Showing posts with label Bangkok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangkok. Show all posts

Monday, December 6, 2010

Paulaner


Not that far from Bangkok's city centre is a gem of a restaurant: the Paulaner Garden. In a Bavarian style German beer garden, the ambience is lovely and the setting beautiful, especially when the sun is setting in the late afternoon and early evening. In the gardens there is a colonial-style house, built at the turn of the last century on Rajvithi road, Samsen, where the house stood for over 100 years before it was moved to the present site.


The menu is a large mix of German, International and Thai foods, and you will always find something you like. The service is good, but not exceptional, after all this is not a 5 star hotel.


On the drinks side, however, a full drinks list 0f non and alcoholic beverages is complemented by the selection of house beers available, including Hefe – Weizen, Hefe – Weizen Dunkel, Paulaner Original Munich Premium Lager, Paulaner Original Muncher Dunkel and Paulaner Oktoberfestbier.


Paulaner is a German beer, brewed since the early 17th century in Munich by the Minim friars of the Neudeck ob der Au cloister. The order and the brewery are named after Francis of Paola, the founder of the order, the monks having originally brewed the beer for their own use since 1634.


Paulaner ranks number 8 among Germany's best selling breweries, and the brand can now be found in outlets throughout Thailand.


The restaurant can be found on New Samakhee Road, just off Chaeng Wattana Road.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Bangkok's Millenium Falcon

The Millennium Falcon was the spacecraft in the Star Wars universe commanded by smuggler Han Solo and his Wookie first mate, Chewbacca.

The highly modified YT-1300 light freighter first appeared in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and subsequently in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

On the surface, the Falcon looked like any other Corellian freighter, with a saucer-shaped primary hull, a pair of forward cargo-gripping mandibles, and a cylindrical cockpit mounted to the ship's side.

According to Star Wars creator George Lucas, the Falcon's design was inspired by a hamburger, with the cockpit being an olive on the side.

The Falcon flew point for the Alliance Fleet during the decisive Battle of Endor, and as it soared into the heart of the incomplete Death Star to deliver a missile volley which would help seal the Empire's fate it was damaged beyond all repair . . . . . .

Or so they thought!

As this photographic evidence shows the Falcon has been completely renovated and refurbished, and in the 21st century has been transformed into the luxury 5* hotel, the Millennium Hilton, on the banks of Bangkok's Chao Phya river.

May the Force be with you.