hey everyone welcome back or welcome if you're new here today we are going to
take you around chinatown and maybe the places that you wouldn't normally see
so let's go have a look and we'll show you the best parts of bangkok
so our guide our instructor ang was telling us that they have these um things on the floor and
they this one represents earth and then the one up there that's attached to this big
beautiful overhead pass means sky and they stand here every morning and they pray and that means
like prosperity and goodwill and things that their shop and their business will work out they stand
in the middle like hank showed us and they pray for that and um if she was telling us there's
this big road over here as well that took eight years to make it's very windy and now they equate
that sort of to like a dragon so oh we've already learned a lot today this is really um interesting
also this building arc thing they built only 20 years ago she said so let's go have a look
so there's these two lions here and ang asked us to guess which one was the boy and which ones was
the girl and i was like looking at his face i was like oh this one looks a little bit more
muscular and i guess the boy um but she said but do you want to know how they actually know the
difference and the girl has a baby under the foot and the boy has like a sock soccer ball
suckable football um so that would have been a little bit of an easier guess
if i noticed that so we actually walked past this uh like ark temple uh last night if you go look at
my last vlog and we thought it looked beautiful and i didn't actually know what it was and
aang just told us that it's actually a hospital the hospital actually she was mentioning it's a
it's a the rich part of the chinese community have set up this hospital and it's like a foundation
so for the chinese community or maybe other people who aren't in the training community from
bangkok as well you can get free health care here right but it's chinese medicine not traditional
western medicine but we just thought it was a shrine but yeah we thought it was a trend but
apparently it's it's a big free hospital free hospital but awesome yeah really hospital um
really good really hospitable really so anyway you sort of go in the world that has a chinatown
or is like a chinese sort of place you'll see shrines like this whenever i walk past
last night i said it reminded me of what i saw in taiwan yeah it did quite a lot it's
cool that like the community comes together in this place to pray and look after themselves
and then also there's healthcare yeah you're literally looking after each other because you're
saying that this paper is all basically offerings and they end up burning it at the end of this
oh it's warm it's water it's really warm and they put them like back together basically
and you can see that the eggs did one these like they're pretty they're deconstructed
but they put it back together really well and then this one's pink yeah so why is this one
this one is pink because the marinade marinade yeah reminding it with the tin or something and
then keep it until it's inside it will be brown color oh yeah it was really warm it
was like i expected it to be cold for some reason all right my first tuk tuk
i've never been here before i'm to get close to you sorry
i haven't been in a tuk-tuk yet i feel very close to the ground
oh of the house this is built at the same period of chinatown this is called
night this area means a little market yeah what's it what is it
just took a tuk tuk to this really authentic area separate the engine car and then they sell
so she was saying how the one went to before was like the hospital but this is a shrine that kind
of stands on its own and they come here and it's facing the water if you can see so that's the
shrine there and that's the water back there in the river and they face the river because
they came by boats and it was um before they went away on like a travel or something or
a journey they would uh wish pray and or give respect um and then go out on the boat
we were meant to go to a coffee shop back there and it was closed i've actually seen it all over
tik tok you walk through the bottom and up to the top but the bottom looks like
just like wood and like there's nothing there um and it was closed so you have to 0:05:09.440,1193:02:47.295 else not
on available walls to try and entice people i guess to come to the area whole area a silo
oh yeah the product now they turn into the
hotel like a room for rain yeah and uh browfo is the restaurant yeah they maintain the
the same construction this house is like 250 years old and they rent the inside there there's
a big like sort of it looks like a plunge pool for like divers and people who dive i guess
that's cool sixth generation she said that look after this place they still own it wow oh yeah wow
that's cool let's see if we can get some [ __ ] here and i need one so let's go have a look a
little bit nervous i haven't told her this yet but we have these eggs that we had from before she's
talking about how they put them back together are they boiled or are they running i don't know
i don't know either she's like you want to try it and you know what
i would have normally said no but 2022 josie's trying new things and traveling in the country so
i'm gonna go everywhere or is it no it's it's hot yes they take inside out
and then they mix with the salt pepper mix well and put it in soy sauce and then put it back
okay and then bake it that's it how do they put them back together with the shell they just open
the top part ah so then they cut the top part until the liquid air coming out
oh it tastes like soy sauce you see it's like a yellow color yeah the red egg already
mixed it has a different texture like the texture is obviously like soft and um like chewy like a
hot body sometimes it could be a snack during the day yeah okay honestly i was a little bit scared
but it's okay it's a black egg it has a black inside and i think it's just called a century
egg but it has it's it's kind of gelatinous it's like it's very different like jelly kind
of thing like a hard jelly it don't smell like oh i smelt it it's okay it's just different
it kind of it kind of does taste like an egg but it's the smell i think so there's a smell
to it there's like three different textures there yes you've got the like jelly outside
you've got the like hard ish sort of obviously boiled white egg on the middle and you've got
like a more runny sort of softer inside it smells not great i don't want the rest of it
but i was glad i tried it to be honest they um come and have their wedding photos taken here
in front of the carpet it's really actually a really nice place actually i think to get some
photos it's got nice greenery and everything looks very rustic it is pretty good yeah
and this is the mansion what's the name of joe joe yes
so this is the um it means like he's like for good health so she was saying that she has three
friends that have come here and therefore was it for a partner yeah for a partner or a soul mate
and uh it worked for three of them out of three so another thing um angus told us which is really
cool these um lions are situated at the entry and that's to stop like the bad spirits and for
protection right at the entrance so i thought that was really cool we've seen them a few times today
and this one again has the baby under the paw the man doesn't have a football this time but
that's the female over there well it's opposite on my camera angle is just telling me that they
pull apart the engines on the motors um and she asked me what kind of the part of the car or that
is each shot will pull the cars apart and then each shot will sell the parts for that for that
one part okay if you want this you come here and you buy this and all the associated things ah but
that part that one over there work together to buy a car and strip it ah parts of cars and stuff
everywhere if you see on the floors this is really cool what's on here um a renovation they take it
out and then see which part is is broken and yeah yeah and try to find a spare part and put it back
back together so this is really cool i looked up and this building over oh that scared me the floor
so i'm not exactly sure what we're having i think she said it has like rice and things and
chili and i said no chili but we'll see what it is normally we eat the chili okay yeah i'll cry
chicken chicken so what's this one which one is a pork yeah rice garlic
salad yeah and like a thai sauce oh it's really hot oh it's too hot
oh oh oh good a garlic flower um oh now yes
yeah sour aftertaste of sour but very garlicky and flavor yeah aloe aloe mark
so she just told me that they use intestine to cover that which i didn't know and i wouldn't
have realized it's really nice actually she said she's going to take us the hidden way and show
us an old mosque um or greenery that's like hidden in the bright heart middle of the city
that's a true people living in here but not this one all i can hear is like the trees bustling and
oh wow
wow
but i know that this is the old house and rich people house
most of the reason is they have no offspring you're in the middle of this
street with all these vendors and then just out of nowhere there's this like really nice
coffee house like it just blows my mind look what you're in you're in streets like this
and this is the real this is the real talent this is the real bangkok for sure so many things here
like there's everything wipes hats bags this is the restaurant oh then we cry definitely a
lot squeezing through one little small space oh that's so cute you found the egg of dinosaur now
we had the egg of the dinosaur before and now we have the dinosaur accent
this is over 100 150 years wow this has been an art uh you know
like a preserved place yes 22.5 carat and 96.6 percent gold yeah 96.5 96.5 let's say no oh
so this is the thai style baking she was saying there's a little baking tray there
these need to be they put everything in there and then it's baked like this and then wow milo
and it's actually really hot and i feel like it's going to be really refreshing
i got a frappe which isn't normally what i get i normally just get the fresh milk over ice but
a little bit lost in translation here so this one's blended with ice as like
a frappe type thing which i've never had before
look it's nice and cold because it's a hot day and it's really refreshing having
lots of ice but i think i prefer my fresh milk this should be called mahayana
hinayana or mean like orthodox this temple used to be abandoned and one of the buddhist monks who
living in this and developed this temple because the alley
in this area used to be a red light beef tree they uh have a fly as a lantern like this so you
said those signs of gold shops yeah gold shops okay and this is just the what street is this
and this is a very nice view really nice and high noodles little rice oh okay we're going to a
like a chinese style noodle yeah like a tree sister three we always saw them as a tree sister
but now they have assistance awesome okay so we're gonna have some fruit there so i'm excited
and they have noodles rice yeah noodle rice cool there's like a la pot yeah make it one by one
awesome a spicy pork yeah with the basil and also combined with the fried egg perfect older
sister of pad thai perfect it has a chicken it has kalamalin on it yeah and it's eight yeah it's good
cool
that's yummy it is very similar it has similar taste to pad thai but
a little bit different this is taro
what is it
yes okay so this one's better yeah this one is better
this one is spring onion spring onion it smells sweet yeah it is like coconut
and crispy yeah so we're saying goodbye now but it's been a really good day and we had
such a good experience we experienced things that like we wouldn't have normally found ourselves
so we're going to leave your link to below in the description so if people are in bangkok and would
like a really genuine authentic experience like this around chinatown or other ones that you have
you can find her down below and she can help you out thank you so much i enjoy myself
so today thank you so much looking forward to see your video thank you she fed us really well we're
full of food really good food so thank you again we had a really good day yeah yeah well worth it
yeah cool so we just said goodbye to ang that was really cool that was such a good tour i think like
we're both really full it was such good food and like we said i think all day it's
just things that we wouldn't have normally picked for ourselves because we didn't know
totally it was there there are so many things that i would have walked past without her there
i might have bought that area and thought this looks great but i wouldn't have stopped at those
places and i'm so grateful that we had her to help us do that going on tours isn't a bad
thing as a traveler i think a lot of travelers are like i'll do it myself i'll save the money
i reckon that if you obviously don't go i don't want you to go to a tour every day
don't go on a tour everywhere you go all the time but there are some places that
you'll get so much more out of it like we had a great time in chiang rai we had a great time today
on a tour so check out their company which shows he's put below do something different i think
sometimes the experience i think is worth the money but we've been here since about
like 10 30 11 this morning and we did get almost everything right so make sure you get everything