sawasdee from thai town los angeles
hi experiencers it's madison and ivan we are here in e-ho i've never heard it called that
but east hollywood
i was whispering that's not a thing it is the only thai town in the country because
apparently los angeles has the highest populations of thai people outside of asia so we're super
excited i'm sure we're gonna get some amazing food see some incredible things and i'm pretty
pumped i love thailand so it's gonna be a lot of fun so let's go you know you've officially
entered thai town when you see apsanzee these four half-lion half angel statues serve as
guardians at the eastern and western gateways of thai town on hollywood boulevard
while you're in thai town if you want to casually lease a castle you can speaking of living
like queens and kings we are ready to indulge in a delicious meal so we use the michelin
guide to find sapp coffee shop we love all types of thai food but it is really cool to
see that since there are so many thai restaurants here there's a lot of specialization we ordered
the classic drinks thai tea and thai coffee so thai tea is a mix of black tea and a bunch
of spices like cardamom tamarind star anise and together it packs a good nice punch of
course there's a healthy amount of condensed milk in it too oh that's so sweet it's so
good i've had a lot of thai tea that's definitely one of the best one time i ordered thai tea
in thailand and they looked at me like i was a crazy person whoa apparently it's just tea
there i don't know if i've had thai coffee before though really definitely some some
sweet milk in there probably condensed milk
the coffee is really strong
that is really good it's very sweet but now we got jade noodles we ordered two dishes
that we had never even heard of jade noodles they're green egg noodles made green because
of spinach with barbecue pork roast duck and crab meat topped with ground peanuts and thai
chili powder and that's yummy that's really good you're really gonna like this
such a delicious flavor such complexity but like a little bit spicy definitely buttery
a little bit acidic because of the lime probably um it was really good
that was good the pork is really tender the crab adds like a nice like seafood base to
it
and noodles are like like you said buttery but also sweet
i could have my weight in that the next thing we ordered was boat noodles beef and everything
noodles in here very pungent broth i love it some noodles get some of the piece of broth
beef the pork rinds still crispy got liver some tripe some tendons i'll start with just
the beef wow that broth is so flavorful it just hits you you got to take that slow
but not in a spicy way more like a sour and meat flavored it's really good very savory
it's named boat noodles because many vendors in thailand prepare and sell this dish from
boats in the canals and river it has some sourness and some heartiness some richness
it's really good clean plate club
there is a little souvenir store over there
everything you could ever dream of
kanom krok which i've heard are like coconut pancakes with like coconut cream in them
oh this is so good it doesn't have the shredded coconut texture on the outside you've got
the crust browning softer edge but still dry so it's like good to touch but in the middle
just soft creamy moist it's so good this is yummy and we set the bar high starting with
the yeah and was like it's so simple though it's like a very pure coconut flavor that
i'm getting kanom bueng crispy crepe apologies in advance for if we're completely mispronouncing
it we are definitely completely mispronouncing it
but this smells so interesting so one of these is straight straight savory i feel like it's
gotta be the darker one it's both savory and sweet so it's like a like a candy ginger candied
spicy ginger flavor going on in my mouth i almost use a little bit of like a shrimp though
or something yes yes for sure that's what it started out as dang that was a very complex
flavor but i like it and it's finishing coconut yeah what just happened in my mouth it's good
though like coconut ginger sweet shrimp i don't know but it wasn't that it was pretty
good i definitely go again and they're so airy so light you definitely have a good number
of these this is a sweet one i don't know what that is but it's sweet i'm not sure what
the orange stuff was like shavings from a fruit some sort of fruit it's gotta be i don't
know what fruit i feel like we've eaten a lot of thai food but i don't think i've ever
had i've had sticky rice but not even in the form that we bought like i haven't really
had many thai desserts so this has been already halfway through our thai dessert experience
and this is very unique very different absolutely and speaking of the one that we have tried
before but a new rendition and still warm feel it oh dang oh my gosh this is gluttonous
sticky rice with banana i'm living our best lives right now pretty sure these are this
is a banana leaf in the outside that it's grilled in this is like a thai tamale we have
a thai taco thai tamale no but i believe these are authentic preparations
that's pretty tasty
glutinous rice is both like soft not overly gummy but it definitely has that like that
texture that stickiness to it it like sticks to your the roof of your mouth and your teeth
a little you can work it a second time and it's that nice fried banana if you guys have
had like the cooked banana where it like has the caramelization on it that gives it that
like good this like richness that just eating a banana by itself doesn't have good stuff
very big fan of type desserts i'm a fan of all sweets but ivan is not so his excitement
my thing is like i if things are too sweet i can have like three bites and i'm done like
i cannot eat anymore it doesn't taste good to me anymore but all of these are so like
they're all sweet but it's like a light very like polite sweetness you know light sweetness
oh i ate all the bananas
it's the final dessert, we can each get our own, this is pang chi a taro cake with corn
and coconut you tell by the color there a lot of a lot of purple going on in there but
with like little flecks of yellow
mmm i don't think i fully grasped that i said i had corn in it until i took that bite i
had no idea that this is what it was gonna taste like i'm about it though i'm gonna need
to go for a second bite it reminds me a lot of actually i used to love fried corn fritters
and it just kind of takes me there it's definitely still its own thing but it kind of has like
the crispy outside the corn flavor thing that's pretty tasty to me this is like a breakfast
pancake like i wouldn't even call this a dessert it's just like a slightly sweetened kind of
baked good i'm ready opinions formed i'm so satisfied with this this whole trip to thai
town really i like food but i like to think that i'm a fair judge of it i don't think
there was anything today that i had that i didn't thoroughly enjoy my favorite was the
gluttonous rice with banana good moist kind of warm still like freshly freshly made yeah
so good but very strong or very close second was the the first one we tried the coconut
coconut um cream in the center um very good as well yeah very good but the one i'd recommend
that you definitely have to get that i didn't even mention yet is actually the savory crepe
it's just so different yeah it's like i don't think i've ever had anything quite like that
the journey it took me on just
is this even savory is it sweet is this a seafood
i don't know if i can choose it's a thai tie
four-way tie four-way thai tie i think the sticky rice is one i could have every time
like fully satisfied it's so like hearty wholesome like you're eating this like nice homey dessert
the coconut pancakes were insane and like you said the thai taco was just it was a journey
i highly recommend you guys check out thai town we've had a lot of fun here today uh
it's been very interesting to get to try different aspects of thai cuisine that we haven't had
before the place that we went to were great but i bet that like because of the area they're
in because of like how how like regionally authentic everything is i bet they're all
really good so i don't think you can go wrong just come on down try something and i think
you'll like it i don't know if we can do dinner anytime soon we cannot stuff ourselves any
further but we did decide to place a takeout order to reheat for dinner later tonight we
ordered jitladas and got another dish we have never had before spicy taepo chicken curry
with coconut milk turmeric and morning glory stems it was so rich and insane and delicious
i feel so blessed to live in a place where so many cultures are represented literally
that shopping center where we picked up dinner was on the border between thai town and little
armenia so that strip mall alone represented some of the amazing blends of cultures that
we have here in los angeles thai town was incredible and it's so cool to get to dive
deeper into a cuisine and culture that i have loved for years it inspired me to order something
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