rjh

Everyone else must be hard at work.

I didn't check to see how redundant this Google collaborative map is, but here's a start, with Tongue Thai as the first entry.

Open to all for update. Have fun.

SuperCarnitas

Broken link -- can you post again? (Make sure to use the "link to this page" link on the upper right of the Google Map, and not the cut/paste of your address bar. Yeah, I too think that's an unfortunate product characteristic on Google's part.)

transpac

Khao Manh Gai, similar to Hainanese Chicken Rice, is widely available in Bangkok. Two recommended restaurants are:

Jay Wa a few steps east of Victory Monument on the north side of what is there called, I think, Din Daeng Road.

Name unknown, a few steps east of Ratchadamri Road on the south side of Petchburi Road, (corner Petchburi Soi 30).

Both places are usually packed, saw a lot of Asian tourists in the 2nd place, with guide-books, evidently this place gets mentioned a lot. We helped some younger Taiwanese people with their orders.

Typically you get rice, cooked in chicken stock, topped with sliced white chicken meat and a cup of chicken broth, but there are variations. A full chicken soup and dark meat are available.

From here it is a short walk to the Pratunam Pier for the Khlong San Saeb canal boats, to head east or west and beat the traffic. Visit the Pratunam clothing market, a warren of shops, alleyways, stalls, malls behind the Amari Watergate hotel, or the Platinum Fashion Mall (directly opposite the Amari, 7 floors, aircon) or Panthip Plaza for electronics.

rjh

Duh, try this. I should know better.

Edited to add that the Bangkok Eats map referenced in Transpac's post has a lot of placemarks, but it's not open for collaborative editing. I not thrilled making Yet Another Redundant map, but this might be an interesting experiment.

Also, I included "Restaurant Bangkok" in each of the placemark names to make them easier to find when searching. Comments for improvement can be made here, I suppose, but might make more sense on the map's comment area.

braslvr

FWIW, Thailand is the only place I've been that local cuisine is consistently much tastier at low to mid range restaurants including street food stalls, than at higher end places. I tend to prefer spicier Isaan type dishes so perhaps this is why, but I've been disappointed every time I get dragged to an expensive eatery.

transpac

I moved Rut & Lek to the correct location, added my fav. restaurant: Niyom. Will add more.

MegatopLover

Be sure to add "Little Chinese Boy," the stall with streetside tables that I wrote about in the Street Food thread (and maybe this one too) to the map. That name is a translation of the Thai name, which I can never remember. It's located directly across Charroennakorn Road from the Peninsula, alongside the canal (there's a Chinese temple on the opposite side of the canal) and next door to a Family Mart. If Bangkok uses the even-odd street numbering system like we use in the US (but unlike Britain), then we could safely estimate Little Chinese Boy's address as 332 Charroennakorn, since the Pen is at 333.

Very handy map, BTW. Thanks for building it.

ddrewboy

I know which one you are talking about but dont remember the name either. If I have to literally translate it, it would be "Tee Noi" where "Tee" is chinese boy and "Noi" is small or little.

The street numbering system is also odd-even streets. Unfortunately, soi 1 is not always right across from soi 2 and vise versa. Take Sukhumvit for instance, the odd streets are more frequent than the even streets. Am I making any sense?

drew

transpac

The beauty of rjh's Google map is that anyone can add to it so feel free to add. I added one restauarant and edited another, and I plan to add to it. This new Google map for Thailand is pretty incredible. Evidently a lot of people knew it was coming as I've seen several prototype websites, one naughty, one nice already developed and about to be launched. The nice one has hundreds of restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions; very impressive, and I will post a link when I am free to do so. The naughty one highlights the various adult entertainment venues.

rjh

It's now possible to move placemark names up and down in the left pane that lists placemarks, so, if you add something and it's placed at the bottom, feel free to move it to the appropriate alpha sorted position. I'll do this totry to keep some sort of order when possible.

I suggest we use the convention of the knife/fork icon for restaurants and the glass icon for bars. I've also marked a few places as geographic placemarks for orientation. (I guess we should really use a spoon/fork icon, but...)

yosithezet

So you'll post a link to the first when you are free to but you are keeping the second one to yourself?

This map is great! The funny thing is that I hadn't heard of Suda before a flight BKK-BOM last week. Though I'd subscribed to the thread I wasn't paying enough attention because I'm not great with the BKK geography, yet. I was sitting next to a Thai-Indian woman who has lived on Sukhumvit Soi 12 her entire life. She was telling me that for 'street food' in a non-street environment I should try Suda. Saturday I was up on the Asoke BTS platform and I spotted the place though I was on my way to Mosburger. Sunday I hopped over to Suda but it was closed. I'm looking forward to trying it out next time.

The past two trips I've discovered Khao Mun Gai and Khao Mun Gai Tod and I'm hooked! I can't wait to try it at the places that transpac pointed out. Meanwhile, how does one ask for some extra meat?

ddrewboy

If you are at street vendors, then tell them you want "Pi-set" which means special. They'll give you more meat then. If that's still not enough, I just order an extra serving. it's only 1 USD anyway

drew

UAL Traveler

As in English, this can be done in many ways, with the preferred phrase based on overall context. However, I realize that such a comment is not helpful, so...

A simple, very polite way to ask for more of something (usually food in a restaurant) would be: "kor (xxxxx) perm, noi khrup" (note I assumed a male is making the request... if female, substitute ka for khrup). Just insert the thai noun for xxxxx. For example, asking for more meat, you'd substitute "neu-a." A woman asking for more rice would be "kor kow perm, noi ka"

If you're dealing with a street vendor, you might try something simple like "oww eek.... dai, mai khrup?" which means "I want some more... is that possible?" Such phraseology would rarely be used by native Thai speakers, but in practice would certainly suffice to get your point across.

rjh

Well, I put a placemark on the map for this, but I'll leave it to someone else to move it appropriately.

transpac

New Mosburger outlets in Central Chiltlom (open), and Paragon (open 15 March), and more on the way. Incredibly popular here.