Pro Grandma Chef - 50 YEARS COOKING!! Insane Thai Street Food in Songkhla (สงขลา), Thailand!

good morning hope you're having an amazing day it's mark wiens i'm in the old town of songkla this is one of my favorite old towns in thailand the culture the history and especially the food look at that yolk and today uh we're gonna go check out it's a cow gang restaurant a thai rice and curry restaurant but they serve kind of like thai chinese malay all things songkwa food it looks like you're going into a market to eat and the family that cooks the family that runs the restaurant they're absolutely legendary they've been uh running the restaurant for i think at least 50 years cooking her cooking skills look insane gonna eat a bunch of traditional thai songclaw rice and curry in this video i'm gonna share all of the food all of the cooking everything we do everything we eat with you in this video [Music] i mean definitely one of the highlights of being in the old town of songkla is just walking around the narrow streets the architecture the mix of chinese thai malay even portuguese influence the narrow alleys the old buildings the murals on the walls the little shop house restaurants the melting pot of cultures that have formed the identity of the old town in san cla okay yes okay so it's not actually in the market but it when you get back here it does look like a market a beautiful opening all the age the history you can just feel the history here um and this place is known for their cow gang rice and curry local style oh man i love this place the smell of the curries and they cook everything over fire over charcoal still so it has this smoky flavor this is just complete old school thai southern thai rice and curry you smell the turmeric the chili's in the air what a spot you know foreign smells incredible the herbs the spices are just wafting and the smokiness of that charcoal just wafting through this restaurant [Music] okay [Applause] [Music] up [Music] oh even the chairs even the chairs are cool but everything is so old so traditional you do not find most of these dishes at other restaurants or at other curry stalls throughout thailand or even in sunclaw this is extremely traditional old school hard to find rare dishes i'm ecstatic to start eating and just as i was about to dig in about as we were about to eat she brought us some cause he said if we had gengson we had to order a little bit of the sweet pork the sweet pork right and there's another thing too so she she just kindly gave this to us and came to that's how nice they are here but some amazing looking dishes these egg yolks kai club oh yeah kai krob these are egg duck egg yolks which somehow have just expanded she said it's not too salty i think they're preserved a little bit but it almost looks like a peach look at that it's like a bright orange peach never seen duck eggs like duck egg yolks like this i'm going to start with this penang curry making sure to get some of that kaffir lime leaf oh it's kind of crispy it's kind of feels fried crispy fried fragrant all that spice caked up on the meat that is tasty you immediately know it's penang but without all the gravy without all the sauce the balance of sweet citrus spiced it's almost nutty tasting too that is tasty and this is actually famous in sungla but i've never tried it before just an entire oh it's like a double is it oh it's two yolks together it's too stuck together ah now i see oh now you can see the yolks oh man that is awesome and then you take a little bit you don't want to one bite this because it is rich and maybe a little bit salty but you can just eat it with rice or you can eat it with curry oh wow that texture it's so silky smooth salty rich and creamy oh that is rich that feels like butter in your mouth follow that with a little bit of the the gaengchi there's minced pork in here and these are ivy gourd leaves well that's just simple i love ivy garlics they have a kind of a spinach but a nutty taste to them and garlic in there garlic and i can't wait to try the green curry traditional style you see the thick rich coconut milk pieces of beef in here uh pea eggplants and also lots of lots of thai basil sweet basil in here look at the richness the rich thickness oh man and beef with green curry with beef is one of my favorite i mean it's my favorite type of green curry so i need them i see green curry especially a traditional style with beef oh it's the best oh wow that's extraordinary thick and rich from coconut milk you taste the spice blend in there the green chilies the sweetness of the thai basil the cumin seed in there and then the the pieces of beef that just soak up all of that green curry sauce that's delicious that is just the real deal authentic traditional thai green berry okay and next up i even love these metal bowls that they serve you in it could not get more classic than this and this one is the curry with the kaimenga the horseshoe crab eggs again i've never seen a curry like this before and i think she said there's a pineapple in here too and you can see all those little beads all those little beads are the eggs oh what a dish the pineapple in there it's sweet and sour and so juicy the coconut milk in there the horseshoe crab eggs are a little like they're like mini yolks they're starchy they're rich oh that's unique something i've never had before and they gave us another dish to try they're so nice okay it's so fruity i just want to say a huge thank you for watching this video i hope you're already enjoying it but right now if you could quickly click like on this video you would be a huge help and it will just take you one second so thank you in advance for clicking like on this video it's rice it's chicken curry there's sweet shrimp there's ikan bilis i believe which are uh dried fried anchovy or some type of fish there's some different types of sambal a tamarind sambal and a spicy sambal what you do is you mix it all together so they wanted us to try that that's awesome i want to try to get a little bit on every everything the chicken the shrimp the fish the sambal that balance of sour tart sweet spiced fishy that is an amazing balance of flavor but really sour and sweet mostly time to dig into the gang zom and she just refilled us up with more bamboo shoots uh hot bamboo shoots oh man okay so and you can see look at the oils of the fish coming out on that broth on that on that curry sauce the turmeric is blooming the chilies the garlic everything here is absolutely outstanding and that goes for the food and the hospitality oh man the gang sound is amazing too just sour and spicy that's it and that crunch especially of those fresh bamboo shoots she instructed us also to eat the gengsum along with the the moonwa and the sweet pork okay and then take that sweet pork with the with the bamboo shoots well that works [Music] one last bite of the egg yolk and i'm gonna pair that with green curry green curry is amazing and that the silky rich butteriness of that egg yolk it's like having a block of butter on your rice [Music] as soon as i've almost finished one dish she brings another dish like it's a never-ending curry meal because of their amazing hospitality they just keep bringing us little dishes today she's like taste this tastes this i mean she just brought us the dish of the gengari which is like a it's a chicken curry um it's kind of a more like an indian spice blend dry dry curry spice blend oh that's awesome yes the coconut milk that blend of coriander seed coriander seed in there cumin firmaret [Music] um [Applause] oh [Music] um [Music] [Music] i'm having the honor to come back into the kitchen to watch her as she's cooking she is a true master she oh we can all learn something about cooking from her she's 74 years old she wakes up at 3am every day to cook and how it works here is she's just cooking continuously from 3am until about noon or until about 1. um and her secret she said is she only cooks small batches i mean along with her immense experience she doesn't cook a massive wok she only cooks one bowl of that dish and then her daughter who dishes everything out she was telling she was explaining to us that if you come at a different time you'll get different dishes so if you come at 7am you'll get the dishes that she cooked then because then they sell out of those and then they won't sell it later you know she just continually cooks so you never know exactly what you're gonna get well she cooks small batch portions to control the flavor that immense experience and her style just chucking ingredients seasoning in sloshing around in the wok adding in soup the smoke rises the chili fumes the smoke oh she's an absolute master so much style so much character and they're so nice [Music] oh [Music] [Music] okay [Music] my [Music] hub there you go let's go foreign [Music] oh okay [Music] foreign she's so nice and talkative also once you get to hanging out with her in the kitchen she starts talking [Applause] she i asked her how long she'd been cooking she said about 30 years and then she said oh maybe about 40 years and then her daughter says 50 more than 50 years actually she could close her eyes and cook she is the utmost mastery of pie cooking unbelievable skill unbelievable style just chucking things in without even thinking [Music] wow [Music] i'll tell you how you know someone with cooking experience with her bare hand she grabs chopped ground chili and just sprinkles it in oh man for most of us our hands would just be burning for the rest of the day for the rest of the week she just does it effortlessly and one more thing to mention there is a sushi who helps uh prepare the ingredients who chops the chilies who chops the garlic who peels things but she she cooks every single dish everything you order who you're here passes through her her wok her her cooking everything you order here [Music] okay oh man she is she's like a mom to everyone what extreme cooking skills oh and they brought us more dishes to try all those dishes so theoretically what you could do you could come here at like 8 a.m as they open you could have one round you could wait another hour you could order more dishes wait another hour order more dishes you could be all the way until 1pm when she finished with when auntie finishes cooking and then you get the full spectrum but then you'd probably eat like 50 dishes which if you can handle it you can spend the entire morning here and you'd be really really happy and really full uh muhong but um so this is a braised thai chinese dish wow that's a pork belly chunk right there oh man it's just melting though and then uh with quail eggs i've never seen it with coil eggs before there should be pepper in here and again just traditional cooked look at that oh man oh wow that glazed sweet salty fragrant pepper the chinese spices in there the anise star hand is in there this is one of the dishes that i saw her make which is frog she added in a ton of chilies a ton of garlic and a ton of basil i probably have to pick out a little one maybe eat the bones oh yeah oh yeah the flavor of that curry paste the chilies the garlic oh man the fresh powerful flavor of that basil and the lime leaves in there too finely dreaded it's so fragrant next up she said this is really one of their special dishes um and they only make it once a week it is such a mix match of different ingredients from shrimp to pork belly to pork skin to peanuts to chilies and ginger talk about uh a mash-up that is a textural dream it's gelatinous it's cartilagey it's crunchy it's crispy it's nutty from the peanuts you taste the chili you taste the ginger you taste the little lumps of fatty skin from the pork it's almost like a snack food next up for the pat stink beans there's shrimp there's pork there's onions there's chilies in here and i think it's like a shrimp paste i think a shrimp fish it's like a peel one sour sweet and sour much more sour than sweet it's called priyawan kapi it's shrimp paste but with uh lime juice with lime juice in there to make it sour i'm sweating my shirt is drenched what a meal and they just kept bringing more and more dishes as they came out sticky rice and durian for dessert that's one of the greatest desserts oh one of that one of the greatest desserts period one bite of sticky rice durian and again that is so so incredibly fragrant and this is gonna be my final bite i am at the maximum capacity that's extraordinary the creamy sweet durian and it's actually oh it's salty it's almost more salty than sweet that brings out the flavor of the coconut milk and the custardy durian and the the sticky rice is kind of al dente so it has a little bit of a chewy texture to it what a way to end what a bite [Applause] [Music] i think we started off ordering just four four dishes we ended up eating at least a dozen different dishes she just kept bringing them bringing them and then to be honest i have no idea how much it costs she charged us just 300 baht for everything all 12. that was a straight-up buffet of thai traditional sunclaw rice and curry i need to take a rest now i need to lay down 14 dishes 15 dishes okay you just counted 15 dishes [Applause] [Music] but this is the location from the outs there's no there's not even a name on the outside right there's not even a name on the outside the restaurant is called and it's right across the street from wat dan yeah wat daniele temple i loved everything about this and i am stuffed and sweaty and i need to lay down so i'm going to end the video right now i want to say a huge thank you for watching um i'll have the information in the description box that you can check out and big thank you to you for watching this video remember to watch more videos in this series from songkla and hatyai and south of thailand lots more incredible incredible food incredible people and thanks again for watching please remember to give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and also make sure you subscribe and turn on the 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Channel: Mark Wiens

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Length: 26min 1sec (1561 seconds)

Published: Wed May 05 2021