Jok Somphet Restaurant — Restaurant in Chiang Mai Province

An amazing chef once said to me "We go drinking, then we go to Jok Sompet to soak up the booze, make feel happy".

Truer words have never been spoken. I have a childish fascination with "jok", or "congee" hailing from my times in the far east 20 years ago ploughing down various versions of this simple food in all sorts of situations. Frosty mornings in Taipei, lunches in Hong Kong, cooking my own version in the kitchen in Oslo to ward off the impending doom of winter. It may not be a culinary miracle, but is porridge? or grits?... they are dishes we have become accustomed to and grown fond of despite their gastronomic un-adventure. Nobody ever won a Michelin star for an idly.

Jok Sampet has the clout of being open 24 hrs a day, something precious few places in Chiang Mai can boast. Therefore, inevitably they attract the raucous post-midnight crowd wanting a quick fix rather than 7/11 or Mikkie D's, but if you wait just 30 minutes and head over you will catch the cretins on their way out, bleary eyed and stupid as the day they left their mothers hoo-haa in Nebraska or Florida. Then peace is restored, you can pull up a chair, order a jok (WITH AN EGG! WITH AN EGG!) and await the comforting pleasure that costs only 40 baht.

Delicious, luxurious, rich rice porridge, speckled with fresh ginger, scallions, condiments and that soft poached egg just begging you to shatter it's thin membrane and allow the rich, orange divinity to flow unto your bowl and colour your offering. Sit back, scoop up that velvety love, let the beer sink to further regions of your digestinal tract, and know that you are putting a band-aid on a sore that hasn't appeared yet.

This is pre-emption at...

Food: roast fish with salad and seaweed wrapped shrimp. Roast fish was nice and and the sauce was like a teriyaki sauce. Salad was very simple - standard iceberg lettuce, shredded carrots, cucumber and tomato with a side of mayonnaise. The mayonnaise was much too sweet for my liking. Seaweed wrapped shrimp was drenched in a overly sweet and sticky sauce and the shrimp tasted too processed; as if it was over blended with some kind of filler like flour. Service: really bad experience as my friend ordered a tea not knowing that it was sweetened (to the point of sickly sweet). She tried to return it and the staff said no very rudely as they didn’t have a non sweetened version. When they finally took it back one of the waitresses threw it in the bin really hardly and angrily in...

【All day Local Eatery】 24/7 place that you can get hearty and good thick jok(thick porridge) in chiang mai!

Prices was affordable too!

Other than JOK there are also : 🌟thai style dim sum 🌟Khao Soi 🌟Khao Op Gai (chicken w rice) 🌟 Khao Op Plaa (fish w rice) 🌟 Kang Hung Lay(pork belly w rice) we tried: 🌟All combination JOK JOK is a must order! Congee with a mixture of everything! Pork balls, pork liver, pig stomach, fish, squid, shrimp and egg (all in one bowl) Could taste everything in once!

🌟Khao Sai Northern style Curry egg noodles with fried egg strips. Taste great too 👍🏻😋

🌟Variety of dim sum We doesn’t like the dim sum there. Can skip the dim sum there. 🌟Fried Youtiao Freshly fried youtiao is from the restaurant beside Jok sompet! Taste amazing pairing...