Indian Street Food - KING of CHICKEN TIKKA!! | Best North Indian Restaurants in Bangkok!!

hey everyone hope you're having an amazing day it's mark wiens i'm in bangkok thailand and today i'm gonna take you on an indian food tour especially focusing on north indian food in bangkok smells incredible oh that's a lot of heat we're gonna explore pahurat which is little india for an amazing breakfast we're gonna be eating everything from street food to fine dining so it's gonna be an incredibly delicious day and i cannot wait to share all of the food all of the north indian food with you in this video right now it's literally volcanic [Music] oh we are beginning this north indian food tour today in pahurat which is also known as bangkok's little india one of the main things that you'll find in pahurat is the siri guru singh sabha which is the main guru dwara or the sikh temple in bangkok and so this is the center of the sikh community and surrounding there's a lot of amazing indian restaurants and street food stalls so we're on our way first to go eat breakfast and some street snacks when i first came to thailand and bangkok i used to come here all the time to explore the narrow alleys and the streets but now since i live quite far from this area i don't make it here very often but it's always good to be back some delicious food you smell the spices in the air we are walking towards the end of india emporium where there is uh one of the legendary punjab suites and restaurant shops oh man that humidity of bangkok is serious right now but welcome to punjab sweets shop this is one of the legendary one of the oldest punjab food and sweets shops in bangkok and punjab is very famous north india is very famous for their suites so you'll see all the different suites at the front on display and so a lot of people get things for take away they even have a little convenience shop selling spices and indian ingredients but then you come to the side or you come upstairs they also have a dining room upstairs where they serve a full menu of north indian especially punjab dishes but actually they have quite an extensive menu so i am here with mr my name and you you're the owner here we're very very nice you started this 30 years ago very cool and were you originally born in thailand in delhi okay always happy to be here especially to eat that yeah that's when i come to eat yes yes very good yes thank you very much nice to meet you thank you thank you thank you very much nice to meet you man just got a couple of different dishes a couple chats and then also what you have to come here to eat chickpea masala along with it looks like a little bit of potato masala as well and then the paturas which are similar to puris which are deep fried pieces of bread that just balloon up so i'm gonna start with these while they're hot and fresh oh so puffy oh yeah grab a piece of the bature oh these are hearty too you can feel like the thickness of them and then we're going to dip into that chana or that chole oh wow oh yeah oh that's what i needed the flavor i needed in the morning those chickpeas the masala in there the ginger in there and it's not like extremely spicious or overly spicy and that's why it's so good in the morning it's just kind of calming and yet you still have that that flavor that just kind of melts in your mouth a little bit of cumin seed in there and then just a nice gravy that's formed from the potatoes disintegrating one of the main shots that we got is the paprika and paprika i believe are these little discs crispy discs which are deep fried they're crispy and then topped with a variety of there's yogurt on there there's some chickpeas on here there's a variety of masalas there might be tamarind [Music] you taste that cool refreshing yogurt but then at the same time it's balanced by the sprinkle of masala all the different crunchy textures there's so many things going on and that's the joy of eating a chat finally could not complete this meal without a cup of masala tea [Music] [Applause] oh yeah that's great all those spices the cardamom in there the ginger in there nice and creamy as well this like i mean this combination that is the definition of waking up in india [Music] [Applause] because i think it is a mango mango pickle oh man it smells so good you don't want to overdo it though because it is very salty probably but i love the flavor of it that green mango all of those spices and everything in there i totally missed the onions on the bottom they were hiding under the bature good thing i still have another puri and some more of the masalas left raw onions are one of my favorite things in the world wow thank you very much thank you thank you and then the owner here he so kindly just brought us a plate before we could even order the sweets he brought us a plate of some other specialties try that milk cake first okay that is sweet that is rich and it crumbles in your mouth you i believe you can taste the ghee and just like the the condensed milk in there and i think this one this one is the ladu ladu i remember definitely this is one of the favorites and you can see it's kind of like a another ball that's compressed with nuts in here very crumbly the flavor of the ghee there's cashews in there and the owner just brought another dessert which is another one of the the real signature desserts of north india just drenched in milk and spices the saffron i think there's a variety of nuts in here as well that's probably one of my favorite desserts of north india the milkiness it's like a milk soup with a patty that just absorbs it's so spongy and immediately what you taste is the flavor of the saffron followed by perhaps pistachio maybe some almonds in there maybe some cashews but it's really the saffron is immediately what you taste and that milkiness [Music] oh that was wonderful great people met some amazingly friendly people as we're sitting there eating as well sweets and we are walking back down the alley to the next spot actually on second thought there's another thing that is extremely popular throughout india north india after you eat a meal to help with the digestion and he's hanging out right here across from the sweets shop we're going to have some pan [Music] oh this one is good for the digestion okay [Music] especially common after you eat it well this type this version which is the sweet version of pan is especially common after you eat a meal for digestion he wraps it up all these little bottles of different spices and different seasonings i just love how it's just i mean this is exactly like you would find it in india oh wow very nice there's a little bit of beetle nut in there the sweet candies the spices it immediately kind of makes your mouth feel a little bit tingly and then also kind of like a little almost sudsy in your mouth i taste the caraway seed and it's just like an entire culture of its own thank you very much gonna be chewing for a little while and just releasing the saliva the juices located right on the corner of the main road right outside india emporium you will find the legendary it might be the only real samosa street food stall in all of bangkok and they make amazing samosas you cannot come to pakhurat without stopping there [Music] somosa corner we've been here for 45 plus years on the corner here in pahurat and so they just have three things samosa tiki and takora we're gonna get some samosas and some pakoras they're frying them fresh you should see people just jump out of their cars from the road run to the stall grab some take away while sitting on the road and then jump back in their car you can smell the aroma all over pahura [Music] okay oh so he's putting in a fresh batch of pakora i think it's a combination of vegetables and uh hello [Music] he's putting in a fresh matchup that's almost us sliding him in [Music] man he just fills up the entire wok full of oil full of the samosas that must be dozens floating around there at once that's why he said that you don't want to use a high fire you want to keep the flame low so that that oil is not overheated and doesn't burn them or doesn't let the oil soak in but just that perfect low temperature low fry let them gently turn golden brown until crispy so they fry for about 30 minutes hopefully they do have a batch of samosas already ready and so we're gonna dig in right now i got ten they're hot they're fresh and it's served with oh they're gonna put yes since you're i'm eating here standing here they're gonna serve me some of that that chutney to eat with it all right i'm gonna grab one of the samosas hot and fresh triangular triangles of goodness dip it into the chutney oh wow yeah just deep fried perfectly oh man and immediately as i took that bite the spices are not extremely strong but they're just mellow they're just soothing a little bit of cumin seed in there a little bit of chili the potato just melts in your mouth and then dipped into the that chutney is a little bit sweet and sour and a little bit spicy the freshness i think is what really shines here as they fry them fresh homemade so tasty that chutney tastes like a little bit sweet and sour like a tamarind maybe and they go down so easily yes there's a variety of spices and again we just had to dip it into the chutney i love the herbal flavor of it oh man oh and the inside of that pakoda is amazing it's like kind of moist and juicy it just keeps an eye on them until they're perfectly golden and crispy but not overcooked not dried out moist vegetal sweetness from the onions wow an absolute must stop when you're on pahura you have to come to somoza corner wow that was one sweaty samosa experience and so good i love this entire corner this entire area of bangkok you can come here to buy fresh fruits and vegetables you can come here to buy all sorts of indian spices and all sorts of cool lanes and alleys to explore and we're gonna head into a different part of town and continue with this north indian food tour of bangkok a lot more food coming up [Music] so next up on this tour we're in the nana area of bangkok we're going to a restaurant that i think is one of the best north indian restaurants in all of bangkok good to see you thank you and so it's not only north indian but they specialize in amritsari cuisine we are brought from india because it's not available over here in thailand that's the main thing but we have brought around four clear for salmon we have installed it over here properly to give you the taste of india yeah inside there we are making first it could be uh chicken chicken i don't think i've ever had it before and i know achara is a pickle but then the rest is going to be unknown what exactly is in that sauce so he starts with some chicken tosses in a few spices here comes that sauce oh wow oh that smells incredible i immediately smell that pickle aroma the turmeric in there and that's the marinade right there [Music] yeah it is good yeah for [Music] sure that goes directly into the tandoor that goes directly into the tandoor and these are tandoors that are brought from india clay ovens charcoal burning on the bottom and i love this entire like setup that they have here next would be paneer makmali kebab made of cottage cheese oh okay cheese white marination [Music] we have another paste here another marination you smell the masala you smell the yogurt i know a lot of the marinations have a lot of yogurt in north india right a lot of yogurt a lot of spices [Laughter] so that's going directly into the tandoor as well oh man that smells incredible it's starting to char and bubble and blister the outside of that chicken oh it's ready [Music] okay [Music] oh that looks amazing and then onto the hot skillet chicken comes out of the tundra he drizzles it in butter then into a mixing bowl he adds on some coriander a sprinkle of masala and a sprinkle of fresh lime juice then onto the hot skillet and it's going to smoke away but the aroma is almost out of control okay thank you chef thank you very much oh man those tandoori dishes look incredible we are now moving to the other side of the kitchen to see the other dishes being prepared so now we are going to make a mutton special okay a mutton special dish would be mutton tikka tawa okay not the lamb it's a good meat awesome [Applause] he's adding in all the spices now the turmeric some cumin some masalas it smells incredible and he's just like igniting that in smoke and fire and he's adding in like a variety of and it's so incredibly complex too he must have added in like five different masala pastes tomato paste and onion sauce oh and finished off with a little classic north indian butter and a squeeze of lime juice and a handful of coriander and ginger wow oh this isn't his ghee and a little bit of ghee to sprinkle that off oh wow it's unbelievable it's literally volcanic and that final sprinkle of coriander and ginger that is outrageously aromatic oh that's therapeutic that was amazing oh wow that's going to be good so those are only the starters yes this is just the beginning of the meal paneer thank you very starters excuse me sir oh thank you very much oh man excuse me mom this is chicken okay thank you for you sir you will have big piece he kindly just dished us one of each the aromas are almost out of control and then the naan has just hit the table we've got garlic none and just some regular none that mutton which he just he just it literally just came out of the the volcanic frying pan all those different sauces all those different masalas he just literally just loaded it up lit it on fire oh it's tender it's full of spice and i love the the scorching of those green peppers and onions oh wow unbelievable oh man the mix of different sauces and spices the ginger in there all those different masalas coming together that is a sweet harmony okay and then moving on to the chicken acharya tikka i wish you could just smell that aroma oh wow all the flavor keeps on coming you've got that acidity from the pickle you've got a little bit of spice in there the turmeric the richness of that yogurt and butter and then the smokiness just bringing it all together that is a flavor overdose wow okay once you pick up a piece of acharya there's no way you'll set it down and you'll lick your fingers as well that's every single bite okay next up for the makmali kebab which is a cheese roll stuffed and then there's a bell pepper on top i might add a little bit of the mint that's awesome too the cheese just kind of crumbles in your mouth it's got that smokey bubbly crust and the mustard seed i think in there that's what it translates to which translates to fiery potato so it's a stuffed potato and then just scorched oh you covered it in that that paste red marination paste the masala the ultimate of all stuffed potatoes i think i taste the achar in there too slight acidity the pickle in there there's peas in there and the smoke of the tandoor okay i'm moving back over to that that mutton [Music] and that's one of those dishes where the mutton the meat itself is amazing but the sauce is so good you would love it just as much if it was meatless achari tikka this is just blowing my taste buds away i'm gonna sprinkle a little bit of lime juice onto it and i'm gonna add a raw onion or a few or a few raw onions to the top [Music] so much going on and that extra step of complexity from the pickle what do you what did you say masala which is buttermilk masala spiced buttermilk when you're eating north indian food it is a must all the dairy the masala oh that's so good wow it's rich it's creamy it's frothy and then in the back of your throat you taste the masala so we're back in the kitchen now and chef is going to get started on some of the main course dishes yes okay we'll watch him as he makes it [Music] [Applause] one of my favorite dishes i love a pureed spinach he added in the variety of there's an onion masala tomato masala a veg masala then he added in all the dry spices turmeric fenugreek cumin coriander oh a blob of butter goes in and now he's adding in some cream it's so thick it's so fragrant oh and then finally that's the paneer that goes in i love how just thick and rich it is there's milk there's cream there's ghee [Music] wow next dish chef is going to make is the amritsari prawns yeah it's a dish that's of course from amritsar amritsar yeah but the ponds are not available over there but basically they use the basic fish but here we have improvised it to make it in france oh cool what's mustard seed okay mustard seed and garlic and ginger oh ginger is one of the main ingredients in this dish [Applause] [Applause] my mouth is just continuously watering the way he just adds in the spices so perfectly so knowledgeable then all the different spices the fenugreek leaves the ghee the butter the cream it's all going in and it's just simmering in a volcanic heat oh and again he finishes off it off with some more coriander and grated ginger oh and a squeeze of lime juice oh wow amritsari prawns absolutely insane [Applause] wow [Applause] just he knows exactly what to add in no measurements just by experience just tossing in the spices it's gonna be absolutely amazing okay back to the table for main course thank you chef oh thank you main course and i'm joined with satbir yup great to hang out thank you so much for having me thank you very much and thank you so much for having us the food here is it really is the real deal amritsari punjab cuisine thank you so much thank you so much it was started by my uncle mr manjit singh seti in mumbai in 1970s basically okay we come from that long uh oh yeah uh then his son mr vikki said he started in uae on the name of cool checking now we started uh over here we started as an experiment in bangkok but it worked so we are here in front of you and now we are other four outlets in uae i'll begin with that paneer oh man yes hot right out of the that frying pan that volcanic frying pan oh yeah that's hot yes the best way wow it is so awesome like a so creamy and rich just that puree of spinach the amritari prawns which i will add that there and you can just feel the ginger the ginger in your fingertips oh wow all the i'm prawns are incredible the mustard seed you taste the mustard seeds yeah and then that freshness of the ginger and the coriander all those different masalas and those paste the tomato paste gives you a little bit of tartness the onion masala just gives it like this sweet caramelized flavor it's so balanced it's so flavorful and even though the dishes are rich and there's cream and there's butter and there's ghee and some of the dishes they don't feel oily from the way chef made them right yeah they don't feel oh they are heavy for sure they will fill you up but they don't feel they don't feel oily and greasy when you're eating them again buttered doll with black lentils usually you can see that thickness that richness the butter in there the cream in there oh man best to like mix it up if you want to eat you can are you sure okay okay oh wow the dal makhani is amazing actually i remember my first time to try dal makhani maybe it was like 12 years ago when i was in delhi oh it was like a lentil it was a lentil game changer for me oh yeah oh it's crispy too and i gotta go back into the that amritsari prawns that dish is a must order when you're you come here to eat it i'm good sir and you can also order it i think last time i eat here i ate it with the chicken yeah which was incredible and then you can order with a variety of different meats [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what an incredible meal we are now finishing with dessert two different desserts one is the very famous gulab jamun and the other one is uh what was this pista which is like a rice pudding you can see the silver on top with some ground pistachios oh wow that's incredible actually i like it because it's sweet but balanced with a saltiness really taste the saffron it's kind of sticky you taste the fragrance of those pistachios so gulab jamun which are little balls which are submerged and saturated with floral syrup oh and these are supple the syrup juices just gush out of your mouth when you take a bite that was just a spectacular meal really i think it's one of the best north indian restaurants in bangkok again there's two locations plus locations in uae amritsar to complete this food tour though we've got one more place to go and it's gonna be more of a fine dining restaurant so we are in the nana area of bangkok at the radisson suites welcome to the punjab grill this is an internationally recognized north indian punjab restaurant serving modern contemporary north indian food [Music] it is luxurious it is so spacious and we actually arrived here before they opened they opened i think at about 6 p.m for dinner and so we arrived here before they open to see the entire restaurant we have the whole restaurant to ourselves right now and what we're gonna do is we are gonna walk around the kitchen we're gonna see some of the cooking we're gonna see some of the tandoor action and then after that we're going to sit down for another feast of a meal very cool we're moving straight into the kitchen and straight to the tandoor station so these are the the prawns do you call it so this is the yellow chili powder yogurt and scented with carom seeds like we call in india as ajwain [Music] over here okay [Music] he just kind of lines those up on the skewer i think four or five of them into the tandoori and you just feel the heat just radiating out of that it's so hot there's charcoal there's coals at burning coals at the bottom and that smells so good immediately oh and he's gonna drizzle in some is it butter yeah oh man the smoke coming off of it oh it's so fragrant more flavor yeah incredibly fragrant okay now moving over to the lamb chops so basically the new zealand lamb chops we have a particular way of cooking it actually so what we do is the new zealand lamb rack which is marinated first and then we actually braise it in the yogurt for like seven to eight hours and then we take out the meat and we use the same liquid and use that as a marination and then cook it in the tandoor so that it's very very tender and fell off the bone very easily it's already cooked yeah it's so like braised yeah yeah braised in the liquid the butter drizzle yeah oh wow that smells unbelievable and you can get the flavor the most smoky flavor to the kebabs yes yeah for sure that looks unbelievable [Music] oh that drip that melting of the meat those dishes are ready we're gonna move to the other side of the kitchen to see a few more dishes being cooked before we start eating thank you very much chef thank you chicken first butter chicken which is like our signature curry butter chicken is the most famous dish that's one for sure like generally it's called makhani butter chicken or when it goes to uk it's called chicken tikka masala but everything is almost the same so this is tandoori chicken already tandoori chicken right yeah okay oh chicken tikka chicken tomato garam gravy like whole spices like cinnamon green cardamom black cardamom black peppercorns and some of the nutmeg mace we make it and we cook along with some ginger garlic green chili is which one is this and then next up chef is going to make a pran biryani so prawn biryani ghee goes in first then a little bit of chili powder a little bit of turmeric those prawns go in he's just stir-frying those around just caking them and the spices and that ghee and we'll wait to see what he does next to make this biryani onion tomato gravy goes in that's a little bit of the tomato tomato gravy onion gravy and we put the biryani masala we make it in-house okay it's actually made with green cardamom and mace which means it's like the outer covering of the javitri and then you have brown onions brown onions which have been fried and caramelized goes in so this is going to be the pan where it cooks together yeah so basically then we'll put it we'll cover it with the dough sheet which of made of flour flour a little bit of a more a little bit more okay and this is a dough dough so that's going to be transferred over to the oven all right before we start eating though we're going to see one more uh chef is going to make a chili garlic naan [Music] garlic goes on this is this is a chili garlic knot yeah oh man that's a lot of chili garlic a whole handful of green chilies goes on green coriander [Music] oh man that smells unbelievable [Music] so [Music] oh okay that's butter goes on all the drizzle oh that smells unbelievable [Music] and props to the chefs because working back there by the tandoors it is blazing hot so the first dish that we are having is avocado beer our traditional indian streets uh mint chutney turmeric chutney onion shallots uh tomatoes along with it and on the top of that is the indian style of kamole so it's like avocado with some tamarind chutney some red chilli powder and that oh man oh that is creamy from the avocado you taste the masala sprinkle of spices the tomatoes in there yeah they're having is tandoori that we did the cooking inside in the tamil marinated in yellow chili powder and set it with carom seeds and yogurt and the next dish that you're having is the champagne that's the new zealand lamb racks these just smell unbelievable i have to just pick one up okay to bite it wow oh man that flavor is unbelievable oh the smokiness it tastes like smoked butter is just caked up onto each one of these prawns the muscularity of the fleshiness of the prawn just slightly cooling yogurt the yellow the fragrance of the yellow chili and that hint of the caraway seed this is one of their known dishes well-known dishes and now i know exactly why man that is unbelievably tasty lamb rack and then cooked again in the tundra to finish them off to embed that smokiness into them oh wow it's so tender and you can just feel that the fat has just seeped into the meat melted into the meat keeping it moist and tender and juicy through the cooking process so many different spices nothing overpowering anything and just focusing on the flavor of that that meat that limb i gotta do one more of these tandoori jingas do the raan first so that's the baby lamlac which is cooked in tandoor along with some flavor with cinnamon and then vintage flambe with rum [Music] you have the butter chicken the butter chicken the black lentils and that's the prawn biryani prawn biryani oh man nice [Music] would this be a punjab style biryani style of yeah all right great and then finally the green chili garlic naan drizzled in butter which is just literally this is a a piece of art right here perfectly cooked i love the char the bubble action we should start with that butter chicken that gravy the cream in there so buttery the tomatoes in there the mace butter chicken is probably the most well-known indian foods of the entire world and especially a north indian dish known for its rich gravy it's butter gravy tomato sauce all the different spices in there man it's tart from the tomato sauce it's rich but it doesn't feel oily oh man and i love the flavor of that that chili in there and as you keep on chewing you just keep tasting new spices and new flavors the fenugreek in there and next up for the dal makhani butter doll oh you can see how rich and creamy it is there's cream in there there's butter in there there's lentils it's thick it's rich oh wow i love doll making so heavy and so rich and so tasty okay moving on to the lamb huge chunks of lamb all the flavor the spice caked up on them and that flambe to finish it off oh man the tenderness what is that one spice that you're really tasting in there possibly the mace yeah like a nutmeg nice taste to it which goes all the way to the bone and then you taste that rum flambe that kind of like works in a in a way that an acid would work such as lime juice by kind of mellowing down the richness and kind of blending those flavors together that is succulent and then we've got the prawn biryani which is a lucknawi style biryani layered in with all the spices with the prawns with that really fluffy rice and you can really smell those caramelized onions in there as well and you can just see how every grain of rice is just so perfectly individual so oiled from that ghee oh man the fragrance of the onions the fluffy richness of the rice which has just been yeah saturated with that ghee yeah really what stands out is the flavor of the mace and the green cardamom i believe in there that's just like an amazingly aromatic fragrance and spice that you immediately immediately stands out with you when you take a bite [Music] [Applause] [Music] you start eating you're going strong and then all of a sudden it just kind of hits you and you're like well i need to lean back and relax for a little bit before i take my next bite oh man just the satisfaction that north indian food provides is almost unparalleled first dessert that you're having is masala tea cheesecake so we have a cheesecake flavored with masala tea and the base that you see is a palais biscuit crumb cardamom milk which is made like a spuma which will make like a crumble in liquid nitrogen ah wow [Music] [Music] then we have some tea spice spice powder and some salted caramel sauce [Music] so what we do here is we clamber with coin through and then the hot chocolate sauce starts melting the chocolate sphere inside there is saffron pista kulfi as an indian version saffron taste ice cream so it's saffron pista cookie with chocolate sauce dessert here is a spectacle it's an experience it's a show they wheel it out and so there's just like chunks of kulfi melted with so much making into a chocolate soup wow oh man that is good that's like that is a lot of chocolate and then i've got to try some of those oh yeah they're like little bubbles oh and so that's the foam the frozen nuggets of cardamom milk which turn into a foam i think those little balls are like have a little bit of a fruitiness to it they just kind of pop in your mouth but with like a jam taste to them nice masala tea [Music] thank you [Music] oh it's belt loosening time [Laughter] oh time for a cup of masala tea oh that's wonderful the fragrance of the spices the cinnamon in there ah this is the perfect way to end an amazing time an amazing food tour in bangkok of north indian food i recently did a south indian food tour where you can eat some of the best south indian food in bangkok i'll have that link in the description box but like i mentioned in that video what's so cool about bangkok is that there's so many options in such a diversity and so everything from laid-back hole-in-the-wall restaurants to nicer places to sit to relax the diversity and the what's available when it comes to indian food when it comes to international food in bangkok is something that i love so much about the incredible food scene and if you haven't already watched the south indian food tour of bangkok be sure to watch that video as well so i want to say a big thank you for watching please remember to give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it leave a comment below i'd love to hear from you and if you're not already subscribed make sure you subscribe now for lots more food and travel videos good night from bangkok and i'll see you on the next video

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Published: Sat Mar 26 2022