The Ultimate Bangkok Day 🇹🇭 Explore, Eat & Cook Thai Food!

This is my first Tha Thai. Hi, Oli. If you're visiting Bangkok and want to do more than just sightseeing, this video is for you. Today, we are joining a cooking class tour where we'll start by exploring the fresh market and then cross the river, explore the Bangkok hidden gem and then end up in a Thai traditional home where we'll learn how to cook Thailand's most famous dishes, which I'm a little nervous because I don't cook, I don't clean, but let me talk. Let's get started. Food costs only 10 baht per piece. Entire bouquet is only 100 baht. So if you have Thai girlfriend, you know where to come get flowers for her. It's time for us to cross the Chao Phraya River, most important river of Thailand. My children are going to die if I cook for them. This is fun. I like this market. It's so chill. Sawadee ka. Nice to meet you. Can you introduce yourself to the camera? Sawadee ka. I'm First or Firstie from Magical Tips Tour. Can you tell me in detail what are we doing today? Today, we'll go to cooking class. Famous Thai dishes cooking class in the local garden house. All right. I'm super excited. I mean, I'm from Bangkok, Thailand myself, but I'm excited to explore even more hidden gems from you. You go to the hidden route. All right. Shall we start? Yeah. Let's go. It's your item. Oh, it's mine. Okay. Yeah, we'll go to the Hongdae first. All right. Shopping. Let's go. All right. So where are we right now? Now, we are at flower market. It's the largest flower market in Bangkok, also in Thailand. You can see right on 32 square meters. So this is where you can find cheap flowers? Cheap flower is wholesale flowers. At first, it's like fresh fish market. But now, flower, vegetable, and fruit. All right. I'm hungry. Yeah. Shall we find some snacks? It's a delivery shop. They have many things. Mangoes and peanuts. What are your favorites? The peanuts. Oh, you like the peanuts? When you watch movie. What is it called? Man. Sweet potato. Steamed potato. Looks really good. Mango. Hey. Speak English. I need God. What should I eat? Man. What should I eat? Which one? One. So our first stop by 7-Eleven around the corner, we found this good-looking cart full of vegetables and sweet potatoes. We have two different kinds. What is your kind? Normal. And this is what? Purple one. Okay. First bite. Cheers. A little dry. Sometimes we can dip with sugar. I think this one is more moist. The purple one is good and sweet, but a little dry. Let me try this one. I prefer this one. Less sweet, but more moist. And people say that we can dip in the sugar, which is more fat. You're going to gain weight faster. Dip in the sugar like that a little bit. Pretty good bite to start the day, but pretty dry. Let's move on to the next one. I need some water. So we're here at the flower market. I usually come here all the time to buy flowers and do photoshoot because the flowers here cost so cheap. This entire bouquet is only 100 baht. And some I saw 80 baht. And it's so beautiful. Really, really good-looking flowers, guys. So if you have Thai girlfriend, you know where to come get flowers for her because this bouquet like this, if you buy in a mall, it will cost like 1,000 baht. She's like, you know, nine times more than here. Keep that in mind. Full of flowers. The first stop is Jedam. So we're doing grocery shopping to cook? Yeah, after meal. After meal. I will have mangosteen and rambutan after meal. Thank you. It's been a long time since I do grocery shopping in the morning like this. It's only past nine. And in case you don't know, this is rambutan. So hairy. And this is mangosteen, my all-time favorite fruit. Thank you. You know, many pieces inside. No. Inside will have six. Really? I never know that. You can open by yourself. Okay. So if we have the number of the leaves of the flower inside, we have the same amount. So it's six, right? One, two, three, four, five, six. Amazing. I didn't know this before. So good, healthy. Mangosteen should look like this. Should look like a white cat paw. How can you tell it's good? It's a little bit soft. It's delicious. Okay. It's too hard. It's not okay. Delicious. For those of you who have never tasted mangosteen before, it tastes sour and sweet at the same time. But more of a sour side. I love the small pieces because it doesn't have seeds in it. The big one has seeds. So I usually try to avoid. And then give the big one to my little sister. All her fruits are looking really fresh. Fresher than my face right now. The mangosteen only costs 60 baht per kilo. Lambutan costs 80 baht per kilo. And she has grapes. She has longan. She has mango. And she has dragon fruit. Costs only 10 baht per piece. Super local market. If you like to experience fresh fruit right here on the street, buy a beautiful auntie called Daph. Come here. Our beautiful guide, Peepers, just told me one interesting fact about this market, which is this place is open 24 hours. And along the way, we see fresh fruits and vegetables selling. Vegetable shopping? This is for 20 baht? This is fun. I like this market. It's so cute. It makes me feel like going shopping with grandma when I was younger. You know what I mean? And then follow her everywhere. But today, Peepers is not my grandma. Okay, let's go. A-L-U-M. We use it for cleaning sticky rice. Are we going to buy some here or just looking? Just looking. You can buy here. I see. So we're learning the ingredients in Thai food as well on this tour. Usually, I just walk past on the street outside. But inside the market here where we're standing, I've never been in here. Excited. Keep exploring. Honeymoon seed. But it's so bitter, right? Bitter. This is so bitter. When I was young, I punished from teacher. You have to taste this. What is this? It's bitter. I know what it is. I know what it tastes like. So bitter. And what is this? Oh, this is an antidote. This is sweet. It's like life, you guys. It's like life. Once you're sad, you can always come back up and be happy again. Just like... Alright, so this herb shop of uncle has been open for over a hundred years. This is literally his house. He lives upstairs and then he makes a living downstairs full of traditional herbs for food and also for health as well. Most of the ingredients can be found in Thai dishes. Now we're at Pa Kam Nueng herb shop. Yeah, herb shop. So we'll see lots of ingredients and herbs, Thai herbs like pandan, gooseberry. This one is important in our tour. It's coriander and cumin. We will ground together and pour in the green curry. Oh, this is a green curry ingredient? Yeah, yeah. Any interesting ingredients? This one. Oh, turmeric. Turmeric. Use for your face, right? The skin. I heard because in Thailand, beauty standard here is to have light skin, right? Traditional way of having light skin, you mix turmeric with water? Water. Yeah, only water. You're not going to turn yellow? No, no. It's also an ingredient in food as well. For example, steak. Oh, satay. Everything in yellow, yeah, use turmeric. Keep that in mind, okay? In the middle of a hidden market like this, there's a hidden shrine behind me called Boon Ma Shrine. It's a beautiful shrine where he kind of like protect this area and he is the person where locals come to pray for wealth. Because this market is all about trading. So if you come pray here, you'll get rich. And as you can see, it's a flower market. All the flowers here are super fresh and surrounded by calendula flowers which we use to pray for Buddha, all right? And I wonder if the flower is made of turmeric because it's yellow. Cut off, please. Please cut this off. It's time for us to cross the Chao Phraya River, most important river of Thailand. So if you cross to the other side, we call Thonburi side which is where I grew up. And I love this area a lot. I think I mentioned to you so many times before because this side of Bangkok is more authentic, more locals live there, less skyscrapers. We're gonna walk around the area and experience three different religions in one area. So let's get changed because we're going to swim across the river. Thonburi side. Behind us is Saphan Phut. On the green beach that you see, 15 kilometers first. Chao Phraya River, 372 kilometers long, 200 wide, and depth 20 meters. 20 meters deep! How strong is the current? Can you really swim? I cannot. Die! You do it! Okay, let's not swim. Guys, this is such an interesting looking house. It's a gingerbread house. And they have a history here. Hidden inside Bangkok's old Kurdish community is Ban Winsor, a wooden house that has stood here for more than a century. The history is connected to Winsor family, descendants of British sea captain and merchant Gania Winsor, who settled in Siam during the reign of King Rama IV. His son, Louis Winsor, later married Somboon, the daughter of the wealthy local rice mill owner, connecting the family to this historic riverside community. The house itself reflects the western influence spreading through Bangkok during the reign of King Rama V. Its most distinctive feature is the intricate gingerbread-style woodwork, decorating the balconies, gables, and eaves. But there's also a much more dramatic piece of history hiding here. Some of the wooden doors still carry what are believed to be bullet marks from the Manhattan Rebellion of 1951. Today, Ban Winsor remains a rare glimpse into the multicultural riverside Bangkok of more than a century ago. We are walking through the local household. You get to experience this, you know, the past King's photograph on the wall. And then I think this is the washing machine or the fridge. They just cover it. And then motorbikes pass and people just walk past. This is how they plant trees, guys. And we are here at the mosque. Can you explain more? It's only one in the world. You can see. It's like a temple. So two cultures combined in one place. So mosque plus temple. How long has it been around? Around 200 years in this area. Wow, right. And we have motorbike parking, people hanging their clothes. We are going to the cooking class. I'm excited. Let's go. By the canal. This is how Thai locals built their balcony. Right here. And somehow they just left stranded. Like this. Okay, guys. We are here at the ancient wooden house, which is also a museum, right? Yeah, the second floor. Second floor is a museum. And downstairs, we will do a cooking class. This house is over 140 years old. First, can you tell me more about this place? This place, we call So usually this tour, you will do cooking class here. We have to book first before come here. I see. It's not open every day. You can come by booking, do cooking, and see in the museum. What is this? It's called Fasting. We're fasting at that time in the 10th of the month. So no war at that time. So that's how they celebrate. It's so spicy. Yeah, we have chili, syrup, lime, soda. Wow, guys. I mean, I love spicy food, but I've never tried a spicy drink before. This drink is spicy. It has chili in it. It has chili. It's refreshing. Something new every day. Alright, let's start cooking, shall we? Sawasdee ka. The first dish we're going to make today is chicken curry. The second dish is Pad Thai. In the meantime, we're going to make purple sticky rice. It takes time to steam purple sticky rice. So we're going to start by steaming the sticky rice first. We're going to steam it for about half an hour. I've soaked this for 4 hours. It depends on whether it's new or old sticky rice. There's already water at the bottom. We're going to put this in here as well. To make it smell good. Next, we're going to use green chilies. You can open the lid now. There are green chilies and garlic in here. I'm going to focus on green chilies. You can add basil leaves to make it more colorful. Okay. Oh, it smells so good. It's up to you. If you like it spicy, you can add more than one spoon. One spoon? It's too spicy. I've been eating green curry since I was born. But this is the first time I'm actually cooking it. Have you ever cooked? Mama Noodle. She said it's too spicy. I'm going to add a bit more. I'm going to add the chicken first. I'm going to add a bit more. It's starting to break apart. Then I'm going to add the chicken. My children are going to die if I cook for them. This is fun. It feels like cooking with grandma. Except she doesn't yell at me. Can I add more green chilies? Yes, you can. It smells so good. Then we're going to turn it over. We're just going to flip it over. We're going to steam it for a while. After that, we're going to make the coconut milk. The thing is, when you cook with a person who cooks, and you don't cook, they always tell you to add whatever you think you want in the dish. If you want it to taste better, creamier, you add. They don't tell you what to add. If you don't cook, you'll be like... Now let's do the chili. Next, we're going to mix the sticky rice with coconut milk to make mango sticky rice. I'm amazed of how much sugar is in front of me already. A lot of sugar. Now I'm mixing it. I'm mixing it until it melts. I'm adding salt to cut the taste. I'm mixing it until it melts. The sugar at the bottom won't clump with the bottom. That means it's melted. That's why we can taste it. If it's too soft, too sweet, or too full. It's delicious, mom. It's delicious. Let me taste it. When you mix it, you don't have to mix it hard. Because the sticky rice will break. Now we close the lid. That's about it. I think I can do this. I think I can start cooking. It's not that difficult, but just a lot of process. I don't cook, I don't cream, I don't love, I don't talk, I don't feel. It smells really good already. It looks so good. I have to respect the cook. I always love to eat. I'm a foodie, vlogger on YouTube. But getting to cook actual meal is a lot of things, a lot of ingredients, a lot of effort. All about the right timing, the temperature. And I'm just so proud of myself today. Okay, should we start with our green curry? So green curry, you guys, usually there are two options. Either you choose noodles or steamed rice. Let's do steamed rice because I love rice. Here's my green curry. Shit! Usually green curry, Thai people add shrimp paste in it. But then to some tourists or people, it's stinky. So she added cumin and coriander instead. And it's so good, guys. It's so delicious. She made me look good. She made me... I mean, honestly, I was just stirring. And she just like add all the ingredients. But then I have fun because I get to see all the ingredients. Alright. She's lying. Let's move on to pad thai. This is my first pad thai. Here goes my first pad thai of my life. Not bad. It's a little too dry. I like my green curry more. But pad thai, 8 out of 10. I think I didn't put enough sauce. Mind you guys, I don't cook Thai food. It's because the preparation of the ingredients are a lot. I'm glad I'm joining this tour because I get to do something new today. So if you want to learn more about Thai food by not just tasting it, but actually knowing the process, consider taking this tour. So P'First, talking about the tour, does Magical Trip Tour offer any other places? Best seller for us, we have Ayutthaya. We go to another province. And then you can see all ancient history. It's a former capital city of Thailand. Another one is Cycling Tour. It's someone like adventure. Cycling in Bangkajao. It's nearby Bangkok. And the last one is Muay Thai. You can check out with magicaltrip.com. Because usually when you say tour in my head, I would think of more than 20 people. But this is like a private small group tour. Maximum how many? Eight. Sometimes they have children. That would be lovely. Imagine if you take this tour with your friends and you just eat each other's inedible food. So this tour is mainly a cooking tour. It's not just you come cook and then you go home. Because you actually can scan the ingredients. So that you can go home, where are you from, and think of Thailand. Because you want to eat Thai food. And in the scan, we have this cookbook. It will tell you all the ingredients that you cook. It has more than two ingredients. Because today we did three, including the mango sticky rice. But in the scan, it has more than that. In case you don't know, and in case you want to cook Thai food at home, keep this in mind. I even dropped the mango. But the sticky rice looks so much more firm. Because when we cook them, we got to wait until they form up. Like they got to get bigger. Now they get bigger. Tastes so good. Tastes like mango sticky rice. And the rice is soft, tender. Not too sweet. Because when you come here, you can limit the amount of sweetness up to your level. And the mango is also not too sour. Really sweet as well. Hi guys. So we're on the wooden house. Wow. It's just, wow. This is the secret entrance from the kitchen. Downstairs. And then it leads up here. And they made it. They made it almost like a museum because they have all these old gadgets and like old stuff that they've been collecting for a long time ago. One thing that I want to show you guys is that that entrance they used to escape war. Because this house is over 140 years old. It's been through war before. And I will show you what I'm talking about. So people say that this is a bullet hole. I'm telling you this kind of house is a wealthy house back then. Like if you have a house like this, you're rich. Oh, is that how the bus looked like back in the old days? And they have old camera. So cool. This is... What? Huh? Okay. Back in the old days, Thai people love betel nut juice. It's the kind of juice that makes your mouth go and the whole teeth go red and almost black, right? Because they love it so much, they eat it like candy. And they don't know where to split it out. So they make a hole like this in the house. And then they split it down. But they would have just bring the bowl, right? They didn't use the bowl. They just make a hole. They just make a hole in the house. Split it down to the floor downstairs. Creative. Let's go on a tuk-tuk. So we are sitting on a Move Me tuk-tuk. Electric tuk-tuk. Newer and more spacious. Let's go. Thank you so much for joining our trip today with The Magical Trip. And thank you so much for being a part of our journey. How do you feel about today? I'm so happy. I enjoyed it. You did great. Thank you for this trip. I enjoyed today so much as well. And thank you for making this trip happen. And if you guys, if you're interested in this tour, you can use my discount code And don't forget to hit And this is my story. What's yours? Bye!