10 Best Local Restaurants in Koh Chang

Jae Eaw Seafood has been serving delicious Thai seafood dishes for over 20 years. Visit this eatery virtually any evening, and it'll be busy with locals and in-the-know tourists. The efficient service, extensive menu options, and family-size portions of seafood at reasonable prices keep the crowds coming.

Menu highlights include grilled prawns, au suan (Chinese-style oyster omelette), and the tom yum gung (hot and sour shrimp soup). The restaurant is less than 2 km from Klong Prao Beach and can easily be reached by taxi or scooter.

Street Food Market Koh Chang is a great place for finding local Thai food and snacks at the northern end of the island. From the late afternoon to the evening, local vendors sell traditional food and snacks in the centre of Klong Son. Look out for khao lam, a Thai dessert consisting of sweet sticky rice cooked in coconut milk inside bamboo tubes over a charcoal barbecue.

When the sun goes down, head to the centre of White Sand Beach to browse the food stalls at the nightly street food market. You’ll find seafood, BBQ meats on sticks and pad Thai on offer, plus smoothie and fruit juice stalls.

Ido Ido Restaurant is a laidback spot in the south of Koh Chang near the village of Bang Bao. The restaurant is located on the beach and is popular with locals and tourists looking for affordable and delicious Thai food and beautiful sea views. The menu features typical Thai food, including a variety of vegetarian options. But the kitchen can make almost any dish with tofu instead of meat.

Seating includes wooden tables and chairs under the main thatched roof or directly on the beach. If you’re feeling lazy, there are sun loungers wedged into the sand just a few steps from the sea.

For fresh seafood dishes, head to Salak Kok Seafood in the fishing community of Salakkok on the southeast coast of Koh Chang. The restaurant’s charming rustic location – alongside a river walkway in a mangrove forest – alone makes a trip to this remote region worthwhile.

The restaurant’s menu features a good selection of fresh fish, prawns, shrimps, and crabs. Service is friendly, and you can watch boats glide past while you wait for your food. If you're up for it, you can enjoy a relaxing boat or canoe ride through the mangroves after your meal.

Chao Lay Seafood Restaurant sits on the pier in Bang Bao village. As you walk in, there are tanks of live seafood – a guarantee of the freshness of the dishes. You can choose which fish, prawns, crabs, lobster, and shellfish you’d like to have for dinner.

The food here is prepared ‘Thai style’, so expect it to be spicy – an ice-cold beer pairs well with a traditional Thai seafood dish. The restaurant can get very busy on weekends and Thai holidays, so plan to visit on a weekday to enjoy a quiet, unhurried meal.

Thai Dutch Restaurant Koh Chang is an unassuming family-run eatery located a couple of metres from the main road on Koh Chang’s west coast. The owner is friendly and will make you feel at home while the ladies in the kitchen prepare your meal with fresh local ingredients from the nearby market. You may also see them cutting fresh herbs in their garden to add to your curry.

The extensive menu includes various curries, stir-fries, fried fish, and Thai salads. Previous patrons rave about the pad Thai, red curry with fish, tom yum soup, and massaman curry.

Blues Blues Arts&Food is a funky restaurant housed in an artist’s home in Klong Son, in the northern part of Koh Chang. The menu features a great selection of tasty, well-priced traditional Thai cuisine that is big on flavours rather than fancy presentations.

Soft blues and jazz set the mood of this little hideaway, complete with a peaceful garden and outdoor modern art gallery. All the paintings, sculptures and small pieces of artwork were created by the owner and are for sale.

Arrive hungry at Kung Kra Ta Buffet to enjoy the all-you-can-eat self-service and self-cooking buffet with a vast selection of food. You can find fish, shrimp, squid, mussels, pork, chicken, beef, and local vegetables here. To cook your food, you either grill it over a small Korean-style hot pot or cook it in boiling water.

The buffet includes dipping sauces, fruit, dessert, ice cream, and soft drinks. With no time limits, you can sample all the food at a leisurely pace. The restaurant can get lively, with Thai music often blaring. So be prepared for a loud but fun and sociable evening.

Chang Yes is a welcoming restaurant serving delicious traditional, home-style Thai food prepared with fresh local ingredients. You can order spring rolls, whole fish, seafood pad Thai, chicken with cashew nuts, various Thai curries, and more.

Portions are sizeable and guaranteed to leave you with a full and happy belly. The service and hospitality here are warm and attentive – don’t be surprised if the owner and head chef come to your table to ask if everything is okay.

Stop by BAM & BOY Thai Restaurant to enjoy some grilled chicken when you need a break from seafood or red curries. While you can find barbecue chicken restaurants across the island, BAM & BOY stands out for its super-clean dining area, consistently tasty food, and reasonable prices.

Besides the rotisserie chicken, you can order green papaya salad (som tam, in Thai). Papaya salad is one of Thailand’s most common street foods. It consists of unripe papaya mixed with chillies, lime, peanuts, palm sugar, dried shrimps, and fish sauce, which have been pounded together in a mortar and pestle.