hello welcome to a random alleyway in chinatown in bangkok and today we're going to be going
through the back alleys to the top of the highest skyscrapers in search of delicious
food we're just trying to get to know another part of bangkok today how good is that that's
any way that you can engage your senses is the best way to discover anywhere in the
world especially sight and sound but today we're going to be focusing on taste because
i'm with gary the roaming cook he is going to show me some of the most delicious local
and unique street food experiences in this area we're just outside of chinatown and he texts me
and said meet him down this dodgy little alleyway and he's going to take me for some delicious liver
pad kapow so i'm really excited but i got mine where i'm walking down here because everybody's
i mean this is what we're doing today we're in this tight little alleyways and then we'll
hopefully end up at the tallest most beautiful skyscraper in search of delicious food so let's go
hmm
all right so this is our first dish we've got more that is liver so we've got pork liver had capacity
pork liver stir fried with holy basil loads and loads of chili loads of garlic chef don did
actually ask how spicy wanted it and paddy said he wanted it as spicy as he could give him so um
for anyone who's a bit off about eating liver um i would recommend you come here and try
liver here because i think a lot of people are put off by liver because like when they had it
when they were younger it was like cooked to death boiled to death even here in some
soups they boil it to death and then reboil it again whereas he just takes fresh liver slices
it up and stir-fries it for literally a matter of minutes we're talking two three minutes with
loads of chili loads of garlic and it's job done so it's soft uh it's juicy and very very tender
and everyone's had a pack of bao everyone's had a pork chocolate chicken packer power beef pack
this is something completely different this back alley this is i mean a lot of you watching this
might see the location of this restaurant and be like no there's no chance i'm eating down here
you know there's cats there's a pet dog and you know on the face of it it looks quite scary as a
restaurant location but this is normal for bangkok this is normal for thailand i've had some of the
best food i've had on this trip in the provinces in some of the most interesting places including
are now a back alley in the middle of bangkok so i did see you do this on your channel and i
was so excited and i remember i left a comment on that video saying gary please can we go here
i do love liver and as you were saying liver is good for your liver no it's good for your brain so
that's why we're so smart isn't it because we eat liver but yeah let me see what it actually tastes
like um it would be a shame if i didn't like it in real life it looks delicious it smells great
you know i'm going to go all in there two big chunks of liver lots of basil
it's drenched in chili already don't need any rice let's just try it out
i feel like i need to sneeze because of the chili but i don't want to sneeze because everyone's
going to be like my mouth's on fire but that's a good sign i i was worried like so much liver
would might be a little bit too much but yeah like you said he doesn't he treats the meat with
a lot of respect in the wok he doesn't overcook it it looks absolutely delicious and it tastes
even better so thanks gary what else have we got this is just a thai fried red curry with chicken
beans and lots of basil leaves and lots of chili we asked for this extra spicy and he chucked in so
much chili i'm gonna have to have some rice with this in case it's off the chain in terms of spice
my mouth's still absolutely on fire from that liver but this is what you want this is how you
engage your senses this is how you get to know a country or a travel destination is use your
senses look and feel the places that you're out and most importantly taste the local food
it's not too bad and you know this is a dish that we've all had dozens of times in thailand but
this is a good one this is a good spicy version of a tyro curry but if you're coming down here
to see chef don you have to go for this liver i mean this is a very unique street food dish
in bangkok how often do you see liver like this not very often so thanks gary my pleasure
yeah so where are we going to next all right so next i'm going to take you to what is probably
my favorite noodle store in this area of bangkok and it's only this area to sell these particular
noodles cook this way if that's not open i'm going to take you to a famous backstreet
curry rice store but hopefully they're both open and we can enjoy both right let's do it
right gary's taking me to another alleyway but this time there's still motorbikes driving along
but we're actually on this beautiful canal this canal system it's a little bit further outside
of chinatown on the way towards khao san road actually we jumped on dreamy and we've gotten here
and he's just at the food lady here ordering some crab dishes all right so this one is pour padpon
so this is big fat pieces of crab lump meat stir-fried with yellow curry powder this one
i've not seen in too many places apart from here this is more crop so crispy fried pork belly
with cake hem stir fried with kai kemp says uh more crop pad is salted egg yolk there's also some
ginger in here and some fresh green peppercorns and the last one so this is poor pad pickler
crab the same white lump meat crab fresh every day fresh in every day from champ on and this is with
chili and salt uh also some spring onions a little bit of oyster sauce soy sauce uh and some lime
leaves right there so this looks good big chunks of crab from champon where i used to live yeah
that's it and um this is with the salt yeah so that's uh chili and salt what's it what are those
is that bits of pumpkin that yellow stuff oh no that's uh yellow like banana chilies oh okay oh so
spicy uh no not that yeah it's got a bit in there so paprika had pink chilli salt and then you've
got some red chillies as well so how good is that that's not even what i could hire so fresh exactly
i'm back on trampon beach yeah i can literally i'm like i can hear the waves i can feel the sand
i didn't think you could get fresh seafood like this in bangkok especially down some
random little alleyway with some granny cooking here like what the hell was going on
hello max so then the name says the name says oh this is it
is like what people say to yeah high school yeah chonglor is high so so when i came down here
i just heard the name and i thought that it was going to be like a proper shop and then i got down
here this is got green red and orange chili in there yeah green why is it not blowing my head off
um they're not that the the the um the orange chillies aren't very spicy to start with um
and yeah i'm not sure why that's the best thing i've had in bangkok
yeah this one wait what's this one oh this is the yellow color powder so the same the same meat
but now it's tossed in yellow curry powder yellow curry powder i just yesterday a couple of days ago
you guys saw in samosa con i had a crab or was it nakom panon yeah in nakhon patom i had um
a crab curry with yellow curry powder mmm i didn't like it did you not no did i have like the egg
going through yeah i'd like scrambled eggs yeah she's got no egg in there but she's got some milk
so there's something about generic curry powder and that sweet crab meat that just works very very
well i think because it's so generous the crab meat and when i had that crab curry the other day
i was crunching on the shell crunching on bits that are just rogan within the curry she's
carefully de-shelled the crab meat here this is unbelievable i don't know honestly i'd come here
every day if i live around here this is more of a eat this order every day these two dishes here
stand out street food in the whole of thailand
thanks man nothing goes to waste down the canal
literally everywhere you look there's food isn't it like down that little alleyway just a bloke
with like five kilograms of pork knuckles just in a random walk on the random street uh right
so what do you want to do next uh i want to take you to see my friend auntie pian papien
for some uh some some special bangkok noodles i don't know how much i can eat though
i can't eat them should we just like share one or something yeah get a small one yeah
right then so this is a wait wait wait wait we ordered noodles but it's dry
there's no soup is that normal oh it must be normal no no it's very rare actually it's um
that's what they called cora means to drive fries so about me yeah and you know all the
staff here right you come here quite often yeah she's one of my few youtube viewers
oh one more thing as well they use chicken thigh only here so this is chicken thigh yeah they never
ever use breast because obviously to stir-fry breasts can be a little bit dry oh it's lovely
right nicely seasoned yeah is this more like chinese food than thai yeah chinese thai mm-hmm
so everything in this area anything that comes out of a wok comes from china basically anything
out of a wok what about if you have a bowl of cereal it would be um cereal cornflakes gene
i just like all the character of the places you've taken us to today like just the fact that you know
i mean i don't want to say this in the wrong way but they're quite dirty you know there's
stuff on the floor and it's not insanely clean like a western kitchen or something so that's
why i know when i first came to thailand i never ate street food i was always put off i was like
oh my god i'm gonna get sick and then i'd go to mcdonald's and then i get sick because you can't
see the goodies yeah and then as your gut gets used to the chili and the inherent amount of just
bits of bacteria as a western person who's used to cornflakes and milk and tea for a diet event yeah
you do get a little bit sick the first few days you're here or the first week you're here you're
never going to get away from getting a little bit of deli belly or what's the version in thailand
bangkok billy yeah it's original in it um but yeah once you actually break your gut in i haven't been
sick touch wood from street food this delicious street food the entire time i've been traveling
around the provinces for me um this it's all about human connection if i go and eat in a
western restaurant not just a western restaurant or an up market or something there's no there's
nothing personal about that transaction and i realized this pretty quickly when um we were in
lockdown the first time and i was ordering takeaways and stuff and i was i was missing
that even though we can't understand each other well very well whoever i'm talking to
um it's that human connection of they are giving you something
that that is like that is made with love and i feel like you can feel
i was gonna start crying no but i know what you mean no i know what you mean that is that
is a really sweet way of putting it she's been making these same noodles for 30 or 40 years
this is that's all she does so every single bowl
she puts her heart and soul into it it's coming towards
golden hour the sun's starting to go down so we should probably head towards the big tower we're
gonna head to the king power tower it's called the king power tower right mahanapon mahanakon aka the
king power tower i don't know if it's the tallest tower in bangkok but it's definitely up there
it is oh it is okay um but we're gonna jump on dreamy drive through it's about 20 minute drive
and we'll go up to the top now there's going to be no food up there but we just thought
it'd be a cool concept for a video to come down to these back alleys with the motorbikes whizzing by
to the very highest point of bangkok itself and we can overlook that city and uh yeah
i just thought that would be a fun video
got nothing better to do on a friday afternoon come again
come up
we're here
okay we're in the lift or the elevator oh god oh oh okay what's up a video oh i don't like it
really not me no but it's moving that like oh my ears are popping we must be going really high up
oh
motion sickness oh i don't like it look oh there's the tower but the thing is you can
feel the lift moving so it's giving me when i used to do vr this is just what i used to get
motion sickness oh jesus this is not real this is not real this is not real but i am absolutely
my ears have popped as well so that's just the lift oh my god i didn't tell my dad oh god
i should tell you as well that if you know i'm scared of heights and i said to him
so i'm glad you're coming because at least someone will go out on the glass he said
no i'm scared of heights as well my ears pop popping straight away
i'm glad
so we've had a little walk around and it is absolutely ridiculously beautiful isn't it it's
stunning especially at this time of day or was it five o'clock
beautiful nice cool breeze views of the entire city we've just been sat here like half an hour
pointing at things trying to figure out where the airport is having a really good time but we're
having a couple of beers here they come this is our second batch just because we need a little bit
of dutch courage because i'm terrified of heights and so are you yeah i'm not looking forward to
this at all lying on that thing and like the kids are down there and they're just lying there
rolling around no bother and there's like quite a lot of attractive thai girls getting their selfies
taken and it looks really fun but the second you get to the edge oh your balls just drop
oh it's just it's horrible no mine shriveled up
you can still come up here and have they don't do food but cocktails draft beer international beers
it's expensive this costs like 400 baht for two and they're quite small but needed in this time
very but probably no joke the most beautiful spot in bangkok in terms of views i mean you've done
rooftops i've done rooftops there's nothing like this i mean this is hands down the best rooftop
i've been to anywhere i think i don't think i've been to a better room toughness anyway
that beautiful breeze sun going down right gary you're gonna have to go first right so there's no
cameras allowed at this point so i'm gonna have to film gary go by himself we were gonna go together
don't look down just walk out walk out straight ahead ah walk out straight ahead
right now you gotta go down and kiss it
you were quite brave but you didn't say a word no no i mean that's because you're scared it's
not as personal i'm just not gonna look i think it's worse looking over the side
just walk straight look at the sunset and just walk out
gary thank you again for today thank you very much for having me we got to see some
really unique food and some really unique parts of bangkok down the alleyways and
i'm glad we both had never come up here but it's the thing to do in bangkok but um it is worth it
isn't it 100 500 what was it 500 baht each to come up expensive beers but i mean i mean look at the
views we've enjoyed golden hour we've watched the sunset we even had enough dutch courage
to go on the uh you were braver than me but going on to the scary glass roof thing but anyway um
stay tuned to the channel we'll be back soon me and gary will probably be doing some other
food adventure in bangkok or surrounding provinces soon and next time beers are on you definitely
you