Our first stop of this Thailand Food Trip is this is very instagrammable café in the outskirts of the Khao Yai National Park is worth a stop. The food is pretty decent and a great pit stop after a 2.5 hour drive from Bangkok. I was lucky to be there on the right day because the café is only open Fridays to Sundays, 9am to 11pm. Check out the ice creams and coffees we had amongst the backdrop of modern architecture and nature. We had a chocolate cake, a cuppa of affogatto and an iced-cold cup of passion fruit soda.

Next on our list in this Thailand food trip: this restaurant serves pretty homely Thai food. We loved the atmosphere here and the food was really yummy. What we had:

• Deep fried prawn cakes
• Red curry mackerel
• Stir fried sunflower shoots

There are a whole range of dishes you can order and I really wish we could order more but that’d just be too much food. So we picked what was recommended. Loved the prawn cakes and the red curry mackerel was really delicious. Do schedule a time for lunch here if you are in Khao Yai.

This restaurant is really interesting. While star of this place is the claypot prawns vermicelli, the other attraction is actually within our walk into the restaurant. The way in is lined with trinkets and “artifacts” of items you see along the way that pays homage to movies, the 80s and to some other western pop cultures. What we had:

• Claypot Prawns and vermicelli
• Pad Thai
• Souffléd egg with crab meat
• Stir fried cabbage

Honestly, the food here was just decent but you should still make a trip here to experience the restaurants’ quirky decor and ambience.

This was a pretty good find, a store that is under the bridge, by the riverside in Pratunam, had some of the best boat noodles I’ve ever tasted. The small portions are cheap and just nice for us to sample different flavours of the noodles. Here’s what we had (from the first picture from the top left, clockwise) :

• Clear soup with minced pork noodle
• Thick soup pork noodle
• Tom yum soup pork noodle
• Dry Tom yum noodle
• Pork crackling

This chicken rice establishment is apparently famous in Bangkok and has been around since the 1930s. You will not be able to miss this place as you will see a queue outside this store. While the chicken rice looks rather plain compared to the Malaysian version but it still does pack a punch in flavor, especially the rice. I still prefer the Malaysian Hainanese version, but it is still decent. We had ours with a plate of Thai pork satay as well.

This Braised Pork Leg rice is surprisingly yummy! The meat is tender and the sauce so flavourful!

This place is a little far and hard to get to from Pratunam but if you have the time, do give it a try. While the place doesn’t look much the food is pretty good. Prices here are a little higher than it should but I say you should still come here and try. Here’s what we had (from the left):

• Grilled Banana shrimps with Stir fried sunflower shoots
• Crab in yellow curry
• Crab fried rice
• Oyster omelette