Spicy, Sour, Savory - Thai ISAAN Food is the BEST

what's going on everybody Welcome to the very first Thai Regional exploration of fun Bros food and uh we had to start off with my personal favorite region the northeastern Ean zone so here we are at saai g in eami oh man I'm already just looking at the uh everything that they have on the different tables from all the different customers and there's a bunch of dishes I've never even seen before let's take a look at the this is the signature dish they got here is this gigantic gang uh I think a lot of people are used to get get the grilled chicken from Isam like sliced up but as you can see right here they leave the proteins whole all right you guys I'm super excited to uh finally lead you guys on some food Journeys personally I love isan food the macros are crazy maybe the sodium's a little high very little carbs actually this is a dish nude AIO and you know what's really interesting is uh beef in Chinese is Neil in Mandarin and here it's NE Neo so very sounds really similar this is samam kort kot means corn samam corn this is a very Ean thing I'm telling you guys uh most SS come from Ean but the corn ones I think especially right because but uh obviously samum has been adopted around Thailand now uh this is Gang grilled chicken my goodness they got some coconut on there some shallots can't wait to try this sauce and this is nam talk this is almost like a lop lop is from from Ean too but instead of mincing up the pork they uh left it more like together and they left everything more together they just chopped it up a lot less with the mint and the basil and the cilantro really delicious here like we said uh we got Japanese people Chinese people here taii people here all at saiji man I'm just going to start off uh let's just start off with the corn suum suum Cort super refreshing the new audio AKA the fried beef I could have got pork but I knew I was going to get the n t one of the things that always going to give you it's fresh vegetables Ean food it's always going to be typified by two things using like fermented fish and crab which I want to say is like FAA or like um hudong and the fresh vegetables that's what kind of reminds me of like Vietnamese or like LA or Cambodian culture and Ean culture actually has a lot of influences from those regions let's get into the guyang right here guys but really the devil's in the details how do they braze the chicken how do they marinate the chicken what makes this so Northeastern why we get a spicy sauce why we get a sweet sauce for me from a macro perspective the straight protein and veggies but of course we cannot forget about something that is so Central to isan you know La kazim cow which is this uh sticky rice right here and you know how they would eat it actually over there it was just keep it in their hand keep it in a little pocket right here fill that Gap right here and then I might just uh go with the Nam talk right here I try to get some basil try to get some of the of the Nam talk right there the pork neck try to get all my different uh veggies little piece of garlic in there I really enjoy this spot all around but I'm telling you the N top with the basil leaves this might have been the 10 out of 10 Banger out of everything but listen guys on to our next spot uh where we're going to explore even more in depth into the Ean Cuisine this was sabaii and E all right you guys we are at our second Ean spot of the day and you are taking a look look at a Mountainside herbal home style soup called Gang uh om guy not gang n my which is more bamboo but this is Gang om guy guy is chicken guy is obviously the same in Cantonese and as you can see there's a lot of Dill in here and uh man I just got to sip this broth real quick just wiped that sickness just straight out your throat man look at this Dill oh my goodness isan food is so different guys like we said a lot of different influences very little coconut milk this is Jim Jiao sauce for the K muang oh my goodness everything we've eaten so far in this crawl has been A1 um I do think to be fair guys it's toned down a little bit we are in ecomi ecomi is going to have slightly more I don't know if you want to call them Fang friendly or more like non Ty nonan person friendly versions whereas if we go to La prow or somewhere that's like got some Super Hyper authentic isan spots like that that that fermented fish fermented crab might be hitting too hard you know so uh this is I'm really happy to show you guys these dishes we still got a lot more to try though but man for now especially if you are sick guys I recommend getting either gang on my or gang or guy and uh even on the wall they got a little bit of piece of uh history go up there says uh the name of isan came from sanser isana which means Shiva the god of the Northeast man go to show you I think Ean people they have their own very like separate and proud identity and that's dope for them and uh actually Lisa from black pink isan so hey you guys cheers to that all right you guys next up we are in Tong lore and we are going to Sab sji and this spot's open till 5:00 a.m. at night night I'm telling you this spot is crazy until 5 a.m. at night they got they grilling Meats in an open drum right here I don't even know what this is let's take a look inside Sab die all right you guys we are at our late night crazy Ean spot as you can see here they got a lot of beer on the menu so I'd say this one's a little bit more like bar Centric even with the food here we've got platy this is grilled catfish honestly I'm not going to lie this is a mini catfish it's looking like a lizard right now but we going to get into this a lot of Bones I heard this is uh just muang call muang you know grilled beef they they grilled this very blue this is very very blue but they were just grilling it outside on the grill this is a salted egg Tom Yum uh as you can see right here they leave the white yolks in uh it's like a different type of salt egg because they they they give you the preserve egg whites with it and of course you've got lb moo lb obviously is this uh sort of you know kernel meat and uh moo means pork so man I think first things first we all getting into the catfish bro they got the Jou sauce the meat sauce let's get into the cilantro oo man I feel like I'm in Ean right now guys am I an Udan Tani right now that's good honestly I had this once off the street don't do it guys come to SS and do it let's take a look at the car uh K Yang like we said they got this super rare right now this is probably one of the best cheapest ways to get your Macros though is through Ean crying tiger really Sol and salted egg yolk Tom Yum like we said we get we got no carbs the macros are crazy on this except for the sodium can't miss isan Fu can't miss guys here we are this is uh it looks like some sort of like Pig stomach in there the pig fat made this even more enjoyable to be honest I got to go in for another scoop you're right so some of the uh stomach fat is in there and it sort of in your mouth and adds another layer to it but I'm going to say for here my favorite thing might actually was this Ean catfish watch out we got to debone it straight in the J sauce they also have a jiaan here which is like a Northeastern Ean style of like Sukiyaki hot pop but we're actually going to go to our next spot to get it this is a fun time I can see why it's just a party in here non-stop all right guys so far in this video we've been going to a lot of traditional Ean spots some were more party Centric some were more family Centric but we are at a brand new spot called era isan ezekiah and this is basically mixing Japanese ezekiah with like isan food and as you can see right here they got the uh you know a water buffalo some Ean catfish mixed in with the Japanese iconography almost looking like Bushido utani so we about to uh check out this spot right now very very cool this is my first time here I've actually actually heard a ton about this spot era isau and ezekiah just take a look at what we're entering right now all right as you see here guys we've got a ton of different options like I said some things are going to be more on the Japanese side some things are going to be more on the eastan side but I'm excited to go in there and see what's the most popular o all right you guys you cannot believe how excited I am here to be at era isau and Isiah we've got uh you know this small Japanese Contraption you often see it as aa's jro this is crab guts cooking in there so that's a Ean recipe mixed with a Japanese presentation this is actually a raw beef salad let me just boom break it up right in front of you guys man you know what I'm just going to eat this right now like I said the be the beef's been cured guys so we we should be good we'll find out tomorrow morning though Guys these are goas filled with lop lop goas I'm dip this in this sauce right here that is minced pork Lop inside the guoa like I said they're just thinking different here I don't think they have this anywhere in America and of course we got something light some grilled chicken right here with some noodles of course like I said you know always macro friendly Ean food delicious Del dip into some of the spicy sauce right here but they put some Tori seasoning on there as well this is good if that was just round one I cannot believe what round two is going to be plus we got to wait for this crab gut to cook and of course last but not least guys we got to rewind the ending we have a grilled SAA filet right here and we have the Ean dip I'm telling you this is a perfect combination cuz you got uh a fish dip this a 10 out of 10 Bang guys I'm telling you Saba is one of those controversial things that isaka not everybody likes it isan fish got a lot of Bones typically a lot of catfish Saba they did the Japanese style deboned it but you're mixing The Best of Both Worlds listen guys it's macro friendly with 2025 it's delicious I mean you don't have to come to a Japanese Fusion spot like era Isa Isiah you can go to any of the other spots that we mentioned we we still got to try jiaan listen guys try isan food my personal favorite region of Thailand for food but I think everyone has its 10 out of 10 bangers round two here at era isan isaka we've got the Yakitori grilled fish this is really dope cuz this is grilled catfish as you can see this is done Ean style but as you can see uh you know a lot of Japanese presentation as well oh it's still good oh that's excellent guys oh my goodness oh my goodness coming to Ean isaka guys obviously right here they put it on yakatori Stick this is classic Ean sausage right here see what's inside there's different styles ones with verelli in them one without verelli really good version of one here we've got obviously mixture between like salmon sushimi from the Japanese side and then isan they actually also eat salmon as well the sauce is definitely isan I could see that uh pong that fermented crab in there man the way they interplay the subtlety of Japanese Cuisine with that Muay Thai elbows that Isam food is is crazy all right last but not least here guys we're going to get into the crab guts this was a perfect way to end this eam video guys listen I I know this is not the last Ean video we're going to do but as far as the very first video that we've do done exploring Tha Regional Cuisine Ean era isaki was the perfect place to do it yo I would say this is a absolute Banger muset if you are into Seafood based flavors in fact I'm going take one of these lob dumplings dip it in the crab guts guys let me know what are some of your favorite Ean restaurants in your country whether in the US Canada here in Bangkok I'm telling you this one this I love regular Ean food but in terms of just inventiveness this one have been probably my favorite spot the whole video well listen guys if this video didn't convince you to not violate your Macros but go get some grilled proteins and some suum from the Ean Northeast region of Thailand I don't know what will all right guys next time F BR food we out peace