Where to Eat

Finding good Thai, and Chinese dishes, is quite easy. Many Thais like to eat out in “food streets” and this is something that visitors will find every interesting. it is a great experience and the food is tasty and inexpensive.

• Silom

One of Bangkok’s major business areas linked with several streets lined with food stalls and leading restaurants. Seafood stalls sprout along the roadside near Sladaeng intersection after sunset until late into the night.

Nearby Convent Road offers everything from Indonsian food to the Gaelic fare of an Irish tavern.

• Siam Square

The shopping area is crammed with medium to high-priced medium to high-priced restaurants as well as international fast food. Economically priced American, European, Italian, Mexican and Chinese food can be found here. Dozen of food stalls sell meatballs, grilled squid, and fried bananas along the walkways that connect the streets.

• Bang Lamphu

Known mostly to foreign back-packers. Thanon Khao San is the place to find the most economical accommodation and guest-houses, visited by folk who known about Bang Lamphu. Most eating places in this area cater for budget-conscious dinners. Many guest-house on Kao San road have open air café serving standard Thai and Chinese dishes. Other kinds of food to be found in this area include Indian, Jewish and Muslim.

• Sukumvit

This road has just about everything to offer in the way of food, Starting from Soi 4 (Nana) an enclave of Pakistani and Middle Eastern restaurants fills the sois (Small lane) with the aroma of spices. Further up the road, Indian cuisine takes over, with restaurants offering both northern and southern Indian specialties. European restaurants are interspersed offering Italian, French, British, German and Mexican food along both is featured in fast-food outlets and in hotels.

• Phaurat

If Yaowarat is Chinatown, then Phahurat is “little India” A short walk takes you from one food world to the other. The Phahurat area accommodates a number of authentic Indian restaurants, particularly northern Indian cuisine. There are also interesting alternatives serving Punjabi and Pakistani fare.

• Yaowarat

Bangkok is “Chinatown” street house offer the best Chinese food in the city, both in expensive restaurants and on the cheapest food stalls. Noodles, seafood and at lunch time, dim-sum dumpling dominate the menus. At night the neon glow from hundreds of hawker stalls electrifies the atmosphere of the streets. Seafood stalls line the pavements and sukiyaki stalls are equally thronged. Birds nest soup is nutritious and always popular with locals and visitors alike. Khao Tom, or boiled rice, is available every night—just waiting for the “night owls” who like to have an early morning snack.

• China Town

Bangkok’s China Town is an old business center covering a large area. There are many small streets and alleys full of shops selling all types of merchandise, including household goods, stationery and toys. There area is always lively and markets stalls abound. There is a profusion of gold shops as well as restaurants and traditional Chinese food shops.

Shopping in Bangkok - Best shopping venues suggestion

MBK, Chatuchark, Patong, Suan Lum night market, Kaosan road