Neighborhood: Thonglor district
Price range: $$
Dish to order: Fermented tea leaf salad, a Burmese staple
With a restaurant scene as varied and multi-cultural as Bangkok’s, you’d be missing out if you only stick to local grub. The Yangon-born Rangoon Tea House, which opened a Bangkok offshoot in 2024, is one of those spots proving why: in its buzzy Thonglor-district dining room, furnished with rattan chairs and pink neon lights, it serves up small-plate, hyper-creative takes on Burmese cuisine, itself an amalgamation of Indian, Chinese and Southeast Asian influences. The fermented tea leaf salad, a Burmese staple, is the obvious order, but don’t miss out on some of the restaurant’s more 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. Upstairs, sister restaurant Namsu blends the conviviality (and wide- ranging sake collection) of a Japanese izakaya with flavours from Myanmar’s Shan State, resulting in fun creations such as grilled squid with Kachin chimichurri, onigiri with fermented crab roe, and chicken wings stuffed with sticky rice.
Address: 6 Soi Sangchai, Phra Khanong, Khlong Toei