Rung Rueang Pork Noodles

Rung Rueang serves what many consider Bangkok's definitive bowl of tom yum noodles: pork broth sharpened with lime, chilli, fish sauce and ground peanuts over noodles of your choosing, loaded with minced pork, slices, liver and crispy wonton skins. The Michelin guide has listed it year after year, and the shophouse on Sukhumvit 26 comes with Bangkok's favourite piece of noodle trivia — a family split produced two nearly identical shops side by side, each claiming the legacy, both excellent, feuding gently over the same recipe. The experience is classic Bangkok noodle-shop: order by pointing (noodle type, dry or soup, tom yum yes), sit at a shared steel table, doctor the bowl from the condiment caddy, and be finished twenty minutes after you arrived, changed slightly as a person. Good to know: a short walk from BTS Phrom Phong, daytime hours only — it's a breakfast-and-lunch institution that winds down by late afternoon. The tom yum 'dry' version with egg noodles is the connoisseur's default. Queues move fast; bring cash and an appetite for chilli.