Bangkok's best Teochew restaurant
Bangkok's best Teochew restaurant -- Recommended: Yim Yim
"Thais are very clever at adopting other cuisines and making it our own," says Chef McDang, one of our Best Eats panel experts.
And that includes the local Thai-influenced versions of Teochew cuisine, based on the region of China where most Thai-Chinese families emigrated from.
Yim Yim, on the 2nd floor of an old banquet hall, is a Yaowarat classic. This place has stuck to its 80-year-old roots while adding a few Thai tastes along the way to offer the usual Teochew classics like abalone, sea cucumber, goat, baked goose, fish and crab -- all with that home-style taste that Teochew food is known for.
This is one of those places the local Chinese crowd hits strictly for its food, not the ambiance, as Yim Yim looks like it hasn't been renovated since the 1970s. Kitschy accents abound.
The tablecloths are threadbare and plastic sliding curtains divide dining rooms like bedrooms in a caravan trailer. Support columns are painted red, the floor is covered in green and white checkered tiles and in one corner there's a huge chunk of plastic tropical wallpaper with palm trees.
But the food is fantastic so who cares.
89 Passai Road, Yaowarat. Tel: +66 (0)2 224 2203. Open daily, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
