Yoo Fishball

Guess I had too high an expectation given that it’s a past Michelin Bib Gourmand laureate. Simple, yes. Good enough, yes but average. Fantastic that blew my mind away, no. 🤔 Relatively, the price of the fish ball noodles here at Yoo’s was the most expensive one of all the others at Yaowarat that I had eaten at. Service by the cashier and attendants was as chaotic as the main Yaowarat Road. Yoo’s was semi busy at 8.30pm when I stepped in, with a small queue of customers that did not understand what first come first serve means…. The cashier took her time, and the attendants didn’t care about queue management either. 😒 It took me 20mins just to place an order at the cashier, with only actual 3 customers ahead of me. But others kept coming in and jumped the queue… Despite the cashier having confirmed twice with me, the wrong food arrived…. 😂 Instead of Ba Mee Heng (egg noodles, dry), I was given Sen Yai Nam (wide rice noodles, soup). The disgruntled waiter looked at my receipt, and said what he had served to me was correct. Later, the drink I ordered was Cha Manao Yen (Iced Lemon Tea), but I was given Cha Yen instead (Iced Thai Milk Tea). 😩 Again, the waiter checked my receipt. and said I received the correct drink. Annoying, but I didn’t want to argue…. I just laughed it off… 😂😂😂 The fish balls weren’t as soft to the bite as other reviewers said. The soup lacked depth but still clean to the taste, only marred by sprinkles of spring onions and fried garlic/onions. Standard Thai condiments on the table to boost the tastiness of the dish. Can’t remember if there was sugar on the side, which I never use anyway. Eventually, because the soup needed a boost, I saturated mine with copious amounts of red chilli flakes and pickled chillies like most Thais do…. 🥵😂😆 At the end, it was a good average bowl of fish ball noodles but nothing impressive. Not to say that the attendants can’t do a good job, but since the fish ball noodles were cooked and put together by a young attendant who was not the stall owner or a proper chef, I kind of felt underwhelmed… 🤔 (This was the same at Lim Lao Ngow, and I did not enjoy the fish ball noodles there at all.) Equal number of foreigners and locals. P.S. Honestly, I have had better at Aung Peng Chung on the opposite side of the road. Of all the 4 big names serving fish ball noodles here at Yaowarat, Lim Lao Ngow is unfortunately my least favourite.

a month ago

We pass by and saw the fried taros. We just had to try them. Very hot and crispy when they serve us. Also ordered a bowl of fishballs to share. Wasn’t too impressed but would still encourage you to try if you pass by the stall too.

3 months ago

Saw all the amazing reviews so we came. It wasn't bad, but kinda "ok" only. If you do want to try, make sure you go for the taro fry rolling tofu, fish cake, shrimp ball. Skip the noodles and skip the fishball. Place has aircon and clean though.

7 months ago