If you ask any 70s-year-old guys where was the best place to eat in last 60 years, everyone of them would answer the same single name as “Tha Nam Rachawong” (Rachawong Pier). Back to that time, you would see many rich and high-positioned guys together with many nice cars would park their cars and fill up their stomach there, particularly at Alex Rachawong Phochanalai Restaurant. This restaurant was situated at Rachawong Pier since 1942 before moving to the current location in 1995.

This restaurant is very good at egg noodles, which you cannot find any places similar to their noodles – softer, longer, thinner, and tastier than any other noodles. So, there is no doubt that you should order the egg noodle dish here, like Arsawin Egg Noodle, which is the fish ball egg noodle with extra ingredients like internal organs. The story behind the name of this dish came from the fact that many high-ranked soldiers in the old times liked to come here and order the extra-ingredient noodles to show off their wealth and social status and then Alek just added the internal organs to his normal fish ball egg noodles to serve them. After that, this dish was called as Arsawin Noodles or the noodles for the knights (Arsawin = Knight). Apart from Arsawin Egg Noodle, another famous noodle dish here is “E-Mee” (or Baked Egg Noodle “Alex Rachawong” Style) which requires special procedure of both firing and streaming the egg noodles before serving. Hence, your baked egg noodles will be crispy on the top part and soft in the below part.

Apart from the egg noodles dishes here, other high-end-recipe and special-cooked dishes like Shark’s Fin Soup, Sautéed Fresh Oyster in Thick Sauce, and Fried Oyster on Crispy Pancake “Alex Rachawong” Style, are also one of their greatest dishes worth to try. At the end, their homemade “Rachawong” ice-cream is great to reduce your oily mouth after having your Chinese meals.