Thai Street Food - Pla Pao (Roasted Fish) at Central World Street Food Stalls in Bangkok

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my Thai street food guide: and also my travel and street food website here One of the best things about visiting Bangkok is taking advantage of the incredible array of Thai street food available. It's nearly everywhere you look and it's mostly quite sanitary, affordable, and most importantly, it's incredible delicious. There's Thai street food all over Bangkok and throughout the entire country. One of the most popular shopping areas in the city is known as Pratunam, an area that's just a short distance from Siam shopping area and just a short walk from Central World mall. Everyday, thousands of pedestrians pass this little stretch next to Central World and for that reason, there's an abundance of wonderful street food available. Starting at about 5 pm each day, there are a series of full Thai street food restaurants that set up just outside of Central World shopping mall in Bangkok. The place that I ate at in the video goes by Ratchaprasong Thai Food (. They specialize in mostly Isaan cuisine from the northeaster part of the country, but they also have some other stir fried Chinese style dishes as well. But when I go, I mostly go with an intent to eat a few of the items off the grill Plan chon pao, or roasted snake head fish, is the top reason to visit these street stalls. The grills are absolutely packed with this ugly, yet tasty creatures. To prepare them Thai style, the fish is first stuffed in the mouth with lemongrass and herbs and then rolled in a thick layer of salt. The fish is then slow roasted on open charcoal as it slow cooks. The result is a flaky fish that's a gem of Thai street food. Served with a seafood sauce, called nam jim seafood, it's amazing. The fish is flaky and remains moist and flavorful from the cooking process. I also tried their grilled chicken, known as gai yang in Thai. It was indeed flavorful, but my only complaint is that it was slightly dry. However, that's just sort of the way street food may be, some pieces of chicken might be dry and others nice and moist. Lastly, now Thai meal on the street like this would be complete without a helping of green papaya salad. I asked for it spicy, and they didn't fail to load it with spicy chillies. Made with fresh ingredients, the green papaya was crisp and mixed with a tomatoes, dry shrimp, chillies, garlic, palm sugar, fish sauce, and lime juice. It was excellent. Along with the other dishes, I also enjoyed a few plates of Thai sticky rice to bring the meal together Sitting on the side of the busy road and with countless pedestrians that walk past every minute, Ratchaprasong Thai Food ( ) doesn't have the greatest ambiance. But it sure is convenient and the Thai street food there is quite appetizing Hours: 5 pm - 2 am daily Prices: 100 - 200 THB per person for a full meal, the meal we ate above came to 300 THB Address: Sidewalk outside Bangkok's Central World shopping center How To Get There: Take the BTS to Chit Lom station, walk towards Ratchaprasong road and then cross the street to Central World shopping mall. Procee to walk past the mall and on your way to Pratunam, and it would be impossible to miss these Thai street food stalls. I go to the first one. Open only after 5 pm
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 10

Arthid Changthong
I'll give you the recipe for the best Seafood sauce: 10-12 cloves of garlica handful of green bird eye chilli, maybe more if you prefer extra heat3 coriander roots, 3 celeries stem and root (the thai/chinese ones will work best)chop those up ] and mash it up in mortar if you have one. most of those shop out there use blender to fast up the process which only chop those herbs to small pieces but by using mortar it will extract more oil and scent the sauce even more. When you mash/blend to a fine paste put these seasoning in: 4 tbsp of fish sauce4 tbsp of fine sugar4 lime fruits juice (don't squeeze too hard, it will get bitter) mix it up until sugar dissolved and there you go dip with all SEAFOOD you've gotsorry for bad grammar. ENJOY
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Harsa Arizki
Honestly, I don't want to pay 300 THB (9 US) for those street food. With 300 THB actually I could eat at MK GOLD Siam Paragon for delicious cantonese food or perhaps I only spent only 270 THB to get a brunch in delicious tasty Thai's food in 10East at Anantara Bangkok Sathorn (my favourite hotel in Bangkok) and that's not a snake-head fish I think it actually Cat Fish. But two Thumbs up U've shared a lot of things in Thailand that some of them I don't recognized it esp. in rural Thai area that I haven't discover it yet. Keep up ur good works
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mperkh
Love your videos. Have been to that restaurant in spring 2015, after searching it for maybe around 1h. :) But it was worth it. Incredible how they build up this mobile restaurant at 5pm (before 5pm, Tshirts are sold at that place. Within 20minutes they transform a sidewalk into a restaurant, where they serve delicious food and ice cooled drinks. Thanks Mark for pointing to that place
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Wainui Graham
I'm getting married in Thailand in March 2014. Can't wait to show my parents what REAL Thai food tastes like. I had my first holiday to Thailand last year and it's sooo beautiful we decided to get married there. Watching a marathon of your videos because I don't want to miss out on any food haha
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Irwin Tan
Keep it up. Love you videos. I'm living in Malaysia and often fly to my neighbouring country, your vids shows me alot of the places I can go to when I'm there. I'm staying in Penang which is called the Food Haven of Malaysia. Come down and give it a try when you have the time =.
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betty122671
You know what Mr. Wiens, I have seen quite a lot of your food videos & it has been my observation that everytime you taste a particular dish your facial expression (eyes closed & sort of a long exhale of satisfaction) justifies how tasty the foods are. :)
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ZanoDesigns
when i went to bangkok we were told in holland not to eat food sold at the street, at the end of the three weeks we did do it becuase there were no flies on it and it was freshly made. It tasted so good, one of the best things i ever tasted
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stitchergary
How I and everyone else wishes we could follow you around eating everything you have. then maybe we could have that oh wow expression on our faces. thank you for all your efforts. I certainly enjoy every video.
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rintinsmiley
thank you so much for sharing with your adventures in thai. Im planning myself to experience thailand too, it helps me a lot to have an idea more power and god bless you. Greetings here from philippines.
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