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Sassy Thai restaurant
Sassy Thai is the kind of correction a city's Thai restaurant scene occasionally needs.
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9.6
265 Google reviews
GuideUpdated July 15, 2026
3 Best Places for Tom Yum Soup in Winnipeg
Where to find the best tom yum soup in Winnipeg — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 9.6★. Spanning thai kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.
The best places for tom yum soup in Winnipeg are Sassy Thai restaurant, Sabai Thai Eatery, Tom Yum Thai Restaurant ( REGENT). Start with Sassy Thai restaurant if you want the strongest overall first pick.
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This guide covers the highest-rated spots for tom yum soup in Winnipeg. Whether you're a local hunting your next regular or visiting and want to eat well, these picks are sorted by quality and review depth.
Quick picks
Sassy Thai restaurant
Thai • Winnipeg
Sassy Thai is the kind of correction a city's Thai restaurant scene occasionally needs.
Sabai Thai Eatery
Thai • Corydon
Sabai Thai has been the quiet anchor of Corydon's dining strip since 2007, which in Winnipeg restaurant years is practically institutional.
Tom Yum Thai Restaurant ( REGENT)
Thai • Winnipeg
Tom Yum Thai on Regent Avenue West sits in a strip-mall unit that has no business being the kind of place people drive across Winnipeg for — and yet it is.
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Sassy Thai restaurant
Winnipeg • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Thai food
Mood
Casual
Sabai Thai Eatery
Corydon • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Thai food
Mood
Corydon
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Tom Yum Thai Restaurant ( REGENT)
Winnipeg • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$$$
Best for
hidden gem
Mood
Special occasion
How we chose
We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →
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We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.
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The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.
3 ranked picks
Sassy Thai restaurant — Sassy Thai is the kind of correction a city's Thai restaurant scene occasionally needs. The operation is deliberately small — eight tables, fewer than twenty seats — run by Nan and Thon, who bring direct roots from Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai respectively. Thon reportedly cooked at Siam Mai before this, and the spices are sourced straight from the northern Thai regions the kitchen represents. That's not marketing copy; it's the actual throughline that separates what Sassy Thai is doing from the approximations that fill out most Canadian Thai menus. Kris runs the front, and by all accounts the room feels more like a dinner party than a restaurant service.
The menu centers on northern Thai cooking, and the Khao Soi is the dish that makes that focus legible. It's a northern Thai coconut curry broth — the kind that diners consistently point to as the reason they come back — rich and layered in a way that reflects the Chiang Mai culinary tradition it's rooted in. The Crispy Crab Wontons are what regulars apparently order to anchor the table while decisions get made; they're the low-stakes entry point that earns its place on a short menu. Pad Thai and Tom Yum are both on offer, and by all reports neither one is an afterthought — the same regional seriousness reportedly applies across the board, with no obvious shortcuts in how either is built.
Practical reality: Sassy Thai opened February 2024 and the room holds under twenty people, which means Winnipeg has had just enough time to figure out it's excellent and not enough time to make walk-ins a safe bet on a Friday. Book ahead. The move, according to everyone who's been, is Khao Soi and wontons as your opening play — then let the table take it from there. View restaurant →
Sabai Thai Eatery — Sabai Thai has been the quiet anchor of Corydon's dining strip since 2007, which in Winnipeg restaurant years is practically institutional. The name means comfort in Thai, and the room — contemporary booths, soft lighting, that low-key posh bistro feel — delivers on the word before the food arrives. But what actually distinguishes this place is the kitchen's origin story: co-owner Vilayphone Manivong came to Winnipeg from Laos in 1984, spent roughly a decade learning Thai technique at Magic Thailand on Logan before she and her sister Supasorn Sayavongsa opened Sabai together. They still shop daily for produce. That kind of operational discipline is rare at any price point, and at price level one — Corydon casual, not Corydon special-occasion — it's the whole argument for the place.
The three dishes that keep regulars coming back tell you exactly what the kitchen's priorities are. The Pad Thai is made the way it should be — tamarind-based, not the ketchup shortcut that haunts lesser versions — and it's consistently the most-ordered item on the menu, which is its own kind of endorsement. The Three Mushroom Panang Curry has built a reputation for depth: diners describe it as silky and rich in a way that reads as slow, careful cooking rather than sauce-from-a-tub. And the Tom Yum Soup is praised specifically for hitting the hot-sour balance cleanly, with vegetables that hold their texture. Three very different dishes, three very different techniques — and the kitchen handles all of them. That range, coming out of what is essentially a family operation, is the clearest signal of what Sayavongsa and Manivong are actually doing here.
The practical move: if you're going on a weekend, book ahead — a room that size fills fast when word-of-mouth has had seventeen years to compound. The curry is the order worth leaning into if you're deciding between dishes; the Panang in particular is what regulars point to when they're explaining why they come back. Go at dinner, not as a quick lunch grab — this is a kitchen that rewards a little time at the table. View restaurant →
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Sabai Thai Eatery
Sabai Thai has been the quiet anchor of Corydon's dining strip since 2007, which in Winnipeg restaurant years is practically institutional.
Thai fooddinnertakeout
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9.9/10
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9.2 Google
9.2
418 Google reviews
Tom Yum Thai Restaurant ( REGENT) — Tom Yum Thai on Regent Avenue West sits in a strip-mall unit that has no business being the kind of place people drive across Winnipeg for — and yet it is. The restaurant operates under a banner that doubles as a declaration: tom yum soup isn't a starter here, it's a philosophy. This is a kitchen rooted in Bangkok-trained technique, transplanted to a working-class east-end Winnipeg corridor that rewards no-frills cooking done with genuine conviction. With a history stretching back more than 15 years across its locations, Tom Yum Thai has built the kind of neighbourhood loyalty that doesn't come from novelty — it comes from showing up, dish after dish, for people who live nearby and know the difference.
The menu centres on Thai standards executed with evident care rather than crowd-pleasing shortcuts. Drunken noodles — wide rice noodles stir-fried with Thai basil, chili, and protein in a sauce that's meant to be assertive rather than sweet — appear regularly in what diners circle back to order. The Pad Thai (menu item #49, a telling specificity) draws repeat customers who treat it as a benchmark order, the kind of dish that tells you whether a kitchen takes the fundamentals seriously. Tom Yum Soup, the restaurant's namesake, is described by diners as a signature rather than a formality — the hot-and-sour broth built on lemongrass, kaffir lime, and galangal that defines the Thai pantry. Starters like crab baskets and stuffed wings point toward a kitchen comfortable with both street-food registers and more composed appetizers. Portions are noted as generous, pricing as reasonable for what lands on the table.
The practical reality of a strip-mall Thai room in Regent is that it fills up with regulars who don't need a reservation to feel entitled to their usual table. If you're coming on a weekend evening, call ahead. The move that regulars know: lead with the tom yum soup to calibrate the kitchen's spice hand, then anchor the table with drunken noodles alongside Massaman curry for range. Delivery through Skip the Dishes is available for nights you can't make the drive east. View restaurant →
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Tom Yum Thai Restaurant ( REGENT)
Tom Yum Thai on Regent Avenue West sits in a strip-mall unit that has no business being the kind of place people drive across Winnipeg for — and yet it is.
hidden gem
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9.9/10
TastyPals Score
8.8 Google
8.8
272 Google reviews
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