Kao Soy

Any visitor to the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai has sampled a version of this restaurant’s namesake dish: a pale-yellow coconut milk curry with submerged egg noodles and chicken topped with crispy egg noodles and, in this case, a papaya fritter. Don’t miss out on other flavor-packed northern Thai dishes like banana blossom fritters (krabong hua plee) served with spicy garlic-lime and sweet peanut chili sauce, anchovy and mango salad (yum pla ka tak) and red snapper (pla tod nam prik ta dang) topped with red chili.