Welcome back what's happening? I'm Gary Butler and again I am roaming the
streets of Bangkok looking for the best authentic Thai food so you don't have to
today I have ventured outside of Thonburi, yes that is correct
I am in the city, I'm by Pratunam Market, right by Platinum Mall and I'm
here to try some Khao Mun Gai and some stewed duck a famous old shop house
restaurant called Pondtip Pratunam Stewed Duck
So, first of all, I want to show you the Khao Na Bped, which is the stewed duck on rice.
It comes with the same sauce as they serve with the Khao Mun Gai, with the
chicken rice but it's different from a normal Thai chicken rice sauce
it's darker, it's still got ginger in but it's dark, slightly sweet a little bit tart
I'm not sure whether it's tamarind in there or if it's vinegar and dark soy sauce?
So you get a little pile of rice, some of that finely sliced soft duck breast that
sauce and then underneath this there's another sauce which is like the cooking
broth which is really really nice. I'm going to get stuck in. I'm going to try
it first with no sauce just the sauce it comes up with; the cooking liquor
when you get bpet palo, which is stewed duck in Thailand, there's two types
there's one that's really heavy on the soy sauce, not too many
spices which, is like if you've seen my video at Nai Soon, that's what kind of
style this is. It's what my friend Eddie Yii, Stranger in Bangkok would call a herbal
duck and I've heard that, I've heard to it referred to me like that a few times
from people that are used to Chinese stewed duck. 'herbal duck'
I would call it spicy duck, not hot spicy but it's spice like cinnamon,
star anise, cloves, that sort of thing. It's lovely actually. The duck is so soft! I'm gonna put a
little bit of the ginger sauce on
that's lovely!
it's salty but really sharp, tiny bit sweet, you've still got that other sauce
going on so you got a cinnamon, clove sort of flavour. Really, really soft duck
perfectly cooked this is definitely worth the trip down
that is a winner! next up I'm gonna try the Khao Mun Gai
So again, we've got the ginger sauce
they've given me chicken breast. I didn't specify today. I've got some skin with
mine as well. I wouldn't usually get skin on a Khao Mun Gai. I know all you
Singaporeans and Malaysians out there will say that's absolute
sacrilege but I I just don't understand flabby, rubbery chicken fat
If it was crispy chicken skin then that's a different story because that is one of
life's best creations. Crispy roasted chicken skin but boiled chicken
skin, not so sure. I will give it a go ,though. Okay, I'm gonna get some chicken
breast, some of the rice, some of the sauce and a little bit of the skin
nice rice, it's nice and garlicky, not too oily. The skin's actually OK!
So right around the corner from here you've got Go Ang and Kuang Heng which are two
famous Khao Mun Gai shops. One is known as the pink shirts and one's known as the green
shirts and people queue up around the corner for this famous chicken rice and I
just don't understand because I've got a better chicken rice shop round the
corner from my house so the reason I've got chicken rice here is
just to show you that you don't need to queue up in one of those shops to get a
decent chicken rice, there's one right here for the same price, just as good
in fact, it's got a slightly different sauce so if anything, this one's a little
bit more interesting because you can get a standard Khao Mun Gai in Bangkok on any
street corner I've got maybe six within a five minute walk from my
house but this is good I especially like the rice and the sauce.
you get here. S, too get to Pondtip I got the BTS to Siam, I walked all
the way along the walkway, through Central World, which is now absolutely dead
so it's a nice just like a nice air-conditioned walkway. You come out the
other side of Central World and they've now built another walkway that
connects to Platinum Mall and to this side of the road which is the same
side of the road as Big C. Just walk up to the intersection Pondtip is the big
open shop right on the corner, can't really miss it. The chicken rice is
40 baht so just under a pound or $1.20 the soya duck rice is
60 baht for the small and 80 baht for the big, that is about £1.50 or
just under £2 $1.80 or $2.40. So again as always on
this channel the value is definitely there, if you're in this area you
couldn't like me think of anything worse than eaten in Central World or one of
the shopping malls and you want to actually eat out on the street, nice and
local, really cheap. Head on down to Pond tip Stewed Duck Pratunam. I'll stick a
link with map and directions opening hours in the description box below just
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