Ruen Pair
Thai restaurant · Los Feliz
5257 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Highlights
Late-night Thai Town classic with extensive menu & spicy dishes
Late-night Thai Town classic with extensive menu & spicy dishes
"With a neighborhood that has as many great bars as East Hollywood does, you’d expect there’d be some good late-night spots, too. But you wouldn’t expect them to be as good as Ruen Pair, the Thai joint on Hollywood that’s open until 3am on weekends. They serve killer turnip and salty egg omelets, papaya salad with black crab, and great pork larb. They’ve also got some great pan-fried noodles (our favorite is the pad kee mao), for when you’re heading out of Jumbo’s and need something to soak up the vodka sodas you just drank." - brant cox, cathy park
"This long-running Thai Town haunt no longer stays open until 4am (they close at 11pm), but we still highly recommend coming here during non-witching hours when you’ve got one friend in the mood for drunken noodles, and another in the mood for a salted turnip omelet. Ruen Pair's menu spans from takeout classics to more obscure Thai-Chinese dishes and there's rarely a miss among them. The smell of wok-sizzled herbs and spices hits you as soon as you step inside—always a good sign—so it's not surprising our favorite dishes here tend to be stir-fried and/or deep-fried. Get the sauteed morning glory stems, the crispy catfish with basil, and an order of their sweet-spicy fried egg salad." - brant cox, arden shore, garrett snyder, sylvio martins
"Ruen Pair has been a stalwart in Thai Town for more than a quarter century for good reason. It’s long been a delightful late-night hangout, with dishes inspired by the central and northeast regions of Thailand. Some standouts include the papaya salad with raw crab, shrimp dressed in spicy Thai seafood sauce, and fried egg with salted turnip, all best paired with a glass of frosty beer. The stewed pork leg over rice is another menu highlight for those in the know." - Kat Thompson
"Ruen Pair has a gigantic menu featuring both Thai staples and rare dishes you can’t find anywhere else in town - ideal for when you can’t decide what you’re in the mood for tonight. That said, the salty egg and turnip omelette should always make it onto your order sheet. Available for takeout and delivery." - brant cox
"No matter where you fall on the Thai-expertise spectrum (is there a Buzzfeed quiz for this yet?), with its menu of more than 115 items, there’s something for everyone at Ruen Pair. Open until 3am on Friday and Saturday (2am every other night of the week), everything at this hopping East Hollywood spot costs less than $13. And while it’s not necessarily wrong to order the pad thai or papaya salad here, it’s our job to make sure you’re aware of their outstanding egg dishes like the salted radish omelette and the deep fried egg salad." - brant cox, kat hong, brett keating
