Street Food
Pa Lek Boat Noodles
A third-generation Bib Gourmand stall in Ayutthaya's old city, serving small, rich bowls of pork and beef boat noodles.
Ayutthaya · ฿
Places
Street Food
Thailand's street food is cooked to order at carts, stalls and tiny shophouses, often by people who have made a single dish for decades. Some of these places are now famous, with queues and Michelin listings; others are simply the best version of a dish in their neighbourhood.
This collection covers street food stalls and shophouses across the country, from Bangkok's Chinatown and old town to the night markets of Chiang Mai and the noodle shops of Phuket and Ayutthaya. Each page gives the address, a map, opening hours where they could be confirmed, the price level and the dishes to order.
Opening times at small stalls change often, and many close one day a week or when they sell out, so check before making a special trip. Most take cash only.
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Places
Street Food
Victory Monument Boat Noodle Alley
A canal-side lane of boat noodle shops by Victory Monument, where tiny bowls are stacked high on every table.
Bangkok · ฿
Street Food
Gai Tod Decha
Hat Yai's best-known fried chicken shop, serving crisp shallot-topped gai tod over fragrant khao mok rice.
Hat Yai · ฿
Street Food
Nam Ngiao Yong
A Michelin-listed stall in Siri Wattana Market serving khanom jeen nam ngiao, the tangy pork and tomato noodle soup of the north.
Chiang Mai · ฿
Street Food
Khao Kha Moo Chang Phueak (Cowboy Hat Lady)
The famous evening stall at Chang Phueak Gate where a cook in a cowboy hat ladles out braised pork leg over rice.
Chiang Mai · ฿
Street Food
Khao Soi Khun Yai
A no-frills lunchtime khao soi stall inside the old city's north-east corner, open only four hours a day and often sold out before closing.
Chiang Mai · ฿
Street Food
Khao Soi Mae Sai
A small, plain khao soi shop near Chang Phueak that holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for its rich, gently spiced curry noodle soup.
Chiang Mai · ฿
Street Food
Khao Gaeng Jek Pui
A decades-old Chinatown curry rice stall where diners perch on red stools with plates in hand, no tables in sight.
Bangkok · ฿
Street Food
Lek & Rut Seafood
A corner seafood stall at Yaowarat and Soi Texas, where grilled river prawns and steamed lime squid fuel Chinatown nights.
Bangkok · ฿฿
Street Food
Somsak Pu Ob
A Thonburi street cart with a Michelin Bib Gourmand for crab and prawns steamed in small pans of glass noodles.
Bangkok · ฿฿
Street Food
Rung Rueang Pork Noodle
An open-air Sukhumvit 26 noodle shop with a Michelin Bib Gourmand for its pork noodles in clear or tom yum broth.
Bangkok · ฿
Street Food
Jok Prince
Bang Rak's favourite congee shop, known for silky, faintly smoky rice porridge with chunky pork balls and egg.
Bangkok · ฿
Street Food
Nai Mong Hoi Tod
A tiny Phlap Phla Chai Road shop frying crisp oyster and mussel omelettes over charcoal for more than three decades.
Bangkok · ฿฿
Street Food
Guay Jub Ouan Pochana
A Yaowarat Road cart serving fiercely peppery rolled-noodle soup with crispy pork belly for more than half a century.
Bangkok · ฿
Street Food
Nai Ek Roll Noodles
A Chinatown shophouse famous for peppery rolled-noodle soup and crackling pork belly, open from breakfast to midnight.
Bangkok · ฿
Street Food
Go-Ang Kaomunkai Pratunam
Pratunam's pink-shirted chicken rice shop, serving Hainanese-style khao man gai since 1960 to a constant queue.
Bangkok · ฿
Street Food
Jay Fai
The goggle-wearing wok master of Maha Chai Road, whose Michelin-starred crab omelette draws queues that can last hours.
Bangkok · ฿฿฿฿