oh forget kfc welcome back to the channel guys today i'm in suwan lumpini
bangkok's most famous park and i'm in the area to get some of bangkok's most famous food today
we're going to be starting off with a one 1.50 cow ging curry rice all you can eat buffet and
then we're going to be heading over for what is probably bangkok's most famous fried chicken
let's go but just a quick one before we start today's video i just want to say a big
thank you to today's sponsor vanessa smith from australia thank you so much for your generous
financial support of the channel could not do this without you guys supporting me in
this way so thank you so much vanessa i hope you enjoyed today's video this one is for you
so in classic thai style there is another curry rice shop just before this curry rice shop that's
what happens in thailand one place is popular another place opens exactly the same thing so
you're going to see all these pink umbrellas walk past the first cow gang shop and the second cow
gang shop is calging sisiba which is now kalging hasibad because they put the price up by five baht
which is to be expected in the current climate
all right so first thing i'll notice he's whipping up the pad boy stir fry bit of vegetables with egg
we've got a few things to choose from here guys we've got a few things to choose from
all right so we just get our plate a bit of rice on there not sure there's enough rice for me here
to be honest i might ask for some more i'm not gonna get too much because i've got stuff to do
got more places to go all right so let's see what we've actually got here i need tom yum
all right salmon so we've got a salmon tom yum
okay we'll get a bowl of that as well i guess
all right fried pork and then we've got pad now
well
all right guys so i'm gonna have the
pad more yar so vietnamese sausage minced pork loads of chilies
some green beans and then i'm going to go for some of this boom
i'll try and keep this semi light guys so i've
got loads of stuff to do and i'm trying not to drip this anywhere
all right two let's go for three should we so we've also got some uh fried like little sprats
some wooden scent do you know what i'm just going to get a bit of curry curry curry sauce
gonna get a bit of curry sauce put over the rice in the middle
you can have as much of this as you want it's a buffet i've been told that um
nangei is means chicken skin so i'm going to get some chicken skin
and red cream pig thank you hey speaks english all right so let's go through this guys so
i've got that padma yar so vietnamese sausage actually looks like a hot dog
a little bit of green beans some minced pork
chilies it's either gonna have some fish sauce some soy sauce on it
not too short crispy chicken skin which actually looks a bit like
chinese uk chinese chicken like crispy chicken or crispy beef and i've got the pat boom with the
he said mukhrob but i didn't see any more crub this is like more sap but i
did just see him cooking some with some more crabbing so maybe i'll go back up in a sec
all right let's dig in so first of all i'm going to try the uh the pad more yard with the
with the green beans in the mince pork
pretty heavy on the as i said that's the first choice or soy sauce this is dark soy sauce
crunchy green beans plenty of mince but not bad all right do you know what i just want to get a
little bit of the the curry sauce all right so i got the sauce out of the gingkai the curry chicken
sweet coconut milk classic creamy thai curry
um all right the the
it does have a kind of like english chinese or american you know like a western chinese
hong kong style takeaway you know when you get that sweet and sour chicken or
sweet and sour beef and it's like crispy beef covered in like a sticky glaze it's
like that but this stinky glaze is like a sweet curry flavor loads and loads of lime leaves
i wouldn't want to eat too much of it but
all right next up and i just saw this chef cooking this he's got a bag
the size of like a dustbin bag full of pak bong and he's spraying it over like a mad high heat
all right that's the best dish so far
who doesn't like
who doesn't like a classic pad back wall it's just fresh it's crunchy
i didn't get any crispy pork there's not much crispy pork in there you're not expecting much
for 50 baht all you can eat are you overall it's pretty solid i've just found a hot dog in my mouth
which is not for me i think it's a little bit of a lot of hot dog
say crab but what mods you really want for 50 baht all you can eat so as you can see behind
me this place is hyper popular with the local workers you've got office work because you've
got grab workers you've got taxi drivers you know people that are going to have to watch the pocket
a little bit they can come here and they can pay 50 baht and they can fill up as many times as
you want you can have six or seven plates of this that'll last you all the way through you've got a
temper expectations to what you're getting you're getting a buffet that is an all-you-can-eat buffet
for less than 1.50 this is like one pound 20. um so obviously it's not gonna be the
finest ingredients in the world but he is doing an amazing job keeping the cost down
and making things like the crispy chicken skin taste that good
on a budget so if i wasn't going to another restaurant right now i would just eat the rest
of the dishes so you've got a wundsen dish as i said you've got the pad melon powder bamboo with
the mussels you've got a crispy fish dish you've got two curry dishes and i think they do vary from
day to day so i mean if you're staying in this area at lampini park it's definitely worth coming
to see this because it is pretty cool the fact that he feeds so many people for so little money
right so just a heads up i'm walking to apollo for our chicken there's lampini park
here's actually a walkway you can walk all the way from here to benjakati park
which is the park that's by prom pong bts station so you can actually walk quite easily from here
all the way to prom pong through a nice little walkway so let me know if you want me to do that
okay so there's actually two shops a few doors down from each other there's
an air-conditioned one where you sit down and eat and then there's the original
where they actually cook the chicken that says the polo fried chicken on the front
all right so i've been given a vip treatment i've been letting to check out these fried bad boys
all right guys so here is the world-famous
car all right guys this is a little bit more like it for me personally a little bit isaan food in
one of the most famous places in bangkok apollo fried chicken formerly known as jer key because
jerky was actually the owner's mother she passed the shop down to him and she used to sell this
original fried chicken recipe in lumpini park over 60 years ago this restaurant has been here for 55
years i am told and uh it's been popular since the day it opened so let's take a
little look at exactly what we've got so i've ordered the famous guide hard fried
chicken and the beautiful thing about this is actually the fried garlic that keratin jiao
that they put on top and that's what this shop is actually most famous for it is a thing of pure
beauty now i've never been a massive fan of the fried chicken here with a breast anyway
because i find that the breast sometimes can be a little bit dry but what i have always loved
is this crispy fried garlic so i'm quite excited about that today i've also got corn more yang
which is grilled pork neck and the marbling on this is just incredible it's what guanciale
is made out of which is the cut that you should make carbonara with so if you're making carbonar
at home that's what you need this comes with its own unique dipping sauce namchin more
and the fried chicken comes with your choice of which is sweet chilli sauce or nam jim gel which
is a tamarind palm sugar fish sauce and smoky chili flake dipping sauce okay because it's the
star of the show we are going to start with the chicken so i'm going to grab
a leg first dip it in this jar sauce some of that garlic has already stuck to the chicken
hmm
ah forget kfc okay leg super super tender it's been cooked in a soy sauce a marinade with a
little bit of garlic as i can tell and it's not floured like fried chicken like southern fried
chicken no kfc style chicken it's not it's not battered like that this is just dipped
and fried so it's crispy but it's not like it's not like batter or bread crumb crispy it's just
crispy skin crispy like the soy sauce marinated where they fried it is like caramelized it's like
sweet salty you've got that bitter sweet crunchy gratiam gel in every bite because it's literally
stuck to every piece of the skin the jowl sauce ultra top ultra sour high high level of
uh tamarind in there which i absolutely love fish sauce and palm sugar very very simple
and that is just perfectly soft perfectly juicy that
is the best piece of chicken i've ever had in here
i think the two other times i've been in here to eat i've ended up with chicken breast and
and it's just i don't know for whatever reason it's been a little dry
this is fantastic and that joe is amazing all right next up
let's try the kombu yang now this does look good
super super smoky
that actually tastes like it's been smoked rather than grilled
i know they i know they've cooked it over coals so it's going to have that smoky flavor
but this actually tastes like it's been put in a smoker the dip little sweet for
me a little sweet for me who guessed i was going to say that it's not too bad
very garlicky but i think i'm actually going to stick with the namjoon gel
absolute combo
smoky chili smoky pork it's so soft so tender ah it's perfect
perfectly trimmed just enough fat to keep it moist but not too much fat
yeah it's delicious that's actually better than the chicken i could literally just eat bowls and
bowls of this crispy garlic it's a little thai garlic we keep the skins on so you just pound it
all up and fry it and just keep it in like a big pot i could just stick my face in the pot and just
so good all right i'm gonna try the breast just because
i mean it's not like it's not horrifically dry right i'm not like
it's not like a stringent it's not making my mouth go dry or anything but
when if you try and cook a whole chicken breast like that for our whole chicken breast by the
time the middle of it's cooked because it's so dense it's already overcooked so
you know unless you're taking a breast off and cooking it separately
it's always going to be a little bit dryer but i know a lot of my toy friends actually like
like drier tougher meat like um i went to this guy young place that soaks the chicken in milk
and it's so soft and so tender and all my thai friends didn't like it they were like yeah that's
too soft so you know it is just what you like me i would stick to the leg uh the wings uh the thigh
that's a bit of me what can i say i'm a thigh over breast man okay so last but not least
i'm gonna try this cucumber sometime i'm not sure what's happened here but there's no chili in it um
so that must have been a user error that must have been
lost in translation because she said you want to or pala
and i said tom ty and then she said give thai man and i said kim had died maybe she thought i said
kin mai dai um but yeah there's there's no chilean this is holding i think there's like half a chili
in this but anyway we've got some plump kong heng some dried shrimp we've got some shredded
cucumber thai garlic lime juice palm sugar fish sauce uh and some tomatoes the reason i love
is that it's so fresh and so refreshing as you know i like the like the sometime pod sweet corn
sometime a lot with chicken but i've started to eat this a lot because it's fresh but if
you leave it like i have for a little bit on the table the salt in the fish sauce draws all the
moisture out of the cucumber and creates like this fresh dressing at the bottom mixed with all that
tomato juice the palm sugar the lime juice the fish sauce heaven
but the freshness of the cucumber is the perfect accompaniment to all that fried garlic the fried
chicken the fatty pork you need something fresh and sharp zingy just uh round everything off
it's not spicy at all but i could obviously ask them to put more chili in my wife would
really like that helen would really like that because it's not too fishy if you took out the
dried shrimp that would be our perfect samsung no chili no fish sauce but yeah not bad at all
so again as i said earlier you can sit next door in air conditioning just me i like to be
i'm a weirdo i like to be in the original shop with all the pictures on the wall
explaining all about the history of the shop and i like to see the kitchen i'd like to see
what they're up to they've clearly been doing this so long it's again like muscle memory like
all the places i go to they are just smashing up chicken after chicken after chicken they've
all got their own job one's doing sometimes one just putting sauces in one serving one's doing
the chicken it's like a military operation again um nature's got hundreds of chickens in a big pot
all in all a very good experience i hope you enjoyed it today's video around lumpini park
i hope you enjoyed it especially vanessa let me know in the comments section below and let me know
where else you guys want me to go i'm going to hit stuck on bit next week i'm actually going to hanoi
next weekend to do some videos with paddy doyle so keep an eye out for those but until then
stay safe and i will see you in the next one
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