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From video: The Perfect 24 Hours Eating in Bangkok’s Back Alleys 🇹🇭 Talat Phlu / Wutthakat Food Tour
Published: March 22, 2026
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You don’t need a guide… and you definitely don’t need YouTubers telling you where to eat in Bangkok.
In this video, I head to BTS Wutthakat, a proper local neighbourhood in Bangkok that’s NOT a tourist hotspot and NOT a famous food area… but still packed with some of the best Thai street food you’ll find anywhere.
No Google Maps. No research. Just walking, following my nose, and seeing what I can find.
The challenge?
Eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner for under $10 USD.
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We start the day right outside Wutthakat BTS station with one of Thailand’s most iconic street foods — moo ping (grilled pork skewers) from my favourite local vendor.
Then head over to Keiken Coffee for a morning coffee, before taking everything to relax by the water at Wat Nang Chee (วัดนางชี พระอารามหลวง กรุงเทพมหานคร) — a peaceful riverside temple that most tourists never visit.
For lunch, we stumble across a hidden Southern Thai restaurant tucked away in a back alley:
หน้าบ้านแกงใต้ พริกแกงใต้แท้ รสมือแม่ “Front Yard Southern Curry – Authentic Southern Curry Paste, Homemade Flavour”
Here we go all in on bold Southern flavours:
• Kua Kling (คั่วกลิ้ง) – dry, spicy minced meat curry
• Beef curry with coconut milk – rich and deeply flavoured
• Gaeng Prik Si Kong Moo (แกงพริกซี่โครงหมู) – fiery pork rib curry packed with heat
This is REAL Thai food — intense, spicy, and full of flavour.
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Before finishing the day at Sawasdee Isan – Sathorn Ratchaphruek (สวัสดีอีสาน สาทร ราชพฤกษ์), a proper local Northeastern Thai restaurant, for some top-tier kor moo yang (grilled pork neck) and a fresh, crunchy cucumber som tam.
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🇹🇭 Why This Area?
Wutthakat is exactly the kind of place that proves a point:
👉 You don’t need famous restaurants
👉 You don’t need viral TikToks
👉 You don’t need a list
If you’re in Bangkok… just walk, explore, and eat.
Let me know in the comments:
Would you try this full day of eating for $10 in Bangkok?
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My name’s Gary and I’ve been living in Bangkok for the past five plus years and travelling Thailand for over ten. I’m obsessed with Thai street food and it’s that obsession that led me to start this YouTube channel. I want to share my favourite hidden spots in Bangkok and the rest of Thailand so you can fall in love with authentic, local Thai food as much as I have!
If you love seeing off the beaten path, non-touristy, local life and authentic local life in Bangkok and Thailand then this is the channel for you. If go go bars on the Sukhumvit Road are more your thing (I’m not judging) then maybe not!