through the back alleys to the top of the  highest skyscrapers in search of delicious  

food we're just trying to get to know another  part of bangkok today how good is that that's

any way that you can engage your senses is  the best way to discover anywhere in the  

world especially sight and sound but today  we're going to be focusing on taste because  

i'm with gary the roaming cook he is going  to show me some of the most delicious local  

and unique street food experiences in this area  we're just outside of chinatown and he texts me  

and said meet him down this dodgy little alleyway  and he's going to take me for some delicious liver  

pad kapow so i'm really excited but i got mine  where i'm walking down here because everybody's  

i mean this is what we're doing today we're  in this tight little alleyways and then we'll  

hopefully end up at the tallest most beautiful  skyscraper in search of delicious food so let's go

hmm

all right so this is our first dish we've got more  that is liver so we've got pork liver had capacity  

pork liver stir fried with holy basil loads  and loads of chili loads of garlic chef don did  

actually ask how spicy wanted it and paddy said  he wanted it as spicy as he could give him so um

for anyone who's a bit off about eating liver  um i would recommend you come here and try  

liver here because i think a lot of people are  put off by liver because like when they had it  

when they were younger it was like cooked  to death boiled to death even here in some  

soups they boil it to death and then reboil it  again whereas he just takes fresh liver slices  

it up and stir-fries it for literally a matter  of minutes we're talking two three minutes with  

loads of chili loads of garlic and it's job done  so it's soft uh it's juicy and very very tender

and everyone's had a pack of bao everyone's had  a pork chocolate chicken packer power beef pack  

this is something completely different this back  alley this is i mean a lot of you watching this  

might see the location of this restaurant and be  like no there's no chance i'm eating down here  

you know there's cats there's a pet dog and you  know on the face of it it looks quite scary as a  

restaurant location but this is normal for bangkok  this is normal for thailand i've had some of the  

best food i've had on this trip in the provinces  in some of the most interesting places including  

are now a back alley in the middle of bangkok  so i did see you do this on your channel and i  

was so excited and i remember i left a comment  on that video saying gary please can we go here  

i do love liver and as you were saying liver is  good for your liver no it's good for your brain so  

that's why we're so smart isn't it because we eat  liver but yeah let me see what it actually tastes  

like um it would be a shame if i didn't like it  in real life it looks delicious it smells great  

you know i'm going to go all in there  two big chunks of liver lots of basil  

it's drenched in chili already don't  need any rice let's just try it out

i feel like i need to sneeze because of the chili  but i don't want to sneeze because everyone's  

going to be like my mouth's on fire but that's  a good sign i i was worried like so much liver  

would might be a little bit too much but yeah  like you said he doesn't he treats the meat with  

a lot of respect in the wok he doesn't overcook  it it looks absolutely delicious and it tastes  

even better so thanks gary what else have we got  this is just a thai fried red curry with chicken  

beans and lots of basil leaves and lots of chili  we asked for this extra spicy and he chucked in so  

much chili i'm gonna have to have some rice with  this in case it's off the chain in terms of spice  

my mouth's still absolutely on fire from that  liver but this is what you want this is how you  

engage your senses this is how you get to know  a country or a travel destination is use your  

senses look and feel the places that you're  out and most importantly taste the local food

it's not too bad and you know this is a dish that  we've all had dozens of times in thailand but  

this is a good one this is a good spicy version  of a tyro curry but if you're coming down here  

to see chef don you have to go for this liver  i mean this is a very unique street food dish  

in bangkok how often do you see liver like  this not very often so thanks gary my pleasure  

yeah so where are we going to next all right so  next i'm going to take you to what is probably  

my favorite noodle store in this area of bangkok  and it's only this area to sell these particular  

noodles cook this way if that's not open  i'm going to take you to a famous backstreet  

curry rice store but hopefully they're both  open and we can enjoy both right let's do it

right gary's taking me to another alleyway but  this time there's still motorbikes driving along  

but we're actually on this beautiful canal this  canal system it's a little bit further outside  

of chinatown on the way towards khao san road  actually we jumped on dreamy and we've gotten here  

and he's just at the food lady here ordering some  crab dishes all right so this one is pour padpon  

so this is big fat pieces of crab lump meat  stir-fried with yellow curry powder this one  

i've not seen in too many places apart from here  this is more crop so crispy fried pork belly  

with cake hem stir fried with kai kemp says uh  more crop pad is salted egg yolk there's also some  

ginger in here and some fresh green peppercorns  and the last one so this is poor pad pickler  

crab the same white lump meat crab fresh every day  fresh in every day from champ on and this is with  

chili and salt uh also some spring onions a little  bit of oyster sauce soy sauce uh and some lime  

leaves right there so this looks good big chunks  of crab from champon where i used to live yeah  

that's it and um this is with the salt yeah so  that's uh chili and salt what's it what are those  

is that bits of pumpkin that yellow stuff oh no  that's uh yellow like banana chilies oh okay oh so  

spicy uh no not that yeah it's got a bit in there  so paprika had pink chilli salt and then you've  

got some red chillies as well so how good is that  that's not even what i could hire so fresh exactly  

i'm back on trampon beach yeah i can literally  i'm like i can hear the waves i can feel the sand  

i didn't think you could get fresh seafood  like this in bangkok especially down some  

random little alleyway with some granny  cooking here like what the hell was going on  

hello max so then the name says  the name says oh this is it  

is like what people say to yeah high school yeah  chonglor is high so so when i came down here  

i just heard the name and i thought that it was  going to be like a proper shop and then i got down  

here this is got green red and orange chili in  there yeah green why is it not blowing my head off  

um they're not that the the the um the orange  chillies aren't very spicy to start with um  

and yeah i'm not sure why that's  the best thing i've had in bangkok  

yeah this one wait what's this one oh this is  the yellow color powder so the same the same meat  

but now it's tossed in yellow curry powder yellow  curry powder i just yesterday a couple of days ago  

you guys saw in samosa con i had a crab or was  it nakom panon yeah in nakhon patom i had um  

a crab curry with yellow curry powder mmm i didn't  like it did you not no did i have like the egg  

going through yeah i'd like scrambled eggs yeah  she's got no egg in there but she's got some milk  

so there's something about generic curry powder  and that sweet crab meat that just works very very  

well i think because it's so generous the crab  meat and when i had that crab curry the other day  

i was crunching on the shell crunching on bits  that are just rogan within the curry she's  

carefully de-shelled the crab meat here this is  unbelievable i don't know honestly i'd come here  

every day if i live around here this is more of  a eat this order every day these two dishes here

stand out street food in the whole of thailand

thanks man nothing goes to waste down the canal

literally everywhere you look there's food isn't  it like down that little alleyway just a bloke  

with like five kilograms of pork knuckles just  in a random walk on the random street uh right  

so what do you want to do next uh i want to  take you to see my friend auntie pian papien  

for some uh some some special bangkok noodles  i don't know how much i can eat though  

i can't eat them should we just like share  one or something yeah get a small one yeah

right then so this is a wait wait wait  wait we ordered noodles but it's dry  

there's no soup is that normal oh it must be  normal no no it's very rare actually it's um  

that's what they called cora means to drive  fries so about me yeah and you know all the  

staff here right you come here quite often  yeah she's one of my few youtube viewers

oh one more thing as well they use chicken thigh  only here so this is chicken thigh yeah they never  

ever use breast because obviously to stir-fry  breasts can be a little bit dry oh it's lovely  

right nicely seasoned yeah is this more like  chinese food than thai yeah chinese thai mm-hmm  

so everything in this area anything that comes  out of a wok comes from china basically anything  

out of a wok what about if you have a bowl of  cereal it would be um cereal cornflakes gene  

i just like all the character of the places you've  taken us to today like just the fact that you know  

i mean i don't want to say this in the wrong  way but they're quite dirty you know there's  

stuff on the floor and it's not insanely clean  like a western kitchen or something so that's  

why i know when i first came to thailand i never  ate street food i was always put off i was like  

oh my god i'm gonna get sick and then i'd go to  mcdonald's and then i get sick because you can't  

see the goodies yeah and then as your gut gets  used to the chili and the inherent amount of just  

bits of bacteria as a western person who's used to  cornflakes and milk and tea for a diet event yeah  

you do get a little bit sick the first few days  you're here or the first week you're here you're  

never going to get away from getting a little bit  of deli belly or what's the version in thailand  

bangkok billy yeah it's original in it um but yeah  once you actually break your gut in i haven't been  

sick touch wood from street food this delicious  street food the entire time i've been traveling  

around the provinces for me um this it's all  about human connection if i go and eat in a  

western restaurant not just a western restaurant  or an up market or something there's no there's  

nothing personal about that transaction and i  realized this pretty quickly when um we were in  

lockdown the first time and i was ordering  takeaways and stuff and i was i was missing  

that even though we can't understand each  other well very well whoever i'm talking to  

um it's that human connection  of they are giving you something  

that that is like that is made with  love and i feel like you can feel

i was gonna start crying no but i know what  you mean no i know what you mean that is that  

is a really sweet way of putting it she's been  making these same noodles for 30 or 40 years  

this is that's all she does so every single bowl

she puts her heart and soul  into it it's coming towards  

golden hour the sun's starting to go down so we  should probably head towards the big tower we're  

gonna head to the king power tower it's called the  king power tower right mahanapon mahanakon aka the  

king power tower i don't know if it's the tallest  tower in bangkok but it's definitely up there  

it is oh it is okay um but we're gonna jump on  dreamy drive through it's about 20 minute drive  

and we'll go up to the top now there's going  to be no food up there but we just thought  

it'd be a cool concept for a video to come down to  these back alleys with the motorbikes whizzing by

to the very highest point of bangkok itself  and we can overlook that city and uh yeah

i just thought that would be a fun video  

got nothing better to do on  a friday afternoon come again

come up

we're here

okay we're in the lift or the elevator oh god  oh oh okay what's up a video oh i don't like it

really not me no but it's moving that like oh my  ears are popping we must be going really high up  

oh

motion sickness oh i don't like it look oh  there's the tower but the thing is you can  

feel the lift moving so it's giving me when i  used to do vr this is just what i used to get  

motion sickness oh jesus this is not real this  is not real this is not real but i am absolutely

my ears have popped as well so that's just  the lift oh my god i didn't tell my dad oh god  

i should tell you as well that if you know  i'm scared of heights and i said to him  

so i'm glad you're coming because at least  someone will go out on the glass he said  

no i'm scared of heights as well  my ears pop popping straight away

i'm glad

so we've had a little walk around and it is  absolutely ridiculously beautiful isn't it it's  

stunning especially at this time  of day or was it five o'clock  

beautiful nice cool breeze views of the entire  city we've just been sat here like half an hour  

pointing at things trying to figure out where the  airport is having a really good time but we're  

having a couple of beers here they come this is  our second batch just because we need a little bit  

of dutch courage because i'm terrified of heights  and so are you yeah i'm not looking forward to  

this at all lying on that thing and like the  kids are down there and they're just lying there  

rolling around no bother and there's like quite a  lot of attractive thai girls getting their selfies