Ging Grai Thai Restaurant Chiang Mai

The Ging Grai Thai restaurant experience goes beyond the unique and delicious gastronomic offerings, and also shares a lifestyle experience with diners and visitors to the restaurant that can be taken home. This unique Chiang Mai restaurant houses a lifestyle shop, ‘Thorr’, which offers a colourful choice of traditional and hand-woven crafts and fabrics. Thorr is a family business, that originated in Thailand’s Amnat Charoen province,that supports local communities through promoting and supporting their traditional skills and crafts. The family behind Thorr and the local communities work together to ensure that the products pay homage to their traditional heritage while also ensuring relevance in the modern world. Thorr’s cooperation with community artisans and traditional crafts-folk has branched out beyond Amnat Charoen across the North-Eastern provinces of Isan and also to both North and South Thailand. Be sure to check out the unique products and artisan crafts on offer in Thorr Lifestyle Shop on your next visit to Ging Grai Thai restaurant Chiang Mai.

The menu at Ging Grai features flavours and dishes from the four most popular regional cuisines in Thailand truly sharing with diners some of the best Thai food in Chiang Mai. Offering a truly unique menu, all the dishes are crafted from family recipes offering dining experiences and flavours that are rarely found in other regional restaurants. Dishes created from young grai tree leaves for example, which folks from Central Thailand see as a seasonable local vegetable called pak lieb, and is known locally in the North of Thailand as pak huerd, and pak hierd in Isan. The pink and green leaves can be enjoyed with coconut milk in a variety of ways. Highlights of Ging Grai’s Northern Thai offerings include ab pla duk (grilled catfish in curry paste), kanom jeen nam ngiaw (fermented rice noodle with spicy pork rib sauce), and larb nuer (Northern style larb with pig’s blood). The signature dishes from Northeastern Thailand’s Isan cuisine include tum sua (spicy papaya salad with fermented rice noodle), gaeng om gai (spicy chicken thick soup), and larb pla tong (Chitala fish larb). Delicious savory dishes from Central Thailand include kanom jeen sao nam (fermented rice noodle with coconut sauce), si-krong moo tod nampla (fried spareribs with fish sauce), and goong kratiem pad kai khem (stir-fried shrimps with garlic and salted egg). And for true foodies and aficionados of Thai cuisine, the hard to find Eastern dishes like maeng krapoon nampla whan (jelly fish with sweet fish sauce), yum pla sala khem tod (spicy salad with fried salted talang queenfish), and gaeng pa hed kon tua fak yao (spicy clear curry with mushroom and yard-long beans) are really not to be missed! Each dish is best deliciously paired with a blended fresh brewed tea mocktail formulated especially for Ging Grai by TE, using teas and herbs from the regions that inspire Ging Grai’s cuisine. Taste Thailand’s North in a mocktail that expertly combines the qualities and flavours of mullilam, galangal, turmeric, lychee, and longan. Or perhaps flavours of the East in a refreshing mocktail crafted from chamuang leaves, peppercorn, mangosteen, and rambutan. Ging Grai’s Isan inspired mocktail mixes mulberry, lemongrass, dill, chili, and roasted rice. And from Central Thailand, a delicious mix of galangal, tamarind, lemongrass, kafir lime, mango, tamarind, and plum. Both delicious and full of health benefits these flavorful drinks are the perfect pairing for your lunch or dinner at Ging Grai Thai restaurant, Chiang Mai.

Ging Grai offers regional food crafted from produce and ingredients that are sourced and grown by artisan growers and farmers local to Ging Grai and our other Thai restaurants. We believe strongly in the importance of working with and supporting our local communities, to support local economies and to ensure the futures of these rural communities. Additionally, in working closely with farmers and growers we can ensure the quality of the produce we use in Ging Grai and our other restaurants across Thailand, truly a win-win relationship for both the growers and farmers we work with and our restaurant businesses. As well as the produce for our kitchens, we also support traditional crafts-folk through both decorating our restaurants with artisan products and art, and promoting their products in our lifestyle shop, ‘Thorr’, on site at Ging Grai Restaurant Chiang Mai.