The legendary Thipsamai Restaurant was established in 1966 to preserve the original recipe and taste of classic pad thai, and is one of the most famous historic restaurants in all of Bangkok. Besides Jay Fai, it's probably the best-known restaurant in the city.
Like any good pad thai, the dishes served up at Thipsamai are stir-fried in a smoky wok with lots of oil. Thin rice noodles (not the thick, flat noodles you'll see in more Western-style pad thai dishes) are soaked in aromatics and lots of sweet and savory sauce, and the whole dish is tossed with big, fat shrimp. The pad thai at Thipsamai can be ordered "wrapped in egg", a very traditional way to serve it that you won't see much outside of Thailand. I highly recommend ordering the dish this way! The noodles are wrapped in a paper-thin omelette, which adds some body and extra flavor to the dish.
Thipsamai is also famous for their orange juice. It's sweet and a little bit tart, and it goes perfectly with the sweet, savory, smokiness of the pad thai.
There is also a window outside of the restaurant where you can order pad thai to-go.I recommend dining in, though. There's something special about eating in this historic diner-style restaurant in Bangkok's old town. It's all part of the experience to watch the chefs working at their woks while enjoying a glass of that famous orange juice.
Thipsamai is located in Bangkok's historic old Ghost Gate neighborhood, near the Golden Mount Temple.
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