Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Need to Know
TOP TIP
Thais use chopsticks to eat noodles but use a spoon to eat rice
AVOID
Restaurant Thai food can be overrated; street stalls are better
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Culinary Bangkok Don't Miss List
BY DUANGPORN (BO) SONGVISAVA, CO-OWNER & CHEF, BO.LAN RESTAURANT
1 FRESH MARKETS
The best-stocked fresh market is Khlong Toey Market (
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). It is a whole-
sale market that supplies most of the city's restaurants, including my own. I often
talk with the vendors to get the know-how of ingredients. Pak Khlong Market (
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) is great for its quality of products, always fresh and tempting me to
buy.
2 FINE DINING
nahm (
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) is part of the new wave of upscale Thai restaurants -
Western chefs resuscitating old-fashioned Thai dishes with high-end ingredients.
Foreigners love it and Thais are hospitably intrigued. Bo.lan (
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) is an-
other facet of the fine-dining scene: it is based on slow-food philosophy, promot-
ing food biodiversity, cooking everything from scratch and safeguarding culinary
heritage.
3
GŎO-AY ÐĚE-O
(NOODLES)
Bangkok is
the
place for noodles. There are hundreds of places in Bangkok and
everyone has their own recommendations. I like to go to
Rung Ruang
(Soi 26,
Th Sukhumvit)
, which does noodle soups with pork and fish balls. There's also a
little
no-name shop
(cnr Th Rama IV & Th Chua Pleang)
under the expressway
that does pork noodles.
Sia
(Th Rama IV; 7pm-midnight Mon-Sat)
, opposite
the BMW showroom, is a little duck-noodle shop that has flavourful broth and