Kowloon City Thai Restaurants

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    bus: 5C from Tsim Sha Tsui Star or 101 from Statue Square, Central

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Lonely Planet review

Kai Tak airport may have shut down in 1998, but the neighbourhood of Kowloon City to the northeast of Tsim Sha Tsui is still worth a journey. This is Hong Kong's Thai quarter, and the area's restaurants are the place for a tom yum and green-curry fix. Kowloon City, packed with herbalists, jewellers, tea merchants and bird shops, is worth a postprandial look around.

One of the most authentic Thai restaurants in the area, Friendship Thai Food (2382 8671; 38 Kai Tak Rd; dishes around HK$32 -138; ; - & - ) is always full of Thai domestics. Golden Orchid Thai (2716 1269, 2383 3076; 12 Lung Kong Rd; dishes around HK$35 -65; ;noon- ) is slightly more expensive than the Friendship but the food is excellent.

Hot Basil Thai Cuisine (2718 1088; Ground fl, 31-33 Kai Tak Rd; mains around HK$45 -110) serves decent Thai in very upmarket (for this neighbourhood) surrounds, while the Thai Farm Restaurant (2382 0992; Ground fl, 21-23 Nam Kok Rd), with its panelled walls and banquettes, looks like a neighbourhood café in Bangkok. Wong Chun Chun Thai Restaurant (2716 6269; 23 Tak Ku Ling Rd; ; - ), arguably the most commercially successful, is an enormous place spread over three floors and keeps later hours than most restaurants in the area.