Sukhumvit 31 The neighbourhood guide
The dining room at Ministry of Crab Bangkok

Restaurants · Soi 31

Ministry of Crab Bangkok

Sri Lankan crab and seafood

Photo: Ministry of Crab Bangkok
Upscale About 300m in, Sam-ed Building 4.8 / 5

The Bangkok outpost of Colombo’s celebrated Ministry of Crab is built around enormous mud crabs, priced by size and cooked simply so the shellfish does the talking. Garlic chilli crab, pepper crab and prawns the length of your hand are the order of the day.

It is a hands-on, bib-on kind of dinner. Go with a group, order a crab a size up from what feels sensible, and share.

What to order

A jumbo or colossal crab, garlic or pepper, and the prawns.

Good to know

  • Crab priced by weight
  • Closed Mondays
  • Good for groups
The Public House design hotel facade on Soi 31, with its tiled frontage and tiger artwork

Stay on the soi

Wake up in the middle of it all

Most of Soi 31 is a taxi ride from where visitors usually sleep. Public House is the one design hotel right on the street, so the coffee, the dinners and the bars on this list are already on your doorstep.