Yatai buffet — Restaurant in Chiang Mai Province

This is an amazing place. I have never been to a Yatai-Buffet before, but now that I tried it here for the first time, I'm hooked. You can choose between three different kinds of grill, all with some different configuration where the soup-part is, and you also have the choice between a few different soups to use. Once you've figured that out (which, at least for us, took a moment, since it was our first time), you can start to dig in. They have a HUGE selection of foods (all of it included) that you can grill, cool in the soup, or just eat on the side. It all appeared to be fresh, and it definitely tasted amazing. And to round it off, drinks and ice cream are also included. Also, the ambiance in the middle of the busy night market is amazing! If you're up for trying something new, I'm quite confident you'll be positively surprised. I definitely want...

There's this waiter named Wai who works there. He literally is the backbone of the restaurant. Kick everyone else and the restaurant works just as fine. He's so high in energy, we enjoyed the buffet so much because of him, is so knowledgeable and attentive to what we need. We had to delay our flights just to visit the restaurant not to eat but to enjoy his company.

He works extremely hard and his salary needs to be tripled based on how he works. If he's not there, the entire company fails. You can see him getting so many new customers because of how fast he can sell. Truly an amazing guy. The restaurant...

The choice of ingredients is somewhat good. Everyone I tried was fresh, so quality is likely fine enough. Price is average or above average a bit, depending on what you compare it with. If you are into this sort of buffet where you have to cook your food yourself, you will probably like it here.

Taking minus one star because 3 of 5 sorts of ice cream they had ran out in early evening and they didn't seem to care...