East Bangkok: 11 Places to Ride To

Srinagarindra out to Bang Kapi and Lat Krabang, the half of the city visitors never see and residents ride through daily. What is out here is a century-old wooden market at Hua Takhe, a night train market, the biggest park in Bangkok, and a run of farm cafes where the land is still cheap enough to have a garden. Wide roads, real distance, good in the evening.

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SOSO COFFEE (THE MALL LIFESTORE BANGKAPI)

This isn't a tiny coffee bar. It's a 50+ year-old house transformed into a café, with a garden, old architecture and lots of space.

Old wooden houses built directly along canals, tiny workshops, local food, art and a very slow atmosphere. It doesn't feel like a recreated heritage village - it still feels like a real neighbourhood.

A forest-like garden hidden behind the Srinakarin urban chaos, with a glasshouse café surrounded by trees. The coffee comes from shade-grown organic farms connected to watershed-forest conservation.

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Ginggarn Farm Cafe

Farm-like rather than polished garden cafe: greenery, open space and an agricultural atmosphere. Outside central Bangkok, but well inside the metropolitan exploration.

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