Huen Phen ★ 4.5
A 50-year Old City institution south of Wat Chedi Luang, serving a full Lanna spread by day and a candlelit antique-crammed dinner room by night.
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Fresh rice vermicelli under a tangy tomato-and-pork-rib broth flavoured with fermented soybean and dried kapok flowers, the north's everyday noodle bowl.
Khanom jeen nam ngiao is the northern Thai and Shan answer to a quick, sour, savoury noodle lunch. Fresh fermented rice vermicelli (khanom jeen) is topped with nam ngiao, a rust-red broth built from tomato, pork rib or blood cake, fermented soybean (tua nao) and, distinctively, dried kapok or silk-cotton flowers that give body and a gentle tang. It arrived with Tai Yai (Shan) communities and became a market and morning-canteen staple across Chiang Mai. Served with bean sprouts, pickled greens, lime and crisp pork rind, it is cheap, sour and unmistakably of the north.
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Kanomjeen Sanpakoi ★ 4.2
A Bib Gourmand khanom jeen counter in Thongkham Market, ladling northern nam ngiao and nam lo curry sauces over fresh rice vermicelli with unlimited herbs.
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