Originally Posted by IfItAintBoeing
Visiting BKK in January for about 5 days with my brother. Looking for good places/good authentic food.
For example, when I think of Singapore and food, I imagine the chilli crab at No Signboard Seafood in Kallang.
When in Bangkok, is there a national/regional dish and a restaurant that is known for serving it?
Bangkok is smack dab in the middle of Thailand and the food served is hence mostly central Thai, by far the best known variety and what you'll get in any Thai restaurant in the world (or at least pale imitations thereof).
A rough listing of the central Thai classics would be...
* tom yum kung soup (probably the Thai-est dish of them all)
* tom kha gai soup (chicken, coconut, galanga)
* Thai fried noodles (phad thai)
* green curry with beef (kaeng khio-waan neua)
* red curry with duck (kaeng daeng phet)
Do a search for recommendations, this has come up over before. I usually bring visitors to Baan Khanitha, which usually does very good stuff at reasonable prices (by Western standards) and will tone down the chilis by default.