This was often my last shopping destination before flying back to the UK. It’s also a great place to eat with a wide range of food and drink stalls. Admittedly, not the cheapest of Thai markets but the quality and variety is outstanding. This is why after 30 minutes or so my resolve to find everything on my list crumbles and I head for a far cooler and altogether less frenetic place, Or Tor Kor Market. Although this is just literally round the corner from JJ market it’s much less crowded, and to me altogether more interesting because Or Tor Kor market is a food market, in fact it’s Thai food heaven! This is the place to come to when you want to buy the very best of Thai produce. However after years of living outside Thailand my tolerance for the crowds, and most of all, the heat, is decidedly less than when I was a Bangkok resident. I’m sure that nearly every visitor to Bangkok has been to JJ or Chauchak Market, sometimes I think that they are all there at the same time as me, wow is it crowded! No question, it's one of the world’s great markets for tourists and locals alike, it often seems to me there is little you cannot buy there. The date of the most recent update appears above.Or Tor Kor Market Bangkok Thai Food Heaven at Or Tor Kor market This map was originally published in June 2019 it is updated periodically. The Thai restaurant, which focuses on Isan dishes, got recognition from the James Beard Foundation in 2022 with an award for its chef and co-owner Nisachon (Rung) Morgan.) (Heading farther north? Check out Saap in Randolph, Vermont. Here are some of the best Thai restaurants in the Boston area right now, with some pointers on what to order at each. (Still, there’s no shame in ordering what you like - if pad thai or panang curry floats your boat, go for it.) And even at restaurants that offer plenty of those aforementioned familiar dishes and less specialization, there’s often a lot more to explore if you just dig into parts of the menu you haven’t tried yet. The cuisine of Thailand’s Isan region in the northeast, for example, is significantly different than the street food of Bangkok, and ideally, there’d be plenty of separate restaurants focusing on each instead of just serving a couple highlights from each area.įortunately there are a growing number of Boston-area Thai restaurants that do specialize a bit more, regionally speaking. Thai food suffers the same fate as many other cuisines when it comes to a city the size of Boston: Most restaurants try to squeeze an overview of the entire country into one menu, resulting in the ubiquitous jumble of pad thai, build-your-own curries, and other noodle and rice dishes quite familiar to American diners but barely scratching the surface of any one specific part of Thailand.

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