today we are at wat suan dok and we hear thereis an amazing restaurant on the temple grounds. it is called imm aim and it used to be calledpun pun, so that is what we're searching for right now. it is a vegetarian restaurant and it has comehighly recommended from a friend but before we go have lunch we're going to go for a wanderaround the temple. so far i'm kind of enjoying the minimal designhere and they have a really cool outdoor open kitchen. you can see them preparing your food. the do it yourself water reminds me a lotof being back in korea where we used to eat at the kimbap restaurants and we would goup and grab our own waters.
our first dish has arrived - the vegetarianspring rolls. it is hot. i'm burning my mouth but this is really good. these are definitelysome of the best spring rolls i've had here in chiang mai. have a look inside. it hasbean sprouts, glass noodles, some vegetables. it is really flavorful. they've added somenice spices in there. there comes the rest of our food. it looksamazing. let's get back to your spring roll. i got distracted there. have a bite! yeah,these are excellent. my favorite part about this is the tamarind dipping sauce. that isreally unique and tangy. the masterpiece of a salad has arrived. oohlah lah. what kind of sauce is that? i think it may be pumpkin based on the color. we'llsee.
this is a really healthy salad. if you lookover here you can see we have some green beans, red beans, corn and there is even some barleyand of course we love cheese so we had to get some feta cheese on top. only an extra20 baht. i would say it was well worth it. oh, yes. how is it? that's wonderful. so goodyou've have three bites and i haven't had any. we have a little taste of india happeningover here. indeed, we do. this here is a little bit of roti flat bread and this is the indiancurry. i don't really know what is in it so it'll be an interesting first bite. it isnice and thick. i can tell that. it looks like it has a lot of vegetables. that's wonderful.it has got a coconut base. it is spicy and
yeah i can taste a lot of different vegetablesin there. that would be our dessert. this was listedas sweet potato honey. sweet potato tea on the menu, so i was expecting a tea cup butapparently it is a dessert. tea in a spoon. it tastes like ginger. that is ginger tea.that is not sweet potato. this is my dessert which i'm kindly sharingwith sam. oh, yeah, i don't recall that part of the deal. anyways, we're having bananaswith coconut milk and if you look down here you can see giant slabs of banana. i'm goingto take one of those and make sure i've got lots of coconut milk too. that is the face of satisfaction. yeah?
that awesome feast came to 300 baht whichis 10 usd and that included two shakes, three main dishes and two desserts. that is a lotof food for ten dollars for two people. so today we are having lunch at a little placecalled the peppermint cafe. this is in some little back-alley in chiang mai. we're sittingoutside right by the street and we're going to enjoy some more northern thai food. and you know how much we like our back-alleyrestaurants. background music playing. we're here for original thai food and goodshakes. looks like you got just that. so today we are having a dish that is calledkhao soi and if you just look down over here
you can see that it kind of looks like a currytype soup and we have regular boiled noodles, some crispy noodles and chicken over top. so this is a burmese influenced dish fromnorthern thailand and it literally means cut rice. this is one of northern thailand's most famousdishes. background music playing. so i've had this dish once before and i thinkmy favorite part is the combination of the soft egg noodles mixed in with the crispyones. it's just a nice, crunchy, soft texture and the curry sauce gives it a bit of an extrakick, so here we go.
i love coconut based curries and this is quitesimilar to massaman curry. this is a really popular street food in northernthailand. it's actually quite hard to find overseas in thai restaurants, so that meansyou have to come to northern thailand and try it for yourself. empty plate over here. the sign of a goodmeal. overall, that meal was delicious and comingin at just 59 baht per dish - what value! it is saturday night in chiang mai and todaywe are heading to the saturday night market. well, we're still a few blocks away but iknow we're close - you know why? - because i can smell the food.
what do you got there? i got myself a twistpotato, which is a lot like the tornado chips we used to have in korea. it looks like itis all seasoned. it is nice. it is barbecue flavored. you are going to be sharing that! you are wasting the chips. yeah, that's blueberry. it looks like blueberrycheesecake with ice cream. it is going to be messy. snow ice cream with blueberry sauce drizzledover top. how articulate. mmmmmm. what did you get? i've got some pan-frieddumplings. they are very similar to the korean gun mandu we often had when we were livingas teachers in korea. let's see if these are
as good. they look hot. they're pretty good. someone found his favorites here. what startedas just a little snack out here at the market has turned out to be a full on feast. i'vegot dim sum and fried spring rolls. looking good. i got this - german sausage. it is verygood. krap. in case, we didn't quite have enoughto eat - a sweet little dessert treat. that is banana egg roti with lots of chocolateand condensed milk drizzled over top. so today we are back at our favorite thairestaurant but we're going to be having a special meal. we have ordered a set for twopeople that focuses on northern thai dishes, so we are going to get a sampling of differentcurries that come along with sticky rice.
and this is what it might look like. our first dish has arrived and it is calledkhao soi and it is fried noodles on top of a hearty curry. that looks amazing. it does.let's dig into that baby. i'm going to try my first fried noodle. i'venever had anything like this. it's kind of nice and the curry is kind of spicy. how is that? it's a very flavorful spicy curry.i can tell it is made from coconut milk. it's not a very thick curry. it is more stew-likeand soup-y but it is really nice on a warm day like this. i'm enjoying it. sticky rice inside.
so a lot of the northern thai dishes havepork in them, so as you can see over here we have a pork sausage. we have somethingthat looks like ground pork with nice green herbs and this might also be pork if you askme. one of the characteristic elements of northernthai food is that you eat your side dishes with sticky rice. this is going to be tasty. so i'm not sure if i'm supposed to be usingmy hands or not but because this is sticky rice i am. we're going to dip it over hereand see how it tastes. spicy or sweet? this one is surprisingly sweet. so i'm going to try one of these little puffsin another kind of dipping sauce. that looks
like it could be spicy. yeah, it is spicy.burning your mouth? we also have a nice pumpkin stew over herewith tofu. spicy? not spicy. it's just really hot. okay, what is next? so next up in the dishesto try here would be the ground pork. it looks like it has been marinated in a nice littlesauce. very strong flavor with the sauce. it looks like soy sauce but that is hard goingdown. very tasty though. so it is only our first week in chiang maiin northern thailand but we are quite quickly discovering that this part of the countryhas a lot to offer in the cooking department. normally, when you think thai food you thinkof pad thai, green curries but really there
is so much variety here. today we had dishesthat we had never even heard of before and they were so tasty. we still don't even knowexactly what they are. we don't know the n ames. i'm sure we will learn them over thecourse of our time here but for now what we can tell you is that northern thai food isreally tasty. so just when we thought the meal was finallyover and we are so stuffed they bring dessert out for us and it is amazing. so here youcan see bananas. those are just slices of bananas in a sweet, thick coconut cream andit is amazing really. oh yeah, you need to try it. i want to see your face when you bite intothat. wow!
it almost has a bit of a rum caramel typeflavor which really accentuates the coconut milk. that was seriously the feast of feasts.we paid 300 baht in total for that which is roughly ten us dollars and it was worth everypenny or should i say every baht. so we just came back to chiang mai after avisa run in penang, malaysia and also a short little holiday in phuket. are we ever gladto be back. one of the main things that we missed aboutchiang mai was the street food that we get really close to our apartment. today we'rehaving one of our favorite meals. so let me give you a very special tour ofmy bowl. ooh la la. so we have the yellow egg noodles. they look very nice. it alsocomes with some dumplings. today it is pork.
we also have slices of pork over here. somebean sprouts and lots of greens, which add a lot of flavor to the soup. one of the things i love about this particularnight stall stand is that we can add our own different spices exactly what we want. thereis lots of chilly. that's what i'll be putting in mine. so i'm hardly putting any because this issuper potent and i always end up making it way too spicy and then i can't finish my dish.let's hope that is not too much this time. noodles. i did make it too spicy again. so my favorite part about this dish is thewanton like dumplings. they are absolutely
delicious and we're having pork dumplingstoday. tasty? oh, yeah. so you've seen us film a few other food videosat chiang mai gate, but the reason we keep coming back to this place is because thereis so much variety. there are so many local foods that we can try, so we're constantlybeing introduced to new thai meals. this is our favorite dining spot. outdoors by thegate. nice and cheap too. samuel jeffery, keeping it classy. you dripped! so the total for each meal is 35 baht, whichis just over a dollar. background music playing.so we're still here at our favorite thai restaurant chang chalaad and we're going to be havinga delectable dessert. one of my absolute favorites
and to be honest much like the pad thai thisis also the best dish i've had here served at this particular restaurant.background music playing. we've got ourselves a friendly little visitorhere. hello kitty cat. meow. background music playing.so for those who have never tried this dessert it's my favorite in thailand. basically, whatit is sticky rice and on top of it you have these sweet condensed coconut milk, whichobviously has some sugar added and then you have these wonderfully sliced mangoes.background music playing. so i would like to preface this by sayingthat i hate rice. i don't ever eat rice back home. but this dessert has really changedmy mind. i'd say it is better than chocolate
and better than cheesecake. and those aremy two favorites. so that's saying a lot. mango sticky rice. you have to try it.mmmmmmm. to me what makes this the best mango sticky rice, i've ever had is that the creamsauce is sticky and the coconut milk is quite thick. this is the creamiest i've ever had.oh, this is sooo sooo good. so the price of our delicious mango sticky rice dessert isonly 50 baht which is about a dollar seventy five. so tonight we are at the food market rightby chiang mai gate. we actually came here looking for dumpling noodle soup but our favoritevendor is not here, so instead we are having dessert.
nothing quite like banana egg roti with chocolatesauce and we're going to show you how it is ordered and made. one, please. speaking in thai. pounding noises. sizzling sounds. your face like arabic. pharaoh huh? look likepharaoh. arabic. do you eat now? yes. thank you. chopping noises.
chocolate. okay. kop kun krap. thank you. so this kind of banana pancake is popularall over se asia but this form being roti is quite different from the one we tried - especiallyin malaysia. it's more thick. it's fluffier. it's got a lot of banana stuffed inside andit is just loaded with chocolate sauce and condensed milk. ooh la la. ready for the first bite. so good,so good that she is speechless. you can really taste the banana and the roti is very moistand wet with the chocolate sauce and the condensed milk. it's just really tasty and probablynot the best thing to be eating since we're on a health kick but we need a little cheatevery once in a while.
yeah, that's real good. the chocolate sauceis awesome. even better though is nutella. if you can find a place making it with nutellathat's pure bliss. so this delicious little dessert / snack wasonly 30 baht which is one dollar. this is day three in chiang mai. we just movedhere a few days ago and we already have a favorite restaurant called chang chalaad.today we are going to be ordering some classic thai meals. i've been to thailand probably close to tentimes and this place literally has the best pad thai i've ever had anywhere. i like this dish so much. that is why i can'tstop smiling. so pad thai is the kind of dish
you know even if you've never been to thailand.you can get this back in canada or really anywhere in the world. the ingredients - well,it is a noodle dishes as you can see. it also has tofu because we got the vegetarian version.it has egg, peanuts, beansprouts, peanut sauce. it's just so tasty, so filling, so good. so what makes this the best pad thai i'veever had? well, it's especially the sauce. this is the most tangy, sweet and rich. it'salmost a bit creamy sauce i've ever had on a pad thai. this must be a secret recipe becausei've never had anything quite like this before. it is just really really unique. so chang chalaad is sort of this tiny littleunassuming restaurant that i first visited
back in 2008. it has incredible food, so thathas always been one of my biggest travel tips to try out these little small places. tryout these places that aren't on trip advisor or the lonely planet. they are often the bestplaces you can eat. so the price of the pad thai was only 60 baht,which is two us dollars. what a deal! music playing in the background.welcome back to thailand! we're back in chiang mai and the first thing i'm showing you ismy grimy filthy hands. my bike just broke down in the middle of the road. we're planningon doing a food video at one of our favorite vegetarian restaurants but the first thingi'm showing you is my messed up bike. background music.for lunch today we biked all the way out to
a restaurant called 'salad concept' on theway here sam's bicycle kind of died, so we had to leave it behind but we finally arrivedand we're going to show you what this place is like.so the cool thing about this place is that you can build your own salad or build yourown wrap and that's what we're going to be doing today. all kinds of different ingredientsyou can choose. let's get a wrap with pumpkin. what else? feta cheese. where is the feta?it's a premium topping. music in the background.alright, i've got my order picked out for my wrap. let's see what is on it. croutons,pasta, carrots, tomatoes, bell peppers, pumpkin, raisins, grilled bacon, avocado and feta withcaesar dressing. how does that sound to you?
so you get a whole bunch of free toppings(i think five) and then you can add extra toppings to that for a few more baht. afterthat bike incident i'm splurging right now. background music.well, it's berry berry good! this is a berry shake. hahahahai think i have shake envy. it looks better than the juice i got.so this drink over here is guava, apple and passion fruit and it is so refreshing andtangy. mmmmm, oh, it's a little sour and crunchy because of the seeds but it's still good.so i've been noticing a bit of a interesting phenomenon in the last few months of travel.i often order things that audrey doesn't seem to want. i don't think i want that, i don'tthink that'll be good and then as soon as
it is brought to the table audrey has foodenvy and tries to eat half of it. i do. so this time around i've ordered exactly thesame thing that you are getting. so i'll have my own.now does that look good or does that look good.i think mine looks better. check this out. it has avacodo, pumpkin, pasta, bacon, olives,feta cheese. let me take a big bite. it's going to be good. mmmmmm. amazing! so happy.it almost makes up for the bicycle incident. dig in. wow! these are some of the best wrapsi've ever had anywhere. so for me there are two star ingredients inthis wrap. first of all, the pumpkin - it just makes it nice and sweet and also thiswrap has raisins which is something i've never
had in a wrap or sandwich before but it seemsto be quite popular in thailand, so let's take another bite because i mean the firstone was soooo good. oooh, it's falling apart - oh my. can you give me a little bit of that?no! so the two ingredients that really make thiswrap amazing for me are the caesar salad and the feta cheese. the caesar salad actuallyhas a little bit of dijon mustard and it gives it a real kick. and the feta, well what doesn'ttaste good with feta? background music.well, you know us we're not really big on dessert, so well i guess we're just goingto have to have them. here is the peanut butter brownie cheesecake and if that didn't lookdecadent enough take a look at this one. this
is apple strudel cheesecake. that looks amazing.audrey doesn't like cheesecake so i'll be having all of it. oh, please. you wish!so this is a pretty nice brownie. it's very dark, heavy, chocolaty and on top it has alittle bit of cheesecake and then some chocolate mousse. so much chocolate. each bite is chocalierthan the next. is it like a chocolate explosion in your mouth? okay, cheesecake strudel. wow,i mean apple strudel on its own taste good. cheesecake on its own is really good. puttingthem together - thats like a superpower dessert. so, overall that meal was a bit of a splurgefor us. it came to just over 600 baht, which is roughly $20 usd. oh my! in se asia thatis a real splurge. ten dollars per person. normally we'd would spend half, 1/3 or ifwe were having a local thai meal even a 1/4.
but it was worth every baht because it wastasty. this video is for all of our korean fans. it's been ages since we've made a video. well, after a year of living in korea youknow that you can't keep us too far away from korean food, so 'yes' we are in thailand.we are in thailand but we are eating korean food for dinner tonight. so the first dish we are having is gun manduwhich is fried dumplings. this was one of my favorites back in korea and this is reallytasty. they did an excellent job. we normally had that at the chungook chip.the chinese restaurants in korea. good stuff?
oh, yeah. it has been literally months since i've hadkimchi. i've been missing this so much. this particular one is really sour, which i like. and here we have our kaeran jjim, which issort of like an egg souffle and this is something we often had in korea - especially when wewere at barbecue places. so the kaeranjjim is different from what we'vehad in korea. this one is a bit more watered down and i have to say i do prefer the moreauthentic taste. so up next i am trying the kimchi jeon, whichis kind of like a korean pancake and it has lots of kimchi, so this should be really flavorful.
good stuff? it is nice and fluffy and youcan really taste the kimchi and there is also a bit of spice in here. one of the big differences of eating koreanfood here in thailand is that the side dishes are not included. normally in korea side dishesare free and if you finish the whole thing they just keep refilling them for you, butover here we ordered six side dishes and that was 40 baht, which is about a dollar and thirtythree cents. it was still a bargain but it is not like korea where you get it for free. and if the first serving wasn't enough we'vejust ordered a second helping of the pan-friend dumplings and the kimchi pancake.
so the big question - what is korean foodlike in thailand? we had two dishes that we really loved. itwas the gunmandu and the kimchjeon but we actually ended up ordering seconds becauseboth dishes were so tasty; however, with kaeranjjim it wasn't as great as it is in korea. i thinkpart of the problem is that they don't use the stone pot which i think helps it boilbetter and maybe it just evaporates a bit in water. so for the kimch jeon, we ended up spendingone hundred baht, which is just over three dollars. same for the gunmandu and the kaeranjjimcame in at 60 baht which is two dollars. so, overall it was an affordable meal. roughlywith side dishes and water you're looking
at about ten dollars or roughly 300 baht.so if you're craving some korean food and you find yourself in chiang mai, thailandwe highly recommend this little place. it is called korea house.
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