all right welcome back guys i'm back in bangkok and i'm back in bangkok's old town i'm just around
the corner from the giant swing not too far from retina calcium so we're a 50 year old hakka noodle
with the alcate shop called jer pen interestingly enough it also doubles up as a coffee shop
full to the brim with antique cars so unfortunately we can't go in and sit down
because grandma is quite old and a little bit worried about covered so we're not going to
go inside but i have been able to film from the outside super cool inside they've got all these
old vintage cars vintage clocks all sorts of stuff but what i am most interested in
is these noodles they also sell thai tea and as you know i'm addicted so i'll grab one of those
without further ado i'll stop rambling let's go so these are the fried handmade fried pork balls
tyres
all right so first off i'm going to show you the quick which is hakka noodles now you will
know if you follow me you'll have seen that my scene on video when i went and got hakka
noodles there in a really famous place these are a little bit different um just some different stuff
in there i'll explain what we've got in a sec if you didn't see what he was putting in
so i just want to show you the soup because before i had like a tom yum
a spicy version and this is just pure pork and look at the color of this soup cloudy almost
almost ramen like peppery soup we've got homemade pork balls we've got a radish dumpling we've got
tim wood hard which we saw a second ago which are the handmade deep
fried pork balls and then we've got tawa which is tofu say more
towels say more so we've got pork mince in a piece of tofu and that's been boiled as
well and then we've got some garlic all some ton hom and pakti which is spring onion and
coriander or cilantro we've got some balls they could be fish i guess
uh just bean sprouts and an original send me now uh told me that these are the original hakka
noodles so you can pick senmi seniai uh senlit but she said the original are sent me so we're going
to try these even though they're not my favorite noodles right so i want to try the broth before
i put anything in it's a small bowl thankfully because i'm getting a cow soy as well in a second
it reminds me of the broth i got in noodle is it
it's a famous port noodle there it's clean and just pure pork bone flavor
very well seasoned it's quite salty which is to my palette as you know
so i'm not going to add any fish sauce what i might do though
is add a little bit of chili uh and the chili vinegar uh pick one and pick nam som
there's so that's tremendous that's one of the best without putting anything in it that's one
of the best portraits i've had in bangkok well as i said it's quite salty so which for me is
good but we're going to cut it salty quite rich very very porky some of that chili vinegar in
a nice scoop of pick one oh that is a proper scoop in it
oh they're spicy sour with the pounded chili vinegar i like this one i saw
pounded up red and green chillies a little bit vinegar a little bit more salt
very very very very very well seasoned for me i got to send me noodles
because that's what she told me to do but the only time i really like send me noodles is when
when i get them stir fried like a pad seal in our shops if you went to your
pack around the corner and got send me love that let's try this pork ball
it's like a little pork patty a step up from your usual processed portables in bangkok
just going to eat this
say more in one soft again perfectly seasoned peppery got that soft silky tofu underneath
coarse pork mince on top very well seasoned classic hakka chinese edition
if you remember the hakka chinese store i stopped in on convent soy convent
i went mad on the fish balls i also didn't like the looked in mould hard in there either so
but that that's much better oh that is a hundred times better
and the little reddish dumpling you've got like a soft silky tapioca wrapper salty sweet radish
and i'm pretty sure there's a little bit of dried shrimp in there so yeah all in
all i've said well seasoned a lot but this is perfectly perfectly seasoned you've got that
garlic all going through there just a perfect comforting bowl of noodles to eat in this rainy
dreary weather right again uh i can take or leave the fish balls they're not really my style but um
on to the kawasai which is what you probably came for but first all right real quick guys i
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all right guys so we've got our cow soy we've got the crispy noodles we've got a chicken drumstick
some again pacquiao i've just put the lime in like an idiot instead of squeezing it in
so i'll squeeze that in now so i don't forget we've also got those egg noodles
and that's all in a curried coconut broth now it looks like they've used fresh coconut milk
here because it's gone kind of like mottled uh that's a good way to tell it's fresh
we've got some pickled mustard green some paklong and just some sliced
right we've also got a nice pot of chili sauce i'm not going to go as mad as the last one
she said pik pow she said but that means chili paste i think like pick come in some people call
it just homemade chili oil um and then we're gonna mix all that up and see where we go guys
see what we've got so it's quite dark it's like a brownish color i don't like it when it's too
yellow like too much turmeric in it and not enough chillies this is the color i'm looking for
that's one of the better calculators i've had you know
heavily spiced really well spiced got a lot of coriander see toasted coriander cardamom
and the main flavor really from a cow soy is coming from the from the
roasted shallots and ginger in the paste it's one of the only
paste curry paste in thailand that uses ginger when you go
onto like a site in the uk uh like the bbc or one of those not just singling them out there's
loads of bad recipes online but you go online and it will say to put ginger in a paste like
a green and red curry paste when it should be gone and go and it drives me absolutely insane
right chicken is not the most tender i've ever had but it's not by any means hard it's just not like
falling off the moon these noodles these bammy noodles are just the same noodles they're using
any of the chinese noodles they're just thick egg noodles they're not like classic they're
like sort of brighter yellow cow soy noodles but that doesn't bother me this broth is fantastic
i keep going on about textures in my videos and this is one of the
dishes that has so much texture you've got the crispy crunchy noodles you've got the soft egg
noodles you've got the stewed chicken and you've got like the crunchy fresh red onion
or shallots depending on what they've got that particular day and then you've got that crunchy
pickled sour mustard green so texturally it's amazing tastes incredible it's rich it's creamy
it's spicy sour from the lime juice and the pickle but i just can't get over how well this is spiced
there's just so much depth to the dish a lot of times in bangkok you're going to get this dish
it's just going to be thick coconut milk very very sweet there's a really famous one here it's um
it's a chain but just a small chain won't name the name people
think it's absolutely incredible but for me it's just too sweet and too creamy this
strikes a good balance between being you know not too thick not too watery
absolutely perfect the the as i keep saying the depth of flavor from the
roasted shallots the roasted ginger and they've spiced it absolutely perfectly i
asked why they sell hakka chinese noodles and kausai and kausai because the mother-in-law
is from chiang mai so they sell two different types of noodles i don't honestly know where i
could tell you in this area where you could get a better bowl of khao soi than this this is like
yeah this is easily the best um i've had in this area and they actually also do
traditional thai coffee entire tea here so i'm going to grab myself a thai tea because
as you know if you're following me the last few weeks i've got addicted again so i'm going to
get one try and get it not too sweet today and we'll see how they make a traditional thai tea
so really what a better way to finish off my morning than with a nice iced chayenne oh
i said one night and it is actually not that sweet although there was still a teaspoon of
sugar and a tablespoon of condensed milk it's not too sweet though not compared to the one i had
the other day i think this is like the least sweet you can get and then if you go any less sweet than
this there is no sugar it's just one or the other get yourself standing yourselves to jab pen hakka
noodles it's right around the corner from natapon ice cream you might have seen me do before right
at the end of the road you've got core paneer mango sticky rice county on my one uh just around
the corner your pack 40 you've got the lawyer shop i've done i've done so many videos around here now
i'll link those all in the description box below this could be one of the best
excellent noodles i would get them with rice noodles next time no fish balls
and the cow soy honestly guys spot on the best i've had anywhere around the old town anyway the
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