Old Thai-Chinese cookshop

Mit Ko Yuan

186 Dinso Rd, Sao Chingcha, Phra Nakhon (opposite Bangkok City Hall, near the Giant Swing), Bangkok, Thailand

An 80-plus-year-old shophouse cookshop (Wikipedia dates it to the late reign of King Rama VIII) still serving braised ox tongue stew, said on the same page to carry a recipe passed down from Pridi Banomyong, plus Tom Yum Gung and a Thai-style fried rice the article ties to the old southern railway line near Hua Hin. A 1966 price board is still on display inside per Wikipedia. Re-fetched this run: the Pridi Banomyong and railway fried rice detail IS actually stated on the Wikipedia page (a prior pass had wrongly flagged it as unconfirmed).

Hours

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Not verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.

Checked 25 Jul 2026

Price

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Not verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed. A blank price does not mean free.

Checked 25 Jul 2026

Age suitability

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Not verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.

Checked 25 Jul 2026

Caveats

Re-verified 2026-07-25 by re-fetching all three cited URLs fresh. Wikipedia page confirms: 80-plus years of operation dating to the late Rama VIII reign, the Dinso Road address opposite City Hall near the Giant Swing, the ox tongue stew tied to Pridi Banomyong (former PM, educated in France), the railway fried rice…

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