hi my name is josie and welcome back to my channel or welcome if you are new here
today we're in yaowarat road in the heart of bangkok's chinatown it is one of the busiest
and biggest chinatowns on the entire planet with some world-class street food too it is
big it is busy it is full of life let's go show you chinatown in bangkok at night
so we have actually tried to come here once before for dinner and it wasn't on monday
just so you know it's closed on mondays so keep that in mind when you do come that maybe monday
isn't the best time because everything won't be here just like it was for us
now we did see was really funny that there was someone pulled over in their car
and like ordering and paying and driving off so it is like a drive through here almost
so there is so much food here and so many stalls so many stands so many side streets with vendors
and restaurants and everything i think if i ate here every night for six months i still probably
wouldn't eat it everywhere that there is to get food right now this is crazy the atmosphere is so
cool it's so funny because in australia we will go to a thai restaurant and we'll get satay skewers
we haven't got that once since coming to actual thailand so we stopped and we got these pork
skewers these pork satay skewers he cooks them over some coals he marinated them with
something on the top and then we have eight no 10 of them for 80 baht so let's try them
out shall we they look super juicy and i just really like drenched it in this satay sauce
yeah oh it's spicy hold on
a drink oh yeah it's a it's only a little bit spicy but it's a lot spicy for me
it's it's not that bad it's not i just am really low tolerance to spice but the sauce is delicious
even though it's spicy even though i can barely taste
taste it because of the spice it's actually really good i'm gonna have it again anyway
okay that's so good the pork is spicy break
i love satay so this is this is like it's a pretty high bar to reach to impress me
that's pretty great i'm going to try it for a second one because that's pretty
incredible i see what you mean by bit of spice i don't let josie off the hook here
because i always give her a lot for thinking like the non-spiciest things are spicy but
a little bit of kick to this okay honestly those skewers were absolutely delicious but i'm still
hungry we're on the prowl now for something else to eat and then we're gonna sit on like a little
side street and find somewhere that we can sit down with a meal but before we eat anything else
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for you so we're just walking up and down this street like i said before there are so many
vendors here there are so many places to get your food it is really busy don't step out into traffic
because you're sharing the road with the cars but it's a lot busier than it is during the day
we did come here actually um on a tour so i'm going to link that on the screen and down below
we explored chinatown and telenoy all the way through the day but this is at night so you can
gonna see a big difference if you watch that one and this one as well this is busy this is big this
is really busy i'm having fun like exploring and seeing what they risk to eat and finding
something else to eat next as well what's that dumplings it's like dumplings prawn dumplings
there's a whole cart of meat skewers here look at that whoa there is a lot of squid there
so you have the main street back there which is the main street through bangkok as well so there's
cars bikes buses more cars more bikes more buses but on every pretty much side street there's also
all of these restaurants and places to eat as well so if you can't find something on the main street
which you can there's something for literally everyone but you can find them all on these side
streets as well you have fruit uh you have pork chicken pork crackling you have dumplings pork
buns skewers sugarcane juice you have literally everything and it's actually almost overwhelming
like there's actually so many people here that it's busy which is good it's starting to come back
to life when we came here earlier this year it was still quite quiet i would say but now it looks
like i've seen more tourists more people traveling around and that's really good for bangkok
okay
so one of the really famous things to get here by the way is shark fit
i know i don't know if i'm brave enough to try it let me know in the comments if you have below
have you ever tried it before do you like it do you not like it
tell me about it because i might try it depending on what you guys say but the other thing is also
a bird's nest yeah a literal bird's nest so they saliva actually i learned this in my
tour i did in my childhood by day so again make sure you go watch that video sorry
but yeah they actually like the saliva and the nest that the birds makes that is what sells but
it's very very expensive apparently it comes at a premium price so let's see what we can find next
oh he's big he's big
he just showed me a live prawn or something or squid i don't know what that was but
he was alive probably not for long okay you're gonna be so proud of me i got a dish that i've
never had before i've got somtam somta what is it tomya all right you're gonna be so proud of me i
got a dish that i've never had before it's tom yum yes i got it i was calling it it's tom yum and tom
means to boil and yum means to mix did i get that right which means soup so i'm having that i've got
shrimp but in australia we call them prawns so there you go fun fact for you and i'm excited
i'd never get anything like this and i do think it comes with some noodles we've stopped on the
side of the road like in one of the side streets because it was so busy out the front that we
couldn't get a seat anywhere okay my soup's here the waiter did tell me that it's not spicy but
that was a wrap yeah okay so the waiter did tell me that it isn't spicy
um i don't know it looks spicy to me there seems like bits of chili in there
so i'm a little bit scared but i'm about to take my first bite of my first ever soup noodle
with prawns in thailand oh it looks pretty pretty good looks very hot
my esophagus
the fact that i forgot about the prawn tail and half of it just went down my throat
it's still there the flavor is really good
but very sharp tail going down this program that's actually really nice i like the flavor of the soup
it's not that spicy the spice seems to be the bits of chili i can see must be a little bit of
a decoy but the broth is a really nice flavor it's juicy there's a whole bunch of veggies in
here there's mushrooms and some green things not that bad so michael has some pork with
red sauce um it was 80 bucks so it's a little bit on the expensive side my noodles were 150 baht
i think i think we're paying a premium for sitting on the side of the road in chinatown
yeah it is a little bit more than you would obviously spend for street food normally
um but honestly being up there the privilege to sit down right now was kind of worth it yeah
so how's your pork honestly you've got to kind of eat it off the bone right so
it looks so flattering but it tastes really good for 80 baht probably not but i'm glad
i had it okay so i'm on to i've got the prawns out of my throat and i'm just leaving some of
the uh noodles and stuff now i've moved to a fork because a little bit easier to grab
again not something i'd normally eat but the flavour is there the broth is really
nice the noodles are nice as normal i love noodles not something i'd normally go for
my comfort zone is kind of chicken and rice or crispy pork and rice or chicken and cashew
okay so we just finished dinner but we're sitting here and we saw this place
and it's just across the road and it's a dessert place so we're gonna go have a look what they
have because we need to have dessert i love dessert dessert it's my favorite meal of the day
dessert and breakfast i think so we're gonna have a look over there and see what sort of
desserts chinese desserts thai desserts what desserts are over there but it's right there
so it's just across the road let's go see one okay okay so we're in this little restaurant
dessert restaurant shop and we ordered the mixed ball so there's a red bean one a taro one and a
black sesame one in this like i think it's soy milk actually and they're quite warm so i'm
interested to try it but the decor in here there's like a cool like mural like painting on the wall
there's lots of people here it's obviously really popular so i'm pretty sure they're like
right they're made of like compact rice glutinous rice um so let's try this one this one's the taro
one because it's purple i'm pretty sure but red bean maybe which one's which red bean taros
purple yeah red beans blue which is shouldn't it be red anyway all right let's try the taro
what i'm doing eat the whole thing okay i'll try the i'll try the other one
it tastes like like wet rice which is funny because it's rice and it's in milk so it's
wet but it's really chewy it's kind of like a soft rubber i don't know how to describe it it's like
rice i'm not i don't know how to help you here but it's a really weird like texture it's like
chewy but soft but you keep chewing and it's still there it's pretty good i like the taro flavor
actually and i've kind of gone off tarot lately i had so much of it when we first got here and then
lately i'm like i don't really like taro we went to eat the patongos but they're all going all gone
more no more thank you okay well we're gonna have the patongos or
for dessert but looks like we're not going to have them that was all we're going to eat them
when we walked in there by the way they were full so they went out in
20 minutes okay so since there were no tongos left i've just seen this one here hello
ice cream perfect and ice creams on the inside yeah chew it there oh flavors
can i get one with the rainbow yeah oh sorry
okay we'll get so this is an ice cream i think like surrounded by marshmallows
so this is really exciting we're gonna get the cookies and cream because they didn't have any
rainbow left so we're gonna try that what are you doing is that the marshmallow yeah
oh i'm very happy where are you from
australia oh really fast yeah very fun we've been here for five months long trip yeah
you from bangkok yeah yeah yeah beautiful thank you sir oh thank you thank you congratulations
it's got a smiley face he had this ice cream he got it out of the freezer and he like pushed it
onto the stick marshmallow must be on the outside so we got like a torch and he was like torching
it and it's like crisp up the marshmallow i think and then the ice cream's on the inside so
let's see oh it's still like kind of cold look at this one look at this smelly face that's so cool
oh okay that's not what i thought i thought it'd be like uh like what i could easy to bite
into okay the marshmallow is very soft but the ice cream is really hot so when you bite into
it you're kind of like stopping at the ice cream but you get like the marshmallow on the way back
it's really cool i don't know if i've ever had anything with ice cream and marshmallow before
it's so cute he was so cute okay let's go just to give you an idea this is ten o'clock at night
like it's probably busier than when we got here like three hours ago
so this is ten o'clock it is still buzzing there's people everywhere it's really alive
already which like still this is crazy i want to go to bed everyone's out here buying food
i'm making lots of friends tonight which is good as well okay so this is chinatown in bangkok
it is massive really really big it is a must visit so if you're in bangkok for any length of time i
think you have to spend at least one night on this road at this market well worth your visit
if you like this one i know you're gonna like the one i did here but during the day so i know i said
it earlier in the video but it's gonna be on the screen for you easy to click now watch that one
next make sure you like and subscribe before you go as well and i'll see you in the next one bye