So what do you eat when you go out, Thai food?
I can't stomach chili anymore, not even a tiny bit, so a fair amount of Thai food is off the menu for me. Also when I walk past restaurants and look at what Thai people are eating it doesn't appeal to me, even if I was able/could be bothered to get them to make it mai phet.
I really want to overcome this near-phobia of Thai food, so if you can give me a few suggestions for restaurants and dishes in Bangkok that serve knock-your-socks-off Thai food that blows mediocre Western food out of the water, that would be great. I think you've mentioned before that you travel to Bangkok fairly regularly
By restaurant I mean a nice place to sit down and get a cold beer or a glass of wine with one's meal, not some hole in the wall pad grapao joint.
The only places I've been to so far are the likes of Mango Tree off of Suriyawong and Coco Chao Phraya on Phra Athit but I came away from them as underwhelmed as I have from the lower-budget Western joints that I've been to (too many to list). Can't afford the likes of Cocotte and all those other schmany places that @richard_smith237 goes to 🤣