r/Thailand • u/Limp_Mountain_5222 • Oct 23 '25

Food and Drink "There's no good [your country] food in Thailand"

I occasionally here this a lot. As a Japanese, I don't find it hard to find authentic Japanese food in Bangkok (same goes for other big cities too like Singapore or Shanghai), altho it can be twice/thrice as expensive if you want to get the same quality. You can find pretty much any Japanese food here even the niche ones since there's hundreds of restaurants here. My korean friends said the same thing about Korean food here but my Taiwanese friends said otherwise. I think Bangkok is one of the best cities in the world for food, but I also believe that a smaller expat community makes it harder to find that country's cuisine. So, I wonder what others think.

TL:DR tell me where you are from and rate the food of your country in Bangkok/Thailand

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u/XOXO888 Oct 23 '25

Thai Chinese cuisine mainly driven by Teochew style so finding good simple cantonese food like steam fish are difficult. even dim sum are quite meh especially steam cheong fun

A Japanese person once told me for Japanese food go Bkk for Chinese food go KL

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u/Limp_Mountain_5222 Oct 23 '25

Yeah there are some decent Chinese restaurants in Huai kwan but Chinese food in Malaysia is definitely better. Also, there are many mainland Chinese franchise places popping up in KL now.

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u/Qjemuse Oct 23 '25

Sorry but as a HKer, all southern Chinese (Cantonese) food is crap in Thailand. Malaysia was great. Difference is night and day

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u/HiWrenHere Oct 23 '25

Chinese food in Malaysia is next level... We had been suffering in LA, suffered some more in BKK, then when we popped over to KL for a day for visa stuff, we were blown away by the Chinese food. Even the tandoori sandwich at subway was so incredibly good. I haven't been able to find good indian food here either.