Neighborhood: Thonglor district
Price vary: $$
Dish to order: Fermented tea leaf salad, a Burmese staple
With a restaurant scene as various and multi-cultural as Bangkok’s, you would be lacking out if you happen to solely persist with native grub. The Yangon-born Rangoon Tea House, which opened a Bangkok offshoot in 2024, is a kind of spots proving why: in its buzzy Thonglor-district eating room, furnished with rattan chairs and pink neon lights, it serves up small-plate, hyper-creative takes on Burmese delicacies, itself an amalgamation of Indian, Chinese and Southeast Asian influences. The fermented tea leaf salad, a Burmese staple, is the apparent order, however do not miss out on a few of the restaurant’s extra border-crossing creations: the pounded mutton topped with creamy burrata cheese, Myanmar-style nachos with jackfruit adobo, and the pillowy brioche served with whipped tea leaf and prawn oil butter. (*11*), sister restaurant Namsu blends the conviviality (and wide- ranging sake assortment) of a Japanese izakaya with flavours from Myanmar’s Shan State, ensuing in enjoyable creations equivalent to grilled squid with Kachin chimichurri, onigiri with fermented crab roe, and hen wings full of sticky rice.
Address: 6 Soi Sangchai, Phra Khanong, Khlong Toei