Thai food is one of the world’s most favorite cuisines with many Thai restaurants worldwide. Many foreigners visit just to attend Thai cooking schools, situated throughout Thailand to improve their cooking skills.

Thai restaurants tend to specialize in a region style of cooking such as central, southern north and Isaan in local towns and villages the food can vary a lot and it’s said that if you wish you can eat a different meal each day for a year.

The best places to sample seafood are in fishing towns and villages throughout Thailand’s coastline and offshore islands. The small fishing villages offer good restaurants, excellent value and are unique in character.

In most instances the food is fresher and many times cheaper than in resort or hotel restaurants. The unique settings on the piers over the sea with the good sea food make it a night to remember.

Thai restaurants throughout Thailand vary from classical Thai garden restaurants on Thailand’s riverbanks to exclusive city restaurants. Not forgetting the thousands of shop house restaurants that are found throughout Thailand.

The many small Thai restaurants that make up the majority of Thailand’s restaurants tend to specialize in a small amount of dishes. Food is fresh and a faction of the price of the exclusive restaurants.

If you enjoy Thai food all are worth trying, the good ones will always have many Thai and some foreigners in them. Most menus are in Thai and in some very little English is spoken, you will always find somebody will help you out.

The local Thai restaurants in the quieter areas of tourist destinations are excellent value, in most cases they three or four times cheaper than in the popular tourist locations.

Over the years they have become popular with visitors to Thailand, in tourist cities. Such as Pattaya there are several large Thai buffet and barbeque restaurants that offer, all you can eat for as little as 89 Baht.