{"id":4119,"date":"2026-05-21T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:29:01","slug":"bangkok-missing-national-geographic-best-food-cities-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/bangkok-missing-national-geographic-best-food-cities-list\/","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic published a list of \u201815 of the best places in the world for food\u2019 and Bangkok is not on there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t usually take these \u201cbest of\u201d lists too seriously. They\u2019re subjective, they\u2019re designed to spark debate, and that\u2019s fine. Half the fun is getting annoyed at them anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But this one got me writing an op-ed about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Geographic recently published a list of \u201c15 of the best places in the world for food right now\u201d on 19 May. And somehow, unbelievably, Bangkok didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not only did Bangkok not make the list, but neither did France. FRANCE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, two British destinations made it in. Two!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the full lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crete, Greece\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kelowna, British Columbia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">O\u02bbahu, Kaua\u02bbi, and Maui in Hawai\u2018i\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bu\u00f4n Ma Thu\u1ed9t, Central Highlands, Vietnam\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Czechia\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lucknow, India\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Northern Colombia\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Train trips through scenic landscapes in Italy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southern Tasmania, Australia\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Singapore\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Somerset, England, United Kingdom\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonora, Mexico\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bozcaada, Turkey\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minneapolis, Minnesota\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cape Town, South Africa\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">London, England, United Kingdom<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Look, I love the UK and spent a few years going to school there since I was a teen. But if someone told me they were booking a culinary pilgrimage to Somerset, my first thought would not be \u201cwow, lucky you\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Literally no one has ever dramatically announced: \u201cI\u2019m off to Somerset in England for the food scene.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/sign-up-thailand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-original-title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2286 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/HC-Thailand-Banner-Ad-Tablet-1456-x-180-px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2184\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/HC-Thailand-Banner-Ad-Tablet-1456-x-180-px.png 2184w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/HC-Thailand-Banner-Ad-Tablet-1456-x-180-px-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/HC-Thailand-Banner-Ad-Tablet-1456-x-180-px-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/HC-Thailand-Banner-Ad-Tablet-1456-x-180-px-768x95.png 768w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/HC-Thailand-Banner-Ad-Tablet-1456-x-180-px-1536x190.png 1536w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/HC-Thailand-Banner-Ad-Tablet-1456-x-180-px-2048x253.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2184px) 100vw, 2184px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Sweeten up your inbox!\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/sign-up-thailand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-original-title=\"\">Subscribe to HoneyKids Asia Thailand<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now before people come for me: yes, food is subjective. Of course it is. Some people travel for fine dining. Others travel for street food, local produce, wine regions or food history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But leaving Bangkok off a global food list feels very wrong. I get it, maybe they have to update the list every year and Bangkok cannot be on there every year, but I personally feel that this is such a progressive time for food in Bangkok at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4129\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4129\" src=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/220-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/220-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/220-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/220-1-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/220-1-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography: Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj\/HoneyKids Asia Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a city where you can eat grilled pork skewers on a plastic stool at midnight, then wake up for Michelin-starred crab omelette, then spend the afternoon hopping between boat noodles, southern Thai curries, Isan grilled chicken, Chinese-Thai seafood stir-fry and mango sticky rice \u2013 all without ever needing to spend a fortune.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4123\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4123\" src=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/214.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/214-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/214-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/214-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography: Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj\/HoneyKids Asia Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s the auntie who has been making the same bowl of noodles for 40 years and somehow still remembers exactly how you like it. It\u2019s the smoky wok coming from a roadside stall under a flickering fluorescent light. It\u2019s the fact that some of the best meals of your life might come on a cracked plate for less than the price of a coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4127\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4127\" src=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/218.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/218-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/218-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/218-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography: Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj\/HoneyKids Asia Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And unlike some food cities that specialise in one thing, Bangkok does everything. Street food. Regional Thai food. Fine dining. Old-school shophouses. Multi-generational recipes. Ridiculously good mall food courts. Tiny hidden noodle shops with handwritten menus and no English translations. It\u2019s the kind of city where office workers queue for curry at 11am sharp, where families argue passionately over which som tam stall is best and where everyone has a \u201csecret spot\u201d they swear nobody else knows about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can spend an entire week eating in Bangkok and still barely scratch the surface. One shop might be famous for duck noodles, another for late-night seafood, another for old-school Thai desserts tucked inside fading shophouses. Every corner feels like someone\u2019s recommendation. Every meal somehow turns into another meal.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4125\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4125\" src=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/216.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/216-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/216-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/216-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography: Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj\/HoneyKids Asia Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that\u2019s the thing about Bangkok: the food scene doesn\u2019t feel curated for tourists. It feels lived in. Messy. Obsessive. Deeply personal. People here don\u2019t just eat because they\u2019re hungry. We genuinely plan our days around food. Conversations revolve around food. Entire friendships are built on \u201chave you tried this place yet?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s chaos in the best possible way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, respectfully, before joining HoneyKids Thailand as the Managing Editor, I\u2019ve written four Thailand guidebooks for Lonely Planet. I\u2019ve eaten my way across this country for years. So yes, maybe I\u2019m emotionally invested here. And maybe I might know a thing or two about this subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, yea, respectfully again, if your global food list excludes Bangkok, people are going to raise eyebrows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The good news? Bangkok doesn\u2019t really need validation from a list. The queues outside our restaurants are already long enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>You can even see how good Thai food is in our <a href=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/eat-drink\/\">Eat &amp; Drink<\/a> section.<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4130\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4130\" src=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/221-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/221-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/221-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/221-1-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/honeykidsasia.com\/thailand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/221-1-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography: Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj\/HoneyKids Asia Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t usually take these \u201cbest of\u201d lists too seriously. They\u2019re subjective, they\u2019re designed to spark debate, and that\u2019s fine. Half the fun is getting annoyed at them anyway. But this one got me writing an op-ed about it. 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