good morning welcome to a rainy day here in one of my favorite new places in the world
song claw old town
yes i had no idea thailand had gorgeous little colonial style towns just like this
so sit down enjoy this one because this place is really next level
we feel like now that like we're in portugal or we're in spain or somewhere like that and
in today's video we're gonna explore in the morning we're gonna go on foot and explore
the streets the street art the food the coffee and then we'll take a break during the hottest
part of the day because it's getting so hot and in the afternoon i'll take you to the beach i'll
take you to a viewpoint some cool temples there's a fly eating uh my mosquito bite uh welcome to
asia my name is paddy doyle and this is my little honda dream and welcome to next level adventures
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so subscribe and join us as we discover this incredible country together okay so i'm staying
at this beautiful hostel here it's called lynn's hostel what i thought we could do is just go for
an explore i'm actually kind of enjoying the rain living in chiang mai we didn't have any rain for
like six months and just smoky season so this is actually quite nice i'm digging this there's all
these like hole-in-the-wall shops hole-in-the-wall noodle joints like this one which i had actually
i had lunch there the other day and it was delicious and every little street that you
walk down has really cool artwork and it's just it's just a cool place to be and there's
chinese temples and buddhist temples and mosques last night when i arrived i was having a beer
and if you saw on instagram i was sharing how i could hear the moss calling
and i was drinking craft beer at the rooftop overlooking this port town cheers
this is why i love suncloth old town can you see in here this is like dark scary tree
kind of taking over this random old building and it's you know it's got that like old ghost
town feel to it but and then across the street from that is an incredibly cool and chic modern
coffee shop and it looks absolutely incredible inside and they've got amazing pastries and then
right next door in this wooden metal shack looking thing is one of the most amazing looking pork stew
street food style restaurants and just every single street every single alley
every single nook and cranny of this town is just full of cuteness epicness
that's quite a skill you got there my friend and again look at this place
this seems to be the most popular place because everybody's jumped out of these vans
and they're all queueing up to take selfies hello hello hello
this town is obviously very popular with uh tourism because it's so cute
and it's so different and unique i mean what am i going into here
and this is oh look in this big fishing boats
okay this is really cool i've never seen this done in person but this guy here is going to
chuck in this massive block of ice it's going to get shredded and put down that tunnel thing
into a big wooden box on the boat so when they're catching the fish
they're immediately put on ice to keep fresh and i've never seen this before oh that's so cool
they're just throwing in massive brick of ice after massive brick of ice
right next to this awesome uh piece of street art is a section of the old city wall just like
in chiang mai where there is a wall that goes around the old city there is a wall that goes
around this entire old town so this must have been of huge importance to the thai uh trading system
hundreds of years ago and uh you know they needed to secure it they needed to protect it and uh
it does there are there are better looking areas of the wall but um after i've seen this area i do
want to go back and get coffee and get breakfast but um and it's already starting to get really hot
so
i've gone for one of these like orange juice and coffee things have are these popular in your
country because they were not a thing about six months ago and now they're everywhere they even do
them in mcdonald's in thailand and you get freshly squeezed orange juice with black coffee on top
and every single time you get that hit of orange juice this is hand squeezed and it's incredibly
delicious and then you get the bitterness of the black coffee and the way that they
the coffee menu in here looks ridiculous by the way and you can see that they're like
artists and here they're measuring how many coffee grounds per gram they're using very precise stuff
and it really does come through this is by far the best one i've ever had and it's
80 baht so about two and a half us dollars and you can just sit here really cute and just like
you know look at these cool buildings like what is that building over there it's kind of like a
shrine it's kind of like a house it's kind of like a temple the way that this lady uh constructs this
bowl of noodle soup it's extremely um delicate and it took her a while and she was carefully picking
things up with pliers and pincers and thingies and um just putting this bowl of soup together in the
most perfectionate way let me show you the bowl and then we're gonna um add our own spice to it
but it's an incredible handmade well-made bowl of hot beef noodle soup what i really like about it
is she's not shy with the black pepper the the beef strips on top are covered in black pepper
and chopped onions there's bean sprouts in there and then there's strips of beef
and pork oh okay so there's strips of the strips of pork in here and then uh strips of beef it
tastes like stew it tastes like grandma's stew beef stew like tender melt in your mouth stuff
i really don't know how she cooks it like this this is next level the noodles are these thin
noodles um and i actually prefer these kind of noodles because they are more firm they
have more texture to them more stodginess but now it's time to add in our own little spice
about one full spoon of dried chili flakes and then um we're gonna go on top of that
with this chili sauce make sure you mix this one up um it's got chili flakes in there but it's a
it's quite vinegary and i love it so two spoons of that there is sugar and there is some sort of dark
red sauce which i'm scared of but i'm just gonna go on top with some chopped smashed up pine nuts
and then a little bit of um excuse me is this fish oil
fish oil yeah this is fish oil sometimes i get confused between fish oil and soy sauce
and uh so what you end up doing is you end up ruining the presentation but
look i'll show you what it looks like
now yeah so you end up absolutely destroying the presentation um but don't feel bad because
once you once you get all of those different types of chili different types of heat the
sourness the vinaigrette and some of the fish oil once you get that mixed in there
and you know spend a good minute here just mixing it all together make sure all of the noodles
are covered in the chili flakes and covered in the vinegar and colored in the sweetness
in the sugarness in the spiciness and they also serve it with some chinese tea
it's 50 baht so just under two dollars for the bowl and then you got some more of the beef
oh yeah when i had this yesterday i was sneezing and i was coughing and i was having a good time
honestly this is one of the best bowls of uh of noodle soup i've had in the entire country
oh what a lovely nap uh yeah you just can't do anything between the hours of like 12 and
and four it's just gone four o'clock it's time to go explore so what we're going to
do is i'm going to take you to the beach via a viewpoint via a interesting uh like uh high
mystic being statue thing and i need to go to the atm first okay got some cash um every time
i go to the cash point by the way on this trip i get 10 000 baht and i try to make it last 10 days
but the last 10 000 only lasted seven but we did go to colipe a bit touristy place and um
we kind of spoiled ourselves a little bit in hat yeah so we went we went a bit above my budget
but uh that's okay we'll go to cheaper places soon and um i've come to one of the locations
that you guys have dropped in the comments on the google maps uh google form tang kuwan hill
supposed to have a nice viewpoint of sungla and there's monkeys everywhere like i can see
hundreds of them which is not a good thing so i'm gonna bring all of my belongings with me instead
of just leaving it in the basket because they'll grab anything and you know even though it's just
a gopro and uh some batteries they'll probably grab it and that'll be they'll be gone forever
this whole viewpoint is a complete shambles look this thing is
like torn apart this is all been ripped out
like why why are they charging money it's not even like it is it's a hazard to be up here
it's already worth 30 baht guys i would have just i mean any any little viewpoint there's i mean
it's pretty standard this place to be honest okay okay it's good up here it's good up here
once we get past the rubbish building this is the this is the view so sunclaw is kind of like in a
like a you know
shape of a goddammit
the word you're looking for paddy is peninsula you idiot anyway after
i enjoyed the views of the peninsula i went down to samila beach again and now
we've come here in the previous video but we came during the middle of the day now it was sunset
after five o'clock this beach transforms everybody comes out because the sun's behind us
everything's in the shade you can really enjoy the beach without being in the blistering sun and heat
and you can get up close and personal with the gorgeous
bronze statue of the mermaid she's beautiful actually and you know what i can actually uh
i can understand why the legends of mermaids are such a thing especially here oh look horses
um because if you remember a couple of um a couple of like vlogs ago i was in uh just up
the coast here and we saw dugons and uh you know they've got a similar kind of tale to a mermaid
so i reckon like you know all the thai fishermen and thai pirates back in the day they were just
drinking a lot of rum and seeing do gones and they probably just thought they were mermaids
white goddesses living in the sea and they're just coming up now and again to breathe
and then you know one too many bottles of rum later and folk tales chinese whispers am i
gonna get kicked in this uh chinese whispers and then uh yeah oh my gosh i saw a mermaid it was a
beautiful woman and she was beautiful brushing her hair on a rock but actually it was just a dugong
my belly was rumbling at this point but you guys had recommended a really cool uh muslim style roti
restaurant and it came highly recommended so i drove there
went to the google maps link you guys sent me sat down ordered some food realized there was no
roti looked very confused checked the map again and i realized that i'd gone to the wrong place
but you know i'd committed at this point this is not the right place
i can't walk out now can i look the place that he's recommending looks like this
this is not the right place so yeah the food wasn't that good and uh it almost
put me in a bad mood but i knew there was one way that i could transform this late afternoon
and bring it back into the realms of victory and that was to grab some cold beers and a packet
of crisps and go enjoy the sunset on the beach but yeah there was another fail about to happen
why are they not cold are you kidding me oh my god okay they're all damn it
it says larb saab noir and it looks like a really spicy flavor see i just
thought a packet of crisps and a warm can of chang and we'll watch this storm together
all right this sometimes happens uh in thailand you know your dinner arrives and it's not what
you thought it was gonna be you ordered the wrong thing you went to the wrong restaurant
you eat half of it because it was you know you're starving but deep down you
don't really like it that much and then you have to stop at 7-eleven and get a cheese and
ham toasty or a packet of crisps and a kind of chiang i rarely have bad food fails like that
normally i like to eat everything but the problem was with that soup was it had um seaweed in it
which gave the whole thing a fishiness and then i was like i don't want to have fish in my mouth and
then eat like chicken noodle soup you know wasn't a good combination it wasn't a good flavor it
wasn't a good flavor pairing that was a day here in seongkler old town here in um the province of
sangha in an interesting part of thailand and a unique part of thailand and a gorgeous beautiful
place um i hope you enjoyed the video i'm staying here another day tomorrow i've got
to do some channel stuff we've got to do some behind the scenes like work on the channel and
you know remember this is my job now so i need to kind of bust my balls and
make sure things are ticking over nicely and then uh we're gonna head south again
the next province will be patterny and then yala and there's one more i can't remember the name
and songka sorry um songkran is coming up soon so there won't be a big festival because of the
you know what's going on in the world but um there'll be something happening i'm sure and that
would be great and really excited for the next few weeks we're going to the most interesting part
of thailand in terms of um politics and and and social uh conflicts and things like that
but we're not going down there to look for trouble we're going down there to have a good time we're
going down there to document what it's like so i hope you join me in the next few provinces and
thanks for watching again and i'll see you in the next one i wish it was cold