Guay Jab — Rolled Rice Noodle Pork Offal Soup / ก๋วยจั๊บ

Central Thai, Chinese-Thai — Teochew Chinese community in Bangkok; the dish is associated specifically with the Teochew (Chaozhou) Chinese whose culinary traditions shaped much of Central Thai cooking

Guay jab is a Teochew Chinese-Thai noodle soup — the noodles are wide rice sheets that have been cut and rolled into tubes (jab = rolled) and cooked in a rich pork broth seasoned with five-spice, dark soy, and cinnamon. The distinctive element is the offal: guay jab is always accompanied by crispy pork belly, braised pork intestine, and sometimes pork liver, heart, and lung. The broth is dark, spiced, and deeply savoury from the long pork bone simmer with five-spice and dark soy. It is one of the most distinctly Chinese-Thai dishes in the canon — eaten primarily at dawn and dusk, associated with the Chinatown food culture of Bangkok and Thailand's provincial capitals.

Guay jab is Thai-Chinese culinary heritage in a bowl — the five-spice pork broth, offal-centred garnishes, and rolled rice noodles are entirely Teochew in origin, reflecting the deep integration of the Chinese community into Thai food culture.