In the City of Smiles where cafes and restaurants are aplenty, a fish market exists too and you definitely need to know about it.
Shinsen Fish Market is a seafood haven in Bangkok, and it is a new addition to Bangkok’s ever-happening food scene. Just a few months shy of its first birthday, Shinsen Fish Market is supposedly inspired by and modelled after Taipei’s Addiction Aquatic Developments.
The modern fish market in Sukhumvit is a must-visit when you next visit Bangkok. Here’s everything to love about Shinsen Fish Market.
Live aquamarine and sea creatures in tanks, fresh Japanese fruits and vegetables, wine cellar and all sorts of Japanese choya & sake, hot food stations and sushi bars, some good steaks… these are but a few highlights of Shinsen Fish Market.
The establishment seeks to provide seafood lovers one space where seafood-everything is congregated and you can find almost anything you need—live products, fresh produce, cooked dishes etc.
When at Shinsen Fish Market, you must have a taste of the freshest seafood. Grab a seat at one of the bar counters; they don’t differ much, and the menu revolves mainly around sushi, sashimi and cooked food. And what we’d highly recommend is the live seafood.
Take your pick from the many tanks—crabs, lobsters, prawns, clams…
Tell the staff your desired size/ serving size, and they will catch the seafood from the respective tanks, have them weighed (prices go by weight) and ask you for your desired cooking method.
Of course, we couldn’t leave without having a Japanese crab. Zuwai crabs were the crab of the day when we went, and we had a 800g crab (approximately S$60) steamed fresh and cut up for us. If you are going in a big group, it only means seafood party for you.
Get yourselves some akagai (ark claim), lobster, awabi (abalone) and maybe a few more crabs; we promise it would be an unforgettable meal.
Shinsen Fish Market
163/6 Soi Sukhumvit 39, Bangkok
Tel: +66 2 260 6522
Nearest BTS: Phrom Phong
Very disappointed with their service, communication problem, uni festival but out of stock. Unfriendly service crew! Really nothing to rave of!!
My friends and I recently visited this establishment during our holiday to bangkok and our experience there has been disappointing to say the least. The food itself was extremely overpriced for the food served. We wanted to choose a position in which we could view how the chefs prepared the food and incidentally witnessed the horror that transpired. We had ordered 4 things, the unagi roll, the salmon roll and the castella tamago, with a Apple lychee drink on the side. The first thing that we observed during the preparation process was that the unagi came in a cheap looking package which the staff conveniently tossed into the microwave to thaw, plastic and all. Secondly, the salmon maki was supposed to have an alternate topping of fresh sashimi and the scorched version. Both came out At a lukewarm temperature in which neither fulfilled the refreshingly cold or scalding hot requirement respectively. The tamago was a little fry, nothing to rave about. Lastly, the one ray of hope was the drink which was quite tasty but was topped off with a little ant swimming in it.
I would just like to add that the staff was pretty nice and courteous but value to quality ratio was so drastically inproportional that this review just HAD to be written.