Good evening guys, I'm here in Bangkok at The New Rot Fai night market.
It's supposed to be really interesting, lots of international foods, lots of Thai food,
and of course a lot of shopping. So let's go take a look.
This market has tons of street food vendors selling everything from fresh fruit to awesome seafood.
There's also lots of sit-down style restaurants where you can enjoy some serious feasts.
Ok, here we got some raw shrimp.
And raw crab.
I'm not exactly sure what the ingredients are, but I can see that she put a lot of this green kind of
chili-something on top.
So we got the shrimp, some cilantro, there's an onion, there's a red pepper.
Woah
Mmmmm!
Very good!!!
Wow, that's spicy!
But this is really good, though
Don't let raw shrimp scare you guys.
If it's properly handled, it's good.
Here's some of that raw crab.
It reminds me a little of Korea, like "ganjang gejang" (Korean marinated raw crab in soy sauce with chili peppers and garlic)
So it's raw.
And you just suck it out, and you kind of squeeze at the same time.
Mmmmm
Man, the flavors are so good!
There's a lot of garlic, lime...
the chilies
Let's do another one!
Oh yeah
If you guys are thirsty, they have a ton of coolers with lots of beverages,
beer, water, juice...
I got my little bag of bugs here.
Well, first thing I pick is red pepper. That's probably not good to touch my eye now.
So first thing here is a smaller cricket. It's like a little cricket.
Can you see it? You can see its abdomen.
And this has been fried up, and it just has a nice smokey smell to it.
Very greasy.
But it has that smokey flavor from, I think it was wok-fried. It tastes like it was wok-fried.
I've got some grubs here. There's actually two of them on the stick.
I pierced one, but I got the one beneath it.
Very mushy.
Tastes uhmmm....
pretty good actually!
The after taste is really nice, it's salty, but kind of smokey.
That would go really well with beer.
Speaking of which.
Ooooooh!!
Look at this guys.
This is one of those big wood grubs, that live in the bark [of a tree].
You can see the head there.
So when I eat this, I'm going to have to pinch off the head.
I've never actually had this before.
Mmmmm!
That's really good!
That's even better than the smaller ones.
There's some kind of flavor to it that I can't identify.
But it's very savory. But it also sort of tastes like eating wood.
I guess that's because that's their diet, you know, like wood fibers.
So this is like a red grasshopper.You can see the red on his legs.
And then his stripped body. And you can see his face.
His antenna.
It's like the ancestor of Kamen Rider. (old Japanese TV show)
Itadakimasu! (Japanese saying before eating something)
All these insects taste somewhat the same.
And they're all crunchy. Except for the little grubs, they're kind of soft.
But, good texture man!
Alright, I'm digging around. Digging around.
It's a lot of the same stuff. There's got to be like a hidden treasure somewhere in here.
Yeah, Ok, I think I hit the motherload.
Check this out!
hehehehe
This is a big grasshopper.
Yeah you can see, look at his antenna.
That's great.
Ok this one is a little bit intimidating because of the size.
It's... like if I put my hand here, you can see, it's pretty big.
Or if I hold it up against my face, it's big, it's as big as my nose.
I don't know if I'm supposed to pinch off the head or not.
But we're just going to go for it, the whole thing.
I don't know, I feel like I shouldn't eat the whole thing, the legs are very spikey.
I don't know how that's going to go. But it's fried.
So everything fried, you can pretty much eat, right?
Like skin, shells, whatever... you can fry, and it's edible. So I don't know, I'm just going to go for it all.
Tastes just like the other ones!
I think they're all fried in the same stuff.
Street food in Thailand!
So the night market here, there's definitely a vibe of like youth energy.
There's a lot of trendy stuff, lot of hipster stuff, definitely a lot of vintage stuff.
You can see barber shops, tattoo shops, all kinds of cool stuff.
Anime, just like really cool subcultures all around in this area.
Alright, I got some Halal chicken skewers here.
First one is, what she told me, chicken stomach.
Smells really good.
It's tough, but very flavorful.
Here's some chicken skin.
Very chewy!
Oh yeah!
And then the last one is just chicken meat.
Oooh, it's hot!
Very hot!
Alright, we got mango and sticky rice with the coconut milk on top.
Look at that!
This looks good!
This is a special request by Marie (my friend and ex).
She told me when I come to Thailand, I have to eat this.
And I'm going to eat it.
Here it is guys, spoonful with mango, sticky rice, and the coconut milk.
It's good!
It's really good, actually. Wow!
The sweet mango with the rice, I didn't expect that to taste so good.
With the coconut milk, too!
You definitely have to eat this when you come to Thailand.
The majority of the market space is for clothing and accessory shopping, but you can also check out the
nightlife scene at all the bars and clubs around the perimeter.
(This bar/club's name is "Sorry, I'm gay.")
I hope you guys enjoyed all the street food in this video!
And the cool scene of the market from above. (How to get there in description box)
I'll have the info in the description box down below on how to get here.
It's very close to a Metro stop.
Give this video a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, and I'll see you guys later. Bye!!!