Klean Khao started because we were frustrated. This is how two friends who love Thai food and train hard ended up opening a rice bowl shop in Thonglor.
If you train and care about what goes into your food, your options shrink fast. Most days it came down to two choices.
Fast, tasty, everywhere. Fried in seed oils, heavy on sugar and MSG, and you feel it by 3pm.
Plain chicken and broccoli, cooked at home on Sunday. Healthy enough, but it doesn't taste like Thailand.
we wanted something better, so we built it.
Rice is the foundation of life here, so it is the foundation of every bowl. Instead of waiting for a modern rice brand to appear, we built one. Our jasmine rice is cooked with pandan, lemongrass and kaffir lime, and we also serve riceberry, red rice and quinoa.
Mike moved to Thailand and built his life here. He trains almost every day and thinks long-term about energy and health. He wanted food that fuels a hard session and still tastes like the city he calls home.
Pat is Thai through and through. He understands local ingredients and how rice should be respected. That respect is why every bowl starts with the rice.
Klean Khao sits between those worlds: real Thai flavour, cooked to an athlete's standard.
Macros on the menu and seed-oil-free cooking, built on krapao, jaew and satay, the flavours this city grew up on.
White walls, wooden tables and a menu small enough to get every bowl right.
Real portions and real protein. You should leave full and feel good an hour later.
Jasmine rice steamed with pandan, lemongrass and kaffir lime.
Marinated in-house, then grilled, glazed or pan-seared.
House pickles, kimchi, guac and charred corn, each plated in its own spot.
Krapao, jaew, satay and more, made from scratch with no MSG.
White walls, warm wooden tables, a green tiled kitchen and plenty of plants. Eat in, grab a cold-pressed juice, or order on Grab and we'll send it over in a kraft bowl.
clean food. done properly.
At a standard we'd eat every day. Not trendy. Not complicated. Just solid.Building a small food business in Bangkok is messy, and we post about it honestly: what works, what doesn't, and what our guests really think.