The Architect · Mali · Bangkok
Thip Samai
I've been eating here since before the food writers found it. The shophouse section — deep, narrow, back kitchen open — is a textbook example of the Bangkok commercial section.
The most famous pad thai in Bangkok, operating since 1966 in a shophouse on Mahachai Road. I come for the building — the kitchen is the room.
— Mali, The Architect
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