I love this dish. It's these rolled rice noodles. Really nice texture on these.
At the time of this filming, we are in Krabi Town. The first time we came here was in
June of 2015. We were just here for four days. We've been dreaming about this place ever since.
We just want to show you our favorite places that we go to,
especially to eat because this place has a lot of food. Like we get breakfast, lunch and dinner
Hello. The large kuay chap, small chicken rice and big yeah.
We are at one of our favorite place to eat here in Krabi Town right across Mother Marche
on Maharat Road. We have this one of my favorite things to get here is the chicken rice.
And then we have the roast pork and we have Greg's favorite thing. This is what has been ordering
every single time. And we have this ginger, garlic, lime, full of flavor, spicy so good sauce.
We can literally drink this whole thing. This is dangerous.
It's so good and it's perfect with every dish that we are about to devour.
Flavor of the chicken is so simple. It doesn't have that
oomph taste, but I just love how simple it is because if you
put this in here and then you have your soup and your rice and then you take your chicken out.
Alright this is the dish I've been ordering every single time we come here.
I just can't get enough of it. It's the kway chap.
Also too want to mention about this stall they do more of the Chinese Thai dishes. You're going to
find here like your Hainanese chicken rice, your kuay chap. I love this dish. It's these
rolled rice noodles. Really nice texture on these. They have all these different parts of the pork.
They leave nothing behind here. You have the blood cube, the liver, the intestine, the crispy roast pork,
more the tender roast pork. All the good stuff, all the innards. I love it. And they also have a whole
boiled egg in here. And it's a dark broth. Get an aroma of that, you can smell that five spice
and you get that dark soy in here. Oh this is such a nice dish. I can't even talk about it anymore, I have to take a sip.
It's so comforting, simple. Like even though it has that soy sauce in it, it's not too salty.
You really get that nice aromatic five spice flavor which I love.
And it pairs so perfectly with all the pork meat like this liver. I like too you get that nice liver
flavor, but it's not too gamey. You really you can still taste it and you also have this blood cube.
They do a nice job here of cleaning the innards where it doesn't have too much of a funky taste.
But I just love all the different textures. You have the chewiness, you have the kind of the more of the
bouncy pieces, then you have the crispy pork. Then you have these beautiful rolled rice noodles
It's almost like eating pasta in a way, but with that rice
texture. Such a wonderful dish. You can add something to it, but I really think
by itself is best. You can really taste the subtlety and the little details of the flavor.
This roast pork reminds us a lot like the siu yuk we would eat in Malaysia
or Chinese restaurants.
Such a beautiful balance of that crispy skin, that melt in your mouth fat
and that slight chew but still tender meat. And what I love about it, it's not
too salty. This pork is incredible. Well worth ordering a plate of it.
That lunch, I mean breakfast was so good. Now we're heading to our lunch spot. Our lunch spot is
It's a really popular local spot. It's another one we just stumbled on. All these places we
just stumbled on. We didn't even read ahead or research. These are just places we
found and really enjoyed. This next one is a real gem. Excited to take you there now.
It's like purple cabbage or something
Alright so khanom jeen is a very popular dish here in Krabi and just South Thailand in general.
There's six different pots of curry here. Up to six pots any day. You get your vermicelli
rice noodle in a bowl, then you pick out the curry. The go-to here has been this yellow crab curry. It's
in a coconut milk turmeric gravy. It just it's so good it's just that kind of flavor that I love.
But today I mixed it in with this dark brown curry. I believe it has mackerel in it. Really
intense smell. So you mix it all together you get this beautiful mix of flavors. Let's try this today
That crab curry has always had that coconut, turmeric, lemongrass flavor.
But we're mixing in this one with the mackerel. It's got that interesting like more of a galangal and
just really intense kind of funky flavor to mix in with it. More spicy too so you really get that
creamy spicy sort of a sweet mix of combos here. I love the crab. The crab curry if I had to pick one
to get here, that would be it. But the combo is quite nice. They have a few others here. There's
some that are a little sweeter, then you have the chicken curry. There's a nice variety here.
But what I love most is all these vegetables. I feel like we eat so healthy when we come here. You get this
little bit of the rice noodle with curry, you get all these vegetables. You get pickled mustard greens,
greens in coconut milk. You get this kind of pickled vinegary green here, raw vegetables, you name it.
So much. This looks like it's papaya and carrot pickled yeah pickled papaya and carrot. It's kind
of like a Thai atchara. And of course we can never resist getting hor mok. This beautiful parcel of
steamed minced fish with spices wrapped in banana leaf. This is a dish we have to
order and get any anywhere we go. We have to at least get one that's how much we love it.
So this spot for reference is right across the street from Top Charoen Optical, the blue and white
building right here with the stripes. But you can't miss it, this is a very popular place. It sets
up around noon to one o'clock in the afternoon until they run out, which usually in the evening.
And you're going to see it's always full locals here. It's a very popular place
This is our favorite place for coffee because it's also close to us and they make good coffee.
Mmm very refreshing. That's what I love about just like Thailand in general, especially here in Krabi.
A few spots that they make coffee fresh. They have a little espresso machine, you have the grinder
and just not just like any coffee shop is like it's like literally street food coffee
but espresso. I'm a huge espresso fan just to be able to find this just walking down the
street. This little stall is right outside of a pharmacy. It's so cool. So they run the
pharmacy and they run this little coffee store outside. I think it's a genius idea this coffee
Everything is made fresh. Freshly ground.
For dinner, this is what we're going to show you. This is one of our favorite places to eat. I think
this place is only at night time. I just really found this spot walking down the street one day. Saw it
packed full of locals and saw a lot of activity. I'm like this place has got to be good. So we came one
night, we loved it, now we're back. We're here early because food sells out kind of quickly, so the
earlier the better with this spot. You go where your nose leads you when it's food. You see this mural
and then there's smoke coming out and it smells so good and delicious right outside the street. That's
the place. So here we are and one of our favorite things to get here is these. Oh it's beautiful larb moo.
Larb moo is a Lao dish also found in Northeast Thailand. That's just interesting we're in
the south and we're eating Northeastern and Lao food here. And it's just - it's very simple and
very satisfying. The pork larb - it's minced pork it's been boiled and then it's tossed
together with all these different spices. You have lime juice, fish sauce, crushed chilies,
toasted rice powder. You have cabbage and we got our own plates here. We're not sharing.
We can't share! We learned our lesson early on about this.
There's a beautiful mix of flavors. That sour,
funky, spicy. Gets the nice textures too from the crunchy onions, the cabbage. I love this . It's a very
healthy dish actually because it's just boiled and it's tossed. Very fresh. A lot of times they
call it like a minced meat salad in a way it is. And it also pairs perfectly with the sticky rice.
They just do it so perfectly here. We actually came one night and ordered four larb because
they didn't have the other dish we're gonna get. And you can easily just do that here.
Even though the special's the hot pot, the larb here is a must-order.
And another thing that we got here is this grilled pork. Grilled pork neck.
This is one too that we didn't realize until we saw the grill come out and the smoke billowing
out that this is something you gotta order. The aroma too. This is another one where you really
follow your nose is this dish. Grilled over charcoal. All right without further ado let's
try this. This thing looks beautiful it's got a nice caramelized exterior, smells incredible.
Man that smokey flavor from that charcoal really just permeates the meat. It's incredible.
You get the outside bark, there's a little bit of caramelized sweetness too. Beautiful.
Very juicy, tender, slight chew to it, but really on that juicy side. It also has this really
nice dipping sauce. The dipping sauce actually has toasted rice powder too, just like the
larb. Like a hint of soy sauce and chilies might be lemongrass in there too.
But it really is a very strong flavor. Very tangy, sour, not as spicy as you would think
from looking at it. It's perfect to dip with the grilled pork. Also perfect to put your sticky rice in.
You dip your whole clump of sticky rice into this sauce and it is perfect too. It's incredible.
Just incredible
So we thought we're gonna come here and just get two things, but we failed and now we have
three more things. So we have the clay pot hot pot. Look at these green noodles right here. I
have no idea what they are. This is actually our first time having it. Yeah. Smells delicious. Let's try it.
Wouldn't be surprised if maybe this is made with spinach or another green. It's got a crunchy bit
of garlic. Reminds me a lot of wantan mee from Malaysia. Like it. And so with the hot pot
Should be about ready now. Yeah how cool that they use charcoal to fire it. I love this. They do.
And we have liver larb. The first two times we came here, first three even, they did not have this.
It wasn't crossed out on the menu today. We got it
It's so soft silky tender with that larb flavor. Not funky either. So creamy and good
This place is such a gem. They're making everything fresh on the spot pretty much
everything is made to order, so that's why we waited a little bit for it and it's so worth it.