Kun Par Kitchen: Authentic Southern Thai Curry on Rice in Taling Chan

When Thai people want food that's easy to find and easy to eat, it's almost always made-to-order dishes or curry over rice. Today Meeting Point is taking you to a fantastic Southern Thai curry rice shop that's so good you'll be rushing back for more.

Kun Par Kitchen has been open for 9 years (since October 2013) and is a famous name around Ratchaphruek and Taling Chan. The sign out front reads Southern Thai curry rice and Trang-style roast pork. Of course the owner is a true Southerner, and the food tastes properly Southern too.

Better still, the food was endorsed by M.L. Pasan Sawasdiwat for the Shell Chuan Chim food guide, a stamp of quality, cleanliness and flavor.

The Menu

There's a huge choice here, with more than 50 dishes to pick from, and you can choose white rice, jasmine rice or riceberry. Besides the curries and stir-fries, there's pork noodle soup, yen ta fo, khanom jeen with curry sauce, som tam, Trang-style roast pork, Thai desserts, fresh coffee and ice cream, so you can eat to your heart's content.

Prices and Delivery

A plate costs 50 baht and comes with two dishes, plus free shrimp paste chili dip and fresh vegetables! Customers stream in all day. If you can't make it to the shop, you can order through delivery apps. The shop also delivers within a 5 km radius, with the actual delivery cost charged beyond 5 km. You can also set up regular tiffin-box orders. Just add them on LINE or give them a call.

Getting There and Landmarks

Take the elevated parallel road along Borommaratchachonnani, come down at Taling Chan, pass Taling Chan police station and turn left onto Ratchaphruek Road (heading toward Phet Kasem). Go up the overpass across the new road (Phran Nok to Phutthamonthon Sai 4), also called Phra Thep Road. As you come down the overpass, keep left straight away onto the parallel road, and after 200 meters you'll reach Kun Par Kitchen.

Kun Par Kitchen: Visitor Info

• Address: 65/2 Ratchaphruek Road, Bang Phrom subdistrict, Taling Chan district, Bangkok 10170
• Hours: 06:00 to 15:00, closed on the third Tuesday of each month (open as usual if it falls on a public holiday). Grouper rice soup in the evening, 16:00 to 22:00.
• Main branch: Ratchaphruek Road, at the mouth of Soi Wat Krachom Thong, https://bit.ly/2KnkDC2
• Branch 2: PTT gas station, Ratchaphruek Road km 35, https://goo.gl/maps/xjswS3Er3nZMrviG7
• Branch 3: Caltex gas station, Om Kret to Ratchaphruek Road, https://goo.gl/maps/jYsGMnoYouY1esn69
• Phone (Ratchaphruek branch): 092 274 7174
• Phone (Town in Town branch): 092 841 6454
• Facebook: Krua Khun Pa Southern Thai Curry Rice, Ratchaphruek Road
• Instagram: kunparkitchen
• LINE: kunparkitchen

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