Butterflied chicken marinated in lemongrass, coriander root, garlic, fish sauce and palm sugar, slow-grilled over charcoal until the skin lacquers and the meat smokes sweet. Served with sticky rice and nam jim jaew.
Gai yang is the Isaan northeastern Thai grill tradition, brought to Bangkok with the great Isaan labour migration of the mid-20th century. The roadside gai yang stall, with butterflied chickens splayed between bamboo skewers over charcoal, became a Bangkok fixture by the 1980s. Soi Polo Fried Chicken in Lumphini and Som Tam Jay So pair it with som tam and sticky rice as the canonical Bangkok lunch trio.
4 editor picks for Gai Yang (Isaan Grilled Chicken) in Bangkok, ranked by editorial score. All Bangkok signature dishes · Gai Yang (Isaan Grilled Chicken) across every city.
Krua Apsorn Dinso ★ 4.7
old-town · 169 Dinso Road, Wat Bowon Niwet, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok 10200
Krua Apsorn in Bangkok's Old Town has cooked royal-influenced central Thai dishes since 2003, the Dinso branch winning a Bib Gourmand for its crab.
Som Tam Jay So ★ 4.5
silom-sathorn · 402/16 Soi Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra 3, Yan Nawa, Sathon, Bangkok 10120
Som Tam Jay So in Bangkok's Sathorn is the Bib Gourmand papaya-salad room from a sai-mok northeastern Thai recipe lineage. Located in Silom Sathorn.
Soi Polo Fried Chicken ★ 4.4
silom-sathorn · 137/1-3 Soi Polo, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
Polo Fried Chicken in Bangkok's Soi Polo is the Bib Gourmand garlic-fried-chicken room, a 1989 family business deep-frying half birds blanketed in crispy.
Supanniga Eating Room Thonglor ★ 4.2
thonglor-ekkamai · 160/11 Soi Sukhumvit 55 (Thonglor), Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110
Supanniga Eating Room Thonglor in Bangkok serves Trat and Khon Kaen heritage Thai recipes on Sukhumvit 55, with the same grandmother-recipe approach.