How much you ended up paying?

I'd heard similar stories about that restuarant. Sometimes, bellboys and even receptionists in hotel receive a form of commissions for directing tourists (lambs) to these restaurants, tailor shops, gem shops, etc.
Even in the restaurants, forget about asking the waiter/waitress to recommend you the "in-house special" because they'll just be recommending you the most expensive dish in the restuarant. Probably some fish, crabs or prawns, etc. Some restaurants give their waitress/waitress special commission for selling off certain dishes of the day.
These are straight from the mouth of the people in these industries. ;)

just take a thai girlfriend or wife
ok, she might end up taking all your money but at least you will be able to communicate "a bit" with her :)

Don't ever ask someone to recommend you anything in Thailand

Dont trust a taxi driver, they are the lowest form of life, I would rather walk

This restaurant is the Somboodee, in Phayathai road, Rachatewee.

I just back from Bangkok few days ago. We're requesting the tuk tuk driver send us to Somboon Seafood. But end up he brought us to this scam restaurant Somboodee! The captain and tuk tuk driver keep saying is the same branch. We already knew something wrong and we just walk out from the restaurant.

Research before going to Bangkok, this may or may not help save you a lot of heartache. If you type somboon in your search engine and look at the restaurants website it actually tells you about many fake 'Somboons' around. There are actually only a handful, I believe 5 or 6 of the real restaurants around, try to get there yourself or know the address, never ask a taxi or tuk tuk to just take you to somboon or a seafood restaurant, that is a sign of a tourist who doesn't know any better and they will probably capitalize on it.

My wife and I asked to go to the Seafood Market in Soi 24 about 5 years ago. The driver took us to another place nearby. The food was actually very good, if a little overpriced.

The next night we went to the real Seafood Market. The food wasn't as good as the scam place and cost twice as much. How is that for a new experience - the scam wasn't as much of a rip-off as the real thing.

Earlier this year we lived near the Seafood Market in Soi 24 for a few months. Huge place, must have some serious overheads.... and never saw more than a handful of customers in there. This despite all the hotel staff from the hotels around there constantly asking if you want to go there. BUT not a scam by any definition because they weigh the seafood and tell you the price up front.

Yeah, this somboondee restaurant is a cheater. i was director by a hotel stuff too.
Beware,itis beside BTS station.

We also had a similar situation. We asked for a taxi from the female receptionist of this hotel around 9pm. She insisted that she will call, when i asked if we can just hail outside. The taxi came and we told him that we wanted to go to Baiyoke Sky roof top bar. He said it's already closed at that time and recommended a good rest to eat at. He was friendly and chatty. He took us to this seafood restaurant which looked pretty decent. The staff led us to a hallway with fish tanks and menu with numbered codes. After ordering 2dishes ( which were not delicious) 1 rice and 2 drinks, our bill was a whopping 4400 baht! Just for 2! We knew we were scammed and complained but we were scared to make a big scene as male waiters were already staring at us. And going back, we felt that aside from the taxi driver, the female receptionist at Furamaxclusive Sathorn was also an apprentice, as she spent some time talking to the taxi driver. Thailand government should take this seriously!!! Bangkok is just a scam place if they don't do something about all these, ALL TOURISTS MUST THINK TWICE ABOUT GOING TO BANGKOK IF THIS WON'T BE RESOLVED.

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