Tom Yum Noodle Soup

If you've been searching for authentic tom yum noodle soup in Orlando, your search ends here. At Sabai Thai Street Food in SoDo, we serve what many of our guests call the best Thai soup in Orlando — a dish so rare in Florida that most people have never tasted it before walking through our door.

And once they do? They come back. Every time.

What Is Tom Yum Noodle Soup?

Most people know tom yum as a creamy, sour, spicy soup served in Thai restaurants across the United States. But tom yum noodle soup is something entirely different — and almost impossible to find outside of Thailand.

Where tom yum soup uses a thick, chicken or vegetable broth base that is sour and spicy, tom yum noodle soup is built on a pork and chicken bone broth that is sweeter, more concentrated, and deeply complex. The flavor does not hit you all at once. It moves — starting gently sweet, then building into tangy and sour, and finishing with a warm, lingering spice. Every single spoonful takes you somewhere.

This is not a soup. It is a journey.

"I've never tasted anything like this in my entire life. It's life changing."

Orlando's Only Tom Yum Noodle Soup

Sabai Thai Street Food is the only restaurant in Orlando — and as far as we know, in all of Florida — serving an authentic tom yum noodle soup. This is not a variation on a familiar dish. It is a recipe that has never existed on an Orlando menu before.

Our broth simmers for two full days. Not hours. Days. That time is what creates the layered complexity that our guests cannot stop talking about. There are no shortcuts in this kitchen.

A Recipe Three Generations in the Making

Our tom yum noodle soup traces its roots to Si Sa Ket, a small farming city in northeast Thailand's Isan region, where our head chef Viradee Pissara first encountered this dish at her older sister's street food stall in the 1980s. Back then it was served in small portions — quick, bold, affordable fuel for Thai locals on their way to work.

Viradee spent her life refining this recipe. From Si Sa Ket to Bangkok, where she built a career as a jewelry designer. Then to Phuket, where she opened her own restaurant and fused the bold Isan flavors of her childhood with the heartier, richer Southern Thai cooking of the coast. And now, to Orlando, where she brings both traditions together in a single bowl.

The version we serve today is adapted for American portions — heartier, fuller, built for a dining experience rather than a street-side grab-and-go. But the soul of the dish, that two-day broth, those carefully chosen aromatics and proteins, the flavor journey from sweet to sour to spicy — that is unchanged. That is Viradee's life's work in a bowl.

The Best Thai Soup in Orlando

We don't say that lightly. Our guests say it for us.

Since opening in March 2026, Sabai Thai Street Food has welcomed guests from across South Orlando, SoDo, Conway, Sky Lake, and beyond — many of them arriving after searching specifically for tom yum noodle soup in Orlando and finding nothing else like it. The reactions have been immediate and overwhelming.

One guest said it best: "Each bite transports you across every region of Thailand."

Visit Us in SoDo, Orlando

Sabai Thai Street Food is located at 3333 S. Orange Ave., Suite 105, Orlando, FL 32806 — in the heart of the SoDo district, right on South Orange Avenue.

We are open Monday through Thursday 11am–9pm and Friday through Saturday 11am–10pm. Closed Sundays.

Dine in, takeout, and online ordering available. Call us at (689) 336-3384.