Food varies dramatically by destination across Vietnam, Thailand, and Singapore — from Hanoi’s egg coffee and bun cha to Ho Chi Minh City’s com tam, Bangkok’s street-stall noodles to Hua Hin’s weekend night markets, and Singapore’s hawker centres serving Michelin-recognized food at street prices. These guides cover what to eat, where to find it, and what a fair local price looks like, so you’re not guessing at a menu or overpaying as a visitor. Coverage spans major destinations across all three countries, with more cities added as the site expands.
Koh Tao’s food scene is shaped by its diving crowd — travelers often stay one to four weeks for a dive course, so the island has an unusually dense mix of genuine Thai cooking alongside Western cafes, smoothie-bowl spots, and international restaurants you would not expect on an island this small. Fresh seafood is the…
Mango sticky rice — khao niao mamuang — pairs warm glutinous rice soaked in sweetened coconut milk with fresh ripe mango, finished with a drizzle of coconut cream and a scatter of crispy mung beans. It is Thailand’s best-known dessert internationally, likely taking its current form sometime between the late Ayutthaya period and the reign…
Tom yum — most often served as tom yum goong, with shrimp — is Thailand’s most internationally famous dish, a hot-and-sour soup built on lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaf, fresh chilies, and lime juice. It comes in two distinct styles: a clear, sharp-flavored “nam sai” broth, and a richer, creamier “nam khon” version enriched with…
What to eat in Pai, Thailand: Walking Street night market food, northern Thai and Shan-influenced dishes, and where the town’s well-known vegan and vegetarian cafes are.
From Naklua’s seafood restaurants to Thepprasit Night Market and the back-soi noodle shops locals actually use, here is where to eat in Pattaya.
Hua Hin’s best eating is split between its weekend night markets, long-running seafood houses, and decades-old street food stalls. Here’s where to go for each.
Khao soi is Northern Thailand’s signature dish: a rich, coconut-curry noodle soup topped with a tangle of crispy fried egg noodles, found all over Chiang Mai but rarely seen outside the north. If pad thai is Thailand’s noodle dish for the world, khao soi is the one locals in Chiang Mai actually eat on a…
Pad thai is a stir-fried rice noodle dish built on a sweet-sour-salty balance of tamarind, fish sauce, and palm sugar, tossed with egg, tofu, bean sprouts, and usually shrimp or chicken, then finished with crushed peanuts and a wedge of lime. It is Thailand’s most internationally recognized dish, but it is younger than most visitors…
Koh Samui’s food scene runs from Pad Thai and Tom Yum at local-run shops near Chaweng’s side streets to high-end beachfront dining at resorts like Six Senses and Anantara. The best approach for most visitors is to mix both: a few resort meals for the view, and regular trips into Chaweng’s or Bophut’s side streets…
Krabi’s food scene centers on two things: riverside seafood restaurants where you pick your own fish or crab from a tank, and weekend night markets where a full meal costs less than a coffee back home. The province’s southern Thai roots also show up in dishes you will not find as easily in Bangkok or…
