chao Phraya River, with their own outdoor terrace seating. Here, you’ll find Southern fare at Baan Ice; authentic Thai cuisine at Nara; modern Thai food at Kub Kao Kub Pla; Chinese restaurant Hong Bao; famed seafood restaurant Laem Charoen and MK Live, the no. 1 suki restaurant that all Thais love.
The first restaurant in this zone is Baan Ice
Serving Southern dishes with a fiery palate, its roots lead back to “grandmother’s” cooking. She was a native of Nakhon Si Thammarat who wanted to cook for her children and grandchildren, so she opened a small restaurant. Later on, her grandson “Ice” developed and expanded the business, but retained the quality of ingredients, especially the various curry pastes, which are all ordered from the South in order to maintain every dishes’ distinctive taste and aroma.
A popular signature menu at Baan Ice is Stir-fried stink beans with kapi and pork belly, which uses only beans that were grown in the South, where the terroir contributes to its taste and scent. Fried shrimp heads with salt uses the finest shrimp heads to be deep fried until golden and does not retain oil. It is lightly salted and is a great snack. Muang Kon noodles sees thin noodles stir-fried with shrimps, chilli and Baan Ice’s sauce and is served with many types of fresh vegetables.
The next Thai restaurant Nara
Nara is known for its meticulous selection of ingredients and painstaking cooking process that has resulted in delicious tastes and popularity among both Thais and foreigners. A very popular menu is Yellow curry with fish roe, where a piquant curry is packed with flavours from the South and of roes and fish belly. As for Fish roe salad, this sweet and sour pick also sees a mix of fish roe and fish belly. Pork crackling fried rice is aromatic with lots of crunchy pork crackling, while the fried egg also uses a salted egg unlike any other place.
Kub Kao Kub Pla
is a Thai restaurant that serves up flavourful food that Thais love. The first menu you must try here is Strawberry chilli paste, which is made from real kapi from Chanthaburi. It smells great and has just the right amount of saltiness. The strawberries in the paste bring an element of sweet and sour that makes it delicious to enjoy with the side vegetables. Caramel pork hock is the softest you’ll ever taste in this lifetime because the pork is stewed with caramel and spices until it has seeped into the pork, which melts in your mouth.
is a Thai restaurant that serves up flavourful food that Thais love. The first menu you must try here is Strawberry chilli paste, which is made from real kapi from Chanthaburi. It smells great and has just the right amount of saltiness. The strawberries in the paste bring an element of sweet and sour that makes it delicious to enjoy with the side vegetables. Caramel pork hock is the softest you’ll ever taste in this lifetime because the pork is stewed with caramel and spices until it has seeped into the pork, which melts in your mouth.
Hong Bao
If you love dim sum, head over to Hong Bao. Their main concept is “The Best Dim Sum in Town” but its not only limited to dim sun as other mains in this restaurant are just as divine. Homemade egg noodles with crab sees the chef slicing pork belly into thin slices that get deep-fried before they are stir-fried with onions and sauce. It is then mixed with egg noodles before topped with chunks of crab meat.
If you like tofu, try Steamed Hakka tofu. The chef brings tofu that was stuffed with grounded pork to be chopped with onion, before it is topped with a distinguished Hakka sauce. Sichuan-style grouper soup stir-fries many types of vegetables before it is boiled with the fish, soup and is seasoned with mala chilli. Don’t miss this if you like it spicy. Hong Bao pork belly follows a recipe for pork belly that has little fat but remains soft, with crispy skin. Served with 2 types of sauce which are mustard and a red sauce that is a special recipe by the restaurant.
Laem Charoen Seafood.
You don’t have to head to the sea for fresh seafood and can get it all at Laem Charoen Seafood. This popular seafood restaurant stands out for their quality, freshness and good taste. A popular menu at Laem Charoen Seafood is Fried seabass with fish sauce, which is considered the origin of this menu in Thailand. Laem Charoen Seafood offers many seafood menus that have fish, shrimps, squid, crabs and mussels such as orange curry with fish roe, shrimps stir-fried with salt and chilli, grilled shrimps, crab fried rice, steamed squid in lemon, crab curry, grilled scallops, etc. You will be more than full with all these options from the sea.
We will close off with the longstanding suki favourite of Thais: MK Live. Here, the concept is different from your usual MK because MK Live follows a contemporary design with wooden accents, while the food is cooked behind a glass pane so customers can see all food preparation. The restaurant is also decorated with various plants and a hydroponic vegetable garden with lots of green and brown tones that are relaxing and lively on the eyes. Furthermore, the dining experience is elevated with only the cleanest and high quality ingredients selected, as if they just came straight out of the farms.
Menus that you would be familiar with include emerald noodles, MK meatballs, crispy pork belly and roasted duck. What’s special at MK LIVE however, are the premium cuts, organic vegetables and vegetables from the Royal Projects that have been carefully selected. Discover a new experience for yourself at MK Live.
Discover this fantastic dining experience from these 6 restaurants with gorgeous views of the Chao Phraya River but with affordable prices at Dining on 5th Zone, ICONSIAM.