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Jay Fai is a shophouse kitchen on Maha Chai Road in Bangkok's old city that describes itself simply as Bangkok street food, and it holds one MICHELIN star. The cook behind

The Jim Thompson House Museum is the Bangkok home and Asian art collection of James H.W. Thompson, known as the Thai Silk King. Between 1958 and 1959 he assembled it from

Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok was the first Kimpton in Southeast Asia, and it plays the brand's hand: a design-led, relaxed hotel on Soi Ton Son in Langsuan, with a garden at

The Mahanakhon SkyWalk sits at the top of King Power Mahanakhon, the 314-meter tower by the architect Ole Scheeren whose pixelated facade appears to unravel as it climbs.

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

Le Du is chef Thitid 'Ton' Tassanakajohn's modern Thai restaurant on Soi Silom 7, and its name sets the agenda: it comes from the Thai word for season, and the menus are

lebua at State Tower is an all-suite hotel inside State Tower, the gold-domed skyscraper at the river end of Silom Road. Its 179 suites each have a separate bedroom, a living

Lumphini Park was Bangkok's first public park, and it is still the city's great shared back garden: a large lake ringed by shade trees and paths, on the edge of the Silom

Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok opened as The Oriental Hotel in 1876 on the east bank of the Chao Phraya, and it remains the address people choose when they want the river at