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Thai Cooking with Joy

Joy Thai Food specializes in authentic Thai cuisine with an extensive focus on somtam (papaya salad), offering over twenty variations including traditional Thai-style, versions with pickled fish, crab, Vietnamese sausage, and mixed seafood. The restaurant serves classic Esan dishes like laab and grilled chicken alongside Thai curries, stir-fries, and fusion creations such as drunken spaghetti and green curry pasta. They also offer Western options including Finnish meatballs, pasta dishes, and grilled items, making it a versatile spot that bridges Thai authenticity with international comfort food.

Menu

Somtam

Somtam with Vietnamese sausage

from ฿80
  • With pickled fish฿80
  • Thai style฿80

Somtam Thai

from ฿60
  • With crab฿60
  • Without crab฿60

Somtam with crab and pickled fish

Somtam with pickled clams

Somtam cucumber

Somtam mixed

Somtam with pickled fish and Vietnamese sausage

Somtam Korat

Somtam Thai with salted egg

from ฿80
  • With crab฿80
  • Without crab฿80

Somtam with corn

from ฿80
  • Vietnamese sausage฿80
  • Salted egg฿80

Somtam with mixed fruits

Somtam with crab, pickled fish and shrimp

Somtam with cooked seafood

Somtam with fresh shrimp and boiled shrimp

Somtam kao lao

Somtam with fresh and cooked fish

from ฿150
  • Fresh fish฿150
  • Cooked fish฿180

Somtam with pickled fish

from ฿90
  • Fresh shrimp฿90
  • Boiled shrimp฿90

Somtam

from ฿160
  • Cooked฿160
  • Fresh฿160

Somtam with shrimp

from ฿100
  • Fresh shrimp฿100
  • Boiled shrimp฿100

Somtam with shellfish

from ฿150
  • Cooked฿150
  • Fresh฿180

Somtam with fermented fish roe

from ฿150
  • Cooked฿150
  • Fresh฿180

Other Dishes

Naamtok pork

Laab pork

Laab chicken

Grilled chicken

from ฿50
  • Small฿50
  • Large฿70

Sticky rice

฿10

Delicious Thai Food

Thai Classics

Fried Basil Leaf

from ฿90
  • Pork฿90
  • Chicken฿90
  • Tofu฿90

Fried Basil Seafood

Add-ons

  • One Rice / No Rice฿120
  • Two Rice / No Rice฿140

Garlic Chicken

from ฿90
  • Regular฿90
  • Large฿100

Pad Thai

from ฿90
  • Chicken฿90
  • Tofu฿90

Pad Thai Shrimp

Fried Chicken with Cashewnuts

Tom Yum Seafood

Fried Vegetables in Oyster Sauce

Fried Rice

Fried Yellow Noodle

Fried Broccoli

Fried Bean Sprouts

from ฿100
  • Egg฿100
  • Tofu฿100

Chicken Pad See Ew

Yam Mama Noodle Salad

Glass Noodle Salad

from ฿100
  • Chicken฿100
  • Pork฿100
  • Tofu฿100
  • Seafood฿120

Add-ons

  • Rice฿20
  • Add Egg Dish฿20

Esan Food

Laab

from ฿100
  • Pork฿100
  • Chicken฿100
  • Squid฿120

Mushroom Curry Soup

Om Gai

Chicken soup

Bamboo Shoot Soup

Add-ons

  • Rice฿20
  • Sticky Rice฿20

Thai Curries

Green Curry

Panang Curry

Red Curry

Massaman Curry

Bamboo Shoot Curry

from ฿100
  • Chicken฿100
  • Pork฿100
  • Tofu฿100

Add-ons

  • Rice฿20

Papaya Salad

Thai Papaya Salad

Thai Papaya Salad with Salted Egg

Cucumber Salad

Corn Papaya Salad

Corn & Sausage Salad

Corn & Salted Egg Salad

Fermented Fish Papaya Salad

Korat Papaya Salad

Fermented Fish with Sausage Papaya Salad

Thai Papaya Salad with Sausage

Long Bean Salad

Papaya Salad with Boiled Shrimps

Thai Style Tray Papaya Salad

Add-ons

  • Rice Noodles฿20

Menu

Western Food

Chicken Fillet with Fries or Mashed Potatoes

Add-ons

  • Fries฿0
  • Mashed Potatoes฿0

Finnish Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes

Pasta Carbonara

from ฿150
  • Spaghetti฿150
  • Penne฿150
  • Spiral฿150

Pasta Seafood

from ฿190
  • Spaghetti฿190
  • Penne฿190
  • Spiral฿190

Pasta Tomato Sauce

from ฿140
  • Pork฿140
  • Chicken฿140
  • Tofu฿140
  • Spaghetti฿140
  • Penne฿140
  • Spiral฿140

Minced Pork Meat in Brown Sauce with Mashed Potatoes

Kids Menu

Chicken Nuggets

Noname Chicken

French Fries

Meatballs with Fries

Spaghetti Sauce

from ฿100
  • Pork฿100
  • Chicken฿100

From the Grill

Grilled Chicken

Joy's secret sauce

Chicken Skewers

Vegetarian Skewers

Stuffed Chilis

฿30

Chicken

Thai Fusion

Drunken Spaghetti

from ฿150
  • Pork฿150
  • Chicken฿150
  • Tofu฿150

Spaghetti Green Curry

from ฿150
  • Pork฿150
  • Chicken฿150
  • Tofu฿150

Spaghetti Panang Curry

from ฿150
  • Pork฿150
  • Chicken฿150
  • Tofu฿150

Spaghetti Garlic Chicken

Spaghetti Pad Thai

Drinks

Leo

฿70

Small

Chang

฿70

Small

Singha

฿80

Small

Tiger

฿75

Small

Hartwall Long Drink

Fanta/Sprite/Coke

from ฿30
  • Fanta฿30
  • Sprite฿30
  • Coke฿30

Water

from ฿15
  • Small฿15
  • Big฿40

Soda Water

Snacks

Chicken Sandwich

Onion Rings

Fried Chicken Wings

Chicken No Name

French Fries

Mango Sticky Rice

Springrolls

Chicken Satay

7 pcs.

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