Yes, but we only came across it on our last day of my Bangkok visit last January. We spent 4 hours there but didn’t have enough time to explore the entire food section in the basement of the mall, but it was spectacular - virtually dozens upon dozens of Thai hawker/street food stands, some created to look like boats on the faux floating market which meandered all over the mall’s basement food hall.
We tried some Southern Thai-style rice noodles which looked close to Singaporean Mee Siam, which we’d always suspected was a local Singaporean invention but inspired by some Siamese/Thai noodle dish, but which we had never been able to identify previously.
Also had some “khanom” (sweet, steamed rice puddings) - too many varieties of sweetmeats & desserts to try.
I particularly enjoyed this one, which closely approximates Singaporean “kuih talam”, with its pandan-flavoured rice pudding at the bottom and rich, salty coconut creme on top. Red kidney beans, corn kernels and steamed taro complete the dessert.
I spent most of my time ogling at the variety of food available, and how beautifully designed the food hall was. These are the Naga (dragon) escalators bringing one down to the Food Hall from the swanky mall upstairs:
The proper restaurants are in the upper floors of the mall, including branches of Michelin-rated Thai restaurants. We didn’t have a chance to explore the floors in-between as the mall was massive - larger than even Central World Plaza or Siam Paragon in Pratunam, my regular mall hangouts in Bangkok.
We lunched at one of the restaurants on the upper level - Lay Lao from Hua Hin, which was listed as a Bib Gourmand entry in Thailand’s Michelin Guide.
We had some very nice Pad Thai and Khanom Chin (rice noodles) with crab curry.
