COCONUTS HOT SPOT – The first year of withdrawal is the toughest, then you miss it less and less. Better to ride it out than give in and make a buy, when what shows up is underwhelming, cost a fortune and pales to the stuff back home.
The pain of living without access to delicious cheese is real for many fromage fiends, but newcomer Holy Cheese is slinging some heavenly grilled cheese sandwiches from the back of a shipping container for those needing for a fix.
For many expats, Holy Cheese is a quirky, hole-in-the-wall answer to our pleas to the gods of cheese. To cheese-skeptical Thais, this place makes a damn good argument about what can be done with the stuff. Cheese isn’t all lian and greasy, but sometimes it’s best served ooey-gooey and sticky-icky. Holy Cheese not only serves cheese sandwiches meeting the above criteria, it does so with the addition of bacon, roast beef, and even kimchi. In short, they’re innovators.
Breaking from a tired trope that says grilled cheese is but melted cheese between two slices of bread, Holy Cheese challenges diners to unthink their irresponsible and dangerous assumptions about this simple staple. To challenge the cheesy status quo.
Take the Kimchi-stuffed Seoul Cheese sandwich (THB165) for example, a pint-sized Ciabatta roll stuffed with torched mozzarella (they take a flamethrower to every sandwich to give the cheese texture), cheddar, zingy kimchi, gochujang (incredible Korean red pepper paste), and best of all, bacon. Why hasn’t this been done before?
Furthering this East-meets-West-meets-Cheese trend is the Oh, My Pork! sandwich (THB150). The chopped pork has a subtle sweetness that’s challenged in tastiness only by the blend of mozzarella, Parmesan and cheddar. It’s easy to put down two of these, and although the seating is out in the open and the ambience isn’t quite what anyone would consider romantic, it’s very easy to let time pass hanging out in the container-turned-restaurant. We’d like to see Holy Cheese grow into something deserving of a proper shophouse respite with creature comforts.
The Rod Fai 2 market is equally as interesting as the now defunct first iteration of the vintage market that took place near Chatuchak, but before you do any shopping or boozing, head to Holy Cheese to satiate that deep desire to bite into some gooey goodness. It’ll get you in the right mood.
If you’re from a land where cheese is a staple – and it certainly isn’t in Thailand – then this is the ticket to get your fix.
FIND IT:
Holy Cheese
5:30pm – 11pm, Wed – Sun
Talad Rod Fai 2
Head to the back right section of the market, look for a cluster of shipping containers.
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