right so i'm telling you now if i don't show you this blood in these
you're never ever ever ever gonna notice
what do you have was everyone looking at me honey
welcome back to the channel guys happy halloween my apologies if the title of the video and the
thumbnail come across as a bit clickbaity but i needed to grab your attention because the bowl
of noodles i'm about to have and about to show you is worthy of your full attention so i've
definitely included blood noodles in the title um which is going to make you think maybe this is my
first time eating these noodles it's not i've been eating these for years but it could be your first
time especially some of my new viewers to try with the aurora and i thought what better place
to bring you to try a delicious bowl of these blood noodles than right on the canal at ban sawan
so my plan this morning was actually to take you to a boat noodle alley by victory monument in
bangkok and um so you're you're probably thinking like why have you ended up in nantesbury well
um i've wanted to show you this place for ages uh and i'm not quite sure why i didn't it's a
little bit of a drive out of bangkok it's like 45 minutes north of central bangkok um but it's
not a million miles away from where my wife works so i dropped my wife at school today and
i thought you know what it's equal distance and this is just something a little bit more special
as much as i love boat noodle alley um i've just hit 4 000 subscribers uh so thank you to all the
new subscribers so i thought i would take you out and show you something really special it's a world
away from being in bangkok we're in uh we're in a district called nantaburi which is just north of
bangkok it's like for anyone in london it's like watford to london it's just above and um it's like
it's its own little district but there's loads and loads when you get off the main bit there's like
loads of these uh like old sort of farm lands around the canals and it's just set on like a
lush sort of green garden um hence the name i guess banson means garden house garden house
in um garden house by the river i guess garden i'm not sure what it means but now means water
so it's garden house by the water and that's exactly what this is so you're sitting as i
said on the canal front right it's an open restaurant everyone's sitting on the floor
you're just sitting underneath tables and everyone's just sitting on mats and it's all open
air so you can actually actually basically level with the canal so you can see all the houses on
the other side of the canal see up and down this side of the the river i'm not sure if this is a
yeah it's a canal it's a canal but it's a it's quite a wide canal now at the moment the the um
the water level is right up so we're like almost i'll show you we're almost actually in the water
this is the table so we're literally just we're literally just sitting right
under the table and so if you're not familiar with boat noodles
it's noodle soup thickened with pork blood okay and that sounds i know it's gonna be hard for
people to get their heads around um some people but just think of it like black pudding all right
like in england or scotland all right um it's the tiniest amount of blood and all it does is thicken
up the um the soup in the bottom of the bowl gives it a really intense flavor because traditionally
these noodles are served in tiny little bowls and they were served as the name suggest boat noodles
from a boat on the canal so the idea behind them was that the boats drivers would have to do
everything themselves they'd have to they'd have to make the soup they'd have to um put the bowls
together they'd have to do the washing up and everything and it was a lot easier to do this out
of small bowls for a couple of reasons one so they didn't have to carry a massive bowl of uh a pot of
soup and two when they're passing the bowls from canal to land because we're talking this is when
bangkok and pachum tiny and utah was completely canals um it was a lot easier than like handing
over big massive bowls of hot piping of piping hot suit to the customers and there's actually
a lady um here coming around on a boat is actually selling stuff from a boat so i think she's selling
um i'm not sure exactly sure what she said i know she's got bananas but she had something else as
well and um yeah she's just been uh she's just pulled up and all the locals have been going to
her and uh grabbing a few little snacks so again just something you're not really gonna see every
day in bangkok unless you're on a hidden bank boat tour um let's take a look at the boat noodles
so we've got more don which is if i've said it correctly stewed pork and literally that's just
fallen off the bone with a plastic spoon look tin hot balls uh pap more tap is uh
liver i really do like liver in boat noodles and i've got these with one with senior noodles i
ordered two bowls and the other bowl i've got with classic senlec noodles let's have a look
yeah so you've got those you've got like a clump of noodles and then at the bottom you've just got
a little bit of sauce and this hops back to what i was saying earlier it's just a little bit of soup
that soup has to be really intense because you only get a small amount of it so you end up with
much more flavor so we've got chili vinegar sugar roasted uh dried chili and fish sauce
all right so even though i did ask it spicy i haven't given it to be very spicy so we're going
to put some of this roasted chili in there and then also the picnum some the pounded chili but
this is actually usually green in both noodle shots so red ones are a little bit different
just going to give that a little mix up get it all the noodles coated see like look at
that you wouldn't actually notice there was blood in there would you if i hadn't told you
oh do you know what i'm going to try this pork first without anything
that is a literal literal melt in your mouth
the sauce say sauce it's a soup but it's quite thick so i'm saying sauce
um very very rich quite sweet they're always quite sweet but it's not like it's more like a
you know like a palm sugar or rock sugar kind of sweetness it's not like a
it's like a quite rounded like thick sweetness if that makes any sense
right i'm gonna try all the meat actually so more chin just sliced uh fresh pork all right
so the the more chin the sliced pork
very very soft very very tender that's important they've just literally just marinated that
and then just dumped it into this the hot broth let's cook it for a couple of seconds
and now let's try a bit of that liver
same with the liver same with the liver
very very soft very very tender very well cooked this is a very
good bowl of soup it is quite spicy actually
it's actually very spicy
and you need that vinegar to cut the cut the soup because it's very rich
it's quite sweet you need that little hit of sour
then you get the thai basil and the bean sprouts just to bring a little bit of freshness
it's good see senya my senior means wide rice noodle they're my noodle of choice for beef
noodles but for and sometimes you do get beef boat noodles they just do pork in here though but for
for pork i actually prefer either cinnalec or semba me so i'm not sure why i ordered them
i don't actually remember ordering them so maybe they just gave them to me well wound sends lovely
as well okay that's actually much better yeah get the um get the thing thin noodles it just
i don't know why it's like certain types of pasta it just works better with certain suits
look i know i joked about at the start of the video with the fake blood and stuff but
you wouldn't know there was blood in this unless i told you like all it does
is thicken up the super makes it quite really really rich so you've got the crunch from the
pork skin you've got ridiculously tender stewed pork
now that's ridiculous that is literally
so it's not just boat noodles they've got a variety of dishes here it did
take me a while to work out exactly what they sell
because there's no english menu and but i will try and put tied to english translations in
the box below you can just screenshot it so i'm going to crack on with this tom yum fried rice
nice
that's very good that's very good for someone that loves those tom yum flavors
right roasted chili paste picked power is like one of my favorite things in the world um
lime leaves love lemongrass love i think this has even got some tomato in it
that is very very good
let's try a prawn
alright head some people think chewing heads is disgusting but
you get all that flavor even in these small little ones head juice is where it's at all right
hmm
good prawns they've kind of just been coated with that that chilli paste
right i'm going to get a bit of everything i'm going to get a prawn and some of that rice
all right looking forward to this one as well i've got i've got chuchi batu so chuchi is
like a kind of like a panang curry i still don't really know the difference and is thai mackerel
so we've got mackerel in a thick curry sauce with lime leaves loads and loads of aromatics
it's peanutty it's spicy it's absolutely delicious they've even done the rice in the shape of a fish
all right so let's peel this back let's get some of the some of the mackerel meat
some of that rich coconut curry sauce oh
that is uh that is fantastic
tastes exactly like mackerels have you had mackerel in england or america or whether
you're watching this australia that's what it tastes like um so it's quite oily quite
rich and then you've got that rich peanuty almost satay-like panang curry sauce like i i cannot tell
you what the difference between this i'd love someone to tell me someone told me it's just
the amount of aromatics that go in but chuchi and like uh what we would consider to be a panang in
the west or when you go to guest houses or when you're on islands not the one in bangkok that's
dinner with the pe aubergines this tastes exactly the same it is absolutely delicious i would say
yeah 100 if the first two dishes didn't confirm it for us guys this has confirmed that this place
is 100 worth the trip well i reckon it's time to try some of these banana chips
all right
see because they're banana chips um you're kind of expecting them to be sweet
but they're not they use the green bananas they use unripe bananas they're not very sweet there's
not a lot of sugars being produced and it tastes more like a root vegetable like a sort of a cross
between a normal crisp and a sweet potato crisp and the fact these have come from the garden
they just fry them out back amazing um there's actually a little hotel here you can start we
might go and look at that in a minute we might not it might not be open but um chop spot chop spot
so i definitely think guys if you haven't tried these um you know have i let you down yet have
i let you down yet just if you like just get your head around it and if not just say or
my num tok i think because that means put blood in it or blood in it means waterfall but that's what
these noodles are called uh which is boat noodles but just say no blood it's still it's still
absolutely delicious with no blood and then just work your way up to having the blood put in
all right so i hope that i have convinced you to get out yourself and try some of these delicious
boat noodles whether it's here or whether it's in boat noodle alley in bangkok which
by the way if you want me to i will go back and do that video there because it
is good fun down there there's like 10 odd shops that all sell the same noodles and
uh oh
yeah sorry so down at both noodle alley you've got like loads of these shops and it's quite good fun
down there because you eat all these small little bowls you pile them up and if you if you eat like
20 bowls hop on the cup if you eat like 20 bowls you get free pepsi so and they're like 13 bar bowl
um so we'll go down there and do that if you want but i would definitely say guys
you've got to come here and check this place out for yourself just for the views just for
the atmosphere the ambiance and uh this amazing soup and amazing side dishes definitely i mean
i can't see how anyone if you like seafood but my wife would hate this but if you like seafood
these two dishes are great if you like by noodles this is a very very very good bowl big thank you
to kev and bell you know who you are you brought me up here the first time and this
has just convinced me and confirmed that the quality is the same whenever you come here so
guys thank you very much again for helping me get to my four thousand subscribers let's try and get
it to five ten twenty thousand why not i'm so glad you were enjoying the videos continue to
comment i absolutely love it i will answer every single comment if it kills me um and keep sharing
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always in the description box below but for now i will see you guys muah in the next one
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