MBK FOOD CENTER

Overall Score: 4/5
Vibe: 3/5. Narrow and crowded as it sits in the middle of the building with no views on the outside world, the court’s use of bright colors and lights does little to save the day. There are flat wide-screen TVs at every corner to catch up with the news or some boring documentary, but the most annoying thing is the cash-back counters located a hundred yards away. Are they hoping we won’t bother?
Selection: 5/5. Mind-blowing. The food ranges from a la minute stir-fries to shark fin soup but most importantly, this is one of the rare food courts where the stalls have legendary reputations that rival those of street food.
Cleanliness: 4/5. The cleaners do a surprisingly quick job of clearing dishes and cleaning tables despite the crowds, with plates getting whisked away as soon as you finish them. Utensils and the counters in front of stalls are not always as clean though.
Cost: 3/5. It’s not street cheap, with dishes starting from B40 and climbing up to B70 even for simple Thai dishes. But it remains incredibly affordable.
Top Stalls: Where do we begin? The beef noodles, the Khamoo St.Louis, the somtam, phadthai, hoithod and Thai dessert stalls... Some of these are considered the best in town.
6/F, MBK Center, 444 Phayathai Rd. BTS National Stadium. Open 10am-9pm.
Takeaway Terrace

Paradise Park Seri Market
Food Court and Food Bazaar

Overall Score: 3.5/5
Vibe: 2/5. Recently overhauled, Paradise Park has two food court options on the ground floor. One is the original Seri Market and another is called Food Bazaar. Seri Market has an old market theme with wooden signs on the top of every stall and a seating section also resembles an old wood house. Gift shops that pop up along the food section are a bit of an annoying distraction, though, and we’re on the fence about the dim lighting. The Food Bazaar, on the other hand, is new and boasts a bright and colorful decor. The good thing here is you don’t have walk around looking for a coupon counter as all the shops take cash.
Selection: 4/5. Prices here start at B30, and there are several popular franchise stalls like Rod Dee Ded and Guayjab Bangrak at this section. The Food Bazaar too has famous downtown shops: Khamoo Roddee (B40) or our favorite Yentafo J.C. Silom, where prices are B50 and there are more options, like radna yentafo (B50), guaytiew lod (B45) and por pia sod (B45). Although it’s mostly a take-away sort of place, Food Bazaar also has a cute seating area called Food Bazaar Terrace.
Cleanliness: 3/5. Staff is quick about clearing tables, and they do have clean utensils and tables. But the black, wooden chairs and lack of light make this place look a little gloomy.
Cost: 4.5/5. Surprisingly affordable given the revamp.
Top Stalls: Somtam Ranraek, Guaytiew Tomyam and Roti Fahtima.
G/F, 61 Srinakarin Rd., 02-787-1000. Open daily 10am-10pm.

Interchange Tower
Food Court

Overall score: 2.5/5
Vibe: 2/5. Most people who dine here are office types working in the high rises close by. In the basement level of the Interchange Tower, it’s nice and cool, but obviously, there’s not much of a view. Given the narrow corridor with metal white chairs and white tables lit with fluorescent lights, it’s a desperate office worker that comes here to escape the office.
Selection: 2/5. There’s a bit of an eat-and-go attitude, and most of the food is stuff you can find anywhere, like the usual somtam Thai (B40) and pad krapow gai (B40). They have bountiful dishes of shrimp pad Thai with normal noodles or glass noodles (B50), and hoi thod (fried mussel omelets, B40). What they do have, though, is quite delicious.
Cleanliness: 4/5. An abundance of staff keeps this place spic and span for the most part.
Cost: 4/5. This place has the best bang for the buck if you’re not the adventurous type and don’t mind sacrificing selection for low cost, no-fuss food.
Top Stalls: There’s an Isaan joint that’s painted bright orange. They serve fantastic Isaan style pork (B40), spring rolls (B50) and about a dozen different types of spicy salads (B40-B50).
B/F, Interchange Tower. Corner of Sukhumvit Soi 21. BTS Asok. Open daily 10am-8pm.

Platinum Food Center

Overall Score: 3/5
Vibe: 3/5. The home of the ever-busy and bustling Platinum Fashion Center is packed with tourists and Thais looking for cheap fashion. Despite it being always extremely busy, there always seems to be a place to sit in its hectic food court. As for the atmosphere, it’s just your normal, run-of-the-mill food court lined with stalls: sit in their plastic orange chairs, chow down and go.
Selection: 4/5. There are many delicious east-Asian delicacies to choose from. B55 can get you some kanom krok, a variety of coconut-y treats with savory ingredients, or more dessert-style ones for B35. On top of a great variety of Thai food, there are also nice, ethnic dishes like Brazilian Chicken (B60) served with a salad and a side of fries.
Cleanliness: 3/5. Your average food court cleanliness. The stalls are OK but tables can get messy from all the traffic.
Cost: 3/5. B100 could get you a simple dish and a beverage, but if you want to upgrade, expect to put a little more on your card.
Top Stalls: One of the busiest stalls is the one dishing out rice with stewed pork (B40). It also has some intriguing high-end options, from B100 to B150 and even a B400 stewed pork dish. At that price, we’d rather go to a restaurant.
6/F, 222 Petchaburi Rd., 02-121-8000. Open Mon-Fri 9am-8pm, Sat-Sun 8am-8pm.

The City Complex

Overall score: 2/5
Vibe: 1/5. This is like the ghost of food courts passed. What used to be a bustling and lively food court is now left half-lit (Are they trying to cut their electricity bill?) and almost empty. All of its customers must be at its neighbor, the Platinum Food Center.
Selection: 1/5. Not too much to choose from, seeing as half of the food court is closed. There are basics like noodle soop with beef (B40) and a variety of somtam (B40 each).
Cleanliness: 3/5. It’s pretty clean, seeing as no one is there to leave empty plates on the tables.
Cost: 3/5. B100 will fill you up on stuff you can get on your soi: somtam and fried rice with B5 to spare.
Top Stalls: The self-proclaimed Thai, Myanmar and Chinese style food kiosk, The Mother House, is keeping the lights on in this otherwise desolate place. The chef whistles in high spirits as he cooks up a pretty decent Myanmar-style fried rice (B45), a spicy rice dish with lots of seafood.
831 Petchburi Rd., www.citycomplexbangkok.com. Open daily 11am-9pm.

CENTRALWORLD FOODHALL

Overall score: 3/5
Vibe: 3/5. Very bright and white with touches of red. It’s not the most convenient food court, though, at the furthest end of the top floor of a mall with poor BTS access. Strangely though, it gets packed with a great variety of people: boisterous students from 3-5pm, lost Chinese tourists (half of them gay, it seems), families on Sundays, office workers for Central Offices on weekdays. It also offers nice views if you can grab a couch by the big windows.
Selection: 3/5. A lot of Western food, Asian cuisine (Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese) and typical Thai street food. In the middle there are two islands: one for drinks, one for desserts (the pumpkin in coconut milk is great, B30-40) and somtam (around B60-100 for special ones). Mostly the quality is good, but we don’t recommend the khao man gai.
Cleanliness: 4/5. When there’s an empty table, it’s always clean—except when the teens swoop in after school. If you’re facing the food hall, don’t go to the far left, because that’s like the Central Food Hall canteen—and you don’t want to interrupt a cook’s lunch.
Cost: 2/5. A little pricey for a food court.
Top Stalls: The Vietnamese is great and reasonable. The pasta station isn’t too bad, not too sweet, with a fairly standard Western taste.
7/F, CentralWorld, Ratchadamri Rd. BTS Chit Lom. Open 10am-10pm.

Siam Paragon Food Hall

Overall Score: 3/5
Selection: 3/5. Very international, including mainly Thai, Hong Kong, Chinese, Japanese and Halal cuisines. Most of the stalls appear to be original famous names like the Hualumpong’s duck noodle, Ros Dee Ded and Yaowarat’s Golden Noodle. Main dishes start from B45 for somtam and B55 for chicken and rice to B300 for a bowl of bamee with crab meat. Apart from the permanent stalls, you can check out special food stalls for their frequent food festivals. Too bad the quality doesn’t live up to the famous names.
Vibe: 2/5. Tasteful decoration with fashionable purple furniture, though the high number of seats gives the place an over-cluttered feeling. There are a few flat screen TVS, with some aquariums decorating the place. Ubiquitous tourists and Chula students working on their papers get a bit annoying, given that it’s really hard to grab a table at peak hours. Also, this may be on the “ground floor” but it’s so deep into the mall that it might as well be underground.
Cleanliness: 3/5. Clean utensils and tables, but we spotted some food on the floor. Staff is very quick about clearing dishes, though.
Cost: 2/5. Definitely one of the priciest food courts, which is not justified by the quality of the food.
Top Stalls: Chatuchak’s famous Somtam Foon Talob, Kuo Gai Peng Pochana and Ros Dee Ded beef noodles.
G/F, 999, Rama I Rd., 02-690-1000. BTS Siam. Open daily 10am-10pm.

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Amarin
The Cook

Overall Score: 2.5/5
Vibe: 2/5. A modern décor in white, orange and yellow with a good number of seats. There are also some fake plants added to give a green touch, but they are a bit lame. Come here at lunch and you’ll have to fight for seats with the office workers.
Selection: 2/5. All Thai except one or two stalls. Vegetarian is very popular here. Prices start at B35 and B40 for a plate of boiled chicken with rice.
Cleanliness: 3/5. The place looks satisfyingly clean although lots of tables are left unclean for awhile before staff get to them.
Cost: 3/5. Nearly street-like, which is pretty good, given the neighborhood.
Top Stalls: Vegetarian Food, Nang Learng Rice & Curry and Jutathip Chicken Rice.
4/F, 496-502 Amarin Plaza, Ploenchit Rd., 02-256-9111. Open daily 8am-4pm. BTS chitlom

BIG C Rachaprasong
Food Park

Overall Score: 4.5/5
Vibe: 3/5. This extra-large space has a tropical forest theme so green, brown and white colors dominate the place. Walls are decorated with both fake and real green plants, and there’s a large pond with a fountain at the center. They’ve overdone the mixing and matching with the furniture, but we like the idea of their open-air area, and also the views afforded by the tall windows. For better or for worse, there are flat screen TVs as well.
Selection: 3/5. Sectioned into three categories: rice express, international and noodles. Inter includes Japanese, Indian, Chinese and Vietnamese. The guaytiew Sukhothai is lovely, but the fish balls in the kanom jin by Khun Lek taste like boiled flour.
Cleanliness: 3/5. Since the mall was recently renovated, everything looks very new. The staff seems to be a bit inactive, leaving some of the tables a mess for long minutes. We once spotted hair on a spoon—eek!—but other than that, the utensils look fairly clean.
Cost: 5/5. Cheap!
Top Stalls: Guay Tiew Sukhothai Mae Boon Rod
4/F, 97/11 Ratchadamri Rd., 02-250-4888. Open daily 9am-9:30pm

CentralWorld
Centerpoint Can-Teen

Overall Score: 2/5
Vibe: 2/5. CenterPoint Can-Teen, tucked away in CentralWorld’s massive teen center on the 7th floor, is a small food court where all the teens hang out. It’s a perfect place for a date if you’re 13 or 13 going on 30, but the dim lighting (not the good kind of dim) can get creepy. With electric blue and green signs plastered everywhere, and illustrated wallpaper, you’ll definitely feel like you’re in kiddie town.
Selection: 2/5. There’s not much going on for food other than the basics—kao pad, guaytiew, etc—and they’re not worth mentioning. But, it is a good place to find different kinds of ice cream desserts and crepes on the cheap. You can get a classic three-scoop banana split garnished with all the traditional add-ons, like strawberry syrup, crushed nuts, whipped cream and cherries for a mere B50, and an elaborate nutella and banana dessert crepe.
Cleanliness: 1/5. Though the stalls are kept tidy enough, they’re cluttered with empty boxes and cleaning products in full-view. The lack of light makes the stalls look even sketchier.
Cost: 4/5. B100 will buy you all the ice cream you can ever eat want to eat.
Top Stalls: The ice cream stall, in the middle.
7/F, CentralWorld, Ratchadamri Rd. BTS Chitlom. Open daily noon-8pm.

Central Ladprao,
Tops Market

Overall Score:4/5

Vibe: 4.5/5. Since the big revamp of Central Ladprao, the food court’s atmosphere is ten times better. The brand new table sets are in a lovely eggshell tone and the overall color palette is cloudy grey. Too bad the seating is very limited, compared to the abundance of food stalls. We even saw some customers having to share their table with strangers—the horror!
Selection: 4.5/5. Lots of Thai options, with decent choices for Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Western food. The stall selection ranges from very ordinary tam sang (stir fries made to order), to a kebab place and a hi-so Italian chain, Scoozi, that does pastas starting at B100. Rarely seen in any other malls, Crepes & Co. and Chokchai Steak Burger also have outlets here—B120 for a pork burger.
Cleanliness: 4/5. Everything is clean and pleasant. Although, with seating spread out over three different areas, the cleaning staff has a hard time getting to all the tables.
Cost: 2/5. Not “food court cheap” but definitely cheaper than standalone counterparts.
Top Stalls: Tue Huan Ladprao 64, Krapor Pla Yaowarat and Vegetarian Food by Major General Jumlong Srimeung.
Basement, Central Ladprao. 1691 Paholyothin Rd., 02-541-1111. Open daily 10am-10pm. MRT Paholyothin.

Central Rama III
Food Park

Overall Score: 3/5
Vibe: 3.5/5. The décor has an underwater theme, so white and ocean blue are the main colors. The proportion between seating and empty space is not too cramped, and apart from regular tables and seats, there are also hi-so looking tables with black leather chairs which are set up along the glass-window corners offering a great sky and city view. There’s a toddlers’ ball pit and decent amount of arcades in the area, so expect screaming and noise. Tutors and high school students make up half the crowd.
Selection: 2.5/5. Choices are limited and mostly Thai with a few basic international additions like Japanese katsu curry rice and EZ sausages and steaks. The place does offer some interesting snack choices like the cold Japanese crepe and takoyaki. All dishes are priced under B100.
Cleanliness: 3/5. Stalls and utensils are sufficiently clean, but dirty tables don’t get noticed right away by the staff, so you may eat your meal next to a table piled up with leftover food.
Cost: 3/5. Average, but you can still fill up on B100.
Top Stalls: Guay Tiew Yhib Yum, Kamoo Nakorn Pathom and Cold Crepe.
6/F, 79/3 Satupradit Rd., 02-673-5555. Open daily 11am-9pm.

Chamchuree Square
Raintree Food Square

Overall Score: 2.5/5
Vibe: 4/5. Oriental meets modern tropical. There are various styles of seating including Chinese tea table sets, grey leather chairs and a few tall tables with bar stools. The place is crowded by Chula students and office workers at lunch time and appears to be used by some as a library in the afternoon. If you’re looking to enjoy your meal with a bit of entertainment, there’s live music every day at 5-9pm, if you call soft jazz on an electronic piano.
Selection: 1/5. Mainly Thai and noodles but there is also a stall selling Samyan style steaks. Somtam poo plara tastes like real Isaan but costs as high as B50 and B15 for sticky rice. Baked rice with chicken and chestnuts (B69) is probably the fanciest dish you can get here.
Cleanliness: 3.5/5. Floors and tables are exceptionally clean, as well as the utensils. Food displays at the stalls are pretty average, though.
Cost: 1.5/5. Given the student clientele, we expected street prices. Are Chula kids getting too much pocket money?
Top Stalls: Oab Aroi, and Guay Jab Samyan.
B/F, 315 Rama 4 Rd., 02-160-5454. Open daily 10am-10pm.

Five-Star View, but a Work in Progress

Emporium Food Hall

Overall Score:3/5

Vibe: 3/5. The eating area is open, with natural light coming from the huge windows that showcase a scenic view of Benjasiri Park. The faux book case along the walls and plants on every corner give it a homey, library feel. Unfortunately, it’s even more cramped during lunch hours and it’s hard to find a place to sit. Be ready to fight for your seat.
Selection: 2/5. There isn’t much choice: you can get combination seafood plates for B80-B100, noodle soups (B50) and rice noodles with shredded duck (B60)—not that they’re any good. If you’re into sweets, they have ruam mit, a traditional Thai dessert where you can choose from an assortment of jellies and syrups, cherry, coconut milk, or regular (B25 for two desserts, B10 for each additional one).
Cleanliness: 4/5. Maybe it’s the nice lighting and decor that makes it all seem cleaner than most mall eateries, but staff is also quick to clear tables.
Cost: 3/5. You’ll pay B60-B100, rarely more, rarely less. Kind of pricey, but it is Emporium.
Top stalls. White Kitchen does a mean fried rice with Thai sour sausage (B65) and garlic meat or combination seafood dishes (B55-B75). There are also more elaborate creations like their tom yum goong spaghetti with shrimp, squid or a combination of both (B90-B100).
5/F, Emporium Shopping Complex, Sukhumvit Soi 24. BTS Phrom Phong. Open daily 10am-8pm.

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Dr. Polapat Udomphol is a business developer and a partner of ITWorks, the company behind Ookbee, which digitally publishes the vast majority of Thai magazines on your iPad. They also developed the hugely successful AIS bookstore app. We asked him what he thought of Thailand’s IT preparedness and the one tablet per child scheme.

Are textbooks on their way out?
Definitely. This trend has already started happening in the United States. College students normally carry an average of five kgs of textbooks. Now, they only need one tablet. The textbook is also evolving into interactive textbooks: why read about music when you can listen to it?

But does this mean that the whole curriculum has to change?
Well, the curriculum remains the same, but each student will be able to learn at a different pace. Also the interactive textbook can help facilitate learning in many ways.

What sort of products do you develop for public learning institutions?
We’re talking to several Thai and English textbook publishers now. In the beginning, most digital textbooks will be basic [a bit like PDFs] but, gradually, interactive digital versions of textbooks will be developed. The cost of converting a paper textbook isn’t high, but for interactivity, it depends on how interactive you want the book to be. There will be production costs associated with making video, animation, sound and so on. The interactive textbook can make learning easier. It can incorporate video and audio. If the course requires a lot of memorization, it can hide some passages on the tablet, for instance.

As an employer, is it hard or easy to find students from Thai universities that are trained well enough to work in the IT field?
Most Thai students need at least six months training after we hire them. There are more IT people now than 10 years ago, but the quality is still not so good. They don’t have the practical skills, and it’s not because of their IQ; it’s because of the curriculum.

What do you think the curriculum needs to change to better prepare IT students?
IT should teach the ability to work as a team, programming skills for popular platforms, such as mobile platforms, and project management skills.

Do you think that teachers in the primary and secondary level are ready for the shift to digital learning?
The teachers who already use computers to prepare for courses and to teach are ready, but older school teachers will require a lot of training.

What about places where schools are underfunded? Is it possible to give this kind of training to teachers in underfunded areas?
The training can be done, but that’s not the problem. The real problem is the implementation. In some rural areas there’s no internet connectivity and not very much electricity. The tablets are no use for these places. First the government has to work on the infrastructure in these areas. The government can only roll out the tablets to these areas when they are ready.

Dr. Worraporn Tantichanon, a pediatrician from the Thonburi Hospital, sheds some light on the seriousness of iodine deficiency and the effects nutrition has on IQ.

How serious is iodine deficiency?
In Thailand, iodine deficiency is quite high. A large percentage of women who come in for health exams have low iodine levels. Because of this, the government has released a new supplement [that combines iron, folate and iodine].

Why is iodine intake important for kids?
The most important time for a child’s development is the first three years of their life. This is when the thyroid hormones start to develop. The thyroid hormone is one of the most important factors in brain development, and iodine is important in nurturing the thyroid hormones.

What happens if thyroid glands aren’t developed properly?
If they don’t develop properly, the child will get hypothyroidism. It will affect the development of the brain and the IQ. It affects their metabolism, and their capacity to learn. Some kids will not be alert and have problems focusing in class.

What else determines IQ?
Getting properly developed really depends on whether you were given proper nutrition as a child, but it also depends on your genes. There’s no way to redevelop an underdeveloped brain. You can do brain training exercises to keep your mind fresh and active, but there’s not really a way to raise your IQ to a much higher level. With practice, you might be able to raise it a little bit, but it wouldn’t be a huge change. But IQ isn’t everything; like, if a child has a good IQ and isn’t raised properly, or is not properly disciplined, they probably wouldn’t excel in their studies.

Does it matter if you have a low IQ?
Success in life depends on each person. It’s what success means to you that is important. Even if some people aren’t good at school, it doesn’t mean they won’t be good at other things.

Thailand’s education system is going through a major shift. From digital tablets to talks of whether or not the smaller schools in rural areas should be shut down, Permanent Secretary for Education of Thailand Dr. Chinnapat Bhumirat has been a large part of mediating the arguments surrounding these issues.

Why was there such a disparity between IQs in different regions of Thailand? Students in the Northeast and South regions scored a 95.99 and 96.85, respectively, whereas students in the Bangkok region scored over 104 and Nonthaburi scored as high as over 108.
The problem is impossible to put in simple terms, but it may stem from the Northeast and the South’s financial situation. Their lack of funding could be behind a lack of iodine in their diets, which according to our information has an impact on student IQs. Also, the quality of education is affected. Schools in the North and along the border lack qualified and experienced teachers. There’s not enough of them to fill the high number of small schools.
What are the small schools like?
Small schools with less than 60 students represent more than 50% of Thai primary and secondary schools. These small schools are why we lack experienced teachers. In some schools, one teacher has to teach classes from kindergarten to grade six, where there should be seven or eight teachers in that school. We can’t provide that luxury because it would be a big burden on the budget to fill those schools with teachers. Instead, we have to use teachers more efficiently.
What’s the solution?
The simplest solution is to cut down the number of small schools to increase efficiency. There have to be fewer students per teacher, but the problem is not that straightforward. When we look at the social dimension, schools represent a social institution in the village. There’s a close tie between the school, people and the village. Shutting down schools may improve efficiency, but it might break up the harmony of the village.
How do you move forward?
We cannot move forward immediately. Our office, the Basic Education Commission, is stuck in the middle: on one side we are forced by committees responsible for personnel management to close down small schools because of their inefficiency; on the other side, we have to face the pressure of NGOs and villages to maintain the small schools.
With tablets in the mix, will teachers be able to keep up digital learning?
The conventional textbook is getting less important, and perhaps in three or four years it will seldom be used. Right now, this is a transition period. We first have to judge the capability of our teachers. How can teachers cope with this technology? Will the roll of teachers change?
What does the future hold for education?
We have to make the most out of technological advancements. Technology is moving very fast, IT equipment is widely available and costs are going down. Some of the things we are trying to achieve are to promote self-learning, where students can find and analyze information, then reach their own conclusions. Teachers would be facilitators of this process. This is a new chapter for education.

Did you hear? The next generation is dumb, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Education. 50% of kids aged 9-15 have below average IQs—but isn’t that the definition of an average? Experts are worried nonetheless, and they’re blaming everything from iodine deficiency to rural teachers. Will free tablet computers save us all? Is iodine the cure-all? And are we really that stupid? To find out, BK speaks to a pediatrician, a businessman in the field of IT and an official from the Ministry of Education.

RURAL SCHOOLS: Interview with Ministry of Education.

DIGITAL LEARNING: ITWorks tech expert on new education.

IODINE DEFICIENCY: A doctor's take on IQ and iodine intake.

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Chatuchak Market Section 14 Soi 7. Open 10am-7pm, 089-409-0740.

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