Thailand food solo: how do you eat properly when there is only one of you?

A lot of Thai eating is built around sharing several dishes, which quietly punishes anyone at a table alone. Street stalls and single-dish shops solve it, but people often default to whatever is easiest to order and end up eating the same three things for two weeks. This is also one of the moments people say they most notice travelling alone, which is why we wrote about the wider version of it: https://meetlocale.com/guides/how-to-plan-a-solo-trip-to-thailand What did you actually do about eating alone, and did you ever end up sharing a table with strangers?