No. 01
Mae Pong Sri
Jok is Thailand's hangover dish. Hot rice porridge with raw egg dropped in, ginger, scallions, a splash of fish sauce. The body recognises this immediately.
Read the review →Comfort food the body actually recognises — broth, rice, salt, fat, eggs, in restaurants that open by noon.
The morning-after meal is not the time for editorial subtlety. You want salt, fat, broth, rice, eggs, and a room with low lighting. These are the Pattaya restaurants the editors would walk into on a recovery day.
Jok is Thailand's hangover dish. Hot rice porridge with raw egg dropped in, ginger, scallions, a splash of fish sauce. The body recognises this immediately.
Read the review →Indian breakfast is the second-most-recovering food on this list — paratha, dal, sweet milky tea. Open from mid-morning, the kitchen calm.
Read the review →For a more substantial hangover lunch — the mutton biryani if you have the appetite, a milder kebab plate if you don't. Sweet tea throughout.
Read the review →For an outdoor recovery lunch where the bay does half the work. Whole grilled fish, plain rice, an hour with the breeze. The hangover lifts by the third course.
Read the review →Late-stage hangover lunch — Korean fried chicken with a pickle plate, a beer if the body insists. Recovery via salt and fat.
Read the review →Disagree with our picks for this occasion? Tell us what we should be including.