Ruam Saep Yok Khok Som Tam — Restaurant in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province

If you want good Isaan food at reasonable prices then Ruan Saep is the place.

After about an almost 4 hour drive from Bangkok we were starving! We ordered larb moo (minced pork salad), moo dtet diao (pork jerky), somtum poo pla raa (papaya salad with brine crabs and fermented fish) and gai yang (roasted chicken).

Everything was great except the roasted chicken probably my expectations were raised after a famous food YouTuber with that rubber face gushed about it in his video. Not say it was bad but more like average.

Surprise dish of the day was the kanom jeen that was simply drizzled with garlic oil and bits of crispy garlic.

Service was prompt, if you sit in the huts they have a buzzer to alert the wait staff. Will come back to eat again when back in Hua Hin. 😊

PS. After reading some of the reviews of bad food I think foreigners who come here have to understand that this is mainly an Isaan restaurant so not surprising their non-Isaan dishes don't...

All in all, not a pleasant stay, I wouldn't want to go back. First of all, it took ages for the waiter to get away from his phone to take the order. We ordered 1 Coke, 1 water, 1 soup and one meat with rice. Well, after a few minutes the cooled Coke arrived, but not the water. At some point the meat came and then the soup, but neither rice nor water. So we asked a very unmotivated waiter again for water and rice - with only half success: the warm (!) water came, and I'm still waiting for the rice. But I still we had to pay for...

This review is really about one dish, which we can’t bring ourselves to not order every time we go there. Number 43 on the menu, sweet and sour deep fried whole fish, is wrongly described in English as “steamed.” It is, however, correctly labeled in both Thai and Chinese. The fish is golden brown and crispy, smothered with a mildly spicy sweet and sour sauce, deep fried shredded ginger, cashews, and crispy fried mint leaves—distinctively Thai. Add a papaya salad and rice, and you have a delicious meal for two, or perhaps even...