Kebab Boy Bangkok – More Meats Than You Can Run a Stick Through

Kebab Boy, round two. Or at least it’s round two for me. I’ve passed them before but either late at night or on the move, and never had a chance to try it out. Until now.

I’m not sure what about Kebab Boy excited me so initially, as it is on the outside a relatively unassuming and shiny franchise kiosk. Maybe it was the name. Regardless, I’m glad I did happen upon it one day when I had pockets full of money and a stomach full of air.

The menu, if inescapably franchises, is surprisingly expansive and very cool. You have your standard beef, pork, and chicken, but there are also several varieties of fish, and shrimp, and fried scallops, and deer, and rabbit, and goat, and I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten one or two but you should be getting the idea. And the prices aren’t bad. Top end are the game meats, goat at 89 baht, rabbit and deer at 79, all the aquatic stuff in the middle, and the run of the mill stuff on the bottom.

I was not able to try everything in this single visit, tragically, but I did try the scallops, deer and goat. I’d never seen scallops in this context before, and had some serious hopes.

Here’s what happened to those hopes….

They were more or less met. The scallops are big, fat sea scallops – battered and fried. They’re wrapped up with some sauteed onions, a little lettuce, and a spicy mayo sort of sauce. It is a satisfyingly greasy bit of quick convenience food, not a refined delicacy. The option of adding cheese was offered, but they were out of cheese and I don’t think it would have added too much.

I think it could have used some more vegetables, maybe a little tomato or something in there with the onions. But in context it is excellent; at about half the price of a Big Mac, you get fried scallops and sauteed onions, wrapped in real bread. The tea at Kebab Boy is more real than mactea too, for what it’s worth.