Cheap Food Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand- Yeah, I still search for cheap food. While saving time often takes precedent over saving money these days, the fact of the matter is that food is one of those things in travel that can be excessively marked up.

I mean, almost anywhere in the world you can get the same meal for X price or X price times two or three. Markups in restaurants are mostly for the decorations and profits for the owners. Unless going for some kind of specialty dish, the food in a nice restaurant generally comes from the same place as that from cheap ones. No, I do not believe fancy decor and well-groomed wait staff makes food taste better, and once you start traveling you quickly discover that the best restaurants are usually the holes in a wall down dark alleys.

Also, long-term readers of this blog know that food is not something I’m willing to splurge for. Food is fuel, food is nutrition, food is the raw material of poop, and that’s all there is to it as far as I’m concerned. So maybe I’m not the best person to judge here.

I’ve mostly been eating 60 baht ($2) bowls of street noodles here in Bangkok. This morning I’m at this restaurant called Noi Kwa Roi, which operates under the slogan, “Everything under 100 baht.”

Sounds good.

I ordered a green curry. It came out looking like this:

I couldn’t taste the difference between it and bowls of the same stuff going for twice as much.