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My food budget for a week in Bangkok was $42 and I ate like a king
I set a crazy goal of $6 a day for food, thinking I'd be stuck with plain rice. I hit $42 total by only eating at local street stalls and markets away from Khao San Road. A full pad thai was 50 cents, and fresh mango cost 30 cents. I skipped all sit-down restaurants and tourist spots. It proved you don't need to spend a lot to eat well if you go where the locals go. Has anyone else managed to keep a daily food budget under $10 in a major city?
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river95226d ago
Oh man, I feel this! My food budget was more like "please don't let me accidentally spend my rent money on street food" because I have zero self control. I ended up spending more than $42 but that's because I'd wander into a market and see something weird looking and just had to try it. That fifty cent pad thai sounds amazing, I probably would have eaten it twice a day and then wondered why I was still hungry. But for real, it's amazing how far you can stretch a dollar when you ditch the tourist traps and just follow your nose down some random alley.
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james_bell3mo ago
That 50 cent pad thai is the real Bangkok deal. I did the same in Hanoi for about four bucks a day.
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sanchez.mary3mo ago
Oh man, that reminds me of a street cart in Chiang Mai that had the best khao soi for like a dollar. Made me think of you, @jana881, and your question about finding cheap eats. Those little places are the best.
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