Innocent Bystander

Elefin Coffee Culture is a cafe/restaurant which I think is named for the mispronunciation of elephant or Chang (word for elephant in  Thai) I have walked by literally several hundred times.  It is located in the middle of Soi 1 right off Sukhumvit road, close to the express way entrance.  It is right across from this German restaurant named Tilac which always has an expat sitting on the front drinking a beer but is mostly empty.

I have been hell bent on getting my picture site TourismPics.com up to date so I can begin to create more pages and take more pictures that I didn’t eat anything all day.  Sitting on the computer for hours on end without eating isn’t good for your health and causes you to crave some junk food.  I was walking to Villa Market to buy some salads and other healthy items when I ended up looking right up at the Chang sign and it was over.

Ordering Food

The place looks very nice inside and there is an apartment and an internet cafe above. The menu was on display on the outside and it had steak which is what I was craving so I had to try it.   I walked in the restaurant which was literally freezing so I sat outside one of the 3 or 4 covered, stone tables.  NOTE:  If you come to Elefin Coffee Culture at night and are wearing shorts, I can warn you that you will end up with at least a dozen mosquito bites!

I was far beyond self control so I quickly scoured the menu for the things I craved the most.  I was definitely getting a steak and to be as gluttonous as possible I decided to get a club sandwich too.  I ordered a mango icee as well which I hoped would kill my sugar high.  I waited to get my food outside in front of a busy Bumrungrad induced traffic jam on Soi 1 and was content to watch the nurses walk home from the hospital.

How Many Calories? I don't want to know

How was the food?

The club sandwich was so small I ate each quarter in a single bite!  I polished off the club sandwich which tasted good and its french fries which were crispy just the way I like them in about 2 minutes.  I then turned my attention to the T-bone steak which was covered in this spicy gravy and mushrooms.  It had another order of fries on the side as well as some steamed green beans and carrot slices.

The steak was pretty good.  Most of the time I get T-Bones there is too much fat for my tastes but this T-Bone was good although the gravy which smothered it kind of drowned out the taste of the beef (which may have been a good thing).  The mango icee was excellent but I’ve never had a bad mango icee ever in Thailand.

Would I Pick it Again?

Since Elefin Coffee is so close to my apartment I will probably go there again some day maybe to try to find a decent American breakfast which has eluded me in Thailand so far.  I was not super impressed.  The service was normal, the place was nice in a nice location and I had nothing to gripe about with the food.  The price for everything was a lot more than the average 35 baht ( $1.ooUSD) Thai food anywhere in Bangkok.  My double meal and mango smoothie which is probably what 2 normal people would eat cost 480 baht ($14.30).

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