okay welcome back guys i am back in thailand i'm on phuket for a week i'm gonna eat as much food as
humanly possible of course i will be heading down to phuket town to get some authentic delicious
thai food in the due course but at the moment i'm staying in a place in the northwest of the island
called bang tao now bang tao beach or where i'm staying is called laguna and as the name suggests
is a little network of lagoons and lakes the actual area is called chiang's hale confusingly
so you can either call it chiang talai bang tao or laguna and it's a very quote-unquote ex-patty area
lots of western restaurants lots of cafes lots of bars not particularly known
among tourists for having great local thai food here when you compare it to say phuket town for
instance but phuket is like bangkok in the respect that there is thai food good authentic thai food
literally everywhere on the island if you're willing to look for it and of course you guys
know me if there's thai food to be found i will find it so first up i'm going to go to a gwei jub
shop i'm going to try and get a noodle soup that was recommended to me from my friend tk from paris
he did recommend it to me last time i was here but i didn't have a chance to go there so i'm excited
to go and try that now then i'm going to be going up to an isaan restaurant which looks absolutely
unbelievable that has been recommended to me as well and maybe we'll try and find a couple
more dishes so without further ado let's commence a little street food tour of bang tao so before
i forget i want to shout out the coffee lab which is if not the best coffee i've had in
phuket definitely the best coffee i've had in this area this is my second time to bang tower
there's loads of coffee shops around here there is another coffee shop called more which is a little
bit out of the way which is about half the price which is really really nice but for me this is the
best coffee i've had in the area 120 a cup is on the higher side of what i want to pay is a large
couple you can get a smaller cup for 90 baht um but yes very very good coffee very very popular
with the locals run by an australian guy um i'm pretty sure it's in melbourne but i could be wrong
so definitely get down and check that out if you're into a coffee
they've even got a villa market here now if you if you if you see a villa market if
you live in thailand you'll know what that is it's like the most expensive or one of
the most expensive supermarkets here so when you see a villa market you know it's like a
quite quite ex-patty area i'm talking about australia this place really reminds me of
being in western australia especially this part of town i don't know whether it's the buildings
or or the fact that it's just all coffees and cafes and like little boutiques and stuff
but yeah really really does have that sort of australian feel to it it's really really weird
all right so this is where we were supposed to be going
the grade job shop isn't open uh it said on google that it was open from 7am to 3am in the morning so
i can't see anyone so maybe they're just not maybe they're on holiday um right okay it's a bit of a
downer all right let's just head straight to that let's just head straight to the eastern shop let's
head straight to eastside shop another five minute walk guys okay and then you walk around the corner
you're going to see this chinese temple and a sign for bang tao beach and then it's down
chiang talei 14 all right so we're going to go down here that's where the isam restaurant is this
is one of the only isam restaurants i can find in the area it's called tam lee is in the north of
thailand far north of thailand and so i'm guessing there from there i'll ask them when we get there
all right this is looking like my kind of place guys we've got a big drum
barbecue the meat's out young hormone
all right unfortunately for me guys this is going to take
me a while to read because the menu is all entire
oh it's extensive i'm gonna go for
i'm gonna get some pum with sweet corn and i'm probably gonna go for because the cornwall young
looks good i'm probably going to go for a nam tok so nam tok salad i'll ask her what's good
magic
all right this is my kind of place just a little roadside wooden sort of makeshift
restaurant drum barbecue and a little place at the back where they're making all these salads um
yeah this is my kind of place all right so second stop and we're at tom sapler
and uh when i first saw it as i said back there i thought it meant lawyers in because
it was written in english i thought was they were from louie in the north but it's actually
like uh salad saf it's delicious and it's just means like a lot really
delicious um and it smells and looks absolutely incredible now you might
think it's a little bit weird that i am eating uh isaan food and thai chinese food for my first
stops in phuket but um and not eating southern thai food but southern thai food
will come tomorrow when i get down to phuket town the southern thai food will come i have
just been craving isan and thai chinese food like i eat in bangkok now the beauty of phuket
which is the same as bangkok is like a melting pot of different culture you've got a heavy
chinese influence here you've got a big muslim community here and then also you've got people
from the northeast that came here settled to come down here and work um and then set up restaurants
which is why there's so much isam food throughout the country um and this looks like a great great
little stop um so i'll tell you exactly what i've ordered county up sticky rice i'm gonna take the
rest back for finley he loves sticky rice okay and i'll run you through what i've got so we've got
which is a basically some time thai but instead of papaya it is sweet corn so we've got sweet corn
peanuts green beans tomatoes loads and loads of chilis i think she's got like 10 chillies in this
in a dressing of lime juice fish sauce and palm sugar and then you've got actually the pounded up
limes in with the salad which i like to see some dried shrimp there's some corn hen this looks
absolutely delicious then famous here as the name suggests for their salad so i'm glad i got one
all right next up she just brought over this goes with sometimes so well it's like a match
made in heaven um yang so guy young is the grilled chicken uh grilled isan chicken and
it's uh just usually marinated in a little bit of a pepper soy sauce honey or palm sugar
look at that let's see the yeah it's just going to fall off isn't it
yeah
beautiful look at that
nice with that we got some num jim gel which is the east san diego sauce i talk about in
a lot of my videos which is palm sugar tamarind and chili and then you can add different things
like toasted rice which is also in this salad of namtok so the nam dog we've got some we've got
some dried uh fried chilies a few of those that beautiful grilled fatty pork neck mint leaves
uh we've got some sawtooth coriander some ton home which is spring onion and some
shallots as well and then you can see that toasted rice powder thickening everything up
this is just coated in fish sauce and lime juice and loads and loads
of dry flaked chilies when you get eat sound food i just feel like you need
it's good to eat with other people because you need to order a few different dishes so
there's always some the classics that i order i always pretty much order the same thing unless
someone asked me not to and then someone asked me not to unless someone specifically requests
something else i mean there's just chilly in every bite look at that all right bottoms up
that's exactly how i like it heavy heavy heavy on the lime juice not too sweet
very garlicky but there's a small little thai garlics
um so not too strong loads and loads of salty chewy corn
dried shrimp and loads and loads
and loads of chilli all right so now uh now the
now the yang has come the grilled chicken all right i'm gonna
eat a little bit with my sometime because as i said
the perfect marriage if only i got on as well with helen as guy young does with something i'd be a
that is one of the the best grilled chickens you are likely to find on phuket i
cannot accept that you would find a better grilled chicken than that on phuket soft smoky salty
absolutely delicious just being cooked on that like drum barbecue obviously makes all the
difference the gel sauce is delicious sour salty spicy goes perfectly with that smoky smoky soft
soft chicken i'm not gonna waffle on too much about the taste of
thai grilled chicken because you've probably seen me waffle on enough in videos recently about thai
chicken just know that this is a very very good version right now onto the salad oh that's a bit
much gary so difficult to do this with one hand you think i've had enough practice playing now
wouldn't you all right some of this quite quite solid i'm gonna say this one's dish of the day
and that is saying something because that grilled chicken the guy young is amazing but this
smoky soft sweet salty pork loads and loads of toasted rice loads and loads of fresh
herbs lime juice it's zesty it's salty it's very very spicy i love the addition of the
the deep-fried red chilies you get deep-fried dried red chilies
okay i've just noticed as well that on the top there's shredded kaffir lime leaves by mccool
that's a nice touch so you also get some cucumber and some some cabbage with it
you need this because it's so salty and so spicy you need something to freshen it up
very very good right this was an unexpectedly good stop
uh in phuket hopefully i've shown you that no matter where you're staying in phuket
or just thailand in general you will be able to find good authentic food if you're just willing
to get out and have a little look around as always i'll stick links with directions
to everywhere i've been today in the description box below along with prices i think i spent about
10 british pounds on a coffee a very good coffee uh and five dishes so five dishes and a coffee 13
pound i'll be lucky to get one dish for that in london so the value is definitely here
for go the hotel restaurant people just don't do it unless you have to i wouldn't advise going
to the seafood restaurants on the beach near your hotel either i went to one yesterday sub
standard unless you're just one of you the viewers lovely with a couple of drinks but the food was
was very substandard i won't name names but for me it's all about getting out and trying this
like local authentic food it's cheap you're helping out the locals um and most of all it's
absolutely delicious i want to say a big thank you to everyone that's been uh helping me out
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as i said links directions in the description and for now i will see you guys mwah in the next one
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