Hi I'm Thomas, I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate. Today we're in Bangkok, Thailand
and it's a Thai Street food tour kind of a day
let's eat. First up moo ping a pork skewer you will see these everywhere in
Thailand they're cheap and they're an incredible snack, just sweet
juicy pork, small glaze cooked straight on the charcoals absolutely heavenly to get
us started. Being Thailand it is super hot so the drink vendors who you'll see everywhere
are a perfect refreshment stop. I've got an iced Thai milk tea, it's made with tea
evaporated milk and condensed milk and it's filled with ice. Ice is fine to drink in
Bangkok we've had no problems drinking drinks with ice on the street.
If you need a bit more of a caffeine hit you can get Thai iced coffee as well, be
aware that these are very sweet we don't know how to say no sugar in Thai so if
you want no sugar you might need to learn that, also if you can find a stand
that's using a percolator or some sort of device to make the coffee rather than
instant, then you're on to a winner but most of them will use instant still
amazing though.
Noodle soup vendors are everywhere in Thailand and noodle soups are
probably the most common street food that you'll find.
When you see a noodle soup vendor it can be a little bit tricky because often
they don't speak English, we don't speak Thai so we've found that
the best way is to just smile and points to what you want. Noodle vendors will
often sell just one type of noodle dish or it might be a bigger establishment
and they'll have all sorts of noodle dishes, again just smile, point to
what you want and hope for the best. You know it will always be delicious. I've ordered
today a Tom Yum noodle soup, so hot and sour soup it comes with rice noodle there's
wonton skins, pork, some bean sprouts and some chives. I'll give this soup a taste
quite spicy but not spicy enough for my taste. On the Thai table you'll always find a
range of condiments so you'll see fish sauce, there'll be chillies in vinegar
sugar and also dried chilli and that's for you to add to your noodles so that
you can adjust the taste of the dish to what suits. I'm going to add a little bit more vinegar
a touch more spice,
and a little bit of sugar just to round it off remember if you're loving our
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you get word of when we post new videos. You'll see fresh tropical fruit all over the place
in Thailand, cut up and ready to eat. Just grab a packet of whatever there is most of
because that's what's in season and it's going to be amazing and it's always
cheap and speaking of pricing we've been putting prices on the screen with like
a general window of price and that's the thing you'll find, the pricing is always
similar so once you sort of go to one noodle shop say or one fruit stand and
you work out the price that's pretty much what it's always going to be never
ask the price for starters if you don't understand Thai you won't understand the
answer anyway but it just starts confusion so just if you're buying fruit
and you're a little unsure say give them a 50 and they'll always give you the
change they're so honest here just hand over some money you'll get the correct
change back and it's never going to cost you very much. Time for some watermelon. Next
up khao man gai or the Thai version of the Hainanese chicken rice so we've got poached
chicken, cucumbers, oily rice which has been cooked in the chicken broth some
chilli sauce and some soup which has got a bit of spring onions and some melon
I think in it. This rice looks so good
hmm the rice has real texture, there is a lot of
flavor and the chicken is so soft. You'll see chicken rice vendors open for
breakfast lunch and dinner so it's like an all-day kind of food. You'll see
plenty of balls in Thailand actually you'll see all types of skewers normally
put on the grill, sometimes boiled here we've got pork balls the light ones and
fish balls the dark ones covered in chilli sauce, what we've done today is really
pick common foods for you to see so everything we're showing you you will
find when you come to Thailand they're everywhere
some of these things you'll see almost every block so they're things that you
can definitely find, definitely try, let us know which ones have you tried
which things should we have tried go down to the comments below and let us
know. I'm going to try the pork ball
another simple beautiful snack the sauce is very tangy. Wow. So spicy amazing let's
give the fish balls a try much darker in color
ah so soft subtle fishiness they're like a mushed up fish paste thing into a
ball awesome that sauce is so good. Now safety of food is something we get
asked about a lot, is it safe to eat street food in Thailand yes totally yes of
course sometimes there's going to be issues like anywhere in the world but
what's the thing you most hear when someone got food poisoning overseas? I
was at the hotel- every time. Eat it, don't be scared, try everything, if a place is busy
if it's cooked fresh it's fine and it's the best food you'll have. Final Thai Street
food snack anything coconut. There's coconut ice cream, whole coconuts available
to drink from, there are these amazing little coconut griddle cakes they're called
khanom krok they're cooked in a little griddle pan so they've got a
crunchy underside and in the middle it's a little bit milky and this one has
sweet corn in the middle
hmm the coconut milk just explodes in your mouth
they are so, so good. So there you have it out out top Thai street foods that you have to
try when you're in Thailand if you enjoyed this video we'd love it if you
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we hope we've inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler not a tourist.
La gawn!