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Hai Som Tam Convent Restaurant (ไฮส้มตำคอนแวนต์) – Thai Food in Silom

10 September 2013 by Mark Wiens

Lately I’ve been running around central Bangkok, so I’ve had a chance to eat at some of the more well-known Thai restaurants in Bangkok. Hai Som Tam Convent (ไฮส้มตำคอนแวนต์) is a long standing Isaan restaurant located on the famous Thanon Convent in the heart of Silom. Throughout years of walking through Silom, I just had […]

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Yong He Dou Jiang – Awesome Chinese Soup Dumplings (xiao long bao) in Bangkok

6 August 2013 by Mark Wiens

You don’t have to worry, these mini steamed soup dumplings won’t poke you (like the menu may suggest)! But rather they will explode with delicious porky juices and the prefect ratio of ingredients. When you’re looking for delicious Chinese soup dumplings (xiao long bao) in Bangkok, there’s one place to come: Yong He Dou Jiang. The Silom […]

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Rice Bar – Healthy Korean Food in Silom

18 June 2013 by Mark Wiens

The other day I was taking care of some business in Silom and needed to grab lunch. Right in the area I was in I saw Rice Bar, a restaurant Dwight had mentioned to me a while back but I had never found time to eat there. So I stopped in for a bite to […]

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Graveyard Dining in Silom (with Delicious Isan Food)

6 November 2012 by Mark Wiens

Hospitals, yes. Schools, yes. Parks, yes. But a cemetery? You’d never search in Bangkok for a food street next to a graveyard, would you? Years ago, the first time I ever went to this popular Silom Isan street restaurant, it was so dimly lit, I didn’t even know we were sitting adjacent to a cemetery. […]

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There’s No Such Thing As Thai Breakfast Food

26 January 2012 by Dwight Turner

What’s Thai breakfast food? Hard boiled egg? Kanom jeen? Chicken biryani? The truth is there’s no such thing. As Mark alludes in this week’s 13 Most Popular Thai Dishes for Breakfast, Thais hardly make any time based distinction between food groups like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The thai word used for breakfast (ahaan chow อาหารเช้า) […]

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Vanishing Vegetarian: Silom Soi Convent’s Hidden Street Food À la Carte Stand

12 July 2011 by Dwight Turner

This place must be a secret. I don’t know how you would know about it any other way. You would have had to have gone there to know how to find it because we haven’t seen it anywhere on the web and the signs to lead you this place are pretty bad. To make matters […]

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The perfect Thai breakfast sweet – khao neow dam sang kaya (ข้าวเหนียวดำสังขยา)

23 June 2011 by Mark Wiens

I wouldn’t call myself a diehard fan of desserts. I do enjoy the occasional sweet treat, but much of the time I prefer to fill the entirety of my stomach space with the main meal. But every now and then, Thailand brings forth a dessert that’s simply too tempting to pass up (in my case, […]

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