Potong

Potong occupies a five-storey Sino-Portuguese shophouse on Vanich 1 Road in Chinatown, a building that housed Chef Pam's family herbal medicine business since 1910. The ground floor still holds the original medicine jars and carved wooden ceiling. Upstairs, the second-floor dining room keeps its aged wooden dividers and amber bottle collection, and each level shifts the mood: intimate glasshouse on three, the Opium Bar on four, and a breezy Chinatown rooftop at the top. The 20-course tasting menu weaves Thai and Chinese technique through a five-element philosophy. Expect smoked duck aged for two weeks, hand-pulled noodles dressed in fermented shrimp, and a rotating parade of seasonal seafood that leans harder on southern Chinese tradition than most Bangkok fine dining dares to.