Polo Fried Chicken in Bangkok's Soi Polo is the Bib Gourmand garlic-fried-chicken room, open until 21:00 daily with half birds blanketed in crispy fried garlic since 1989.
Tip: Cash only. Last orders 20:30. Half a fried chicken with som tam Thai and sticky rice is the canonical late-dinner order.
Address: 137/1-3 Soi Polo, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
Thipsamai in Bangkok's Old Town has cooked the city's most famous pad Thai since 1966 with last orders at midnight, Bib Gourmand since 2018, the late-night canonical bowl.
Try: Pad Thai wrapped in egg
Tip: Cash only. Closed Tuesdays. Open Wed-Mon 09:00 to midnight; the wrapped-in-egg pad Thai with shrimp oil is the late-night order.
Yaowarat Road in Bangkok's Chinatown is the city's most theatrical late-night street-food strip, with grilled seafood, noodle counters and dim sum carts running 18:00 to 02:00 daily.
Try: Grilled seafood, dim sum, noodle stalls
Tip: Cash only. Start at Soi Texas (Phadungdao) corner for grilled prawns; Nai Mong Hoi Tod and Lek and Rut are the canonical seafood stalls.
Nai Ek in Bangkok's Yaowarat has cooked rolled-rice-noodle kuay jab in peppery pork-offal broth until midnight since 1960, the late-night canonical Chinatown bowl.
Try: Kuay jab Yaowarat in pork broth
Tip: Open 08:00 to midnight daily, cash only. Order with extra crispy pork belly; the pork offal bowl is also the local pick.
Soi Texas at Yaowarat Phadungdao corner in Bangkok is the late-night grilled-seafood strip, with Lek and Rut and Rut and Lek opposite each other, prawns over coal until 02:00.
Try: Grilled river prawns, scallops, fish
Tip: Cash only. Two competing rival stalls face each other; Rut and Lek (the queue-popular one) starts at 18:00, closes at 02:00.
