Malai Restaurant — Restaurant in Thung Maha Mek Subdistrict

24-hour restaurant located inside the Malaysia Hotel with free parking. This place has some of the best Teochew/Chaozhou kao-tom dishes in Bangkok (潮州粥/潮州打冷); most of their Thai customers come here for the kao-tom dishes. Teochew kao-tom is actually a Southern Chinese cuisine and it was brought over to Thailand by Thai-Chinese families. A famous food critic from Hong Kong once claimed that the most authentic Teochew food is from Thailand and not from China. I eat here once a week and it is one of my favorite reasonably priced restaurants. The kao-tom dishes are listed on a separate sheet from the main menu, the main menu is long with many international and regular Thai dishes. I have tried everything on the kao-tom menu and none were disappointing, I haven’t ordered anything from the...

Had a very disappointing breakfast here, my pancakes didn’t seem fully cooked, and were just wrapped around a banana which wasn’t quite what I expected when ordering banana pancakes. My friend really wasn’t impressed with her congee either.

Didn’t try any other meals, so don’t know if breakfast was special, but it was also a bit annoying that they have a prefer cashless sign and then refused to let us pay by credit card as it didn’t reach a minimum of 500 baht, so a normal 2 person breakfast with drinks wasn’t enough to be allowed to pay...

When I stay at the Malaysia Hotel, I usually eat at least one meal in the Malai Restaurant. It is open 24 hours, has an extensive menu with foreign and Thai dishes and offers a good value for money in terms of flavor and portion size. Most recently I had a cream of mushroom soup and a sirloin steak. Both dishes were fine.

Late at night the restaurant can be host to some colorful characters out partying, so sometimes it can be quite boisterous.

The staff members of Malai Restaurant are friendly and very good natured. They make guests...