Seafood Archives - Thai Street Food, Restaurants, and Recipes

Dao Talay (ร้านดาวทะเล): Delicious Seafood Restaurant in Cha-Am

When you’re on the beach in Thailand, seafood is something you naturally want to eat. On a recent day trip to Cha-Am (about 1.5 hours south of Bangkok by road), my wife and I ate at a seafood restaurant called Dao…

Lek and Rut Seafood Restaurant in Bangkok’s Chinatown

Bangkok’s Chinatown (known as Yaowarat) is known for its incredible street food and seafood. Located along the corner of the always bustling Yaowarat Road and Phadung Dao (also known as Soi Texas), is Lek and Rut Seafood (ล็กกับรัตน์ซีฟู้ด), one of the…

Bangkok’s Blood Cockle Street Food Bar (หอยแครงป้าจิน)

You know about oyster bars… But it’s not so common in the world to find a blood cockle bar. Located along Soi Texas (road) in Bangkok’s Chinatown, Hoy Kraeng Pa Jeen (หอยแครงป้าจิน) has been open and selling blood cockles, from a…

One of the Best Thai Seafood Restaurants on Sukhumvit

Located right along Bangkok’s Sukhumvit road, in-between Thong Lo and Phrom Phong, Saeng Chai Pochana (ร้านแสงชัยโภชนา) is one of the better Thai Chinese seafood restaurants. If you’re looking for steamed, deep fried, and stir fried seafood, plus a selection of porky…

Sabeinglae Restaurant: For Seafood in Koh Samui

Sabeinglae Restaurant (เสบียงเล) is one of the most well known and established restaurants in Koh Samui that serves mostly Thai seafood dishes. Although they have been featured in many guidebooks, and so you’ll notice quite a diverse spectrum of people dining here, the…

Thai Seafood Sauce Recipe: The Ultimate Seafood Feast?

There are a ton of different ways to prepare and eat seafood in Thailand. But one of the most popular and purest ways, and it’s simple too, is to just boil or grill up a mess of fresh seafood, and…

Fresh Seafood in Bangkok at Hia Wan Khao Tom Pla

The area around Thanon Chan road in southern Sathon, is home to some of the best seafood restaurants in central Bangkok. The reason: it’s close to Saphan Pla, the main fish auction of Bangkok. So around Charoen Krung and Thanon Chan,…

Sizzling Oyster Omelet at Wang Lang Market

Inside the sweaty lanes of Wang Lang Market is a restaurant that not only serves fried oyster omelets, but sizzling fried oyster omelets. The recipe is pretty simple: oysters, eggs, batter, and lots of oil (lard kind of oil), all mingled together sloppily on…

Paknam Krabi Seafood: Halal Restaurant in Krabi Town

Krabi, with its mix of beaches, islands, waterfalls, seafood, and southern Thai food, is one of my favorite provinces in Thailand… it also happens to be where my wife is from. A lot has been changing and developing in Krabi…

Ah Ou Bangrak (ร้านอาอู๋ บางรัก) – Upscale Chinese Street Food in Bangkok

Upscale is not a word you typically associate with street food. But in Bangkok, where street food reigns supreme, there are a number of sidewalk restaurants that serve upscale, high quality food on the streets. I like to think that you’d get the…

Tasty Fire Pots of Soup at Nai Kwan Maw Fai (นายขวัญ หม้อไฟ)

One of the most awesome ways, ever, to serve a soup, is in an elevated circular vessel, sort of in the shape of a volcano, with hot charcoal burning in the middle. In Thailand this is known as a maw fai…

Sompong Seafood Restaurant (ร้านสมพงศ์) in Samut Prakan

Samut Prakan (สมุทรปราการ) town, located about 29 kilometers south of Bangkok, is also known as Pak Nam (ปากน้ำ) or the mouth of the ocean. Being closer to the sea, they are known for Talad Pak Nam (ตลาดปากน้ำ), one of the larger seafood…

Crispy Thai Oyster Omelet at Nai Mong Hoy Tod (นายหมงหอยทอด)

Hoy tod (หอยทอด also sometimes spelled hoi tod) is a Thai style oyster or shellfish omelet. However, it’s often more like a crispy pancake rather than an omelet in my opinion. The dish is sort of the relative of Pad…

An Unforgettable Thai Seafood Feast in Mahachai at Ran Ahan Pi (ร้านอาหาร ไผ่)

A couple days ago I met up with my friend Ramon for an expedition to Mahachai (มหาชัย) to search for seafood… what else could we want!? Mahachai is a small town about an hour and a half from Bangkok, located in the…

A Monster Lobster at Hua Hin’s Lung Ja Seafood Restaurant

Have you ever been walking around with absolutely no intention to eat whatever you walked past, and the next thing you knew, you found yourself about to dig into something you weren’t planning on eating? For myself, when it comes…

If You’re a Thai Seafood Lover – Heavenly Somsak Boo Op (สมศักดิ์ ปูอบ) Street Stall

While oftentimes Thai street food comes at very affordable prices, other rare times it can be expensive (relatively). But let me tell you, if you’re paying top prices for Thai street food, your money isn’t going towards the nice ambiance…