There's actual chunks of sea bass. There's lime leaves, lemongrass, chili. All the spices that you
know and love from tom yum. First time trying it dry. I didn't even know this dish existed until we came here.
Beautiful thing about Songkhla is also the diversity. So we're actually on a street
here that there's a mosque right next to me. There's also you'll find Thai temples here,
Chinese Buddhist temple. So you have a mix here of
Thai, Chinese, even Malay. Speaking of Malay, we actually found a roti shop.
Nice and chewy, but what I love - it has this side of curry. Interestingly, this has minced chicken inside too.
Got that beautiful cumin, a little spice, slightly sweet too which is interesting.
But I love the flavor of this chicken. You combine it with that roti, it feels like we're back in
Malaysia. We actually are only a couple hours away driving. Songkhla is very close to the border.
What we also have here is the tea. You could see she put the tea into that sock and poured the hot water.
Now even though it's not teh tarik, it tastes just like teh tarik. It has that perfect blend -
you really taste the tea. It's slightly sweet from the condensed milk, there's also a little
bit of evaporated milk. So it's that creamy tea combo. It's great. This street here has a lot of
Halal restaurants on it too right by the mosque. It's very
cool, I love the cultural diversity of this city.
This next spot that we are going to highlight it is. We have our friends Pat and Giulia,
Veggies on Tour to thank for because they led us here. This place it's a vegetarian
spot. Imagine having vegetarian food with Thai flavors. A healthy version of Thai food -
healthier version actually of Thai food. Alright let's go.
When it comes to vegetarian food, we love South Indian vegetarian food and Sri Lankan vegetarian
food, but it's our first time having Thai vegetarian food right here in Songkhla. And just the spices
you could just see how boldly flavored this is gonna be. There's chopped up lemongrass all on top
of this tofu. You have this green curry here that looks absolutely beautiful. I love how they serve
it out of these floral pots in the front. It's more like steam table style eating, which we love.
All the food was cooked one way. There's this nice yellow curry here with bamboo shoots.
And best of all, it's on top of this beautiful red rice. Let's try this tofu.
It's really calling my name. You see all that chopped up lemongrass. There's so much of it.
It's really got kick in there too. The chilies, lemongrass. I don't usually eat tofu that much, but
with lemongrass and chilies on it like this, I can eat this kind of tofu very very often.
This green curry here is really a must order,
especially the way it just soaks up into the rice. And also comes with looks like chayote.
There's that nice creamy coconut milk. A little spicy, lemongrass and you
really don't miss the meat when it comes to this. That's what's beautiful at this place.
There's such bold flavors in the food that you don't miss the meat at all. You actually feel like
you're eating healthy. There's usually about eight or nine different choices that you can choose over rice.
The earlier the better. They start running out. And this place is open til about two or three o'clock.
In this part of the episode, which is made possible by you
where you buy us a coffee. We do the walking and also the drinking.
Thanks to you right down here for making this even more possible. Help us support
more local coffee shops like this one by buying us a coffee. Thank you!
This might be the biggest
iced coffee ever in our life. Looks more like a beer mug than a coffee mug, but I'm cool with that.
This place is really cool. It's called Mana Cafe Srisuda named after because this is on Sri Suda Alley
here in Songkhla. Nice front yard area where everyone's sitting at these little small wooden
tables, wooden stools. It's a real funky layout. It's a family-owned spot and they make their coffee
right on this cart right behind you. So they use the Moka espresso percolator type device. It's really
cool like really old school. I just love it. Like we first came here, we fell in love with this spot.
He actually has a manual coffee grinder. He grinds the beans by hand.
It's an espresso machine, but it's like a different style. Called moka. It's really cool. I haven't really
seen it used before coming here. I know it exists, but something different compared to what we've seen in
Thailand where they have the espresso machines like you're maybe used to. Great coffee. This is
so nice and refreshing. Just all that ice. It's strong but it's not too - it's not really
bitter. It's smooth. I just love the vibe of this place. There's no place quite like it.
Before we get our main meal of the day, let's have dessert first before they close.
This dessert spot. There's just too many of them here, but apparently is this the original.
Uh it's debated which is the original one we're going to break it down for you
exactly what this is. This is a very unique style of ice cream here originated in Songkhla.
Might be the most famous dish in all of Songkhla. It's a very unique style of ice cream. They use egg
yolk. That's right egg yolks on ice cream. Sounds crazy, right? Have you ever tried ice cream with egg
yolk? Uncooked eggs. That's right. Here we are. About to have it. Yep. So Songkhla has a few different
old ice cream shops here. Some are about a hundred years old and this is one of them here. Ban Lee Heng.
This really cool spot. What makes this one unique is that they actually have one that you can have
with green mung beans, which is what we got. They have two flavors of ice cream coconut and vanilla. They
crack that egg yolk on here. The raw egg yolk. Gives that orange color and then they top it off with
some Milo or Ovaltine powder. It's a chocolate powder. Oh man it looks good on a hot day like today.
And when you mix everything together it is just that delicious.
I love the flavor of those mung beans and the texture.
It gives it almost more of a savory texture to go with it.
Coconut milk ice cream is so nice and refreshing. Creamy. Let's get some of that egg yolk
You really get the eggy flavor on it. Gives it like a really kind of a chewy consistency because as
it gets colder, it kind of solidifies some more. It gives it a different texture to go with the
ice cream and it blends really well with that vanilla especially. Say if you come here you gotta
get it with the mung beans. The mung beans just adds a little - adds more texture to it.
Not really funky at all. It tastes really good. You definitely do taste that egg yolk.
It comes in pretty strong, but it doesn't overwhelm it. It's so refreshing. Like it because this shop gives you two
flavors. So you can get coconut and vanilla, which we got. You can get just one flavor, but I like
it the mix. You get a variation of flavors. But I really think the mung beans make this a winner.
So cool to meet the family. So now it's on the third and fourth generations of their shop.
It's been open for 100 years. So special. Amazing. Originally the recipe came from china and
they brought it here since this was or used to be a very big trading port in Southeast Asia.
This next stop is also part of Songkhla Town's rich history. Apparently this is one
of the oldest restaurants. Read it's around 80 years old. This place it's a Thai Chinese restaurant.
We haven't even been here yet. It's our first time, so we'll take a look and see what they have.
Since Songkhla is by the water, we are so excited to have
seafood. Alright so we're at the spot called Tae Hiang Aew. Not sure if I'm pronouncing that right.
It's an old school Thai Chinese restaurant right here in the middle of Old Town Songkhla.
I love the vibe of this place. It's very open and high ceiling. Even there's a picture of new
York City on the wall, which makes us feel quite at home. Older picture too. I love the vibe of this place.
They specialize in seafood here so of course like Jumi said, we got a lot of seafood. Got some really
interesting dishes here. I'm gonna start off with this one. It's a dry tom yum with sea bass. There's
actual chunks of sea bass, there's lime leaves, lemongrass, chili. All the spices that you know and
love from tom yum. First time trying it dry. I didn't even know this dish existed until we came here. Of course
you gotta have it over rice because it's that thicker sauce. Instead of a broth, it's more like a gravy.
That is just delicious. I love the combo of flavors. Sweet, sour, spicy. The kick of the lime leaf is
really strong. There's whole lime leaf in here, whole stalks of lemongrass. So it's little like
the texture of the sauce is more like on that starchier side. But I love it because it has
those Thai tom yum flavors. Delicious. Alright up next we have this green mango salad shredded.
Comes with a little bit of chilies on the side. Add some chilies too.
It's very refreshing, crisp. It has a little fishy flavor because there's some shredded
preserved squid in here too. Very refreshing and light. It's got that perfect fresh
green mango flavor. Really nice to order it because it's very refreshing. It's one of the specialties
here at this restaurant.
My favorite way of eating fish is deep fried and I don't think I've had mullet before.
But it tastes so good and it tastes so fresh and then I also have
fish egg. It's also deep fried. And this egg, I mean this fish also has more eggs. I'm eating
plenty of fish right now in one fish. I don't know how to say that. This is my favorite
I'm gonna enjoy more of this fish and you'll see this fish.
That is delicious. It's so crunchy. I could just eat the whole thing