Nakhon Kitchen at Blk 136 Bedok North Avenue 3 is the Bedok outlet of a homegrown brand founded on a simple idea: delicious, authentic Thai food should be affordable and easily available to everyone. The kitchen draws its inspiration from the exotic flavours of Northeastern Thailand's Issan cuisine and Bangkok's street food cooking, preparing every dish the good old way — bringing together sweet, sour, salty and spicy for a meal reminiscent of what you would enjoy in Thailand itself.
Chefs use the freshest and choicest ingredients from Thailand to create honestly good dishes across appetizers, soups, curries, mains and desserts. The chef's recommendations alone read like a tour of Thai comfort food: crispy grouper topped with Thai chili sauce, clear-based seafood tom yam, deep-fried boneless chicken wings, Thai vermicelli salad with seafood, green curry with chicken, basil chicken rice, phad Thai noodle and the classic red ruby dessert.
Over the years the brand has picked up SME of the Year awards in 2014 and 2015 and a Weekender Foodmania Award in 2017, along with coverage from 8 Days, Straits Times Lifestyle, The New Paper and Zao Bao. More importantly, it remains a preferred place for friends and family to gather — a reliable heartland table for anyone craving the true taste of Thailand at prices that welcome everyone back.
Tucked into Block 136 Bedok North Avenue 3, Nakhon Kitchen is one of Singapore's most trusted names for honest, affordable Thai food. This Bedok outlet serves the same menu that made the brand a household name: fragrant curries, punchy soups, wok-fired noodles and the kind of sweet-sour-salty-spicy cooking that keeps families coming back week after week.
Nakhon Kitchen was founded on a simple idea — that delicious, authentic Thai food should be affordable and easily available to everyone. The kitchen draws its inspiration from two sources: the exotic flavours of Northeastern Thailand's Issan cuisine and the street food cooking of Bangkok. Every dish is prepared the good old way, bringing together the different flavours of sweet, sour, salty and spicy for what the team calls an unforgettable dining experience.
That philosophy shows up on the plate. Chefs use the freshest and choicest ingredients from Thailand to create honestly good dishes that appeal to the hearts and palates of diners, at prices that make the true taste of Thailand accessible to all. Over the years, regulars have come to describe the food as reminiscent of what they would enjoy in Thailand itself — high praise in a city full of Thai restaurants.
The menu runs from appetizers and soups through curries and mains to desserts, and the chef's recommendations read like a greatest-hits list of Thai comfort food. The crispy grouper topped with Thai chili sauce is the showpiece — fish fried crisp and finished with the house chili sauce, made for passing around the table. The seafood tom yam, built on a clear base, delivers that familiar hot-and-sour lift.
Starters lean irresistible: the deep-fried boneless chicken wings are a fixture on many tables, while the Thai vermicelli salad with seafood brings a tangy, refreshing counterpoint. Curry lovers gravitate to the green curry with chicken. For single-plate meals, the basil chicken rice and phad Thai noodle cover two poles of Thai street cooking — herbaceous and punchy, or sweet-tangy and comforting. Finish with a red ruby and the tour is complete.
Word of mouth has carried Nakhon Kitchen a long way. The brand has been featured by bloggers and food critics across many online platforms, with mainstream coverage in 8 Days, Straits Times Lifestyle, The New Paper and Zao Bao between 2009 and 2015. Its accolades include the SME of the Year Award in 2014 — with a Fast Growing Award distinction — and again in 2015, plus a win at the Weekender Foodmania Awards 2017.
The Bedok 136 outlet opens daily from 11.30am to 9.30pm, with a break between 3pm and 5pm, so plan lunch or dinner around that afternoon pause. It is a natural spot for gatherings — long a preferred place for friends and family to eat together, ordering a spread of soups, curries and noodles to share. If Bedok isn't convenient, Nakhon Kitchen also runs outlets at Compass One in Sengkang and NorthPoint City, both serving the same menu daily from 11.30am to 9.30pm.
Whether you are digging into a plate of phad Thai or sharing a crispy grouper with the whole table, the promise is the same as the day it opened: authentic Thai cooking done the good old way, at prices that welcome everyone back.