Pad krapow is Bangkok's everyday office-lunch hero: minced pork, chicken or beef stir-fried with garlic, bird's-eye chilli and holy basil over jasmine rice, topped with a sunny-side-up fried egg.
Pad krapow's lineage runs through Chinese-Thai wok cookery brought from Yaowarat into Thai home kitchens by the early 20th century. The use of krapow (Thai holy basil, not Italian or sweet basil) distinguishes it as Thai rather than southern Chinese; the egg topping was added in the 1950s and the dish became the canonical Bangkok lunch by the 1970s. Pad krapow is now sold from every shophouse rice-and-curry counter in the city for under 100 baht, with chicken (gai), pork (moo) or seafood variants.
3 editor picks for Pad Krapow (Holy Basil Stir-fry) in Bangkok, ranked by editorial score. All Bangkok signature dishes · Pad Krapow (Holy Basil Stir-fry) across every city.
Krua Apsorn Dinso ★ 4.6
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 and stir-fry sections.
Mit Ko Yuan ★ 4.4
old-town · 186 Dinso Road, Sao Chingcha, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok 10200
Mit Ko Yuan in Bangkok's Sao Chingcha is the Bib Gourmand family Thai room from 1962, central-Thai stir-fries and seafood dishes opposite the Giant Swing monument.
Krua Aroy Aroy ★ 4.4
silom-sathorn · Pan Road, Silom, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500
Krua Aroy Aroy in Bangkok's Silom is the Bib Gourmand curry-rice canteen tucked off Pan Road, with khao soi, massaman and Muslim-Thai biryani served family-style at lunch.