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Thai Food at Tha Kha Floating Market (ตลาดน้ำท่าคา) - Don't Miss Aunty's Fried Oyster Omelet! - YouTube
Channel: Mark Wiens
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- My plate of hoy tod is coming along,
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and she just added the egg, and I love,
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she cracked on the egg, and
then she chucks the eggshell
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into the bucket of eggshells, expertly.
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Oh, that's a beautiful thing.
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(cheerful instrumental music)
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Good morning everyone, it's Mark Wiens
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with Migrationology.com
in Bangkok, Thailand.
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There are many different floating markets
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that you can visit when
you come to Bangkok,
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and there are a couple
right within Bangkok,
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I really recommend Khlong
Lat Mayom, by the way,
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and then there are also some
really famous floating markets
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about an hour and a
1/2 outside of Bangkok,
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in a province called Samut Songkhram,
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and some of the really
famous floating markets
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like Damnoen Saduak, and
Amphawa floating markets
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are all located there.
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But today, my wife and
my sister and my mom,
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and our kids, a couple of our kids,
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we are gonna go on a day
trip to Samut Songkhram,
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and hopefully go to a couple
of kinda more lesser known
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floating markets, so stay
tuned for this video,
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some lesser known floating
markets and some delicious food
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coming up.
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Are you ready for another road trip, Mika?
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(woman singing lullaby)
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According to Google
Maps, it's 86 kilometers
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from where we're leaving,
and we're in the Bangna area
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of Bangkok, and it's gonna
take an hour and 36 minutes
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to drive there.
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(cheerful instrumental music)
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You know when you're in the countryside
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when the dog just lounges
in the middle of the road
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and you have to go around him.
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We are following Google
Maps, and we're now
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on this small little jungle
road, and I'm loving it.
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Oh, this is such a beautiful province,
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I love being around these areas.
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Achoo!
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We made it, this market is
called Talat Nam Tha Kha,
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and the literal
translation, talat is market
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and then nam is water,
so it's a water market,
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and I'm already loving the simple,
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kinda slow feel of this market.
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When you arrive to this
market, you walk through
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this little entrance
section which is covered,
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and there's some souvenir
shops, and then immediately,
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you get to the floating market section,
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it has such a quiet,
peaceful, nice feel to it,
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there are plenty of boat vendors,
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some of which are selling
ready-to-eat things,
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and then some people who are selling
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a variety of different
ingredients, lots of bananas,
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some onions and some garlic and shallots,
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and then produce from their gardens,
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probably right from their
gardens right at home,
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and they just load
everything up onto their boat
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and then come to the market to sell.
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But what I really like is how small,
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and how friendly it is so far, and I just,
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actually, I haven't really
walked around much yet,
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but I just came into the market,
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walked up this little bridge so I can just
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kinda get a birds' eye view
of Tha Kha floating market.
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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So far, the ladies selling
things at this market
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are all very friendly, and
they all wanna see Mika.
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Looks like they're buying something here.
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- Popiah!
- Popiah.
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My sister Anyin just got
some fresh spring rolls,
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and they are really hot
and fresh, fried fresh.
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Mm!
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Oh yeah!
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Filled with mung mee
noodles, and maybe carrots.
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Mm, they're good.
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Nice and hot still.
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(baby wailing)
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As you're walking along the
edge of the water on the market,
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they have these coconuts set up
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where you can massage your feet.
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Kinda go like this, it kinda hurts!
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Am I doing it, (speaks
in foreign language).
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(speaks in foreign language)
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It's coconut sugar.
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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You can smell it, you can smell it.
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- [Anyin] It's supposed to
be better, so I use that
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instead of regular sugar.
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- There's a lot of good
produce at this market,
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and also, you can buy fresh coconut sugar,
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and coconut syrup, and
lots and lots of bananas
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and coconuts.
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Hoy tod.
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Yeah.
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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I am squatting down
here on a floating raft,
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and I just ordered
something called hoy tod,
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which is fried oysters with egg,
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and this is a beautiful stall,
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it is an amazing grandmother
who is cooking up,
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and she is using charcoal on a hot plate,
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and adding in the batter,
the oysters, and then egg.
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Oh, and it's just going up in
a cloud of beautiful smoke.
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My plate of hoy tod is coming along,
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and she just added the egg, and I love,
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she cracked on the egg, and
then she chucks the eggshell
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into the bucket of eggshells, expertly.
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Oh, that's a beautiful thing.
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Oh, I think that's some lard going in.
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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There are bean sprouts in it, there's egg,
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there's the rice flour
batter, as well as oysters,
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I asked her, they are oysters,
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and then also bean sprouts and cilantro,
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and then after it was finished,
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she dished it onto a
plate, added some cilantro
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and then some pepper.
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And I'm sitting down
here with my mom to eat.
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Oh yeah.
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It's good.
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Oh, the fresh, crisp bean
sprouts, the oyster in there,
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and then like the gooey batter flour.
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As we were sitting eating
that oyster omelet,
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I could smell the smoke
coming down the canal
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from the grilling skewers of
gai ping and maybe moo ping,
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I'm not sure, I think
she mostly has chicken,
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but that sounds delicious right now,
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grilled meat on skewer.
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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Okay, how many skewers would you like, ma?
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- [Mom] One or two.
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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- [Mom] Sticky rice.
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(Mark speaking in foreign language)
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- We got a full baggy of
grilled chicken, and also tab,
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which is liver, and liver's
one of my favorites.
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Oh yeah.
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So creamy, and then it
has a marinade on it,
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so it's a little bit sweet
and a little bit salty
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at the same time, but with a really good,
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smoky flavor to it.
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(cheerful instrumental music)
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Oh, thank you!
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I stopped to buy some starfruit,
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starfruit is an excellent fruit,
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not only does it look cool,
but it tastes incredibly good,
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so every opportunity I have
for starfruit, I go for it.
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Mm!
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It is so juicy!
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Oh, that's just an entire
mouthful of starfruit juice.
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Oh, that's delicious,
and it's sweet and sour.
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The next snack that we
got is called toong tong,
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and the literal translation
is a golden little bag,
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or little pocket pouch,
and it's a little wrapper,
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which is wrapped really nicely,
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and I think they had a
minced pork version as well,
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but we got the one filled
with corn and then deep-fried,
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and this is a little one-bite little gift,
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and you can see on the top,
on the top it's very crispy,
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and then on the bottom is the pouch
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where it's wrapped up with the filling.
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Mm!
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Oh yeah.
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That's like a spring
roll in different shape.
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That's fantastic.
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Oh, that is tasty.
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- Surprisingly good!
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- [Mark] It's more tasty than
I thought it was gonna be.
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- Yeah, that's what I'm saying,
like it was really good!
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- Ying is having a bowl
of kway chap nankon,
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which are the rice noodle rolls,
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in like a braised soup,
and I'm having just ba mee,
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which are the egg noodles, with pork,
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and there's some pork
meatballs, I think in there,
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and also some daikon, I
think it's daikon radish,
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which is also within the soup broth.
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Let me get a bite with some
pork and with some noodles,
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there are also a lot of bean
sprouts in here as well.
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Mm!
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Some good black pepper in
there, or maybe white pepper,
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but that's just a simple,
classic bowl of Thai noodles.
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Pork noodles.
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(cheerful instrumental music)
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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I'm watching them make something
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which is called khao
tom mad, which is rice,
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sticky rice mixed in a mixture,
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I think with coconut milk, and then
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they add in a banana and
wrap it in a banana leaf,
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and then it's steamed, and
it's a very popular Thai snack,
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but she was telling me
that it's a bolan version,
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it's a traditional version.
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Very cool to watch them make it.
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Oh, okay.
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So this is the sticky rice mixture
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that includes sugar and coconut milk.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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They are making the khao tom mad
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over a little bit down
there, overlooking the canal,
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and then they're selling them right here,
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so I just got some of the khao tom mad
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that they're making freshly right now.
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They're wrapped in doubles,
and you unravel that,
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and then you got two banana
leaf-wrapped packets.
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Oh, and you can feel
that stickiness already
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from that coconut milk
and that sugar in there.
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Oh, and what I love about things
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that are cooked in banana leaf
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is you can immediately smell the aroma,
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that banana leaf, it has
such a wonderful aroma.
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The sticky rice just sorta melts
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into that coconut milk and the banana.
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Really gooey, sticky rice, and then just
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with a sweet and tart
banana on the inside.
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This is one of my favorite
Thai traditional desserts.
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You can really taste that banana leaf,
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which the steam embedded into it.
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We spent about two hours
walking around this market
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and eating and relaxing,
this is a fantastic
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little floating market, and
I love how it's so quiet
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and peaceful and very, very friendly.
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They also offer boat rides,
which would look really,
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really nice, but with the babies,
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I think we're gonna skip the boat ride,
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although if you come here, I
think I would highly recommend
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the opportunity to take a
boat through these canals
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and just relax, that looks really fun.
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And from here, we're gonna go
see another floating market,
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which is not too far away.
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Yeah, there's another
floating market about,
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it said about 15 minutes
away that I wanna check out,
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so we'll just stop by
there for a little bit
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and see how it is.
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(cheerful instrumental music)
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That was an absolutely beautiful drive
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through the coconut trees to get here,
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and that was about a 15 minute drive,
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and this is called Talat Nam Bang Noi,
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and it is right on the
edge of the Mekong River,
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I can see it right up here.
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(jazzy folk music)
Oh man, at first I thought
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that was a CD playing, that's a live band!
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Fantastic!
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I gotta give it up to the live music,
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that is a highlight of
visiting this market.
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This is a really relaxed
floating market as well,
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but it's right along the Mekong River,
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which is a huge river, and then kind of
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right in the parking lot
on the side of the temple,
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so it's almost like a community,
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it almost has a community
center feel to it.
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The girls and the babies
are walking around
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the market shopping.
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This is a good shopping market,
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especially for little
Thai things and souvenirs,
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and so I have taken this
opportunity to sit on the bench
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near the water and eat some mulberries,
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and mulberries are, I
think they're popular
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to eat at this market,
they're kinda famous
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to eat at this market, and I like how
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she has made a mulberry, a little basket
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to hold the mulberries in, and then
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put the mulberries inside,
and then she put it
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in a plastic bag, too.
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Oh yeah!
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Mm!
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Oh, that gives you an
immediately burst of sourness,
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before any sweetness.
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Mm!
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Those are really good.
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(woman speaking in foreign language)
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Mika!
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We're walking around the market,
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and we came back to the car to feed Mika,
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and also, we're eating some
snacks, so I'm gonna try.
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This one is khanom gluay, it's a banana
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grilled in a banana leaf, long and skinny.
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Let me break it in half, oh, very sticky.
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Loo at that, oh, it's
hot, right off the grill.
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Mm!
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Yeah, it's really good.
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It's nice, you can taste the banana like,
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tastes like a dried banana with coconut,
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and then it has like a,
it's almost like caramelized
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on the outside.
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Oh, Mika!
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What I really enjoyed today was visiting
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Talat Nam Tha Kha, that
was the highlight of today.
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It's about an hour and a 1/2
outside of central Bangkok,
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and it's definitely worth the trip,
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that's one of the best
floating markets in Thailand
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that I've been to, I just
enjoyed the whole atmosphere
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of the market, and then
we just kinda stopped here
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just because we were in the area,
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and those mulberries were delicious.
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I'm gonna end this video now, it's been a,
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yeah, just a great Bangkok day trip,
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and good to get out of
Bangkok for a little bit,
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and I really love this
Samut Songkhram Province
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in Thailand, and the relaxing markets,
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and the whole feel of the entire province,
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this entire area.
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Thank you very much for
watching this video,
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please remember to give it a
thumbs up if you enjoyed it,
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and also, if you're
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make sure you click subscribe now
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for lots more food and travel videos,
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and I will see you on the next video,
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thank you for watching,
goodbye from Samut Songkhram.
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(cheerful instrumental music)
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