Yaowarat at Midnight: Bangkok’s Chinatown Never Sleeps 🥢🔥

this might be one of the best things i ate this week bro my mouth is on fire second cup just a good first savory spot man with the egg in it 4.75 four five out of five charm noodle a perfect 6 for six on this yadawat food crawl 1.0 welcome to the very first yatawat bangkok chinatown food crawl by some accounts this is actually the oldest chinatown in the entire world starting in 1782 so that's about 250 years old which means you're going to see some hyper old ancient traditional things but you're also going to see some hyper modern cutting edge speak easy bars this is the home of bangkok's gold the home of bangkok's ghosts and we got to do a food crawl and this is the very first one got to start off at my friend spot three teapots andrew what up hey man welcome to three teapots tell us about this spot yeah so this is uh our heritage tea shop based right in the heart of yamalad and i'm the fourth gen right now family business yeah we're we're here out selling you know tea leaves uh tea drinks soft serve and what you were born in taiwan raised in bangkok lived in america and shanghai and what now you're back right right so i came back obviously to help out with family business continue the brand and just you know take it up hey listen guys this is a deep world and we're going to give you guys a quick 101 listen guys there's some science behind this cuz we got our green teas we got our ulong and we got our puers but this is a little bit of thing that uh you know us rookies are going to be surprised by this is all from the same plant and it has to do with what oxidation level right the oxidation level how they're processed uh you get different colors different taste profile and what you're holding it right now is the green tea itself donging uh through china yeah a lot of uh great you know health benefits uh on different kinds of tea you get different kind of antioxidants polifanos so david right now is adding the jasmine green tea you get you know jasmine let me tell you guys this i'm not just saying this at all because we're doing the video these are two of the best green teas i have ever had in my life my goodness the layers the complexity and i've been to the assam tea farms in taiwan too i've been there um now we're getting into the what the oolong section right this thing right here what what what typifies a ulong uh semi oxidized so it stands in between green and black right here is the black tea osmantus this is the base of a tuna right this this is the yeah they use black tea as the base for a lot of the tuna waka tea um stronger and this is actually the denhole which is actually gourmet grade black tea as well and then last but not least what is this one got the poor aged uh 15 years now with some chrysanamine so we infuse it to give it that natural sensitive ooh it's got that nice crosanthemamin like kata like kufa at the very end right i mean there's a lot of science behind tea as well so how you want to uh come up with your own infusions man which one is your favorite i i know mine i think i'm go honestly with just with this one okay on the mood what i'm trying to do if i wake up have some green tea uh a lot of great uh neurop protection properties that you get a lot of cocktail boost so you want that brain boost because i do a lot of mental work right this is the green tea that i go for you get the brain boost yeah that brain bruise uh it's spelled aline uh and also caffeine so you get that nice high uh tap into that alpha wave states hey listen guys artificial sugars out real tea from yadawat in tell us about the ice cream brand cuz we were just talking about the healthfulness of tea but you got to have something for gen z right exactly for the younger younger crowd market try to i mean if you try to open to a bigger market you have to ask some soft serve right man i did see somebody earlier somebody got like a real traditional tea but of course you know the matchas and the soft serves right so what are we looking at right now so this right here we call it bloom you have vanilla and uh chopped over here fau and black tea oh that's good so what you guys make this all in house yep this is uh new zealand based tea and uh we put honey layer honey on top of it and then black sea just to balance it give a nice overall experience that you can enjoy not least we got the matcha makm which what means what delicious just very matcha filled oh very much matcha yeah lots of matcha oh what do we got here cuz this ain't the healthiest thing on the menu delic cross the macro ignore them fable in the maj shop right so there we go matcha makm you got like you know multiple different takes on it matcha makm all right so we wrapping up here at three teapotss but you got to show us our first savory spot on this yaw hall right so right around this corner this place called clay king uh one of my go-to places to uh wake cuz it's just a mic good lunch damn we're in chinatown get a bai let's do it nope second spot and the first savory spot on our yada food crawl is what claybot king tapa wong right here tap wang hey man you guys know if you can you with the bullseye family let's go first dish at claypot king here in yadawat is what is this called it's got black olive black olive topped on ice um rice oo i've never seen a uh bai fawn actually look like this so i i'm really glad that we're getting like the thai specific menu items because we could have got the lop churn with the uh sing bakukai or like the bakugai bzai fon which is in kanto the very standard sort of original but i wanted to see what was different and localized clearly the the the the the cashews the the bird's eyes just different be careful fresh and steamy yo that's good listen guys this is a that black olive lime capra bullseye f this might be one of the best things i ate this week bro number two oh my goodness that's a pork ribs this is your favorite right no yo andrew's not eating today but this is your favorite this is just a a very chinese looking dish to be honest clay pot king coming with never seen before bangkok clay pots so in a way we have a very traditional like paan or like pyuan right but um you know with the with the black bean sauce however this is what clearly shows that it the thai influenced the you know almost like some seafood sauce that we're about to pour on there my goodness mouth is on fire take a cut we got a drink that i've never had before called luhan and i've had this fruit before but i've never had the extracted uh drink that is produced from the fruit so hey man i'm i'm not going to lie guys this was a better protein but in terms of flavor i'm going to go with this black olive one with the lime in it because this this was something different i never had in my mind before in my life oh all right last but not least guys we have the luro fon with a egg in it and um yo this is dope like i said guys man when you get chinese thai fusion foods uh you could fuse it at a 80 200 50/50 level i would go ahead and say this is like maybe 20% thai 80% chinese but with the raw egg in the middle fire man i love diasporic southeast asian chinese food like i think i ain't mad at anybody if they say that's their favorite kind in the whole world i know you had to get this taiwanese love blue ro i [Applause] know this a good first savory spot man put that egg in it it's lived up to my expectations man in fact it surpassed my expectations just like the bangkok mrt actually surpassed my expectations to like the taiwanese lur roan i would say there's definitely less five spice but it's kind of got more of a natural pork flavor to it that really mixes well with the uh raw egg yolk and then obviously the raw egg yolk if i press it against the hot clay pot exterior you know it's going to cook a little bit not fully but just a little bit and it's less salty too uh if you eat the roof in taiwan i would say it's more salty guys i don't know about the luro fond versus the black olive one but i think at the end of the day we're in thailand i'm going with the black olive bzai fond this was an amazing spot i definitely recommend this i'm going to give this spot a 4.7 out of five and that's our first savory spot on our yadawa food crawl third spot that i am super excited to try on this yanawat food crawl is ponco what does this mean because these ponkco they look like yo and i believe they are yeah you got a fusion you got like a thai inspiration a thai sauce pandan but it almost looks like a stick man or something like old singular logo let's check it out because listen guys not only do they have the pondan ones with coconut but they actually got spicy crispy pork yo's ponkos as well these are the ponkos cut up in this way they look just like yot i actually think they're they might be better guys from at least the ones that i've had m they're like sweeter and they're less like salty than the yot in the chinese world chinese they have a breakfast this is more like a delicacy dessert this is a pondan milk chocolate coconut noodles yeah coconut shavings this man i got to be careful i used to do it for myself but now i do it for you guys cuz i'm not on that anymore but i do it for you this is uh what flies this is the roong what are they called the rosung in thailand what the heck you got a spicy sambal sauce the rosung or the muyang telling you guys you never had a yot like this before in your life i guess they get coins for creativity yeah it's almost like a indonesian kanji that i have influence from the hoken chinese that are in indonesia but without the kanji it was only $4 us or about 375 i'm going to say that sai is also absolutely must visit 4.35 out of five all right guys is yatawad is also the home of all the gold trade not just in bangkok but i heard all of thailand a lot of them are operating on the street pretty much at been here for for years yeah just get some gold buddha chains man where else everybody knows that you know southern chinese people dejil kantos we're known for eating duck op yazua so here we said this is a duck um and we got the roasted duck spring rolls for 100 bot so this is the preparation you know it's pretty much just a wrap and the duck meat itself you know there you go on the we're on the side of the street you know doing the real preparator you know it was pretty dope uh just saw they were speaking mandarin with a thai accent pretty cool and uh like they said they serve you a uh almost like a northern southern hybrid style of uh beijing ka tiny little boat it's good honestly for 80 cents this was valid like you know southern pick and duck style more uses jang like but uh the northern style uses jang but valid i'm going to give it four out of five maybe just buy by buy them a singular don't you don't need to get a box so what's going on across the street because there's like a feeding frenzy for what intestines yeah i mean you're eating a lot of internals uh method i never heard anybody i never heard anybody call it internals more listen guys i'm not say i'm not trying to lose my asian car i do eat internals but it's just not my first pick and i'm kind of in a first pick fold right now but clearly guys if you want if you want a true platinum uranium jade asian carb intestines first yo listen guys you want to talk about max chinese level this is a bird's nest stew shark fin it's a hybrid bro this is like getting hennessy fried chicken man is is doubling up on too much goodness our fifth spot and i'm excited because we have not struck out no swings no misses no strikes so far is charm noodle this is sort of like chinese thai fusion and uh we're about to get this dark soy sauce noodle for sure maybe this one right here i'm excited because i know that yarawat has some really really good noodle spots and they're actually super affordable and super cheap like noodles should be so far five for five let's see if we can go six for six this is beef and pork this is pork and pork but one of them is red pork and this is pork and shrimp with the pork crackling so a lot of pork going on first of all guys if you guys know me i love wide egg moose ever since i was a kid i will never go against wide egg noodles this is the signature dish here at charm noodle dark soy sauce m roasty toasty al dente pork pork crackling one ton shrimp wow wow white pork ball five out of five on this one moving on we got rice noodle so a different type of vibe going on ooh this one way more sour way more sour going on if you're looking for something to wake you up and you you poo with the more sour um like a two like a vinegar vibe the depth of flavor on both of these super dark roasty soy sauce this was almost like a very in-depth vinegar vibe also good but i'm going more go with this one and last but not least guys these are tom yum dumplings this is a true thai chinese fusion um like we said chinese been coming to thailand in huge numbers i think for 800 years but in ultra huge numbers for 250 years so you see a a lot of cross culture m wow 4.75 four five out of five charm noodle a perfect six for six on this yawa food call 1.0 by the way guys of course we got to talk about price everything was about from $2 to $2.25 you want to talk about a cheap tea in chinatown bangkok this is it all right last but definitely not least we're exploring sort of the hyper modern speak easy scene that is what relatively new to yawarat yeah we got chinese papa uh craft beer inside as well so just ask more flavor to the entire man we're going to see if we can go seven for seven often times i'm not going to lie guys when you do these food crawls there's a dud somewhere in there but we batten six for six let's go into rabbit hill i'm just kidding our last and final spot rabbit hill is sort of part of what this speak easy wave that sort of swept through yawarat after co 19 so hey man we're sipping house ipas out of a glass chinese gourd the drunken master gourds oh my goodness and then we got uh the shoe misum here we go man this is this is the thing that's going to be 7 for seven boom yeah i can smell it interestingly not a lot of dim sum not there's dim sum dishes but not like fullon hong kong style dim sum in in in yawarat it's good good no i wasn't going to lie to you guys it was good we started to seven man it's still i can't even eat till the rest of the day guys i i've clearly gone in caloric surplus yo huge shout out to three pots thank you for coming by my man i mean i guess what do you want to tell people about yawarat man i mean because like a lot of people there was a time in bangkok's history where it's like man that's it's not cool to go to yawarad is like for grandparents or something back then right so now we see a you know new uplift new wave newer generation people coming out here uh checking that out i mean like i said new generation a new kind of business model is like up here a lot more cafes can speak easy as well they exist back then but yeah we're we're just seeing um more options yeah i mean in a way it's almost like the hipster revival of all the chinatowns around the globe it's like finally you know they're 100 to 200 years old and it's like it's it's time for the new gender step up to the plate share your culture like art to carry the torch and just kind of you know make something yeah infuse it with the localized culture as well and make it an amalgamation of a lot of cool things all right you guys that's it for uh this episode man a fun rose food very first ya crawl not our last one bangkok chinatown 250 years till now let's go yes tip gets held there too [Music]