Rung Rueang Tung Pork Noodle
Bib Gourmand 2026

🔄 Last checked 2 Jul 2026 · details and hours can change — check the venue before you go

Bangkok has only a handful of noodle shops that charge under 100 baht a bowl and still get tracked by MICHELIN every single year — Rung Rueang Tung on Sukhumvit Soi 26 is one of them. The shop has been open since 1965, selling pork noodles on the same soi for more than sixty years, through the whole stretch of time Sukhumvit turned from a residential neighbourhood into a forest of luxury condos. The price on the sign still starts at 50 baht, as if it hasn't noticed how much more expensive everything around it has gotten. MICHELIN has included this shop in its Bangkok guide continuously since the very first edition in 2018, and the 2026 guide keeps its Bib Gourmand status fully intact. The reasons the inspectors give are straightforward: two broths to choose from, clear minced-pork or tom yum, topped with the shop's own homemade fish balls and crispy fish skin, with the minced pork balls singled out for praise on their own.

The dish people talk about most is the tom yum minced-pork noodles — spicy in just the right way, the kind of bowl that makes you want another spoonful of broth. If you prefer something cleaner and gentler, the clear-broth pork noodles with homemade fish balls is the answer, and whichever bowl you order, the crispy fish skin is worth adding every time — it's the topping that turns an ordinary pork noodle bowl into this shop's signature. Prices scale with bowl size: regular 50, special 60, and the fully loaded version 70 baht. The atmosphere is a genuine roadside shophouse — no dress code, no ceremony, just sit down, order, slurp, pay cash, and free up the seat for the next person in line. That's the appeal that pulls in both Thai and international diners willing to walk five minutes from BTS Phrom Phong into the soi for it.

There are two things worth knowing before you go. First, as of 2026 the original corner shop switched to takeaway and delivery only — if you're planning to sit and eat, look for Tung's own larger second shopfront, across the soi, next to the Noble Refine condo and 7-Eleven. Second, the same stretch has a near-identical rival called simply "Rung Rueang" (without "Tung") at 10/1 next door, a shop that split off from the same family generations ago. The Bib Gourmand in the guide belongs specifically to the "Tung" side — check the sign carefully before you sit down, since incomplete information can easily send you to the wrong shop. But once you've got the right one, that first bowl explains on its own why this place has stayed on top of Soi 26 for this long without ever slipping.