Krua Apsorn Samsen
About
Krua Apsorn is a family-style Thai restaurant that describes its cooking as “grandma's recipes,” simple Thai food meant to leave you happy, and its Samsen Road branch holds a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand. The menu is central Thai home cooking, and the restaurant's own favorites include a fluffy crab omelette packed with crab meat, stir-fried sator beans with prawns and minced pork, and yellow curry with lotus stems and fresh prawns.
It suits a relaxed lunch or early dinner for travelers who want dependable Thai home cooking rather than a tasting menu, and it works well for families and small groups who share several dishes. The branch is at 503-505 Samsen Road in Dusit, the royal and government quarter north of the Old City, so it pairs naturally with a day around Dusit or Banglamphu; a taxi is the simplest way there.
What to order
The MICHELIN Guide singles out the stir-fried pork with bird's-eye chilli and the signature yellow curry with large prawns and lotus, and notes that some dishes follow the family's own recipes. The restaurant's recent posts add garlic-fried prawns and miang kana, a bite-sized wrap of Chinese kale leaves with a sweet, sour and salty filling. Order a mix of curry, stir-fry and omelette for the table and add rice.
One of seven branches
Krua Apsorn now runs seven branches: Samsen, Dinso Road, Sanambinnam, Kanchanaphisek, Ratchaphruek, One Bangkok and Vibhavadi Rangsit in the Shinawatra 3 building, with some outside the city in Nonthaburi. The restaurant warns that the genuine Krua Apsorn spells its Thai name with the letter ษ and uses only a blue logo, which helps when you are looking for it on a delivery app or a street sign.
Recognition
The MICHELIN Guide lists the Samsen branch as a Bib Gourmand, its distinction for good food at moderate prices, and describes it as a family-run kitchen whose regulars have included the Thai royal family.
Sources: Krua Apsorn on Facebook, MICHELIN Guide. Checked September 25, 2026.
Contact Information
Bangkok, 10300
Photo: Aticha Gabulon via Google
Krua Apsorn Samsen
About Krua Apsorn Samsen
Krua Apsorn is a family-style Thai restaurant that describes its cooking as “grandma's recipes,” simple Thai food meant to leave you happy, and its Samsen Road branch holds a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand. The menu is central Thai home cooking, and the restaurant's own favorites include a fluffy crab omelette packed with crab meat, stir-fried sator beans with prawns and minced pork, and yellow curry with lotus stems and fresh prawns.
It suits a relaxed lunch or early dinner for travelers who want dependable Thai home cooking rather than a tasting menu, and it works well for families and small groups who share several dishes. The branch is at 503-505 Samsen Road in Dusit, the royal and government quarter north of the Old City, so it pairs naturally with a day around Dusit or Banglamphu; a taxi is the simplest way there.
What to order
The MICHELIN Guide singles out the stir-fried pork with bird's-eye chilli and the signature yellow curry with large prawns and lotus, and notes that some dishes follow the family's own recipes. The restaurant's recent posts add garlic-fried prawns and miang kana, a bite-sized wrap of Chinese kale leaves with a sweet, sour and salty filling. Order a mix of curry, stir-fry and omelette for the table and add rice.
One of seven branches
Krua Apsorn now runs seven branches: Samsen, Dinso Road, Sanambinnam, Kanchanaphisek, Ratchaphruek, One Bangkok and Vibhavadi Rangsit in the Shinawatra 3 building, with some outside the city in Nonthaburi. The restaurant warns that the genuine Krua Apsorn spells its Thai name with the letter ษ and uses only a blue logo, which helps when you are looking for it on a delivery app or a street sign.
Recognition
The MICHELIN Guide lists the Samsen branch as a Bib Gourmand, its distinction for good food at moderate prices, and describes it as a family-run kitchen whose regulars have included the Thai royal family.
Sources: Krua Apsorn on Facebook, MICHELIN Guide. Checked September 25, 2026.