You Won’t Believe These Thai Fusion Dishes in Bangkok 🇹🇭🍝

That's delicious. This is a five out of five banger. What? Four out of five. Five out of five? A-ha out of ha. If not the very best, this is actually, it is the best comfort fusion food I've had in Asia, period. This is good. Too Westernized. It's too Western. It's so Western. What's going on, guys? Welcome to another episode of Foam Bros Food Asia. As far as Thailand goes, we already covered all the provinces. Northern, Central, Southern, Chantaburi, but we did not cover Thai fusion foods. We're talking about Tom Yum Spaghetti, Khao Moo Yang Pizza, and this is one of the best places to do it, Sweet Pista. This location is like only a year old. Check it out. Listen, guys, Thai fusion food has been around for decades in Bangkok, specifically a Bangkok thing because Bangkok has been the international hub for a very long time. As you can see here, guys, this is some of the, this is probably the longest pork rib I've ever seen in my entire life. So this is actually a hybrid between a Western cut of a pork rib, but also a Thai style of cooking it. As you can see, the crust and the crispiness, like a Western pork rib would not look like this because they would probably be get grossed out by some phobia or something that people have. Here, we've got Wagyu beef Kaprao. As you can see, the Kaprao has been cut differently. That is Australian Wagyu. That's obviously Western. I would say there's maybe like probably less spices. This egg does look pretty authentic here. Let me just give you guys what you want. The only fans, the only eggs part. And we just gonna mix it up, man. Like we said, Pakaprao is the number one dish of like a regular, I would say everyday Thai person for sure because it's just got everything you need. This would be like almost their sandwich in the West. And then last but not least, guys, we have a dish that you may or may not have seen on a fusion menu in America, but it wasn't executed like this. This is Tom Yum Spaghetti. As you can see, we've got Japanese fish eggs, fish roe on top as well, which is, you'll notice a lot of the food that's fusion in Bangkok actually has a lot of Japanese touches. Get in this, what we got in here? We got clams, Tom Yum flavoring. Yeesh, Tom Yum Spaghetti, guys. Tom Yum Spaghetti. Guys, Thai fusion foods, a lot of people are familiar with them, but a lot of you guys may not be. I know in New York right now, they are doing Isan sausage, Sai-sa-ua smash burgers in parts of New York, both in Queens and Manhattan. Mm. Even the cheap ones are good out here. Smala on amazon.com restocked right now. Look at the ratings. We're selling thousands of bottles a month right now. Smala actually goes really great on carbs. Mm. Some of y'all gonna accuse me of lying. I'm not capping at all. That just elevated this dish to another level because you already have the Tom Yum flavoring. It was kind of subdued because to be honest, we're at a spot where there's a lot of Westerners. We're in a hotel right now, but that added a whole nother level, even to the shrimp. Mm. Next up, we've got the Wagyu Pad Krapow, guys. Pad just means stir-fried, and I believe Krapow means basil. This is the beef version. Like I said, the way they cut it is clearly not in the small little granules. Typically, Krapow would be with pork. You can't get it with beef, but even with the beef, it might be more minced than this. Wow. To me, this is the most farang I've felt because I'm loving these fusion foods at Sweet Pista. Expensive though. As you can tell right now, guys, there's nothing to indicate that we're not in San Francisco or LA right now. Super groovy, super vibey. I almost want to say this might be too Westernized. It's too Western. It's so Western. But yeah, onto our next Thai fusion spot. Quick, guys, before we move on to our next spot, I want to tell you about Issa Compass. It is a company based out of Singapore. They make processing your DTV applications super easy. I had so many problems with my first one. Issa Compass solved everything. Download the app today. Next Thai fusion spot on our crawl is the Pizza Company. I know a lot of people are always curious what's going on with like Pizza Hut Thailand, Domino's Thailand. Well, what about a Thai company that's designed for Thai people in the middle-class socioeconomic spectrum? This is a Tom Yum Goong pizza right here, guys. We got squid. We got shrimp. No marinara. Tom Yum Goong-based mushrooms. That's not sausages. This is good. Straight up, guys, a more advanced New York version of this is what I always wanted to do in New York. You know, we actually explored it, put the team together, but it never worked out. So it's really dope to see it out here. But you know, some things, they work more in the gigantic middle class of a society than in Manhattan. Listen, guys, they had a buy one, get one promotion here at the Pizza Company. This is not a sponsored video. We got a thin crust to save on the carbs. Again, this is, there's bird's eye chilies in this chicken trio. Woo! Low key, there are bird's eyes. I don't know if that's in the marinara or it's just into the cheese. I can taste the seeds. It's kicking a little bit. This is good too, but definitely like less Thai than the Tom Yum pizza. But I'm gonna give this one 3.8 out of five. I'm gonna give the Tom Yum pizza a four. This is one of the most popular fusion dishes you will find in Thailand. Like I said, catered to Thai people, not to Farangs, not to foreigners. This is a Thai spicy sausage dish. I've seen this at 7-Eleven. I've seen this at Lawson's out here. Obviously 7-Eleven are Japanese owned, but they're designed to cater to locals. And as you can see right here, you've got all the authentic herbs and spices in here. You can get this really cheap at 7-Eleven. Obviously not all 7-Eleven locations even have this, but we're gonna try the more expensive version. Whoa! But the sausage is sweet. 3.3 out of five. Like I said, guys, we've been doing the work for you guys. These are not Thai fusion spots at hotels where everybody's a foreigner. These are Thai fusion spots designed for the Thai people, the citizens of Thailand, the citizens of Bangkok. And by the way, this Tom Yum pizza, it works, it's good, and I'll always support ethnic Asian pizza flavors, even in America, whether the market's ready for it or not right now. The home Thai key, Ratana Pong. Brother. Hello, man. Hello, sir. Tell us, tell us about your pop-up, because we're not at your restaurant. Yeah, it's not yet. So we're gonna be here all these 17 days. Yeah, our food started from the 1st, and then it's gonna end on the 17th. But we sell just burgers and chicken wings. I guess, I mean, what about it? Is this Bangkok's best burger? I don't know. Maybe in the world. I mean, what have we got? Because I know some of these flavors you like. You have an original, but you're pushing the egg some of the other. Yeah, sure. We have two totally different styles. So this is Homebird original. It is my way of doing baguette cheeseburger. And this is the Thai twist, or Thai-inspired garlic beef with fried egg. Two different styles. What is it about cooking burgers that you like so much? Because you actually have this hyper-creative restaurant, Hurtburg. Or you're doing stuff people never seen before, right? But then you're coming back to them. No, we're always based on the burgers. But Homebird, we offer a set menu. But here, we just serve everything. Everyone wants the burgers. Because sometimes you enjoy the food we serve at a course, but maybe one day you only need burgers. You don't really need the whole, the entire course. Yeah, for this pop-up, really for a lot of customers who've been to Homebird before and then they really eat just the burgers. Oh, okay. And also maybe expose new people, right? Sure, definitely, yeah. All right, man. Well, I'm gonna get into this. Sure, please do. Please do before it's get cold, man. Continuing along our crawl of Bangkok fusion foods, we got to try the non-fusion food on the menu. Even though this is interpreted through a Thai lens at Homebird. This is their version of a bacon cheeseburger. And I'm gonna cut this open just to let you guys know what's inside. This one's real, real medium, super medium. Best burger in Bangkok, maybe one of the best burgers in the world. I can tell you our first bite. A lot of times people cheap out on the bread because meat, you know, you can get the high quality ones. They did not. This bread is excellent. Whole purpose of this video, we're talking about Bangkok fusion. So we have to talk about the garlic fried egg, almost like a comprao type bun in this burger. This is essentially has some comprao elements, which is like fried garlic. Wow. A 4.5 out of five. This is super good. Honestly, I might give this one a five out of five. I'm not gonna lie, guys. I really, really like this one. And also just to end off their pop-up here, guys, we've got Jamaican wings. Like a Thai interpretation of like jerk chicken wings, fried. Man, stuff you would never expect to find in Bangkok, honestly. Good. If not the very best, this is actually, it is the best comfort fusion food I've had in Asia, period. Not just Thailand, not just Bangkok. Like we were saying, guys, Thai fusion is so deep in Bangkok that it's even available at a much more affordable 7-Eleven level. So obviously you've got full Western choices right here. You've got full Eastern choices right here with the grilled pork, but this looks like it's Pad Krapow or spicy basil pasta. So we're gonna get this heated up. And like we said, at every tier, A, B, C, D, you can find fusion for Thais. Next up for 29 baht, which is about 80 cents, we've got the fried sticky rice burger moo ping. Just like a, like a moss burger. Like we said, I mean, everything is gonna be a fusion of like, kind of like Thai flavors, Japanese flavors, American flavors, some Chinese, together. And of course, guys, I know this is like the favorite section of any sort of Farang Thai influencer is the toasty section. In my opinion, from what I've seen, more of the Thai people, if they do get a toasty, they're gonna opt for something with the meat floss in there or like the tuna or just, you know, other flavors. Maybe people from England are gonna go with these because that's more similar to English food. Americans probably gonna go for this one good old ham and cheese, but Thai people, they're going for the shredded chili paste. Like we said, guys, I got to find fusion at every level. You've got the two-in-one lays. You've got sun chips, actually rice, berry, tom yum, spicy and sour. You've got the shredded pork floss, toasty, the moo ping, moss burger, rice burger. And of course, pack of Prao pasta. One of the dopest things about 7-Eleven is they were going to microwave it for you in specially designed customized equipment. So we just came from Sweet Pista, which is almost like a high soul, maybe quasi wannabe high soul spot for Thai fusion foods for Thai people. Now we're at the super accessible spot getting sweet pork floss. You know, in Cantonese, we call it yuk sung. Here, I believe they call it moo, moo yong, I'm sorry, not moo sung, moo yong. As you can see, we're trying more of a non-Farang choice of toasty. Okay. That's very Thai tasting. I'm going to hand this off to somebody who's going to enjoy it more than me. But I do look, I do like moo yong. Next up, we've got the pork patty with the rice burger, moo ping with cow meow, but in a burger, burger format, which is definitely very Western fusion, modern day, not for the older people, only for the younger people, probably like people like 50 and under would mess with this. Okay, guys, we might have the first five out of five, 7-Eleven banger on our hands. Get the moo ping burger, specifically this one in light orange. Boom. This actually tastes way more Asian than I thought. Oh my goodness. Guys, pack a Proud Pasta. And this was cheap too. They said this was a bestseller. Check that out, guys. They do do a good job. I feel like, to be honest, things are still less preserved in America because they just probably have naturally just, I don't know, they might not even have the preservatives to make it as preserved as America. Plus they have regulations. This and the moo ping burger is valid. I will come back and get this. If you're out on a night, I mean, look how real this basil is. This basil, considering we got this frozen at 7-Eleven, I mean, I think the turnover rate is so high they're switching over quite often. This was a five out of five as well. Last but not least, the fusion chips. We got Sun Chips. We got Lay's. You may have seen these at your local weed shop or exotic snack shop, depending on what state in America you live in. River Prawn. This is seafood sauce, seafood. You gotta eat the shrimp and the seafood together. Potato chips. It gotta be a 10 out of 10 violation of any sort of macro diet. Probably one of the worst things in the world you could put into your body. That being said, five out of five, a ha and a ha. So everybody knows Lay's is international, but I think a lot of people didn't know that Sun Chips got bought out by PepsiCo and went super localized as well. So they made it their health choice with the rice berry. They eat a lot of rice berry here instead of quinoa or brown rice. Wow. Four out of five. If you don't wanna spend a lot of money, like some of the spots that we're gonna go to in this video for like high soul, wannabe high soul, Thai Western fusion, come to 7-Eleven. Worthy choice. Starbucks comes from my hometown of Seattle. And of course, as they've expanded across the globe, they have some hyper localized fusion items, oftentimes fusing with the localized culture or at least desires of the localized culture. So for example, here in Thailand, not only do they have some Thai fusion items, but they have some Japanese fusion items because that's how much Bangkok likes Japanese things. Listen guys, I hate to break it to you. Starbucks Thailand, absolutely better than Starbucks in America. What you're looking at is a fusion flour egg tart. So this is a Don Tots. Don Tots came from the Portuguese to the British to Hong Kong and now to Thailand, but its own version. I'm just about to get into this. Guys, Starbucks Thailand, relatively to the purchasing price of everything else, is super not cheap. It's actually more expensive than it is in America, but it's good. Next up, we've got the red bean shio pon. This is a zucchini with a butter slice in there. This is definitely more based off something Japanese, but like we said, in 2025, Japanese fusion things have almost become accepted by the Bangkok, you know, middle class and up as just Thai almost, you know what I mean? Or just Bangkok. Ooh, that's delicious. This is a five out of five banger. This is one of my personal favorites. This is the cheapest thing on the menu, 99 baht, $3 for a crab stick sandwich with some fish roe on it. Look at that. Can you guys like chicken salad sandwiches, tuna mayo sandwiches? Oh, that's crabby as hell. 3.75 out of five. This is a fusion item if I've ever seen one. This is a French macaron bean fusion, which is more American, and it's mango sticky rice flavor. This is gonna make everybody at the AAPI club, whatever university you go to, go insane. My bad. My bad, guys. What? Four out of five. And last but not least, we have the ham suan with cold brew. Like they said, ham suan pineapples are super popular here in Thailand. We're mixing it with the cold brew. Overall, guys, this stuff cost me 500 baht. Definitely super expensive relative to the rest of the Bangkok landscape, but I gotta give it up. I'm gonna go ahead and give Starbucks Thailand on a fusion level a four out of five. There are so many levels of Thai fusion that is designed by Thais for Thais, A, B, C, D. Pizza company is at one level. Sweet pizza is another level. We might be at one of the highest levels right now. We're at Audrey Cafe right now, and this has stuff like Tom Yum nachos, all this type of Western food, but the primary audience is Thai. So we gotta check this out. This is my very first time here. I'm very excited because I finally realized, guys, the fusion has been here for so long that it's at every level. All right, guys, as you can see here, we got a very sort of, I don't wanna say pride and prejudice, but like a very British high society, something that the royals would eat at type of place. Well, Audrey Cafe is considered somewhat of a like quasi high society chain here, but you know, it's about 10 years old, so it may have changed, but as you can see, there's a lot of like elite French imagery from the late 18th century, early 19th century, London, England, Berlin, that whole European foofy vibe that I'm sure for a generation really represented wealth and opulence and all the things that you wanna aspire to. Obviously 2025 is different, but I do notice some older people here who have some nice Goyard bag. We gotta get into the Tom Yum spaghetti. This is something you're gonna see. They also had Pad Kee Mao, but I wanted to show you guys the Tom Yum spaghetti more than anything else. They had Pad Kee Mao spaghetti, I'm sorry. So like we said, guys, everybody makes this different. This is a sign of like Western Bangkok fusion that took place like 20 years ago. This was absolutely the best Tom Yum spaghetti I've ever had, guys. If you just look at the amount of garlic, the way they fuse the flavors together, I can tell that they were thinking of the high, so older crowd, maybe 40, 50, 60 years old, that wants to have their flavors blended with the West. But I've got to say they did it the right way here. Number two dish here at Audrey, we've got Pla Pla Salmon, guys. You'll notice that they make pizzas out of Pla Pla Salmon. They make avocado toast out of Pla Pla Salmon. This dish popped up 20 years ago in Bangkok due to Japanese influence. You know, there may have been some Isan influence and you see the seafood, seafood sauce on there as well. But yeah, I would say Bangkok is like such a fascinating place because they're such a hybrid of a lot of things. There's the ancient Chinese influence. There's a more modern Isan influence. There's Japanese influence that's been around for like three decades. Wow. So this one's a little different. They went with the smoked salmon here or like quasi smoked salmon. Whereas a lot of people opt to go with raw salmon sashimi. I would say Tom Yum spaghetti and Tom Yum pizza is absolutely three staples you'll see at any Bangkok fusion restaurant. But there's ones that obviously they have their own unique takes for other dishes. A lot of people don't know that Bangkok has a ton of Indian influence. Mostly in an ancient way due to Hinduism coming over. I mean, Bangkok was a Hindu place. Cambodia was a Hindu place before it became Buddhism. And this is representative of that sort of ancient slipstream between Pali, Sanskrit, Pakistan, India, and Thailand. Because like we said, it's part of the Indiosphere. It's part of the Sinosphere. It's part of its own sphere of culture as well. This is a samosa guys. It's filled, it's a chicken basil samosa with a sweet and sour dipping sauce. And you're missing a lot of cultures here. Guys, I always thought samosas, you can make them healthy. You can make them unhealthy. You can fry them. You can bake them. You can air fry them. That is a good Indian Thai fusion. Of course, guys, like we said, Tom Yum Pizza, one of the most common things that you see on a lot of different menus. I mean, I saw Pla Pla Salmon Pizza as well. You know, occasionally you'll see a pack of Proud Pizza, but it's not every spot. Every fusion spot's going to have the Tom Yum. More flatbread style, you know, bar. Bars tend to do flatbreads. Pretty solid. Is it better than the Tom Yum Pizza at a pizza company or another fusion option here in Bangkok? Probably not. But it, you know, taste the high end-ness. I can taste the, the queen would prefer this one. So which of these Bangkok fusion foods that have developed over the past 30, 20, or even 10 years should you try? Honestly, I'm going to go with a cliche option. I don't care because you guys know I give it to you real. Get the Tom Yum Pizza and get the Tom Yum Pasta. I think Pad Kee Mao Pasta could be another option, but I think the Tom Yum cream sauce really adds almost like a vodka, you know, adiabata mix, but with the Tom Yum. For some reason, the Tom Yum flavors really blend well with carbohydrates from the West, whether that's like a flatbread pizza, a thick New York style pizza, or this obviously Italian spaghetti. So I would say that that one is this, and maybe my sleeper pick. I do like Pla Pla Salmon, but I'm not going to lie. I'm not the biggest Pla Pla Salmon guy. I would say actually some of the Indian fusion stuff with the samosas, this, this is a sleeper pick. So ultimately guys, let me know what are some of your other favorite like Thai fusions, and some of the things that we didn't get to cover in this video that are almost more in the West than existing in Bangkok. I'm not saying they don't exist in Bangkok, but it's hard to find, is like Isan Smash Burgers using Sa Oua or Sai Kroi. So that's like another cool thing that hopefully we're going to show you guys in the future. Let me know what else you guys want to see on Fun Bros Food here in Bangkok, or all around Southeast Asia or Asia in general. And until next time, we out, peace.