What types of restaurant are there in Thailand?
‘Thai life is food’ in the same way as ‘food is life’ to them. As a result of this and the warm climate, there are places to eat absolutely everywhere, even the most unlikely places. Thais will stop whatever they are doing for food and as they do not like to walk too far, they will require a food stall in sight. Normally there is one luckily for them and us… These ‘street stalls’ are also very good generally and great value. They serve a variety of food and a selection of plastic chairs and tables tops off the local experience. Next up is the ‘just off the street stall’ which is a small simple restaurant usually in a shophouse and again the order of the day is no frills wholesome cooking mostly centred on rice or noodles. Then there are more elaborate restaurants that range from good value to astronomical and you just have to use common sense about the price and read the menu first. Two things to note are firstly that you can always order food into any bar – unlike the west, they do no
