SOUTHERN Thai Food is the BEST?

I'm really glad we came to Bon ice Bon ice it's going to be a 10 out of 10 Banger dish man what's going on under food is delicious guys if you guys haven't had a chance to try it check it out how J coming through I didn't even try these yet a few people out there know about southern Thai food from a city like puket listen guys it is such an interesting mixture of Indian Malay and Muslim influences it is unlike any other region of Thailand you're going to see a lot of coconut milk you're going to see stink beans and a ton of turmeric I'm excited because I've only had Southern Thai food once or twice in my life but we are headed to a Michelin rated Bon I Bon Ice restaurant serving Southern Thai food immediately guys I think the stink beans the satal Beans really stand out to me a lot of this food does look more Malay maybe something you would see in Malaysia or Indonesia amongst the uh the Malay people oh my goodness as you can see it's a ton of curries I see the Indian influence immediately uh you got River naale Curry oh this right here the stir fried meino leaves with eggs and dried shrimp definitely getting that I love that my goodness guys like I said I'm the most unfamiliar with Southern Thai food out of like almost everything ton of seafood seafood curries you got to check it out as you can see guys we already got the telltale signs of Southern Thai food right here we've got the curries the green curries from India this is very spicy right here let me just try this for you guys we got the beef one too woo Bond ice I don't even eat carbs like that got me needed some white rice another staple trait Southern Thai food coconut milk you know a lot of Thai restaurants in America are kind of like a mixture of a lot of things these are the SAT stink beans right here this is another Geographic sort of like climate created feature of Southern Thai food ooh the cashews I guess that is real I thought that was only a Tha American thing but goes to show you we in Thailand right now oh my goodness that is way more coconuty than the coconut milk curries that you would have at a restaurant in America and like even LA or Seattle or whatever these are moleno leaves the moleno tree uh it kind of tastes like the leaves kind of taste like a a better version of spinach I would say this almost looks like a Chinese dish but uh the tree does all the difference the leaves are completely different this is not spinach guys M so far guys especially with these dried shrimps right here dried mini shrimps I'm going to go ahead and give this dish balien balien this I'm going to give this a 10 out of 10er Southern Thailand is not land Loft like for example Northern Thailand you know so you're not going to need to use like mud crabs or river fish you can use like real like ocean fish for the fried thing right here lot of seafood a lot of fresh seafood a seafood prominence a lot of crab meat reminds me of uh more of the food food in like hen a little bit like that anything sort of beach towy oh I'm sorry this is chit but but I thought it was fish this reminds me I want to say it's aam Bor in Indonesia aam chicken and Bahasa that's really good oh my goodness I can tell why Bond ice has a Michelin recommended star just to just to go back over at again guys as you can see here we've got our deep green curries you've probably seen something like this in America but I'm telling you the depth and the spice in this is on a whole another level moving on we've got the coconut curry the level of coconut in this these gourds like we said a lot of the stuff they got similar dishes in America but they're probably only replicated at I would say a 7 out of 10 accuracy level then we got the moleno leaves with the eggs the balien this my favorite dish I'm telling you guys it's you know they probably can't get this in America simply because they just cannot get the moleno leaves at any sort of like realistic logistical or expense level let me know if they got the Molino leaves wherever you are but I'm sure it's pricey if they do and like we said we got the Southern Fried Chicken right here Fried Chicken really just ranges from a baseline of like good but it can go all the way to amazing this was closer to amazing I'm really glad we came to B Ice by spot number two on our Southern Thai food crawl is quing pad this spot is pretty highend in the Michelin guide like we said just like B ice pretty excited because like we said each one of these Southern restaurants they're going to have like 60 70% of the menu be the same but 30% is going to be at the chef's discretion more Specialties all right guys believe me I'm going to MK all this food we're wrapping up at quaking pad saw however we are and we we I know we didn't get quing but we're going to head to a hyper local spot that is not riten definitely not Michelin gu it's by the river it's called southern town restaurant I don't know the ti name but we're going to go check out quing quing guy that's their specialty dish there so but I got to give it up to Bon ice and this the last spot because certainly they in a Michelin guy for a reason the French they knew they actually figured it out listen guys we're just going to start off with dessert my Moy this is a special White Mango from Southern Thailand in a sugar syrup sauce it looks very basic to be honest but I'm going to give you guys the breakdown on the flavor profile what that is a fermented like Tamarind White Mango dipped in ice sauce with a tiny bit of like syrup and the sugar um in the ice oh my God this might be one of the most unique it's definitely not a modern dessert but in terms of enjoyability I'mma put this up there almost with like chandu P like from satran man unexpected I'm going to give this a four out of five overall but a five out of five relative to what I expected visually all right you guys the food has arrived here at C King pad s like we said Michelin recommended and I can see why because the service is A1 and uh yeah you guys you know some of these dishes are really hard for me to pronounce but this is a vegetarian dish from Southern Thailand as you can see you mix a variety of sauces that's a fermented paste that you're going to see on top and I think this is really cool because this reminds me of uh so many dishes in like other countries and I think that Botanical flour was really like a nice touch too I've actually had something like similar to this in New York because the Thai food in New York is getting quite Advanced but at the end of the day they don't have the biodiversity and just the ability to bring over everything so they they're substituting a lot of things in New York and maybe making a rice purple and maybe you know look like a triangle or a pyramid but this is the real deal guys all right you guys we've got our fried option right here fried fish fried fish cakes this looks super Indo I forgot the name of that in Indonesian but this actually looks Indo too I'm not going to lie guys I you see a fish on the streets here in Thailand I don't order them but I'll get this one southern style fish cakes guys it's crazy how Indonesian this looks to me but like we said there's a lot of shared dishes in the region just like there's lot Alpa and kenam Jim and um n pachuk and Cambodia same root Dish as well here we go southern style fish cake M that fish cake tastes the most like pork of any fish cake I ever had like even down to the color on the inside I didn't expect that M sauce is sweet not spicy moving on like I said I've seen this dish in the US before but never fully with the localized herbs this looks delicious a lot of veggies in here M especially For You vegetarians out there it's going to be a 10 out of 10 Banger dish is a little bit different than banai banai and here are both in the melin guide but this definitely has a little bit more like higher end dishes or kind of catering to you know vegan crowd a little bit more like fine dining crowd I was doing a lot of research about southern Thailand and they got their own like kind of Chinese Thai Dishes as well yeah obviously the pork and stuff like that you know like a lot of people in the South not all but like a decent pie slice don't eat pork because they're Muslim this is a pork dish coming from the Chinese side obviously yeah like less as a Muslim or Indian dish very similar to like a h sha Ro qu a little bit wow if we were in Shanghai or Fu gim right now I would believe that to like a 10 out of 10 level this was really good like in fact it even had like a better balance as staran and uh five spice like buang F I don't know if it's my Chinese side but I'm going to go ahead and give this one a five out of five Banger man what's going on other food is delicious guys if you guys haven't had a chance to try it check it out listen guys um like we said all the regions are so distinct but there's even sub regions and subg genres within a region you know Bon I had a lot more of the curries I want to say a lot more of the Indian influenced items and I almost want to say here has a lot more of the Chinese influence Southern Thai items we're going to see what the next spot brings what unique qualities like we said people think it's all Thai food right but then it breaks into regions but even those regions break into sub regions and sub genres wait hold on don't record yet yeah just record like when I'm going to talk to him we continue our exploration of Southern Thai food guys you never know where these food videos will take you we're by the river we're still in tongore which is a ritzy District but believe me guys I mean look there's a ritzy building right here but then we are in some hyper local spot right now it's called southern town restaurant by pay and uh like I said guys everybody who runs this spot is from puket like you see right here I mean we're not eating here but this is what's going on right next door I think this is somebody's like home kitchen man we're really in the cut we want to obviously show you guys very commercialized spots like Bon ice Bon ice but then we also want to show you guys hyper local spots by the river most people's way of getting around over here is a water taxi literally that's their primary Transportation it's not the BTS it's a water tax taxi actually realized guys that kitchen outside that we saw that was the home kitchen that's where this was cooked because I didn't hear this being cooked in the back these are the satal beans you guys saw them at Bon ice but this is the shrimp of satal this is a hyper hyper Southern dish this probably one of the most signature dishes of Southern Thailand yo sat beans underrated man let's get into the seab bash Curry real quick this is the seab bash right here I saw this dish at Bon ice but we got it here at uh Southern Restaurant woo oh my good there's tamaron in there even versus Bon ice I could tell you that the fermented fish pla is kicking this is definitely more like true true school they did not clean it up for the Michelin guide at all guys this right here is a crab Curry poo cat style that's good of course we got the Canam gy right here if you guys know about Canam gym uh this is the same Dish as n pachuk in Cambodia everybody got their own Regional vibe to it and I believe what we can do with the kenam Jim is actually dip it in the uh crab to almost create like a like a stew type Vibe you got a variety of like pickled vegetables pickled things right here oh my goodness honestly I'm not going to lie I've never seen this food before and this is just super authentic like I said we're by the river right now and they just blasting Michael Jackson outside and just m that's really good crab can and last but not least this is the quing guy I know quing this is a really really important dish in southern Thailand because I saw some Southern Thai restaurants that I was looking up and they were called qua cing I know that that's meaningful this is chicken M oh my goodness when you look at Southern Thai food the Malay Muslim Indian Indonesian elements are clearly apparent they're apparent here as well like this reminds me of something that I would have seen in Malaysia or Indonesia as well as you can see right here there's a collection of more like you know the satal beans like we said that's very native to puket one of the coolest things about doing these food videos is just being deep in the cut deep in places that I would never ever find myself otherwise this is one of them and uh having a very very authentic experience here so stay tuned to see you where we take the Southern Video next this K G is really hitting this is my favor last but not least guys we are at our finer Southern Thai restaurant K here in tongore it's crazy because when I looked up a list about all the southern restaurants in Thailand the majority of them were already in Tong lore so lucky us I'm super excited to try some dishes that I haven't had before um like I said we've had a majority of uh the signature Southern Thai Dishes now but you know there's still always more deep cut ones all right you guys we're here at cow let's take a look all right you guys like we said we've been to so many Southern Thai spots and uh we're getting to the point where there's repeats we got quacking guy at the previous spot so this is actually how most people get most people often times in Thailand often get the pork dish however there is a big uh Muslim population so actually the spot that I went to previously where I got quaken guy which is chicken they don't even serve pork this is the Molino leaves again G byang Pai it just looks different you know different places going to cook it different obviously this this spot is more casual it's not a Michelin spot it's all good prices don't reflect that too this is tamarind shrimp I saw a few more expensive spots do this for way more money because uh they were using like mantis shrimp or like a different type of shrimp or a different preparation method but this is The Tamarind shrimp di dish I was looking to have M ooh ooh like I said the spot's a little cheaper I'm not saying they use the best shrimp but that flavor was A1 these are fried mushrooms right here and these are really interesting because uh remind me of this this fried mushroom dish in like Yan China M with the sweet sauce what PD PDD this spot is the cheapest Southern spot we've been to the second cheapest Southern spot but the flavorings here are A1 when you cheap out go to a cheaper spot it doesn't mean that the raw ingredients are where they sourc it from the farm are the quality to me but flavor-wise wo and last but not least we've got a uh shrimp curry soup what is this called again G gangam this is gangam guys yellow curry this is yellow curry man we got to try this I saw this on so many lists how J coming through I didn't even try these yet man what how old is the chef back there m this PL cing also very good guys this was only 90 B this was like $2.70 USD man how it's been fascinating to see guys cuz so far on this crawl we've been to really expensive spots that are using expensive ingredients and spices this spot is using cheaper ingredients but their spice game their seasoning game is a 9 out of 10 you know you can pay 3x the price for it at some of the other Southern Tai spots we've been to but this one was definitely way more local good though but yeah definitely there there I could tell like you know just the grade of moleno leaves is different I'm going to go ahead and say my five out of five Banger dishes today were ped Tod these sweet fried mushrooms my goodness especially if you're an American you love fried things you love sweet things these are like sweet and sour mushrooms I'm going to give this a five out of five 10 out of 10 Banger for this dish right here I'm going to give this a good rating I wasn't really feeling feeling maybe the greatest the shrimp but flavor-wise 4.5 out five I had a lot of people message me while I was filming this video cuz I was posting IG stories as well that southern Thai food is their favorite and I didn't know a lot about it prior to filming this video my IQ level has jumped up way higher and I got to tell you it is one of my favorite regions of food in Thailand and I just that's the first time I've said that that's the first time I realized that in my mind you guys are seeing the synapses connect live please check out Southern Thai food guys sign up for Club down below you got a website coming soon launching the program here in Bangkok this was a really Dope video because like we said I would never have been able to do this in America because just the diversity is not there uh all the restaurants tend to be like catch all like all provinces in one but you don't get the Deep cutness until you go to these real pure Southern puket Thai restaurants guys until next time that's it for fun Bros food live from Bangkok we out peace