Jai Thai is fine. Affordable. But not exactly the best tasting.
I find the most authentic at Golden Mile Complex. But I go there only if it’s quiet on weekdays… cos weekends… it is akin to going to Bangkok’s bad areas with seedy vices and drunkards everywhere.

Then again, it does add to the experience of eating.

I have recently been going to Tawandang Singapore. It’s a major concept in Thailand… big beer halls and good music that matches so well with good food… especially the pork knuckles.
But the concept hasn’t really been working well in Singapore as in Sg, we tend to seperate heavy drinking (house brew beers) and eating.
In Thailand, eating and drinking together on the same table is the norm. Eating is a celebration, not a chore and a rhythm.
It is exciting.