Top Bangkok Restaurants to Savour Authentic Thai FoodBy Angelica Malin
Every traveller when visiting a foreign place makes sure to enjoy the local flavours of food. Bangkok is known as ‘City of Angels’, to its name, this Southeast Asian city truly offers choices for anyone to eat like a local and indulge in these Thai dishes at affordable prices. Once you plan to this beautiful city of Bangkok, book cheapest international air tickets from Delhi to Bangkok and enjoy the city with your family and friends.
Bangkok has an amazing range of eat outs and restaurants that serve authentic Thai street food style menus in most of the houses. These restaurants make Bangkok one of the world’s greatest cities for food lovers. You will find most of the local restaurants have local clients, cheap yet colourful cutlery, cheerful atmosphere, empty gas bannisters lined up to the walls, and pictures of kings and holy monks on the walls. Though they serve on plastic plates, aluminium cups and have outdated furnishings these restaurants serve incredibly delicious authentic Thai food, which is simply finger-licking good. The recipes used are passed down through the generations and here are the best and top Bangkok restaurants to savour authentic Thai food.
Thip Samai Pad Thai
Make sure when in Bangkok; visit this best local restaurant usually known as Ghost Gate (Pratu Pee). This restaurant serves world’s best pad Thai in Bangkok. The restaurant is popular because of its authentic recipes, and serving portions are filling. They make sure to use extremely fresh ingredients, and even though cooked on charcoal we can find very less oil in the food. Sit on the steel benches inside or outside the restaurant and enjoy the freshly made orange juice that comes from the countryside.
Wattana Panich Restaurant
The first thing that one notices once you enter Ekkamai Road is the huge stewing pot at the entrance of this restaurant. Wattana Panich is one of the best local restaurants in Bangkok; the tender beef cooked in the rich gravy is very scrumptious and served with noodles. You can select from a choice of various noodles along with the gravy.
Lek Seafood Silom
Find this restaurant under the Chong Nonsi BTS Skytrain Station in Bangkok. You will find this most happening restaurant in the hustle bustle of Narathiwat in the backdrop. As the name mentions, Lek Seafood Silom is specialized in making different varieties of exceptional seafood. Taste the spicy and sour tom yum seafood soup, shellfish of dazzling variety, chilli crab and steamed catfish with chilli and lime and much more. Have the beer that is served with ice sitting on the plastic chairs. The menu is mentioned in English, and if you are looking for genuine quality local food in Silom, Lek is simply the best.
Sabai Jai Gai Yang
The juicy and tender chicken served with toasted chilli dip the grilled chicken that is mentioned in their restaurant name (Gai Yang in Thai) this is the best item they make and serve. Try their grilled liver, fresh papaya salad, larb pork. If you want to have some fun time with your friends, spend some time in the air-conditioned karaoke rooms Sabai Jai Gai Yang offers. Also, enjoy the live bands that play on weekends along with the mouthwatering food.
Jok Prince
Jok is a Thailand’s version of rice porridge enriched with strong herbs and biting spices. Jok Prince is served in most of the food courts and street stalls, but the best rice porridge is found in Jok Prince. This narrow restaurant is set up close to Sapan Taksin BTS Skytrain Station. Combine this rice porridge with minced pork balls, or poached eggs.
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