This Thai Food is COMPLETELY Different! 😮

this Banger I had since I've been in Thailand is changai Bak my favorite version of Welcome to part two of our exploration through Regional Thai Cuisine part one with was Northeastern Ean part two is Northern Cuisine from changai we're at hamwan we're about to explore this listen guys from what I know Northern food it does use less sugar there's less coconut in the curry and there a lot of Burmese and Yan Chinese influences I'm super excited to try out huan on our exploration through Northern Cuisine Cy first off guys we're in Bangkok right now a lot of is Central Thai food a lot of Chinese influence however like we said more Burmese Yan influences um Swang influences D influences and I'm telling you we are looking at a ton of interesting stuff right now man oh my goodness this all looks so good and it all looks so different of course we got to get a cowy dude I'm super excited like we said hamwan like this place is known as one of the most authentic places in eami that's still sort of like I guess open to foreigners and uh we just asked them to add beef in there into the cow soy obviously here's the chicken drumsticks for the cow soy I love it it's super clean as well it is obviously a little pricier like the price you know what I mean like it's going to be run at a at a higher standard essentially but you pay for it but it's worth it listen guys if you're used to us-based Thai food most of it is Central Thai we are going to Northern Thai right now and everything that you can see it's almost like the best way I can describe it is almost like Santa Fe New Mexico because it's going to be more Smoky more herbaceous a lot more Burmese La it's in Chinese influence but specifically from the unan region I believe Central Thailand food has a lot of food that's influenced by dhu people from a whole different region of China this already is something that I've never really I only had this a few times before this is called Nam prick n n Nam prick Nom and this is going to be a smoky green chili as you can see here we've got a lot of home style stuff just the food looks very home style Nam prick n the best way I could describe it is Southwest American definitely some Arizona New Mexico Vibes we got to move to the star of the show cow soy now cow soy is a really interesting mixture of yan Chinese qu quu like Muslims mixed with Burmese mixed with the local changai culture which is what brought in the coconut milk today we got a mix uh of actually chicken thigh and beef normally you just just going to pick chicken thigh or beef one of them look at this beef quality guys they have a ton of beef in the changai region because it's landlock way less Seafood so for you pork and beef lovers CH my Cuisine might really be the way to go big stewed brazed chunky pieces of protein this is Gang hung L this is like a Burmese dish you know kind of similar to beef renang too in like Indonesia Malaysia things like that but obviously it's going to have its own complexion to it all regional versions of things that's really good a lot of fermented bamboo shoots and of course here we got the SAA what's really different about changai sausages is they build all the herbaceousness into the sausage whereas if you look at Ean or a camont it's spicy it's a different herbas earthy spiciness that's really good got the ginger and the Gango and the cilantro built into the sausage and of course guys like we said they got the C in central Thailand uh a lot more jasmine rice which is more similar to like uh you know a lot of Asian Chinese foods but out Chang ma sticky rice Cal specifically purple man for me I I got to say this home style thenn was my favorite it's so different you got a pork rind as a dip guys that's just our very first Chang my spot we're our neami right now this place is really Foreigner friendly Haman let's just check out some burmes Lang I mean I'm sorry some Northern Thai language though all right we are with how do how do I address you in in Thai Mr peacock peup uh what are some ways that the changai TI dialect differs from like Central Thailand um I think it's softer in terms of the tone so if you speak to uh Chinese women sorry CH my uh people they're very smooth they they speak very long long winded I say and that okay so it's been longer but actually if you just move to lampang where I'm from it's very tur it's like what okay so it actually very much depends but in terms of the pleasantness I think the Ching my sound is probably the nicest well what I guess what's the one phrase that's the most different of like from Central Thailand to changai where you're like oh that's that's super different tone yeah tone or like a phrase or like even like a different uh verbiage or vocabulary I think just the hello is a sweaty to you know very long like that okay it's like very Tony and musical all right guys Chang my dialect of Thai is very Musical and the food is very herbaceous and home style on to our next spot all right you guys next up on our Northern Thailand changai food crawl we're at craw Jang maai since 1999 craw means kitchen kitchen Jang maai changai that's what I'm thinking guys let's just pop up right here immediately man so many different types of cow soy bra beef cowys Waggy raw shoulder blade cowys chicken drumstick cowys woo they got cow soy every day listen guys this is shocking because in the landlock north of changai there's some still some seafood Delicacies but these are not freshwater or ocean crabs these are actually mud crabs uh and you just called uh it's called Kaio we're going to take some of this kowo purple Northern changai rice we're going to dip it into the crab fat right here we going to eat it with a few little onions few Peppers loaded on there little Dill wow wow this CH my Kaio this is not even available on a lot of changmai restaurant you got to go to a K changai Seafood spot to do this this is the best crab head I had since I've been in Thailand and you know I know I don't always good to show you guys I've been eating some crab heads m you really need everything though and you need a bird ey I what my you guys are looking at a changai Bak this was actually brought by Hulen and Cantonese traders to Northern Thailand so like we said this is very very interesting because this is really more of a Singaporean dish in Malaysia but this is a the Thailand version of Bak it's not that popular more Regional to changai specifically the Tha Chinese in changai m still actually really good super herbaceous but way less medicinal tasting Dam especially the Malaysian one what a sleeper is changai Bak my favorite version of bak bak W you are looking at nck n and n all and I'm telling you I've never even had an N prick all before but I know I see these familiar pork rinds I think that that's my favorite thing to dip with these all these like Northern spicy Burmese influenced dishes wow so dude Burmese food is very very stew like it's hard to describe these are almost like um some like almost like a tajang men type sauce but more of a southern Chinese Zam Yim oh man let's just take a look these are cooked by the way [Music] that is so good I'm going to go ahead and say that my favorite trait of Northern food is the n Pricks whether it's n prick n or n prick on this is super good got some cooked melon right here this is really like to foreigners I would say this really feels like bolay something almost Italian amican but it kind of goes to show you flavors they hand run parallel and of course guys we can't forget the sa I'm going to dip that as well man listen guys if you guys get a chance to try chain my food definitely step outside of just cow soy cow soy is amazing but I'm telling you the Stewie and the homecooked style of everything in Northern Tai Cuisine very very standed out feels like I'm being wrapped in a warm blanket right now M all right you guys there are not actually that many changai specialized restaurants in this area so we're back at hamwan because we did not even try a fraction of what they have listen guys in this video so far you have seen us get C soy guy Kang hang Le SAA Nami on uh you know Nam prick n but we're going to be getting into the jack fruit just some more deep cut changm Northern dishes like I said guys we're rounding out the video right now we got to get this kenam gim we got to get this you know I think we've gotten some of these we might have to get this n prick tadang oh man they got everything on the menu all right guys we ordered some deep cut dishes here we're talking about young jackf fruit salad bamboo salads Northern Thai mix Curry Sweet Pork condiment everything grilled fish chili dip incredible oh man you can get it in a bag too you know that's more like unan like Chinese this Northern Korea I'm super excited for this right here I don't know why I think I just really love stews and that's why I love sort of the home style Vibe of like Chang my food we have a northern style tunu essentially this is almost like a Chinese tunu but they took the you know Leaf wrapping off and like we said it's such an interesting blend of Burmese Yan food exciting nud dishes very seldomly am I trying things that I've never had before young jack fruit salad oo jack fruit this is great for uh vegetarians vegans all right guys like I said we are looking at a sticky rice tunza that's the only thing I know how to call it I'm sure there's some influence from you know the unan Chinese immigrants here when what is this called in Thai kanom Jim this is kanom Jim yeah oh but I thought kanom Jim had the noodles that's Canim oh kanom Jim and Canam Jim is different isn't large pieces of meat in here the pork is actually like interspersed throughout it so that's a little bit surprising to me we got some veggies on there might as well throw a little bit of lime they never had a lime on this dish oo yo that is interesting this is almost like a super earthy I'm going give this interesting wise a four out of five taste wise because of the sourness 3.75 muan if you guys know moo means Pig moo Mo moo okay man it really good this is just some just some H shower roll basically I'm going to give it a five that that's really good I can't I can't eat this this is not in my diet but man I'mma do it for the camera as you can see here guys we've got gourds we've got cabbages we've got uh rice noodles this looks really good gang M they have gang no my in Ean but this is the changai gang n my and it makes sense cuz it's really bamboo but unlike the Ean food way less fish sauce way less crab sauce yo this that's another five out of five Banger this was good this might be one of the most the best bamboo based stews I ever had speaking of bamboo here we are right here this really tastes like this came out of the mountains of yan gon gang Canon man I'm going to say I'm going to give that a 4.5 out of five these bamboo dishes these gang dishes have really been hitting and last but not least guys more of a vegetarian dish you know there is a lot of Buddhist in Thailand some of them don't meet meat this is uh jackf fruit jack fruit salad from Kang ma wo wo oh I'm going to give this a 4.25 out of five this is some of the best jack fruit I've ever had a lot of times in the west I feel like we just leave it too whole and almost tastes like too fruit like they really mince this up and I'm almost getting like Duck lar Vibes duck Lop Vibes in America we have very little access to Northern Thai food changai food I don't think it's very popular I don't think there's a ton of Chang my immigrants in America all the food comes from Central Thailand which is Bangkok and the Ean you know La Reg whether it's owned by a la family or Ean family so absolutely what I recommend people try out Chang my food yes um it actually reminded me more of like Yan Chinese food and Burmese food than I thought but those are according to everywhere on the internet the major influences but of course it's got its own thing going on too with the jack fruit so absolutely check out Chang my food I hope you guys enjoyed part one of this series which is Ean part two which is Northern we still got Eastern coming Southern coming coming Central Bangkok super excited to do this this is one of the best ways to learn about a place and feel more a part of it is learning the Deep atmology of the food until next time guys from Bangkok that's is fun Bros food