Roe Dang
Bib Gourmand 2026

🔄 Last checked 2 Jul 2026 · details and hours can change — check the venue before you go

If you're driving along Phet Kasem Road through Lam Kaen in Thai Mueang district and spot a plain-looking restaurant across from the Lam Kaen sub-district office, don't just drive past — this is "Roe Dang," a local Southern Thai restaurant that the MICHELIN Guide has awarded a Bib Gourmand year after year, from around 2022 through the 2026 guide. The restaurant itself is as simple as any roadside rice-and-curry shop you'll find across the South, with no flashy decor at all, but what keeps the cars pulling in nonstop is the cooking — seafood that arrives fresh daily from the Andaman Sea, paired with curry pastes pounded in-house from local Phang-Nga ingredients. It's exactly the formula MICHELIN loves: seriously good food, prices you can afford, and no need to dress up — just come hungry.

The menu here leans into Southern Thai flavors mixed with seafood. Stir-fried red grouper with bitter melon is the dish many people order first — firm fish meets the bitter melon's gentle bitterness in a combination that works better than you'd expect. Fresh prawns with wild betel leaf come crisp and fragrant with betel leaf, while stir-fried crab meat with spring onion is the dish that puts the freshness of the ingredients to the real test, because crab that isn't fresh just doesn't cut it. Tiger prawns in tamarind sauce deliver that classic Thai sweet-and-sour hit, and if you're up for something more unusual, order the squid in black ink broth, a Southern seafood home-style dish that's getting harder to find these days. Another fun part of the place is the walls, covered in photos of celebrities and public figures who've stopped by to eat — browsing them while you eat is its own kind of entertainment.

Roe Dang's location works out well for anyone touring Phang-Nga, since Lam Kaen sits right on the main route up to Khao Lak. If you're staying in the Khao Lak area, or driving up from Phuket toward Thai Mueang beach, Samet Nangshe, or on to Phang-Nga Bay, you can stop in for lunch or dinner here without any detour. And compared to restaurants in the Khao Lak hotel zone, where prices climb to match the tourist crowd, Roe Dang still charges like a local restaurant — only around 251–500 THB per person. The restaurant recently picked up another award too, Wongnai Users' Choice 2026, confirming it's not just MICHELIN that loves it — real Thai diners are voting for it too. If you're planning a Phang-Nga–Khao Lak trip, put this one on your list.