At Somsak Pu Ob, Nai Somsak personally tends each steel pot of glass noodles, prawns or roe-filled crab with the precision earned over decades.

Behind Bangkok Hospital, Look Chin Anamai serves clear-broth beef noodles and springy, hand-beaten meatballs made without flour.

A mapped guide to the market, street stalls and old-school shophouse restaurants along one of Thonburi’s most rewarding food streets.