Food Street in bankok

Bang Lamphu : Shoestring travellers flock to Bang Lamphu, especially the area around Khaosan Road. Most eating places in this area cater for budget-conscious diners. Many guesthouses on Khaosan Road have open-air cafes serving standard Thai and Chinese dishes. Other decent possibilities include Indian, Jewish, and Muslim restaurants.

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Yaowarat : Bangkok's Chinatown houses some of the best and most expensive Chinese restaurants in the city, along with many of the best and cheapest food stalls, especially at night. Large restaurants line the bustling Yaowarat Road, but venturing into sois, or lanes, will lead you to less impressive yet equally enjoyable establishments. The restaurants mostly specialise in southern Chinese cooking, with noodles, seafood and, at lunchtime, dim sum dumplings dominating the menus.

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Prasert Manukit - Pradit Manutham : Though officially named Prasert Manukit - Prait Manutham, the new extending eight-laned strip under the Ekamai-Ram Indra Expressway is usually refereed to as Tanon Lieb Tang Duan Ekamai - Ram Indra, and is the city's newest hub of dining venues.

Along the 10-kilometre stretch and around the corner of every intersection it runs across, the lengthy road is lined with various recently-built garden-style eateries and trendy restaurants-cum-pubs as well as neatly planted palm trees.

Since the strip is best known to offer various choices of family style dning, the food is guaranteed to be no nonsense. Most o the spacious lush garden restaurants either offer great varieties of Thai food or fantastic fresh seafood. Stop by Koong Kaew, Tha Mai and Mom Luang Terb for flavourful authentic Thai dishes; or try superb seafood at Koh Libon, Somphong, Mahachai and Bang Pakong restaurants.

Around the Kaset-Nawamin intersection, there are lots of ground-shaking pub-like restauants including Yes Indeed, Immoral and Cecko pubs. Where as on the main road you will find more laid-back pubs such as The Terrace, The Pool and Shelter.

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Phahurat : Taking a short walk from Yaowarat's Chinatown to Phahurat's little India is like taking a transcendental journey between two different worlds. Inhabited by Thai people of Indian origin, the confined alleyways around the Phahurat area accommodate a number of authentic Indian restaurants, particularly those offering North Indian cuisine. Alternatively, other subcontinental foods such as Punjabi and Pakistani are also plentifully available.

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Silom Road : Several food streets are linked to this road in Bangkok's busiest area. Seafood stalls sprout along the section near Sala Daeng Intersection after sunset until late at night. The nearby Convent Road offers everything from Indonesian to an Irish tavern. Opposite, a crush of Japanese restaurants makes Soi Thaniya into a lively walkway for Japanese visitors and sushi lovers of all nationalities. Thai food is available in palace style and street style, side by side. The best selection of the former can be found in Soi Phiphat. Find the Thai version of fast food at most shopping complexes and Soi Lalai Sap's Lunch Market.

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Siam Square: This shopping area is crammed with medium to high-priced eateries as well as American fast-food outlets. Whether you crave Thai, European, Chinese or Japanese foods, there is a place for you somewhere in this fashionable area. Traditional Thai restaurants are flanked by gaudy fast-food franchises and Japanese suki parlours. Soi 1 has conventional Chinese restaurants.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Soi Lang Suan : Like Sukhumvit Road, Soi Lang Suan offers a diverse mix of Thai, Asian, and European influences. Fashionable restaurants present interesting eating possibilities at medium to high prices. Also home to some of the most popular jazz pubs in the city, the street's flashy atmosphere attracts the money crowd in droves after sundown.

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Sukhumvit Road : There is no shortage of eating places on Sukhumvit. Some people say that from any spot along the road you are within 100 metres of at least one restaurant. And the food could not be more cosmopolitan.

At its western end, around Soi Nana, an enclave of Pakistani and Middle Eastern restaurants fills the sois with the aroma of spices, earning this area the name "Little Arabia". Further up the road Indian cuisine takes over, with restaurants offering both northern and southern Indian specialities.

European and American cooking balance the equation, with Italian, French, British, German, and Mexican restaurants lining the road and presenting a variety of options in terms of menus, atmosphere, and prices. Sukhumvit 55, also known as Soi Thong Lo, and its labyrinthine branches are also full of restaurants of every kind.

Then there is Thai food. Both authentic and nouvelle dishes can be found at small, sparingly decorated restaurants or lavishly ornate ones, along the pavements, and in the markets.