Isan · Thai
Hai Somtum Convent ไห ส้มตำคอนแวนต์
Best for Cheap office lunch with colleagues
- Silom
- BTS Sala Daeng · 4 min
- $
About
Hai is the Isan restaurant at the mouth of Soi Convent that Silom office workers have leaned on for years. It is a two-storey shophouse, no air-con downstairs, air-con upstairs, a few hundred metres from BTS Sala Daeng; look for the green sign on the right as you enter the soi. The dishes that come up again and again in Wongnai reviews are grilled pork neck, fried chicken tendons with chilli dip, grilled catfish, blanched sweet liver (one 2026 review notes 95 baht) and som tam with or without fermented fish, with coconut ice cream to finish. Grab's Silom list names som tam, pork nam tok and duck larb. Reviewers put spend at 101 to 250 baht a head. Hours are Monday to Friday 11:00 to 21:00, Saturday to 20:00, closed Sunday. Google gives it 4.2 from 1,077 reviews; opinions on heat level vary, price and location do not. A reviewer found seats at 12:30 on a Friday.
What to order
Each pick traces to a source at the end of the page.
- Grilled pork neck
- Fried chicken tendons with chilli dip
- Som tam, with or without pla ra
- Sweet blanched liver about 95 baht
Bangkok Foodie Selection 2026
Featured in our guides
Ranked in 2 Bangkok Foodie guides, best placing first.
No. 3 of 14 · Silom Restaurants
What the guide says:
The som tam shophouse at the mouth of Soi Convent that Silom office workers have used for years. Fan-cooled downstairs, air-con upstairs, 101–250 baht a head, closed Sundays.
No. 7 of 15 · Street Food Bangkok
What the guide says:
Isan shophouse at the mouth of Soi Convent that Silom's office workers have used for years. Fan downstairs, air-con upstairs, 101 to 250 baht a head, closed Sunday; BTS Sala Daeng.