Phuket Morning Market - Awesome Roti Mataba

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Read more about Phuket market: Get my travel updates (its free): One of my personal favorite things to do anywhere I travel is visit local markets - and Im talking about local fresh wet markets that sell food and ingredients. In Phuket Town, in the morning there is a Phuket market called Talad Kaset. Its one of the major morning markets where youll find all the ingredients used in southern Thai cooking from vegetables to fruit to all sorts of meat and seafood. At first when I arrived, my wife and I walked around for a few minutes just admiring all the delicious ingredients used in the cuisine of Phuket. But along with the fresh ingredients at this Phuket market, one of the highlights of going is to eat breakfast, and there are many options available. If you want dim sum, theres a famous restaurant on corner of the market that serves dim sum, and youll also find all sorts of curry stalls, stalls selling rice congee, and plenty of snack stalls and Thai dessert stalls as well. The first thing that caught my attention was something called tua rang, which in English is called a bambara groundnut. This was my first time to see it in Thailand, and so I had to get a taste of it for my first snack. The little boiled bambara groundnuts tasted a lot like peanuts, but with a little more starchiness to them, sort of like a cross between a peanut and a bean. They were boiled and lightly salted, and I thought they made a wonderful hearty snack - and they were quite filling too. After eating some tua rang, we headed into the market and went to one of the many dessert and snack stalls. While sticky rice and mango is common, something you dont see all over Thailand is khao neow na kanun, sticky rice with jackfruit. The sticky rice, which was purple sticky rice, was cooked with coconut milk, and then topped with a handful of super ripe jackfruit. The jackfruit almost tasted like honey and bananas, and the sticky rice was rich and creamy, and slightly salty. A famous southern Thai dessert or snack is khao tom mad, sticky rice and a banana, wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. This was a very good version, not too sweet, I think it may have just been naturally sweet from the coconut and banana. After doing some snacking at Phukets Talad Kaset ) market, I was ready for something more substantial for breakfast - and thats when I found a Thai roti stall, that was packed with customers and looked incredible. We pulled up some empty stools and order two different versions, roti kai kub kaeng neua ( ) and roti mataba. The roti kai kub kaeng neua ( ) was a roti filled with egg and served with beef curry on the side. It was incredible, packed full of egg, crispy on the outside, and the creamy rich curry was delicious with it. The roti mataba ) was also fantastic, one of the better versions Im had in Thailand. The roti was filled with a mixture of egg, minced beef, and onions, then fried until crispy. Sitting on a stool at this Phuket market, enjoying roti, was highly memorable, and the rotis were marvelous. Talad Kaset ) is a local fresh wet market in Phuket. Its a great place to come to see local life, learn about all the ingredients used in Phuket food, and to eat breakfast. If you love markets, dont miss Talad Kaset ) when youre in Phuket Town
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 10

Kit Cat
Each time I watch your videos, the pure bliss expression on your face from enjoying the foods from different countries you visit - always makes my day. Thank you for being so descriptive when you explain how the food tastes, what ingredients consists in the dish and where you can find it. Keep up the awesome job Mike and I hope to see many more videos from you in the future: )
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Harald Feichtinger
hey mark, I'm missing miek kham I mean eatable leaves filled with ginger, huts, onions, dried shrimps, lemon plum sauce & chilli - a composation which is really amazing I got them given warm in the yaowarat area bkk and cold served in restaurants around silom, once have a look to the thanying restaurant in a connecting road betwenn silom and sathorn road
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lichmasterful
Dear Mark Hello from Russia So, this summer Im going to travel to Thai. Which dishes can you advise me to taste there? I dont like eating spicy food, I prefer something more European. Ive seen lots of your videos, read your blog, but I cant make a choice (as I said before) what to taste: ) I hope u will help me to determine. Thank you in advance.
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evogardens
Hi Ying & Mark, I would love to try the Roti mataba; looked a little like a Turkish Gozleme. I guess a lot of countries have their own similar version. I expected you to use your fingers to eat the Rotis; they must've been really hotWas the friendly guy the owner of the shop? Jim.
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Aus Digital Media
Good stuff Mark. I visited Thailand for the first time last year and loved it. This year I have 2 weeks in Vietnam coming up, can't wait. I go there for the food, the people and the photography opportunities. Keep up the good work mate. Will from Australia.
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RR C
It would be great if you run a Foodies Tour for foreigners like myself. You can hire local bilingual experts to take people to your favourite places. I am very keen to try the food I saw on your show but I'd have trouble ordering and finding my way to those places.
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thickbrianq
Mark I am a huge fan of yours and of SouthEast Asian Foods, thank you. I had dear friends from Thailand, before they move from U. S. back to Thailand they made me a Rota thats had the eggs but was with a thick coconut sauce on it It was DIVINE
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Pocket Studio
Hello Mark. I was in Phuket But now in Bangkok. You should to try Kow Mok Kai Tord at Talad Kaset at night time. It difference Kow Mok Kai every I had found. It serve with Tom Yum Soup so spicy and yummy. Please come again at night. enjoy: )
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K.C
Can you think of other words to describe your food other than salty? I hear the word salty in almost all your videos. Don't get me wrong I love your videos, but you definitely need to explore with more words to describe your food. Anyway, nice video.
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Joachim Reinhold
Mark, thanks for the shirt -> pls see my explicit comment there. Hey, I am in Bangkok August 7th-11th, full day to spend eating & cooking on August 10th. How about it? I need direct details to contact you. Pls write back. Thanks.
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