last time on delightful travelers we came back to Bangkok to figure out if it's a city we could
live in we tried out public transit visited a mega mall and ate some delicious Thai food in
this video we'll be checking out Chinatown we hear it's one of the best places to go
in Bangkok and then at night it can be a little well crazy I'm Trevor and this is
Anna in this series we're back in the incredible country of Thailand make sure to hit subscribe
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welcome back to another video here in Bangkok we're still so excited to be hanging out in
this city for quite some time today we're in a different area yeah we yeah we've been making it
a mission to try to see a little bit more of this massive City while we're here last time
we didn't do a very good job we were super busy but this time we're going to Chinatown and we're
gonna explore the surrounding areas as well so if you happen to be new around here we've made it a
little bit of a mission of ours to slow travel a little bit more find places to live in the short
term you know one or two months and really settle in but also finding places that we love around
the world that maybe eventually we could live in a little bit longer term so here we are in
Bangkok so we're making a little bit of a goal to try to explore a little bit more figure out
what the neighborhoods are like could we actually live here and so in this video we're going to be
in Chinatown seeing what this neighborhood's all about we are starting things off right here at
this massively huge gate it is the Chinese gate it's absolutely incredible look at the color in
the detail in this now here's the thing we're starting off in Chinatown but what this place
is known for it's not just beautiful things like this it's really known for street food a little
bit of nightlife so we're gonna hang out here first we thought we'd come over just check the
area out before we kind of get to that part later in the video so one thing we noticed right away is
this area is much more chilled out and calm it's like easy to cross the street here look at this
so we've been staying in the supervit 30 area for the most part and it's really busy there but over
here yeah I like that it's uh also you should see what's in front of me now this seems to be
one of those streets where it's like a tool like a tool Street or something it's funny how different
cities seem to have this thing where all of one area will be the same type of store here seems to
be like auto mechanics or like car stuff yeah look I'll uh show you guys what I mean like this is a
shop they're clearly fixing things but in there like it's just a ton of parks all spare parts in
there so I'm not sure if the area we're actually in right now is considered Chinatown proper but it
is around that area there's a lot of street art in this area something I didn't realize until I
started researching what to do in Chinatown and put a lot of stuff about boat street art amazing
this is called tala Noir noi something like that street art it's a whole street full of like yeah
there's there's a good mix of you know you can see well there's different kinds of art right here
but also on this side there's like pictures yeah I wonder if they changed that up yeah like permanent
thing so check out this one this is uh an old car there's another older car up here there is a bit
of a story with the car artworks sort of imagine there is an actual story that I don't know if
someone actually knows it leave it in the comments but what I do know is that when I was looking on
Google Maps and I kept coming up with these little pinpoints for various art art displays around
this part of the city these sort of like old junk cards yeah kept coming up like I guess around here
somewhere maybe we'll stumble upon if there's like junk yards of cars but I wonder if these
paintings are like kind of homage to that kind of like a tribute to the old Classic Automobiles
so I had this coffee shop on my list but what I read was it's really hard to find and sometimes
you might need a guide so it's gonna like go down a junk Street which I think is actually
the street with this on maybe it's a become more of an art Street since they first wrote
a book in this place when they first formed this place but you kind of come into it and
it almost feels like an old junk building can we just point out we're standing in a pile of junk
look around here this does not look like it should be here it doesn't look like we should
be in here right now right so I hear people upstairs so I think we're in the right place
you never would have known this beautiful place is up here from the street if we hadn't have
researched it never would have found this on our own that's for sure but we went for some coffee
of course went for an iced latte they have a big list of drinks a lot that I'm not familiar with
it's very serious coffee here you even got to pick the type of bean that you want we just went with
the host blend because not good I don't have a preference if you guys have a preference on your
coffee beans in the country that they're from or anything like that yeah sometimes we do try
Thai coffee like a Thai Bean but I think this one is a mix yeah and it's got this is cool a big ice
cube in it rather than a whole bunch of little ice cubes let's see how it is oh wow yeah that's
excellent the price of this guy was not too bad honestly you know Bangkok can be expensive that's
one thing we are realizing but I think this was around like 350 USD so we just have to talk about
these amazing coffee shops in this city these are the types of things that make us want to live in
Bangkok and just come into this new area today and finding a gem do I call it a Hidden Gem because it
was hard to find to get up here but it was just really cool and really unique so we're learning
quickly that bangkok's neighborhoods are very very different and if we did kind of live here
for a while like say like a few months or as long as we can extend our Visa it would be really hard
to pick we're curious if you guys have been here before or if you're from Bangkok what's a good
area to live in the city we're back out having uh a proper explore with the motorbikes it looks like
we're just walking what what appears to be some kind of like a mini Street Market maybe it comes
alive I have more at night we haven't done this in a while just feet on the ground just trying
to get a feel for the neighborhood but I can tell you so far we're liking this place we just came
over to Warehouse 30 which apparently is like an area that used to be a warehouse and I was turned
into like art gallery and a bunch of different shops and there is a peacock uh there's a peacock
just wandering around here hey big guy we also just found a cute little kitty sleeping in
front of the shop I wonder how the kitty and the peacock feel about it it's got a collar on yeah
yeah but yeah look at this so this is one of the uh one of the shops and it doesn't look like a
brand name or anything like that either no I think it's all like really really local Artisan type
place and there's a gallery there's shops there might be a coffee shop here as well but we did
just have coffee so maybe not today well it's good to know you can get all of your kind of hipster
clothing if you want to but there's more in here than just that look at all these different it's
that kind of way like last place it was a lot of junk in this place it's almost like knock jump but
restored yeah there's even records here there's no art over there like basically they have everything
random in here yeah and some really funky clothing I had almost exact same hair when I was like 14
or 15. so yeah look at this it has the old uh the Smiths it's like all old cool retro stuff
making our way uh out here and look who it is again
you guys this is one of the most unique shopping strips we've ever come across anywhere this is
like what you find in Brooklyn in New York but completely on steroids this is wild who knew this
was in Bangkok I totally didn't expect this app all the shops are so high-end they're still like
artwork around and just the buildings are interesting look at that wow you guys Bangkok just
uh absolutely completely surprises us all the time so as we walk more and more in this area we're
definitely finding that it's not difficult to find street art here it's literally everywhere there
seems to be all these like old walls I guess and they've really taken advantage of them and I keep
seeing this one and all the pictures actually when you look up street art here in Bangkok it seems to
be a famous one I think do you know what it is no clue no idea well whatever this is we like it
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well now we are in a Tuk Tuk on our way we think to a night market hopefully yeah it's pretty
crammed back here so we are fully aware that this is a very touristy thing to do but at the end of
the day we are tourists and it's probably it has to be done every time it's like the one mode of
transportation we haven't uh tried around the city yet yeah public transit it's fine took it it's not
too many countries that you get to kind of sip or incredibly enormous City in something like this
it's funny it was super quiet there was hardly any traffic on the street but clearly got to the
traffic area we're in a bit of a traffic jam but it's a pretty traffic time I know it's so
pretty here look at this guys look at the view back there all the lights here I'll zoom in
well that was so much fun but now it's time to cross the
yeah it's not moving but guys this is uh this is a wee bit crazy well this street is uh it's what
I call alive there's cars on it we think it's the spot where you get a lot of the the good
food we're still discovering that first time here yeah they kind of call this a nightmare but it
really is just a street with a lot of people still with traffic and lots and lots of street food yeah
look at look how busy it is here so yeah cars tuck trucks motorbikes that way you got like over here
food food and just more food we're not even sure what we're looking to eat right now but we found
this little dumpling stand and it looks great now they have a whole bunch of different kinds
we ordered two the thing is they look identical so how are you supposed to know what which one
is what uh but we did order I think was barbecue pork and one's a minced pork the only way to find
out is by uh try them one so let's just go for it look at this little guy dumplings are so fun
oh yes yes yes I'm gonna go ahead and say this is the minced dumpling it's absolutely delicious you
guys the pork is so tender so flavorful and I always forget like a dumpling is really really
soft like look at that it just pulls apart it's kind of squishy it's not too hard it's
not too soft it's a perfect kind of wrapper for something like this so you're into men's pork hmm
that's what you want oh my God the flavor in this thing all right let's try dumpling
number two which we think is going to be the barbecue pork but we will see but the difference
is when we get into that Trevor was mentioning dumplings I don't know if he used the word Steam
stinks what these are those steam dumplings are not boiled they are not
fried they are steamed so they're super soft and fluffy and kind of doughy on the outside
I just love that we're right on the stream it's so loud out there with the traffic oh
do we think that's the mint oh that's the minced one this is the mint we have a rum show me that
uh now now so this is almost more like a sausage on the inside it's like one big piece of minced
pork that's together as a bunch like much like I said like a sausage right away the outside of
the steam bun is super soft and pillowy if you've never had a steam bun before you probably wouldn't
really know the texture so like super pillowy is the only way I know how to describe it a little
sticky on the outside but nothing too crazy on the inside it's very oniony I think I see some
like scallions in there so you get like kind of a green onion flavor to it let's take another bite
so I would say the first one the barbecue pork with a lot more flavorful in terms of
like different spices that were in there obviously I mean it's called barbecue pork so I would have
expected that this one's just a lot more onion the next thing we're trying is basically a Thai
a donut so I did a little bit of research this was on my list it was something we had to try
tonight here in Chinatown however one thing I kind of messed up was I looked up the name or I think I
thought I looked up the name of these but also where to get them at and the name of the place
that we went to was called patongo I think that also might be the name of these Donuts but I'll
look it up later and I'll put it on the screen if it's something but basically they are like deep
fried little doughy things and they're covered in let me get this Thai hand in custard but
it's green yeah and we're just eating it right on the street everyone's staring no big deal
but let's try these guys and they look so good
green sauce yeah look at that like mysterious green sauce smells deep fried and kind of coconut
I wonder how hot these are gonna be oh you're going for the whole thing good go oh yeah that's
a tasty little treat they're super super crispy on the outside a little bit soft on the inside
the sauce itself the pan didn't uh whatever it was custard really good a little bit like earthy
flavor to it but generally the taste that you get out of it is coconut oh man they look so good I'll
have a bite in a minute no need for me to explain it but I want to point this out look at this like
we're just eating right on the side of the road and you can see them like cooking up some other
things those noodles in there look really good they look good man this city though it's alive
huh I know well what an action-packed day I'm so glad we decided to come and scope out this area
we didn't just come for the food I know you guys might say you could have eaten more fruit oh we
absolutely could have eaten more we're gonna do a we could easily do uh multiple food blocks in
this area but today we kind of wanted to explore the area see what this the whole you know area of
Bangkok has to offer not just street food so it was interesting yeah to go from like the quiet
streets earlier in the day they're like this is nuts but the more we see of this city the more
we like it it's incredible I'm very curious what you guys think all of you guys that follow us from
week to week did you know Bangkok was like this we showed you many different places in the city
now but every time we go to a new neighborhood it just surprises us and we haven't seen anything we
don't like yet we're really really loving this video awesome one of our favorite big cities for
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one second alright guys that's from Bangkok wishing you delightful travels see you soon