Yaowarat's delightful chaos can overwhelm, so savour the air-conditioning of this clean Chinese restaurant and its simple, cheap dim sum, Cantonese roast...

Traditional herbalist dispensing Thai and Chinese prescriptions from walls of wooden drawers and sacks strewn about the floor. If you don't have a...

The famous solid gold Buddha image has been moved from a drab hall into the soaring spire of a marble mondop (artefact tower) that is so glaringly white you...

Bangkok's strangest conversion of a historic home is this diving school on a tiny riverside lane. Behind ornate gates, NAUI instructor Phusak Posayachinda...

Large rooms, some with balconies, overlook the city and river. The top floor has Bangkok's only revolving club lounge (open in the evenings). Facilities are...

Beside River City antiques mall, stands a spired Gothic confection built in 1787 on land given to the Portuguese for helping to fight the Burmese. Its...

Obscured by glass cases of sharks' fins, Hua Seng Hong sits in the heart of Yaowarat's early-evening madness. Ba mee noodles stir-fried with crab, plates of...

A decades-old Chinese café, with old men and local chefs swapping tales over sock-strained coffee, washed down with buns and tea.

Sweltering sightseers and shoppers craving air-con can breathe in Bangkok's first mall for Indian goods. Replacing the burnt-out ATM Department Store, it...

Set behind an imposing multi-tiered entrance, the 'Dragon Flower Temple' (aka Wat Mangkorn Kamalawat) is Chinatown's first and biggest. Several sermon halls...

In Chinatown's main drag, the Empire is clean, cheap and comfortable, with well-equipped rooms, and carpets and wallpaper straight out of a Wong Kar Wai...

Retro-styled, this three-storey air-con bazaar holds traditional jewellers and silk retailers, clothes, household goods and computer repairs. Under the...

This is the place to tuck into duck and goose served straight up with rice noodles and condiments.

The shrine of a charity foundation that collects accident victims and conducts funerals for unclaimed corpses. Dealers in funerary paraphernalia gather...