4 All-You-Can-Eat Buffets in Bangkok Under 500 Baht

Fans of Japanese food will love Kuroda, a restaurant with a 22-page menu of classic Japanese dishes, all available in unlimited amounts at around the 500-baht mark. The layout is bland and a little like a canteen, but the service is prompt and the plates of salmon and tuna sashimi just keep on coming.

Other regular highlights include toriyaki chicken sticks, grilled beef, ramen noodles, and shrimp tempura. Kuroda has several branches but the one on Ekkamai (Sukhumvit Soi 63) is the easiest to find. It’s about 200 metres from the junction with Sukhumvit, on the left-hand side of the road.

Shabushi by Oishi is a shabu-shabu franchise that has a ubiquitous presence in shopping malls across Bangkok, often with lines of people waiting to get inside to feast. Each Shabushi branch is designed in the same way, very much like a sushi train restaurant.

Stools are lined up along a revolving conveyor belt that delivers the variety of ingredients to your seat, which you then boil in your pot of either spicy tom yum flavour broth or a lighter, salty broth. Ingredients range from fish, clams and shrimp to beef, chicken and all manner of vegetables. Often, there’s also a sushi area, free soft drinks and ice cream.

Best Beef is hugely popular with locals and expats thanks to the huge selection of barbecued meats and vegetables available. This open-air but under-cover restaurant is located in On Nut, east of downtown Bangkok but still close to the BTS.

It gets hot and you’ll smell like beef for the rest of the evening due to the spit-back from the iron skillet, but if you’re looking for a big, meaty feed just how local Bangkokians do it, Best Beef is highly recommended. The menu (in Thai) has 4 cuts of beef, 3 cuts of pork, as well as offals including liver, tongue and intestines – all available in unlimited amounts which you cook yourself directly at the table. When it comes time to order, just point at the pictures and smile.

Mumbai’s Great Punjab is a great value Indian restaurant, offering 4 different curries, basmati rice, naan bread, poppadums and garnishes, all for the amazing price of around 200 baht. The 4 curries revolve around chicken, dahl (lentil), paneer and vegetables, so there’s really something for everyone, and you can order all you like for 2 hours from noon to midnight.

Popular with the Indian community in Bangkok, Mumbai’s Great Punjab also has an a la carte menu, but many go for the all-you-can-eat option as it’s such good value. The restaurant is quite easy to find next to Trendy Building on Sukhumvit Soi 13, walking distance from Nana BTS Skytrain Station.