Thai Street and Hole-in-Wall Restaurants

[Evil Penevil]

One of my favorites is the street restaurant diagonally across from Beach Club on Soi 15. It wasn't in operation for a long while after Songkran, but I noticed the other night it's up and running again.

 

It offers very fresh seafood and other dishes at reasonable prices, although they aren't the cheapest around. The Thai man who does the cooking really knows his stuff. The portions are substantial. It's a favorite spot for the better-off girls who work in the WS bars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Others favorites are the late-night street restaurants on Pattaya Tai close to Tukcom. Very cheap and tasty food, made to order. It's the real thing and I've eaten there many a night and the ladies outnumber the males at those restaurants by 10 to one, so it's easy to make contact with the girls if you're still looking at that hour (after 3.00 a.m.). I don't know how many times I've heard, "Where you go? I go with you."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plenty of other street snacks and fresh food available until around 5 a.m. on that stretch of Pattaya Tai.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evil

[Evil Penevil]

For those who favor very inexpensive street-style dishes, here are three more options, all close to Tukcom. They aren't strictly "streateries," but more like hole-in-the-wall restaurants.

 

The first is behind Tukcom, at the corner of the first intersection of the bounding subsois as you exit to the left. Great noodle soup, cooked to order and very tasty at 30 or 40 baht a bowl, depending on what's in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second is on Pattaya Tai, diagonally across the street from Tukcom. It serves a great boiled chicken and rice dish (for sit-down or take-away) at 40 baht.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The third is on one of the subsois that runs off Pattaya Tai (third down from Tukcom as you walk towards 2nd Road) . It's about in the middle of the block. Very cheap and tasty food and a great variety of dishes. I failed to take a picture of it, but my favorite dish was squid with salted eggs. It's where one of the girls I know would take her mother for a meal when the mother came to visit. The two dishes in the pic - pork with garlic and Thai-style stuffed omelet, cost a whopping 80 baht total.

 

I can't imagine what the health authorities in any Western country would say about this restaurant, but I was eating there on almost a daily basis for several weeks and never had a hint of a stomach problem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Evil Penevil]

This is an "indoor-outdoor" restaurant across the street from the noodle shop described in the foregoing post. Cheap beer as well as cheap and tasty food:

 

 

 

Still in the vicinity of Tuk.Com, this is a sit-down place across the subsoi from Cucumber on Pattaya Tai:

 

 

 

 

Around lunch or in the evening, it is usually packed by a mixed crowd of Thais and mostly Russian farangs. It could be the decor that's as big as attraction as the food.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next sets of pics are straight-out street food from the "night food market" along Pattaya Tai. I was a bit leery of the salt-encrusted fish, but it is truly delicious. Moist with a mild flavor.

 

 

 

 

 

The last is my second-favorite Thai dessert, banana crepes. (My most favorite would be mango with sticky rice). This lady made especially good banana crepes, better than most I've had. If you're walking towards 2nd Road from Tuk.Com, her cart is at the corner of the second subsoi. She only seems to work that location between about 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

 

 

 

 

Yum!

 

Evil

[Evil Penevil]

Here's another place, in the opposite direction to TukCom if you start from LK Metro. It's on Pattaya Klang (right side as you walk towards Beach Road) between Soi Bukow and 2nd Road. It's a rather large roofed eating hall. Regular sit-down meals (heavy on seafood) are available, as are many "street style" dishes. In front of it are stalls that sell fresh fruit and other foodstuffs. One stall offers very good mango with sticky rice, the perfect finish for any Thai meal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[expatdude]

Thanks a lot. Your posts are packed with great info, especially for people who live here and love real Thai food. It's amazing how these little, grubby (let's be honest) places can serve world-class food. Often people on boards like this recommend the hole-in-the-wall place on Soi Buakow near Soi Chaiyaboom, but you'll notice it's largely full of farangs. The food there is sub-par to me. I can tell, almost certainly, from your pictures, that the food in the places you recommend here is far superior.

 

Thanks again.

[Sexyfarangman]

Not only is this an excellent overview of the topic, but the photos capture the essence of Pattaya blue collar life.

[Totoro]

Great information. I have visited that Pattaya Klang place couple of times and food was good. Also thai ladies with me seemed to like the place.

[THAJEC]

Thanks for high quality recommendation including photos. Soi 15 opposite your man which you recommended for us cook one old thai lady, which has great fishes "Snaper" too. One fish about 350 B.

Yes, where we can see many thai people take meals is great food often.

[Zizou Z]

Evil,

 

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I am a major foodie and will definitely hit up all the above mentioned "hole in the walls."

 

I just wish there was a Vietnamese restaurant in Patts.

[nice to visit]

Thanks for the info Evil and the fantastic photos. I love the whole fish and the crepes as well.

[robert69]

Great overview and i will be sure to try some on the next trip.

You made me hungry haha

[pasta man]

Great thread that deserves a bump. Lots of detail and pictures too. Making me hungry.

 

Sticky rice with mango is my favorite thai dessert, so will definetely give that place a try.

[K20a213]

Thank you for this post! I haven't ventured too much with eating establishments during my first trip, breakfast at the hotel, lunch usually at central festival food court, and dinner usually near ws. I always regretted not venturing more but the heat was getting to me. For my trip next year I will be hitting up atleast a couple of your suggestions since my stay will be substantially longer.

 

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[tomei]

Good information on the restaurants and nice pictures. Will definitely try them out, some of the dishes and restaurants/stalls remind me of some places in Vietnam. They look very similar.

[pusher]

Just came back from another trip, and we regularly ate at the restaurant you mentioned just across the sub-soi from cucumber on Pattaya Tai - not expensive and more importantly good food.

[Tuna58]

Thanks, exactly the info I am looking for. 

[skirtchasa]

These street side food stalls is what makes the Asian experience so unique.  I wish we had this in the so-called most beautiful province.

[robert69]

Man you made me hungry

 

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[adam4444]

Here's another place, in the opposite direction to TukCom if you start from LK Metro. It's on Pattaya Klang (right side as you walk towards Beach Road) between Soi Bukow and 2nd Road. It's a rather large roofed eating hall. Regular sit-down meals (heavy on seafood) are available, as are many "street style" dishes. In front of it are stalls that sell fresh fruit and other foodstuffs. One stall offers very good mango with sticky rice, the perfect finish for any Thai meal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ive walked up and down this soi many times over the years on holiday mostly with my music on maybe stopping for fruit etc but ive never went inside for food . i will have to try it out next time the only thing that puts me off some of these places is the heat i see in the photo there is a fan in the picture and fans on the ceiling how hot was it are there other fans further along out of picture . are there other places that have plenty fans etc or what ones have none so i can avoid . there is a cheap place on soi buckaow that is popular but unless im near the fan next to the wall  it can get very hot as the celing fans are not mutch cope . great pictures and great info . 

[jumpybongo]

Man you made me hungry

 

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[taylor1975]

I never knew the night market around tukcom was still going strong at 3am! 

[Taa_Saparot]

I never knew the night market around tukcom was still going strong at 3am! 

 

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[The Jackal]

Awesome shots, im starving now 555 passed by these places many times but they seemed packed and around that area im normally heading towards a bar but might try them out in 4 weeks

[butler]

I never knew the night market around tukcom was still going strong at 3am! 

 same here

 

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you talking about market or food hall

[tweedle-dee]

you can bet your bottom dollar that if you see a hoard of thai gals feasting away after the hours of midnight that the joint is serving up TOP thai nosh but sadly for the farang gastronomic delight monger these establishments dont serve up during the day , this thread and the pics have been a treat, by the way the TILAPIA fish up north is usualy around 100 baht Tilapia is the most commonly seen grey salted one,also sold in tropical fish shops back in the UK wich seems a little funny to me, a bit like watching baby cod as pets!