Restaurant and food guide – Chiang Mai, Thailand
Sanmai Has the best Ramen in Chiang Mai. Full stop. I usually stay away from words like “best” and instead use “my favorite”, but Sanmai is in a league of their own when it comes to ramen. I’ve tried most of the other dozen or so ramen joints in Chiang Mai, and while I haven’t… Read More
小笼包, Xiaolongbao, or เซียวหลงเปา no matter what way you choose to write it, soup dumplings spell out a good meal. If you’ve never had Chinese soup dumplings before, imagine if your bowl of noodles was made out of noodles, bite sized, and wrapped up for individual ingestion. That’s the gist of this centuries old dish.… Read More
More often than not the duck sold in Chiang Mai is roasted, and I love the crispy skin that accompanies it, however this ก๋วยเตี๋ยวเป็ดตุ๋น (braised duck noodles) has some of the most fall apart and delicious meat, let alone duck, I’ve come across in this sleepy city. Braising might be my favorate way to cook… Read More
For me eating is a way of experiencing culture. There is no language barrier. A passport is not required. You can forgo jet lag in place of the after dinner nap, and a currency exchange is simply what happens at the end of the meal. At Papa Curry, you get to peer into Japanese culture… Read More
There is something to be said about only doing one thing. Most animals tend to specialize in getting one food source. Over time they get better at finagling everything possible from said flower, nut, ect. Two things, Co-evolving to be perfectly suited for the requirements of the other. Now I don’t think the man who… Read More
Koreans really have a way of making foods more “American” than we can pull off in the US, all while keeping them distinctly “Asian”. I first experienced this when in Seoul and stumbled upon a restaurant that did a “Cheese Moat” stir fry. You read that correctly, a stir fry with a moat of cheese… Read More
Wings should only ever be served in the quantities “Heap-a Wings” and “Mess-a Wings”. An amount so large that they actually become the platform for themselves. One which the structural integrity compromises if the wrong wing is plucked; an edible Jenga if you will. At Sekai No Yamachan they understand this concept. Wings are an… Read More
When I want some really good vegetarian or vegan food, Hummus Chiang Mai is where I go. Vegetarian and vegan food can get a bad wrap for not being delicious. In my experience this is only true when the people who cooked it didn’t know what they were doing. This is 100% not the case… Read More
While I do appreciate a roti rolled in a square of greasy white paper, sold on the street, the roti at Guu Fusion Roti & Tea was on par with any I’ve had in Chiang Mai. It almost felt weird eating it with a fork and not having oily palms after that last bite. As… Read More
There are a few questions you can ask to determine if a place is worth eating at. Do the owners not speak your language all that well, or even the Edit: There is now a full English menu with pictures. It doesn’t have photos of the actual food they make, but the food here looks… Read More
The versatility of noodles is something that never ceases to amaze me. They can me cut long or short, thick or thin, be stuffed or eaten dry straight from Mama’s plastic packaging. However, in Guay Jap they are rolled. For the longest time I thought little old Chinese men and women (more often than not… Read More
Any food that can be lovingly described as “goop” is more often than not a food I’m going to enjoy (This probably stems from how much I enjoyed the food fight scene in the movie “Hook”…Rufio, Rufio, Ru-Fi-OOOOO). For me the sauce is the best part of any meal, and I tend to “ruin” said… Read More