There’s a 1st Time for Everything

As you already know if you have ever been to Bangkok or have been reading along in this blog, food is plentiful everywhere in Bangkok.  From 7-Eleven convenient stores packed with snacks on every corner to street stands selling snacks and food every few meters cheap food is not too far away.  I don’t think I’m out of the ordinary when I get tired of eating the same thing all the time and crave a junk food delicacy like pizza.

I have eaten pizza  a couple times in Bangkok.  Most of the time I head to Little Italy which is conveniently yes inappropriately located next the California WOW Fitness that I work out at.  Their pizza is decent sometimes and good other times and costs only 45 baht ($1.34) and if you buy 3 you get 1 free which is great for killing the benefits of a great workout a workout.  This time I was really involved in webmaster mode and didn’t feel like leaving the friendly confines of my computer chair so I decided to test the Bangkok pizza delivery options.

Food by Phone

The Food by Phone website is a surprisingly long established company (for the internet world) that delivers food from a wide variety of restaurants.   The best part about food by phone is the website is all in perfect English, you can order completely online and see the pictures and prices of many menu items.  Your info is stored so when you order the next time it is very quick and easy.

It may come as a surprise that out of 50-some restaurants which include everything from Japanese, Lebanese Mexican and more there are only two pizza places.  I know that there are numerous pizza places that deliver but calling over the phone and trying to order the Hawaiian with extra pineapples or whatever to someone who speaks little or no English is a recipe for disaster, not to mention trying to communicate my address.

The first pizza place I chose was Pizza Mania which tourts itself as, “Pizza with True Italian Taste in Bangkok.”   I made sure they were in my ordering area and they were located pretty close at Sukhumvit Soi 23. You may be thinking how a pizza could ever be on time with the sometimes horrible Bangkok traffic and the answer to that is simply motosai.  Motorcycles are exclusively used for deliveries as they can zoom through the suffocating automobile traffic.

Pizza Mania

The pizza I ordered through food by phone arrived at my apartment building in around 40 minutes. The price for my pizza which come in a standard size was 300 baht (around $9) plus a 60 baht ($1.80) delivery charge.  One thing of note is the delivery guy didn’t come up to my 9th floor apartment, I had to go down and get it.

The pizza I ordered was called  Pizza Quattro Stagioni which had tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, ham, mushroom, artichokes, olives.  Something I have not seen before, the pizza had its toppings separated in 4 different sections, rather than spreading all of them all over it.

The pizza was not straight out-the-oven hot but it was not cold.   It was thin crusted which wasn’t as crispy as I like but not completely soggy.  It tasted pretty good.   I devoured the whole pizza in record time and was fully satisfied by the size of it without feeling disgustingly full.  I would definitely order from Pizza Mania again but its wasn’t so good that I will order it again and not try any other places.

Stay Tuned as I try to Find the best Pizza in Bangkok

Easy & Reliable Delivery at FoodByPhone.com

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