Bangkok Restaurants: Cabbages and Condoms

Looking for a unique experience in Bangkok? This restaurant is a tourist trap, a charity, and a hilarious dining experience with fairly decent food.

Cabbages and Condoms Restaurant in Bangkok supportsÂ PDA. PDA, as in the Population and Community Development Association, which offers family planningÂ services in rural Thailand. Hence the restaurant name, and safe sex posters throughout the building.

But the themed decor doesn’t stop with posters. Condoms have been repurposed into statues and table decor, just to name a few.

But that’s not the Bangkok restaurant’s only selling point. Just a few hundred yards off Sukhumvit Rd, you walk down the long hallways and suddenly find yourself in a tropical garden. It’s best at night when the thousands of Christmas lights turn it into a fairyland.

If you prefer air conditioning, which at noon that day we did, there are multiple indoor dining rooms.

The menu is extensive, and by Bankok standards, expensive (think hotel pricing). But, as they advertise, their “food is guaranteed not to cause pregnancy.”

a basket of potato chips — *Complimentary snacks before ordering at Cabbages and Condoms*

With that reassurance in mind, started off with the Â steamed chicken dumplings, beautiful in their purple wrappings.

My friend had aÂ seafood allergy, so to maximize the dishes we could share we played it safe. Kai Phad Med Mamuang Himmapan, commonly known as Cashew Chicken. Except this wasn’t soupy. It had plenty of crispy dried chili and the cashews were a nice texture. Way better than the US, mediocre for Thailand.