Chiang Rai food and dining culture offers a wide range of sit-down restaurants and takeaway street food, so you can expect to enjoy both local delicacies and international cuisine. Along Walking Street, you’ll find many vendors selling takeaway street food. For vegetarian and vegan cuisine, check out Kunda Vegan Vegetarian, which takes no reservations and serves no tofu. It’s just laid-back vibes and great veggie cuisine.
Lung Eed specialises in local delicacies, especially lâhp gài, a minced spiced chicken fried with deep-fried chicken skin, garlic and shallots. Heaven Burger has good old-fashioned burgers in a rustic setting. At Rosprasert Muslim Food, you will enjoy kôw mòk gài and other Thai-Muslim staples. At Four Stars Restaurant, be sure to give the kôw soy noodles and sâi òo·a Thai sausage a go.
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