Inform your airline and request assistance, it's free, they collect the person and you all get whisked through together. It saves a lot of walking and standing.
so where are ferangs on here telling you no Thais have kitchens or means of cooking? Some have explained there's 2 types of kitchen. The one in a house that's like a lean-to extension which many thais like ( we call it an outdoor kitchen because it's an extension often can be open at one end). It's still a kitchen. It still has cooking facility.
good grief. They cook in kitchens, on "stoves" ( as you call them)! My daughter in law cooks on gas cooker in her kitchen. She also uses a small grill. And wash in washing machine. My condo has a kitchen, cooking facility, microwave, etc. I don't know any Thais who don't have a means of cooking.