today we're going to be comparing the cheapest versus the most expensive pad
thai that we could find here in bangkok is it worth spending a lot more money
for the expensive one or is the cheap one just as good let's see
we are here in a restaurant called pad thai mayam and it's a restaurant that's right on the side
of the main road so if it's really loud then i'm really sorry we've just ordered
two original pastas we were not prepared for how fast this food would come out i think they only do
pad thais here maybe a couple of other desserts so it came out like that um so it's just arrived
i think it was 50 baht for a portion which is a little bit more expensive than the cheaper
one we've had but still we wanted to show you a legit thai street food side of the street place
now if you don't know what pad thai is you probably been living under a rock
so i'm just gonna quickly explain it to you it's basically stirred fried noodles it's sort of sweet
sour and salty at the same time it's got all the different things that you want your food to have
usually it's served with a little bit of egg in there and sometimes the egg on top or omelette
wraps around it and then you get a little bag of condiments on the side so we've got some bean
sprouts no bean sprouts yes bean sprouts and a lime and then a couple of other things i'm one of
those people who can't eat a pad thai without um chili i feel like it doesn't taste as good unless
you put some spice on there i've had it planned before and just didn't taste as good for you
i think quite often because of what we look like they assume we don't like spicy food
so sometimes they don't give us the chili and then sometimes they don't give us the chopsticks
and apparently some people don't eat it with chopsticks but we just find
it way easier even though we're quite bad at chopsticks but we're trying to learn thai way
it'll be really interesting to see the difference in this dish here than the
one we're going to see later and that one is so much more expensive but we'll see so
like i've had a lot of bad ties in the past and this is a pretty good one
like the noodles aren't too soft the egg is cooked perfect and the chilies on top just make it full
chili's on top kind of make it not that it wasn't delicious already probably but
some peanuts on top get that kind of salty spicy crunch
can't go wrong no you can't really go wrong it's like delicious comfort food it'll be super
interesting to see how the expensive one compares to this one because this is already pretty good
i would give that a solid eight and a half out of ten
to get more points i would say the portion needs to be a little bit bigger for me
i feel still a little bit hungry but lucky for us we're going to get another bad time in a minute so
now that i've finished my dish as well i would probably give this one an eight out of ten it's
one of the better five fries i've had and i've had some really atrocious ones in sweden sorry
so i think it's a really really nice touch to have almost a sort of
thin omelette kind of covering the top which is nice
okay that was a 120 baht or two pad thais and two waters and 50 baht each
from the pad thai and 10 baht each of the waters now we're going to head off to the
next place now and it's about a 20 minute drive so we'll see you when you get there
we've just arrived to the second place today that we're going to go to which has the most expensive
pad thai that we can find online this place is called tipsamai and there's a few of them around
uh bangkok and we've come to the one right here they've got a little takeaway booth here that you
can just order a takeaway but we're sitting inside and i have to show you inside inside looks so cool
from the outside it doesn't look like there's pretty much anything
but you walk in you walk in through this little corridor there's tables and chairs on the left
hand side but those were reserved so we're like oh where do we sit and then they gave us a shout
and told us to walk in a little bit further and we come into this really old style um like um
i don't know like yeah atlanta style really cool it looks like you can sit upstairs as well
and there's loads of tables and chairs in here now our dishes just arrived and
it looks and smells absolutely fantastic i've got my twisted phone here so i can tell you
exactly what's on top of this pad thai because it has all the trimmings on it so it's called
pad thai song please don't get mad if i got that wrong um my pronunciation is not good yet
but it's basically a pad thai with shrimp oil fresh deep sea prawns crab meat sliced squid
and sliced mango on top and then you have two options of noodles we opted for
sencha noodles i think which are the standard pad thai noodles and then there's also glass noodles
and we'll tell you the price of this one in a moment but right now i really want to see if
it's worth it before i do anything else i've got to take off the coriander both dylan and i can't
deal with it it tastes like soap apparently it's a jean that tells you that it feels like soap but
i really don't like it yes so i just want to see what it looks like underneath first
whoa this is a big portion oh my gosh wow we only went for one yeah this is one portion and
it's already sort of twice the size of the one we had earlier uh those are pots that is sugar
and here is chipotle those look so fine yeah this looks really nice look at that maybe not that much
that will do it for now i'm actually so excited to try this it looks so beautiful
i almost want to try a little bit of everything maybe not a huge prank cause that'll be difficult
it tastes different yeah it does a little bit like them
the sliced mango as you can imagine is really fresh on the side and then sort of the crab meats
and the squid
oh for the squid here
it's like it's much better but it's like those packets of sort of dried squid meat that you can
get in like a 7-eleven as a snack and it's just like salty and kind of fishy and chewy
wow this is really tasty i can i can see why it's so costly because wow
okay i'm gonna let you try some now right let's see if this is worth it some of that some of that
i need another bite i need another bite a little bit more chili i think
and yeah you come here the orange juice as well is awesome bit of that
i think that's crab yes come on noodles crab i'm gonna get a bit of everything
noodle ah mango bit of squid we haven't tried the prawns yet no
i can tell that it is like a little bit more expensive than the other place maybe
the ingredients a little bit more um premium i don't know but it just it does taste nicer but
i don't know if it's gonna taste i don't know if it tastes as much more as the other one but
we'll let you know the price in just a minute we need to try these prawns let me try one of these
the size of that giant prawn take the tail off it's a big bite wow this prawn is a two-man job
wow that is one big juicy prawn
good
we just finished this crazy hat thai and i have to say it was really good
and it was around eight times more expensive than the uh one we had just earlier but
i have to say i'm glad i've tried it it was really really really tasty but i'm not sure
whether i want to be paying eight times more for a pad thai every time i'm having a pad thai i'm
gonna give it a nine and a half out of ten just because the portion was huge and i love good
big portions the only 0.5 probably the price i probably could agree with dylan i would definitely
give this one a 9.5 it was amazingly delicious and i can't fault it in any way shape or form
but the 0.5 of a point is generally just for the primes because it is
400 baht but it is 400 baht of delicious delicious food and it was a big portion i feel like i had
just as much pad thai this time around that i had earlier today and that was two portions so
absolutely absolutely worth coming here definitely check it out it's one of those things that you
probably want to do just once and then you don't necessarily have to do it again if you've enjoyed
this video then we think you will really like the one that's on the screen right now where we spent
only five us dollars for the both of us and tried as many street foods as we could here in bangkok