Here Hai

Here Hai is what happens when a tiny family wok shop gets very, very good at one thing and the internet finds out. The thing is crab fried rice: an outrageous heap of wok-breathed rice buried under lumps of crab meat, cooked in a kitchen the size of a wardrobe on Ekkamai and recognised by the Michelin guide for years running. The giant grilled river prawns and the crab omelette back it up, but nearly every table orders the same famous plate — and photographs it before touching it. The queue is part of the legend; the shop is small, demand is not, and waits at peak hours are real. The payoff is street-shop pricing for seafood extravagance — the crab fried rice costs a fraction of what hotel restaurants charge for less crab. Good to know: opening hours are short and shift often — check the current hours above and arrive at the start of service to beat the queue; consider one order between two with a side, because portions are generous. It sits in the same Ekkamai orbit as Wattana Panich's beef noodles, and doing both in one greedy afternoon is a recognised Bangkok food-crawl move.