Betong Street Food

Betong Clock Tower

The cendol ice cream man

Cendol ice cream

Cendol ice cream with glutinous rice, cream corn and sea coconut @

10 baht / RM1 !!!!!!

The fritter stall

Deep-fried banana fritters

Deep-fried sweet potato balls

Betong Gourmet Food Tour

Chayachaowalit Road in Betong, a border town in Thailand.

Tai See Hee Restaurant

My family & I enjoy eating the Thai food here every time we come to Betong

Braised Fish Maw Soup

Seafood Tom Yam

Steamed Betong Chicken

Fried Omelette with Shrimps

Stir-fried watercress with belacan

Chicken feet kerabu

Pennywort juice (Pung Tai Woon)

Tai See Hee Restaurant

Chayachaowalit Road

Betong, Thailand.

Tel: 073-235802 / 089-6586597

Betong Tai See Hee Restaurant

This is one of the few restaurants in Betong which serves authentic Thai food. The owner of the shop is a Tahi Chinese who speaks fluent Hokkien and Mandarin. Thus, there is no language barrier when you patronize the restaurant.

Since there were only 3 of us, we did not want to order too many dishes and end up being overstuffed. Being selective enough, dad and I ordered their signature dishes - the Seafood Tom Yum, Steamed Betong Chicken, and Kerabu Chicken Feet and Belacan Water Cress.

An obligatory dish to savour when you go to this place as this is so perfectly done. Their feet are deboned and blanched till they turn pure white in colour. It's so good that we ended up ordering another plate after we finished the first plate within minutes.

Belacan water cress is another wonderful dish served in this eatery.

A not-to-be-missed dish - the Seafood Tom Yum. We only ordered a small serving of this soup yet could fish out more than 6 medium-sized prawns from the bowl of soup! Tastewise: The soup is spicy enough to make one constantly ask for more. Besides, it's not the watery type that we use to find in our local Thai restaurants.

This dish is a must-have too as the chicken served here is no ordinary type of chicken. Betong chicken may sound funny to you but it is actually another breed of chicken which is only available in Betong. This type of chicken has shorter feet and thicker skin. Unlike our local chicken, their skin is crunchy, the meat is so tender yet remains chewy when bitten into.

Tai See Hee,

Betong, Thailand.

(Near the Betong roundabout and Betong Tunnel)

Dim Sum Experience in Betong

Arrived in Betong as early as 9 am. There wasn't any crowd and crossing the border was far more pleasant than usual. We went straight to the dim sum joint to savour the dim sum in Betong. Initially we intended to eat at "Tai See Hee" but all the baskets were taken by a group of Malaysians who arrived 5 minutes earlier than us. We were not that bad luck after all when the kind owner of the shop guided us to another shop located a few rows down the street. We were indeed surprised to see the politeness and unselfishness of the Thailand born Chinese owner as he is willing to share business with the others. Malaysians should be sent back to schools to learn moral values again.


Variety of Dim Sum offered by the shop. They looked more or less the same as the typical dim sum that we use to have in Malaysia.

Fish maw soup with quail eggs.

Steamed chicken feet

Prawn Dumpling with translucent skin

Minced Pork wrapped in Chee Cheong Fun

Mini Char Siew Buns

The taste of the Dim Sum wasn't really inviting as most of them tasted flat the moment you bite into it. The texture of the wraps were not worthy of a compliment too as some appeared to be rather chewy while the others were soggy. However, the shop did not charge a high fare on their food and that was the only thing that made the Dim Sum shop worth visiting again if one runs out of choice in Betong.