T&K Seafood, Yaowarat Chinatown

Yaowarat or known as Chinatown to tourists, comes alive at night as many hawkers set up their stalls by the road to sell mostly birdnest, sharksfin and seafood. 

T&K Seafood is one of the more popular hawker stalls where both tourists and locals come to enjoy dinner or a late night supper. 

Tables are all set up along the shop corridors (which are closed already) and along the road. Don't be surprised that the stall is a tiny portable cart, they actually do all the cooking at the backstreet instead. Staff are all don in green polo tee, to differentiate them from the stall opposite, where staff wear pink tee. 

The menu is easy to navigate, with pictures for all dishes and also written in English. Even the seafood prices are indicated based on per dish, so that you don't have to worry about over paying due to the unknown weight of the seafood. 

We were served 3 different types of chilli, the most spicy being the green colour one! They must have put a lot of chilli padi in it. 

The fried rice came first, but it was quite disappointing. The rice was oily and a little raw. Furthermore, there was not much flavour to this dish. (THB50 for small portion)

Then came the stir fried morning glory (or what we call KangKong). What I liked about this dish is the garlic. They use very tiny garlic bulbs to fry this dish and it adds a tint of garlic flavour with every bite. Great for garlic lovers like me. (THB50)

Grilled tiger prawns (THB150 for small portion). The small portion serves 4 prawns, just nice for the 4 of us. Their heads are super huge, so if you are a lover of prawn heads this will suit your palette well. 

Steamed crab with glass noodle in claypot (THB 300 for small portion). Thailand is famous for 2 types of crab dish, one is the curry crab, the other is the glass noodle claypot crab. The glass noodle is very flavourful and considering the cheap price of THB300 (SGD 13), can't complain much about the crab. 

Seafood tom yum soup (THB150 for Large portion). A must dish to order when in Thailand. This one has coconut milk added in it, to give the soup a milky colour. I prefer this type of tom yum soup than the clear type as it has a light coconut fragrance and not so spicy as well. 

The prices at T&K seafood are really reasonable and their seafood is quite fresh. However, the place is quite dirty, with rubbish all around the floor, and a rubbish bin below every table. If you don't mind the hygiene, it will be a good place to visit for supper especially after a round of massage.

And this was exactly what we did, after enjoying a 2 hours thai massage at Healthland, we hopped onto a cab straight to Yaowarat T&K seafood!

T&K Seafood

49-51 Soi Phadung Dao, Yaowarat Road, Bangkok 
Open daily: 6pm - 2am
Getting there: the easiest way is to take a cab there. Just inform the driver - Yaowarat road. Taxi prices are average around THB 60-100 around city area.