Why don't you try this?
-Worm. -Worm.
-Oh, no! -Bamboo worm.
-Do you want to try the worm? -Is this sugar or salt?
-Salt. -If I don't like, you give my money back?
-[laughs]
-No, no. -No!
-Oh! -Good?
-It's good? -It's good, it's good.
Go ahead, Gordon
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Filmed before the pandemic
Oh, how beautiful here!
The market is inside the building.
-Ah, okay. -Okay.
-Outside it looks like nothing is happening,
but when you check inside the building, there's a great market.
-Ah, okay. -Okay.
-Khob khun ka [thank you in Thai]. -Khob khun ka. Bye-bye.
-Bye.
Today I'm showing you an area in Chiang Mai
that you normally don't see a lot on YouTube,
the riverside.
Wait a second, I'm close, just a block away.
But first things first, let's do things like the locals here.
One market right here
and another one just across the street.
It's a little bit busy here.
-How much? -฿20.
-Stretch?
-Ah. -Ah.
-I think I'll get a blue and a black. -Yeah?
-Does it fit? -Yeah, it'll fit.
-Yeah?
Cool
And one black.
Deal! ฿20 for two?
฿25?
-I cannot.
฿30?
No?
[laughs]
฿32?
-Higher.
-฿39. -฿39
฿1. -[laughs]
-฿1.
-[in Thai]
-฿40.
-Khob khun ka [thank you in Thai]. -Khob khun ka
-Gordon was trying to negotiate these sleeves
that I got in Bangkok,
he wanted the same thing.
There I bought two for ฿100 and after a lot of negotiation.
Here without any deal, we got two for ฿40.
Things are so much cheaper here.
[music]
Beautiful.
What do you think of this hat here for me?
[laughs]
[music]
Here in Chiang Mai, they have some traditional dishes
from Northern Thailand.
This sausage here is one of them, Lanna sausage.
-Very good. -Yeah.
-Very good. -Sai ua.
-Sai ua. Sai ua, okay.
It's the famous Lanna sausage.
Yeah.
-Half kilo, ฿200.
-Oh. -1 kilo, ฿400.
-฿400. Oh, okay.
-฿30. -Yeah?
-We'll take that. -Oh, okay. So, we'll take that.
They have it sealed here also for people to take back home in airplanes.
It tastes like Thai food itself in a sausage,
and it is so spicy.
[laughs]
Look at my eyes.
A different fruit.
-This is one we don't have. -Sugar palm.
Dry sugar palm.
Mango. -No sugar.
-No sugar? -Sugar and no sugar.
-Uh-huh. -Melon.
-Can I try one? I love melon, too.
Let me see how the dried version is.
Mmm, it's so good. So good, I like it.
Thank you.
-Uh-oh, uh-oh. -What?
-Why don't you try this?
-Worm. -Worm.
-Oh, no! -Bamboo worm.
-Do you want to try the worm?
-Is this sugar or salt? -Salt.
If I don't like, you get my money back?
[laughs]
-No, no. -No!
-Good? -I like it a lot.
-You promise me? It's good? -Hmm.
-It's good, it's good.
Go ahead, Gordon.
-Yeah. -Yeah?
-It's good. Salty...
I don't know what I could call it tastes like.
Like chips?
-A little bit, yeah.
Yeah. That was good.
-It's good.
Let's take this.
Khob khun ka. [thank you in Thai]
[music]
That wall over there is just to deceive you because the market is not only this here.
It continues, it keeps going.
Basically, no tourists here.
All this time we've been walking, I think we saw three tourists.
That was it. And they were all together.
Overall, things here are cheaper compared to the shops on the street,
and the Sunday night market.
Here in this area, there are actually lots of markets.
There is Warorot, where we were.
Nawarat, a flower market
There is Chinatown here, too.
It's even hard to know where one market finishes
and the other starts.
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The markets are very close to the Ping River,
so we came here to check it out.
And historically, this river was very important for Chiang Mai
because it was the best way to get here.
It was either the river or an elephant track.
There were no roads, nor trains or anything.
I read online that it was like this until 1920.
I can't confirm for sure.
But if that was really the case,
it explains why Chiang Mai has such a distinctive charm.
It was really isolated.
This is where people here come celebrate some Thai festivals
like Loy Krathong.
[music]
-Where? -Right here.
-Here? -Yeah.
Walking on this side of the river, we came across this shop
that it seemed to be like an antique shop.
And we got in and ended up at this beautiful restaurant here
overlooking the river, really nice set.
I'm loving it!
Eating little pieces here and there at the market,
just wet our appetite.
I heard that a lot of people in Chiang Mai come to this side of the river at night.
There's live music and everything here.
So, now we have the pleasure of having the restaurant basically to ourselves.
Uh-hmm, khob khun ka. [thank you in Thai]
Chili here is spicy.
-Uh-huh. Khob khun ka. [thank you in Thai]
Khao soi, this is the typical dish in Chiang Mai.
When you come here, you got to try it, right?
So, this is a coconut milk, curry, soup,
so it's a little spicy, at least I expect,
egg noodles in the bottom,
crispy noodles on top, and some kind of meat.
Mine is duck. Gordon's is chicken.
And I heard you got to put the lime on,
so I'm going to try before without the lime,
and then see if I can tell the difference.
Mmm, love this flavor, the coconut milk together with the dish.
This is so good. I really like it.
You are spicing it up, aren't you?
-You betcha. -[laughs]
-Is it better with the lime or without the lime?
-It's the same
-All good? -It's all good.
[laughs]
Khao soi is now officially my favorite Thai dish.
That was so good, so good.
We ate at a really nice restaurant
that seemed to be a little expensive.
Guess how much it was?
-No, it wasn't expensive. -It was not because we ordered Thai dishes.
For western food, it's more expensive.
But guess how much it was.
Two khao sois, a beer, and a water.
-US$ 12.
-Almost, US$13.80. [laughs]
And when Renata splurges on me,
US$13.80 worth.
-[laughs]
-That's a splurge.
-Sawadee ka. [hello in Thai]
Khob khun ka. [thank you in Thai]
It doesn't look like the weather is helping out.
It's a lot of rain coming. So we're going back to the hotel.
We're going to take a break.
And in the evening, we'll be back for some more markets.
If you run out of baht, no problem.
Just come here, exchange right here.
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Without a night market, Thailand is not the same, right?
So, tonight we're visiting one of the most famous night markets
here in Chiang Mai.
And it's called simply Night Market.
[music]
The Night Market happens on both sides of the street,
but they don't shut down the street,
so you have to walk along one side,
and then cross, go back seeing the other.
We walked, walked, and ended up at a different market.
This is Anusarn.
I don't know if you pronounce it like this,
but this is how you write it.
[music]
They said it's ticklish.
You feel ticklish -Why not?
Go ahead, and then you tell me how it is.
I'm not sure, I would.
-I would.
[music]
Is it a purse? A backpack?
-A pillow. -A pillow!?
Oh, baby, look at this. How beautiful.
[music]
There are various other markets on the side streets, the sois.
This here seems to be the most fun, and that's where we're going.
[band music playing]
-I need some money.
-Oh, yeah.
No money for you. You won't eat tonight.
I keep all the money.
Sawadee ka. [hello in Thai]
I'll go with the chocolate roti
-Khob khun ka. [thank you in Thai]
So interesting how she fried this with very little oil.
And the oil was very clean, by the way.
This is basically like a fried dough
with no filling and chocolate on top.
-That's good.
-So delicious as you'd expect.
On the way back to the hotel,
we ended up discovering another night market.
This is a party town
-Let's just walk down, and see what this is.
-Yeah!
-Those are nice -It is very nice.
-Yeah.
-Do you know what is so nice? The smell of that, too.
-Yeah. -[laughs]
Well, in this area here, you cannot drink.
You can go to prison for six months
or be fined up to ฿10,000,
or both.
And be fined for smoking, too.
They're basically shutting down the market. We're here at the end.
We're too late
-YouTube people, what do you think of this?
-Tomorrow. -Do you want?
-Tomorrow. -I don't think they're here tomorrow, baby.
It's now or never.
-No, we'll find them
-Oh. [laughs]
Why "no" to the scorpion?
- It was calling you. -It's not fresh.
End of day. -End of day!?
-I want beginning of the day.
-Beginning of the day. -Yeah.
-Okay. -Fresh.
-Olá. -Olá.
[Very beautiful, cheap in Portuguese]
-Khob khun ka. [thank you in Thai]
Did you realize that he spoke Portuguese?
-Yeah. -I guess I scream Brazilian,
the vendor looked at me and started speaking Portuguese.
Guess how much was it.
-US$ 12. -No.
-Almost. -$13.80.
-US$ 13.80!
You saw that. You saw my calculations.
[laughs]
It such a fun night. I hope you enjoyed this tour here.
And if you have any questions about Chiang Mai, let me know.