Prepare yourself to drool over these 41 meals, each featuring mouthwatering photos, details, and where you can eat it.
I've also included some of my personal travel eating tips and answered some of your top questions... like "Mark, how do you make money to travel?".
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Hainanese Chicken Rice is an iconic South-East Asian street food. Enjoyed in Bankok, Thailand for generations, this is one classically BKK street food that any visitor absolutely must try. For Thai style Hainanese chicken rice (ข้าวมันไก่) “khao man gai,” and high quality…
Kum Sang Dao Moo Yang Restaurant (คุ้มแสงดาวหมูย่าง) is a perfect place to go to experience a feast of great local Northern Thai food. The laid back atmosphere here makes it ideal for a day with your family and friends, or…
Ruean Panya (ร้านเรือนปั้นหยา) is a Thai seafood restaurant that received 1 Star by the Michelin Guide in Thailand. “It’s a hidden gem,” they mentioned, and so I was very curious to eat there. In this post I’m going to share…
Laap Ton Yang Restaurant (ร้านลาบต้นยาง) is a Northern Thai restaurant in Chiang Mai that specializes in chopped meat salad, known as laap (ลาบ). There’s no need to brag about the masterful Northern-Thai style chopped meat salad recipes they’re perfecting inside. They’re happy just…
Khao soi (ข้าวซอย), or curry noodles, is easily the most well known dishes of all Northern Thai food. Dear to the hearts of locals as well as a popular dish among expats and travelers (because it’s so delicious), many would…
In this post I’m going to share with you the 10 best Thai restaurants in Bangkok, that I tried in 2018. Even after years of living in Bangkok, it’s a city where food is always exciting, and there’s always more…
Samrub For Thai (สำรับสำหรับไทย) is a small private kitchen restaurant in Bangkok by Chef Prin (former head chef of Bangkok’s Nahm restaurant). He especially focuses on ancient family Thai recipes, many of which are unheard of these days, and cooks…
Khanom Tokyo (ขนมโตเกียว) is a popular Thai sweet and savory street food snack. While you’ll find it across Thailand and throughout Bangkok, one of the happiest vendors of all is Uncle Tokyo (ลุงโตเกียว), who sells along Soi Convent in Silom,…
Kuay Teow Khae (ร้านก๋วยเตี๋ยวแคะ) is an extremely popular Thai street food noodle stall in downtown Silom, Bangkok. The egg noodles are crinkly, the seasoning is spicy and sour, and the crispy pork belly will crunch and melt in your mouth…
Mihara Tofuten is a gourmet tofu restaurant in Bangkok that serves the world’s first tofu omakase (course by course, chef’s menu). During your meal, you’ll have combinations, flavors, and textures of tofu (plus numerous bean curd and soybean combinations) you…
Sorn (ศรณ์) is a restaurant in Bangkok that specializes in fine Southern Thai food. You’ll experience a journey through Southern Thailand on your plate, including 22 different dishes, each vibrant, colorful, and an excitement to your taste buds. In this…
If you do some deep searching in Thai for the best Laap in Chiang Mai, few locals disagree that this little home restaurant tops the list. In fact, as we were sitting there, a group of Thai police eating next…
Thai basil stir fry (ผัดกะเพรา pad kaprao) is one of the pillars of Thai street food comfort in Bangkok. It’s one of those dishes that’s simple to make, complex in flavor, it never gets old, and it’s without fail, always…
To eat Thailand’s best coconut milk BBQ chicken (ไก่กอและ), you have to go to the tiny town of Hua Sai (หัวไทร), located on the coast of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Southern Thailand. There you’ll find a generations old coconut milk bbq…
Beef lovers… This is a Thai braised beef restaurant in Bangkok that will satisfy all your beef dreams. Neua Toon Tha Nam Sathu Pradit (ร้านเนื้อตุ๋นท่าน้ำสาธุประดิษฐ์) specializes in Thai Chinese style braised beef that’s so tender it melts in your mouth….
