Three secret spots in Chiang Mai
Anyone who is a little known in a certain place will know special places where life is good and pleasant. In this story I want to explain a little bit about my favorites. To begin; it's about food and drink.
Nothing special, many may think, because in a city the size of Chiang Mai there are many restaurants to choose from.
Successively in this story we go for coffee and cake, use lunch and dinner in an idyllic restaurant. In addition, none of the three occasions cost you your head.
Love at first bite
Let's start with coffee and cake. You walk in Chiangmai from the Thapei Road over the bridge that crosses the Ping River and over the bridge you immediately turn right. Then you walk into the very first narrow street. A hundred meters further you will find yourself in a tavern with the name 'Love at first bite'.
The owner is a real pastry chef and everything is home made. You can sit outside under the trees in peace and quiet. The coffee is of excellent quality and for the pastries you can choose from a very extensive range. Recently they also have a small menu with lunch dishes. The business is only open during the day.
Pongyang Angdoi
If you are in Chiangmai you will of course also want to visit a place of interest such as the Maesai Elephant Camp. It is outside the city and you need your own transport in this case. A few kilometers further on the left side of the road is the Pongyang Angdoi resort owned by one of the hotels of the Singha brewery. The resort also has a restaurant from where you have an enchanting view of a waterfall and the enchanting valley below.
Just a fairytale to have lunch there or just have a drink. Heineken or any other beer brand other than Singha is not available and that will not surprise you given the outlined background. Just look at their site www.pongyangangdoi.com.
The images say more than many words. Eating with your eyes has a double meaning here. Two blue or brown binoculars are not enough to take in the overwhelming natural beauty while eating or simply having a drink and listening to the splashing of the waterfall.
Khaomao – Khaofang restaurant
The third phenomenon is also located just outside Chiangmai and unfortunately you also have to have your own transport for this special establishment. The restaurant listening to the somewhat difficult name Khaomao – Khaofang is located near the road 108 from Chiangmai to Hangdong.
Following the direction of Hangdong, after a few kilometers you will successively pass Big C, the Makro and the Jiffy gas station. Almost immediately after Jiffy, turn right at the traffic lights towards Chiangmai Night Safari. Because the restaurant is located on the other side of the road, turn around at the next opportunity and after ten meters you will be at the beautiful Khaomao – Khaofang restaurant.
Don't talk too much about it. Food is also atmosphere and you will find that in abundance here. You can see a small preview if you look at www.khaomaokhaofang.com. Good food in a paradise setting and no exorbitant prices. Have a nice evening and tasty food.
love at first bite is indeed recommended, I go twice a week, especially during the strawberry season
I am a critical strawberry eater. In the Netherlands I only eat Dutch strawberries and no Spanish ones. They have much less flavor. How do Thai strawberries taste? I don't dare to taste them (yet).Help me!
In the distance, the Thai wrens taste of strawberry. They are a lot harder, of course to prevent rapid spoilage in this climate. Still, I like to eat them on bread.
There are 4 to 5 strawberry varieties in Thailand. From hard and sour (very popular with some Thais) to soft and sweet.
The latter, almost the same taste as in the Netherlands, is often used in pastries with delicious cream! For example, for sale at Gateaux House.
It is a pity that you promote the visit to an elephant camp, where the elephants must first undergo torture in order to perform all the arts. An elephant can only carry 50 kilos on their back. So all tourists participate in the torture without being informed about it. !
Better to get to it https://www.facebook.com/TheElephantNaturePark to go.
There, elephants are taken care of and given a decent life back.
Hope you don't see this as whining...many tourists don't know how the elephants are trained. It brings tears to your eyes when you see them being worked with spears in a cage that is too small to break their will. If their young are taken away.
I share your opinion Renate, it's good that you say this, many tourists don't know that, many don't want to know either.
They are sour sour and as hard as a tuber, I would almost say. I don't need them and they are stiff with chemistry. The lychees are coming again, that's a party they are so good to suck.
if you really want to eat thai then I know an address. it is a restaurant located on Chang Phuak Road (toward Chiangmai center) named Ngum Phaideng. open from 18.00 p.m. to 03.00 a.m.).
It is a traditional Thai restaurant with an English menu. You will be served quickly by exceptionally personable staff. And also the food – of course – is highly recommended. And no, they don't have "Thai strawberries" on the menu. They are generally hard and sour.
Two weeks ago I had a delicious coffee at Love at First Bite, and the pastries were also delicious
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Too bad…I just spent 5 days in Chiang Mai.
I'll save the addresses to maybe use next year.
By the way… there was a lot of smoke in the air from the burning of the ground.
We spent one more day in Pai and actually left there out of misery because one of us suffered from red eyes and his throat.
Very unfortunate because we stayed there in a great place.
Maybe try again next year.
Teun,
Eat real Thai every day.
Real Thai restaurants are open all day and not only at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
The restaurant where I eat my food at 12 o'clock together with many Thais only costs 30 bath
jogchum,
What is your definition of real Thai? The food or the opening times? The restaurant I am talking about is open from 18.00pm – 03.00am. Is 100% run by thai and there are only thai dishes on the menu. From TBH 30.
I've been living in Chiang Mai for over a year and so far I've only discovered love at first bite which is indeed great (I'm very conscious not to go there too often haha)! So be sure to check out the other two restaurants, thanks for the tips! And Jochem: Very good!
In April, when we go to Thailand, I will try out all 3 together with Jib, our Thai cycling friend.
What a wonderful prospect.
Thanks,
Frgr sandra
leoni,
The restaurant where I always eat does not have an English-language menu, only 10 trays with
real Thai food for you to choose from.
You only have to indicate what you want to eat, as easy as you can speak English
read but do not understand everything exactly what it says
In restaurants where English menu cards are available, they generally also come
only ”'farangs”' they do not realize that they are paying many, many times more than in
a real Thai restaurant
For 30 baht you can eat very well.
jogchum,
What can you talk about in generalities:
1. first it's the opening hours, which - according to you - determine whether it's a Thai restaurant and now
2. Is the fact whether there is an English card a criterion, again according to you.
But now I get it: you eat in a kind of Thai van der Valk with only 10 dishes and bragging rights. Well, in a little Thai restaurant there is a multiple of that on the menu in price between TBH 30 and TBH 120. So depends on what you take and with how many people. A whole fish is around TBH 100, but you can easily eat that with 3-4 men/women.
I have been coming to that tent I mentioned for years and have – except myself – seen “farang” at most 2-3 times (except for acquaintances who stayed with me from the Netherlands). So there are 99,9% Thai people and I think that is the only criterion. They once added an English card for me, because they don't speak a word of English. Then it is less easy to order.
Come on kids, how old are we now. And Jochem ′′ very good ′′ was meant sarcastically since you were so proud that you really ate Thai. I know the places and I eat there regularly with my Thai husband. However, I am sometimes ready for a delicious farang meal! Because the same kitchen every day gets boring in the long run. So let's stop talking about who's better about who eats what. Playing kindergarten teacher 5 days a week is enough for me!