We're Chasing a Plate and today we're at Chatuchak market in Bangkok, Thailand
it's the largest weekend market in the world so it's time to eat
come on!
First up a little five baht ice cream, Thailand
of course is extremely hot so a Thai milk tea ice cream to get us started
Moo ping, I love these, so it's a pork skewer cooked very simply straight on
the charcoal normally marinated in things like fish sauce and sugar and soy
and oh it's so tender just falls apart but it always has a nice
layer of fat, so you get a really sweet burst from the sugars you get a nice
burst of very easy to eat fat, you get the pork they are a great price awesomely
satisfying, normally just had as a snack like we're doing right now as we go off
to find more food
Orange! Coke!
we found some Thai fish cakes to snack on, there's some amazingly fresh looking
cucumber, I'm going to try a bit of that, so good! Mmm they're so golden and so like they smell
just so delicious. Mmmm really fluffy there's a Thai sweet chili sauce
drizzled over the top not that gluggy kind, quite thin, and there's I think really
finely sliced beans in the mixture, we're really good, and there's a real spicy
kick to them. These are so good, they're so juicy and what I thought was really
thinly sliced beans is actually thinly sliced green chillies duh.. There's also
some really fragrant lime leaf in there- they're a great snack
it's thirsty work walking around Chatuchak so you have to stop for a fruit
shake- lime is my favorite- it is so refreshing, so tart it's absolutely
thirst quenching. Cheers!
you won't go hungry at Chatuchak there are loads of street vendor selling
everything from fish cakes to coconuts to fruit juices to coconut ice cream there's a
ton to eat and there's also a lot of little restaurants dotted around the
market. So we've stopped to have a bit of a snack we're having some Isaan
food so food from northern Thailand we've ordered some fried chicken wings, a
papaya salad and some sticky rice. Papaya salad is made up of shredded green
papaya, this one's got tomatoes, chilli, roasted peanuts, some dried shrimp and it's
really tangy because it's got lime juice, fish sauce, sugar in it. It's quite spicy
chilli down the throat but it's really refreshing and the sticky rice
works perfectly with it. The fried chicken looks so crispy and
golden we've ordered wings. Oh man fried chicken is my absolute favorite
and I love Thai style. I've just dipped it in the sweet chilli sauce so it's just
coated the crispy chicken
so tender, really juicy and that golden crunch of the skin is just amazing
amazing. So that was good not great that's the sort
of thing at Chatuchak things are good but they're not incredible food wise so if
you've been in Thailand before or you're coming for a trip you'll have much
better food elsewhere we can guarantee that but this market is insane
it's huge there is food everywhere and it definitely is a must visit if you're
here. It's Saturday and Sunday only- a weekend market definitely visit even though you will
have better food elsewhere. Because the shopping is amazing if you're a
shopaholic there's everything and anything under these roofs- kitchen things complete
tack, cool clothes, cheap t-shirts, cell phone covers the list goes on so we aren't
covering that obviously because we're a food channel but come here to shop eat
while you're shopping there's lots more sweets than savouries that are quite
good-looking so we're going to find some sweets now
my favorite Thai dessert is coconut ice cream I cannot get enough of it and
we're having coconut ice cream from Coco JJ they've been here since 2008 and they
serve their coconut ice cream in a half coconut shell so coconut ice cream and
you get two toppings of your choice so I've added peanuts and sticky rice and you
also get a cup of fresh coconut juice
I'm in my happy place. It's so creamy, so light, that flavor of coconut is just like
it's Thailand in a bite.
we've got these pancakes which I've seen quite a lot on the street but we've never
actually had. They're incredibly crispy like a potato chip. That's so strange so
this white stuff that looks kind of like cream is actually egg white I think, it's like
meringue it's really sticky meringue though a little bit soft and tacky, the
green stuff honestly no idea I can't even guess on
that one, maybe pandan flavoured something. Does anyone know? Let us know
it's very sweet it tastes mainly like sugar to be honest it's not my favorite
thing in the world but I'm going to try the orange one
hmm same crispy pancake same egg white, no idea on the orange stuff I'm not giving
much information here because I really don't know what this stuff is. It's good
it's worth trying but it's not the most exciting thing I've ever eaten in
Thailand that's for sure.
we couldn't leave Chatuchak without another ice block. Thai milk tea.
Sprite for me! So good. So refreshing. You have to come to Chatuchak
there's so much to look at, there's so much shopping
the food is definitely more snack-y style eating rather than a sit-down meal but
it's a lot of fun. Great fun, make sure you visit to Bangkok falls on a weekend
because Chatuchak is brilliant to visit. Thank you so much for watching we hope we've
inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler, not a tourist, see you next
time! La Gawn! Ly, lau? Ly gon? La Gawn. La Gawn! We're learning to say goodbye in Thai
sorry that was terrible