Is This Bangkok's Best Sunday Roast?

We are Jill and Justin. We left the UK and moved to Thailand and the thing we get asked the most is what do you miss most about the UK? And until last night I had absolutely zero idea but when Jill phoned her mum it dawned on me a Sunday roast. That's the thing I miss the most. So armed with that information I jumped online looked at all the reviews and we are now heading to Kai New Zealand. That's where we're going. Thank you. That's today's breadcrumb. It's a big restaurant here in I think St Louis. I think the area is St Louis. It's about seven to ten minutes from the St Louis station. Our table is booked for one. It's 20 to one now. Let's go. It only took us five minutes to get here. It looked very cool. Very very cool. Take a look. First impressions. First impressions are lush. It's cool isn't it? Really cool vibe. I feel like I'm in London. And this is super super comfortable seating. I sat in it and it just enveloped me. We've got the menu and it's so this video you'll be watching on a Wednesday because this is our new Bangkok Wednesday series but this is Sunday so this is available every Sunday. They've got a full roast, all the meat, strip loin, spring lamb, roasted pork belly with crackling and organic roast chicken. All accompanied with gravy, onions, carrots, pumpkin, potatoes. I'm guessing oh yeah homemade Yorkshire pudding. You can get kids portions. Vegetarian option which is a roast nut loaf which I bet is amazing. We are going to get the family style platter. Sharing platter. It looks big. Hopefully it's going to be. Hopefully it's going to be massive because we haven't eaten. Normally I wouldn't want to share this. I mean I'm not going to share my meal and I'm not going to share definitely not going to share a roast dinner but I'm hoping that Jill's going to get full quickly and I can have the rest. Also we don't drink and but we do love the taste of beer so so a good thing is is that they do a non-alcoholic. Is it Heineken? It's a non-alcoholic Heineken. They've got non-alcoholic, loads of non-alcoholic drinks. Hospitality here is is next level so far. Loads of Westerners, loads of Thai, Chinese. So you could be in London or Devon. Right right we're gonna get off. Getting sorted yeah? Yeah. Before the food comes I just wanted to show you these are all homemade here at Kai. We've got the homemade piccolilli which should be delicious. Homemade tomato relish and homemade tomato sauce. For me I'm gonna go for that one. What about you? Oh piccolilli every day. Should be good shouldn't it? Wow cabin car. Right Yorkshire pudding is my favourite. Go on. For me it's medium well maybe a little bit rare and then we've got potatoes. Just no it's so good. Yeah looks fantastic. I literally can't wait. The words in my head are not working. I want to see what's underneath this. Right so we've got under here Yorkshire pudding. I'll remove that for you. We've got roasted beetroot, roasted onion, peas, potatoes, pumpkin. That looks like a chopped in half roasted garlic. Oh that does. It does. Carrots yeah. What's this one? Chicken, pork, beef. There's probably lamb. A little bit of crackling. Is that horseradish? Give it a try. No. Oh. If it is it's very subtle. This one. That's horseradish. Mint sauce. Oh yes please. That's great that mint sauce. It doesn't look like a normal mint sauce. It's not your normal mint sauce, it's vinegary. What would you say? Like quarter chicken. A little bit of stuffing. Yeah. I like the way it's just piled up. Two lots of gravy. One for you, one for me. You're gonna try something? Yeah I'm gonna try something. You're gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for beef. All right. In fact do you know what? Comparison. I'm gonna go for some beef, you go for some beef. All right. See what you think. I could just eat it on here to be fair. That's yours. I'll eat it. If you leave it in my way and a roast potato. We're still hoping you're gonna get full quickly. Right roast potato. Like mum's roast potatoes? Yes. Yeah. I literally love my mum's roast potatoes. I remember them from a kid. Oh yeah. They're good. Lovely beef. Right. Very good that. Gravy. Gravy's nice. Good. Very rich. I'm gonna try the Yorkshire pudding because in the real world of roast dinners this really is the star of the show. That's a good roast potato. I bet you they do really good fish and chips here. This is gonna be like something we return to. I'm gonna find out who this is owned by because they're doing everything really really well here. Everything's like elevated and um when we were on uh BTS just as we were coming out uh someone stopped us and tapped us on the shoulder and said go to Kai. It's the best. I can see why he recommended it. What else have we got? I'm gonna try oh my god look pork crackling. Pork here. Try some pork. Yeah. And some crackling. There's a little bit of stuffing there I think. Fantastic. And um cinnamon apple stuffing. Oh okay. Good isn't it? Yeah. Right. Crackling. You hadn't had crackling until until we met. That's really good. That's actually perfect sweet potato. Here's my question. Okay. Did you do one of these on your own? I think I'm gonna have to answer that question. At the end. Oh. We purposely haven't had breakfast today have we? And hang around to the end because we're going to tell you how much it all cost and we're going to give it a little score. We know it's going to score highly because we're absolutely obsessed with it now aren't we? Right. Should we try a little bit of lamb? Yeah. While we're here. And then we'll do chicken. I'm not the biggest fan of a chicken on a roast dinner but chicken feels, although this has probably done really well, chicken is quite like everyday-ish. A bit pedestrian. Don't you think? Like it's like every day we'll have chicken something won't we? Yeah. That mint sauce is olive oil, mint, vinegar and it's the vinegar that gets you right in the back of the throat. In the throat hole. Absolutely perfect. That mint sauce. Wow. Wow. We're going to devour this. Yeah otherwise you're just going to be listening to us chewing. We need some focus. We'll see you outside at the end we might have a dessert. How full are you on a scale of one to ten? Oh well it depends on what's on offer. Is there dessert? There is dessert isn't there? I've had a look. Yeah. Top ones for me. There's loads of cool desserts. But there's cheesecake. There is a cheesecake. Top three for me. Cheesecake. There's a Jack Daniels chocolate pudding. Mud cake. And people that know me will know that I like pavlova as well and there's a kiwi pavlova. Now pavlova, I prefer berries rather than kiwi so that's slightly turning me off that one. Let's clear something up real quick. I'll just fill my glass back up with my. I might have looked at the menu. I thought kiwi referred to the fruit being on it but and rather is kiwi on it? What they meant was kiwi as in New Zealand. As in the restaurant we're in. Right. Anyway. We scratched the cheesecake and we've gone for the Jack Daniels mud pie. Yeah. With custard, whipped cream and almonds and a kiwi pavlova and with hokey pokey ice cream and we know that hokey pokey means. Honeycomb because we used to make it. I'm hoping it's got like and it does have the Jack Daniels taste. Let's have a look. Tastes like Christmas. Tastes like heaven. You know sometimes you get to restaurants and you're just really let down by the dessert. Not here. If you're on a date make sure you run your tongue over your teeth. I just wouldn't have this if you're on a date. That is absolutely delicious isn't it? Wow. Bop him to the side for a moment. What are we going to go for first? Ice cream? If Gary Eakes washes this. As always. Let's give it a go. Right let's try this. Right honeycomb ice cream. I'm not just saying that either because I like I will tell I will say if something isn't right. I would say if it wasn't. Here we go. This is phenomenal. Oh my god. What have we done to ourselves? The passion fruit. It's a passion fruit sauce. Yeah honeycomb ice cream. This is this beats any honeycomb ice cream I've ever had. I don't think I could choose a favourite. They're both great in their own way. If you live in Bangkok bring yourself over here. This is unbelievable. Yeah. Should we go in for this again? Yeah. Should we give him a rest? Right we're going to finish up and we're going to see you outside aren't we? Yeah. Unless we go into a diabetic coma and we'll be here. You'll know where we are then. Well what would you give that out of 10? Well I've got to give it some context. Okay. Because obviously British we and and when we were working really really hard in the coffee shops we were like we need Sunday and Sunday lunch to like treat ourselves unwind and have something we enjoyed. Yeah. And we'd do that every Sunday if we weren't at your parents. Yes. So we've had a lot out and not only do I think from my personal perspective that this is probably the best in Bangkok it's the best I have ever had. It's the best roast dinner I've ever had. Better than mine. I'm only joking. I'm going to go along with that. Are you? I think that the I really like the food platter and because I like the the choice of meat I think if I went back I'd probably get the pork roast which is very rare for me. Yeah. The pork was just it was just really good the beef was amazing the chicken was great yeah the lamb and the lamb sauce the mint sauce was amazing but I would definitely. Everything was elevated wasn't it? It was really good. Parsnips I could have done with but that's just because I'm a parsnip whore. I've got the bill here so we had a platter for two. Yeah. We had four Heineken Zeros. Yeah. We had two mega desserts we didn't just go for a scoop of ice cream. And just to say again on desserts normally like it's always an afterthought like it's a pre-bought brownie stick some ice cream next to it dribble a bit of cream and call it a dessert. And call it nine quid. That was just like next level so good. How much would you pay for that meal and let's say it's not going to be in the UK because it's different how much would you pay of your own money anywhere how much would you be willing to pay for that meal all of it? It's probably worth between 100-150 pounds. Yeah. I agree I think it's worth between 120 and 150 quid. Yeah. It was without the service charge. I haven't seen this yet. And without the VAT it was 55 pounds. 55 pounds so what's that? 2,000. It was 2,480 baht. 460 baht. 2,460 baht. And then you're going to add your service charge 10 percent and you've got your VAT which is seven percent in Thailand so it comes to 2,895 and 42. So 65 pounds. For two people who are hungry who have big appetites. Next level. Next level. The service goes great. Oh and what do you want to do for Christmas day? Well I'd love to go there but they probably don't open or do anything do they? Well we've got a table booked for 12.30. Get out. Yeah. Have you? Yeah. You booked it when you paid? Yeah. Oh I can't wait. Oh and the guy said I'm really looking forward to that. Thank you, thank you. As we were leaving the guy also said twice a month they do barbecue. That's it. So they've got like barbecue out, they've got lamb, they've got beef, they've got prawns, they've got seafood, they've got ribs and everything. Gets booked up quickly. Two sittings a day. One in the afternoon one in the evening. Happy to be corrected on that but that's what he said book in advance because they get booked up and the next one is on the 26th so September 2026 so you can figure out how often they are. Out of 10 I'm going to give this a 10 star. It's a 10 star for me. Best roast I've ever had. Best roast. Not just Bangkok. Don't forget to like and subscribe to our This is Bangkok Wednesday and if there's something you want to see us do try or eat or drink just put it in the comments. In Bangkok. We'll do our level best to make it happen if not we'll figure out where we are in the world and we'll get the next best thing. See you then. See you later.