The Social Salad

Hua Hin


This simple, but nicely decorated place attracts many repeat customers for its 209B make-your-own salads – choose from a long checklist of fresh organic ingredients. Anti-salad folks can opt for Thai dishes and pasta. While most of Thailand is still stuck on plastic straws, this restaurant uses metal ones.

Ten percent of proceeds go to tree-planting programmes.


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