Ing Ping Restaurant, at Ping Pura Riverside Resort & Spa Chiang Mai, is an exquisite new hotel on the Ping River serving up absolutely delicious Thai and international cuisine in a setting that can’t help but impress.
The aim here is to make a special meal feel easy to enjoy on any day of the week. The setting — a colonial-style riverside hotel along the Ping — is polished but relaxed, the service warm rather than scripted. Walk-ins are welcome and there’s no service charge.
The name Ing Ping suggests leaning on the Ping River, or finding a place to pause. That philosophy carries through the experience: somewhere to slow down, settle in, and let food do what it’s meant to do.
The menu is firmly rooted in traditional Thai cooking, with flavours that feel unmistakably authentic Thai, alongside a smaller selection of Thai fusion and Western dishes. Ingredients matter here, particularly seafood — sea bass, grouper and prawns are sourced locally and delivered fresh.
A signature dish is the hanglay curry with pork shoulder blade, where thin, crunchy-soft cartilage is simmered until tender, absorbing the richness of pork belly and properly spiced curry paste. It’s a dish that manages to feel both careful and deeply comforting.
Other reliable Thai choices include roasted duck red curry, sour curry with cha-om omelette and prawns, steamed fish, pomelo salad, tom yum goong, crab fried rice, soft-shell crab in curry powder and chili-topped grouper — neatly presented, well seasoned and consistently satisfying. The crab roe nam prik, served with vegetables and fresh turmeric, anchors the meal firmly in Thai tradition.
Western options such as pasta and pizza are made in-house and thoughtfully done, but it’s the Thai dishes that quietly win people over. At Ing Ping, familiarity — when handled properly — is the real luxury.
Afternoon teas for two are also available with full sweet and savoury choices for 990 baht net.
