 Would you like some of this authentic real sriracha on your plate? I mean, I can not. Hey, so you've seen a couple drinks before, so... My two favorite places to film are the 626 in Lower Manhattan. And now a friend from the 626 has opened up a Thai street market restaurant in Lower Manhattan. One of my favorite streets in New York City has got to be Grand Street. Running east to west, Grand Street turns from Jewish to hipster to Cantonese to Italian or fashionistas. Which makes sense because that's the Lower East side to Chinatown to Little Italy to Soho. It's such a diverse street and now one of my favorite new spots is Nori Thai Bazaar. On the corner of Grand and Forsyth, it's definitely bringing a dope mix of authentic Bangkok and NYC. Nobody's traveling for a while, but Nori makes me feel like I'm halfway there. We're going to be sitting down today to learn about Thai food, Thai language, and even get into some Thai stereotypes. It's going to be fun. Let's go. Before we hit Nori Thai for our Bangkok street food experience, we got to stop by this Bangkok grocery store because this is the only Thai market in Lower Manhattan. Actually, a lot of people don't know that these crispy seaweed snacks are from Thailand. These crispy mango. They got the Thai leaves. Okay, David, I've never had this star gooseberry, so we got to get one of these dried fruit ones. Okay, definitely this soy milk. I did not know this brand Foko is from Thailand. Let's just get the lychee. Last Thai drink, Karabau. Hell yeah, got to get the energy drink. Guys, I have the energy drink. If you guys didn't know Red Bull actually originally is a Thai company that a European bought. So you're saying Red Bull, Nay Ploy, and Sriracha are all originally from Thailand? All Thai products. Yo, I guess what I'm saying is Andrew, just looking at the Thai drink, it's got like five different languages. And it kind of actually speaks to where Thailand is located. All right, Andrew, most people know Sriracha to be the red huay phong foods one. There's a yellow sriracha and this red chili sauce. This is the original Thai sriracha that this sauce is based off of. The huay phong foods one is really strong. Yeah, it's interesting because Thai food is really spicy, but from the authentic sriracha that I've had, it's not as strong as the huay phong. Yo, we are going on a Thai extravaganza. I did not know that there's this much Thai culture down here in Lower Manhattan. I bought this at the shop. Please support local business. Thank you very much. And just like how I need my Thai food flavorful, I need a good night of sleep. And that's actually been proven to have a huge effect on the rest of your day. So that's why it was important for us to partner with Helix for this video. With their custom sleep quiz, Helix helped me identify that I actually needed a firm mattress, which I really didn't know before. So both me and David, we ended up with Don Lux. 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This is one of our favorite spots in Manhattan, Andrew. It's just right on Grand Street. And their whole theme here is they're trying to recreate a Bangkok night market restaurant. Yeah, I really feel like that what they were able to capture is an authentic Thai experience. Today we're going to be trying Thai street food, Thai cocktails. They got pastries in there. They got everything. All right, in front of us, we have a humongous Bangkok street food feast in front of us. But we're also sitting here with Kimmy Lux, our food Instagrammer friend out in New York. There is a lot of Chinese influence in Thai cuisine. Obviously not every dish and Thai cuisine is very, very vast and very diverse. A lot of the food that we're eating today is from Central Thailand. Central Thailand happens to be the region of Thailand with a particularly heavy amount of Chinese influence. But we got to get into these dishes and I'll tell you this. We might need to start with the frog legs. Okay. Should we start with the frog legs? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thai frog legs. Oh my goodness. Oh, she went all in right off the bat. Frog meat is very tender. It almost honestly does taste like a very tender chicken wing. It's not fishy or weird at all. In a weird way, I don't have to say less froggy than a lot of frog legs I've had. Best frog legs I've ever had. Crying tiger steak. Look at this sauce. We're just dipping meat, but it feels like we're taking shots. I'm so excited. It's intense, man. Oh my God. This is amazing. Oh. I've never had any steak like this before. That was a huge piece of steak, but it is seriously melting in my mouth. I personally like it because it's actually not as sour as some of the other dipping sauces I've had. But would you like some of this authentic real sriracha on your plate? Me. I can not. Hey, she had a couple of drinks before, so. Hey, pour that up like we at HIN. A bottle service. There's no more bottle service for a while, guys. I'm just like, where has this been all my life? Well, it wasn't served at that Thai restaurant that you were working at back in the day. It actually low-key cracked my tooth on the skin of a CEO before. Did you really? Thai crispy pork. Get that crunch. Wow. I see. This is really, really good. You know what it is? It's really crispy on the top, but it's not hard. And the way they do it here is the pork is so tender that once you get through that initial crispy layer, it's just really soft after that. I think of a lot of hipster spots. There's a tendency to do too much to it. You know what I mean? But they left it how it was and you just tasted the pork. Super simple. Every time I see one of these fish with everything on top, that's when I know it's going to be good. For this one, I have yellow sriracha. Would you like some on your plate? This is also another. Yeah, of course. I want it all over. Hit me in the face. Wow. What is this art class? Carpal basil fish. This is cooked perfectly. Look, I got the little fried basil leaf on it. This actually reminds me of childhood. A lot of the time when you order a fish and it's really like kind of cheap, you're going to get like tilapia, but this is red snapper. So you know this is super high quality. It looks like you can smack somebody with that fish. It's just red. Fusion section. Go for the fries. Are you a fried person? I love fries. These are actually some of the best fries in New York City. You want to eat fries when they're just still crunchy. And this stayed crunchy for a while because we've been eating other things. Yo, this tastes like something that a fast food chain over in Thailand would localize for. Right. Yo, those fries, what do you give those fries? Way more than five. Off the charts. Go ahead, grab a wing. This is the fish sauce wings. It's so nice when you go first. Always. Fish sauce wings. They eat this in Thailand, but this is Nori's version with the twist. I'm going to just do my little version where I crack the bone. It has like a really amazing like balance of the flavor that you need in a wing. That's not too saucy, not too dry. High wings are underrated. You know Korean wings, but this is the... But guys, not only is the five year cool, but the food is so good. I forgot. Honestly, this is giving me energy. Not going to lie. This is giving me energy. She needs it. She needs it. Eric, here is their very own green Korean lobster roll. And being from New Hampshire, I know you ate lobster rolls before. Oh yeah, definitely for sure. You guys don't call them lobster rolls. Don't you guys call them lobster? Lobster. Lobster roll. Lobster rolls. Just go for it. Okay, okay, okay. Sweet family is family. It's a family affair I hear. I ain't even mad that I was dripping. Like kind of just say this is like the best invention. Like I've never had curry lobster roll. Like have you? You know, you're a food Instagrammer. So like when you eat it and it's really messy, but you still enjoy it, that's when you know it's really good. I mean, it's all about the experience. You need that little bit of mess. The mess lets you know it's decadent. You're looking good because you know it like that. Eight out of ten times when you try to do a fusion western and eastern, it doesn't turn out right. But this is one of those times that it turned out right. And we're moving on to the pork belly dishes here. Both of these are from central Thailand. Thailand actually has like five different regions. It has central, east, north, northeast, and south. And each one of these regions has like their own cuisine, Thai fried rice. So most people say that Thai food has to have salty, sweet, sour, spicy, those four. However, I've read something from a Thai chef that actually said adds a fifth flavor bitter in there and says you only have to have three of those five. That's a good way of thinking about everything because I would say this crispy pork and Chinese broccoli, to me, is sweet, salty, and a little bitter. A lot of the Thai food in America that you've had is almost like saying, oh, I've had Chinese food but I've only gone to like P.F. Chang's or Panda Express where obviously the food can get pretty pricey, but it's really not that authentic curry duck leg. Oh, with the pineapple. That was crucial. It added that sweet, fruity juice to it. That's the thing about Thai cuisine. It's so multi-layered. I have a crispy duck leg, but then the curry is a little spicy, very creamy, sweet. And then you throw on the fruit side, which is the pineapple. The way they did the pineapple is like perfect texture. Thai food is almost like Kobe. You know how Kobe was high up on everything? It was like just like strong flavors in every direction. Thai chive cake. You know, I gotta say, I did not expect this. This is almost like a chive snack where it's like... It almost kind of tastes Japanese. Yeah, almost tastes like fried seaweed of some type and it's really soft. It has like a light, crispy outer, but it kind of looks like a dumpling on the inside. I'm really impressed. I love things that are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Like cow soy. This is one of my favorite. And they use egg noodles too. I love egg noodles. This might be my favorite dish. The cow soy is spicy. It's creamy. It's got that citrusy, that nice curry flavor. And then it has the crispy noodles in with the soft noodles. I think the cow soy here has the perfect amount of like liquid to stew type vibe. I am so surprised and impressed at how these noodles were able to stay plump. It didn't soak up too much. What you got? Thank you. We just tried 10 different things. They were all good. What are you guys going back for? I will go back for the fries. The easiest thing to dip in. I'm going back for the Chinese broccoli. Woo! And I'm gonna go back for the crying tiger steak because I realized I forgot to eat it with the sticky rice and the lettuce. Alright, so we just finished up with our Bangkok Night Market feast. And now we are trying some Thai snacks that we got from the Bangkok grocery earlier. Kwa Klang Curry Pizza. What's it smell like, Kimmy? Smells Thai. That's all I can say. How'd you taste the pizza though? I taste that lemongrass powder. Pitting captures the flavor of curry pretty well. That's actually pretty good. I give this a 4 out of 5. I kind of think 4 out of 2. 4.5. Wow! Mi Klang. Oh! That always tastes like aloo-buja. But it's just an Indian snack. There's fruit inside of here. It almost tastes like there's like cranberries mixed into a very light and crispy sweet cake. That tastes like it was more made out of stall than out of a package. Yeah. I actually would do definitely 5. 5 out of 5. 4.5 out of 5 for me. Crispy white sardines. It's tom yum flavors. Woo! That's a strong fish flavor. One of the girls was telling me earlier that she likes just their original flavor better. I would give this a 3 out of 5. I think this would be good for drinking. I kind of say it's my favorite. Without the drinks I gotta give it like a 2.5. Wow! I give it more than 2.5. I would say this is a 4. Alright guys, here we have the gooseberry. I've never had a gooseberry before. Okay, this definitely looks like a Vietnamese. The tamarind treat, right? Yes. Even the streets out there, I don't know what to have. Wait, is it from peace? The gooseberry was more accessible than tamarind. I'm carrying this to the tamarind snack. The tamarind is a little too spicy. So I like this one a lot better. And then you have these cocoa rice rolls made out of coconut milk. But these are the durian flavored ones. Are you a durian fan? Yes, I know. Depends on how? Depends on the execution and the form, huh? Exactly. I smell it. I smell the durian. Smells amazing. Woo! Literally like a roll of durian inside. Like you just smell it. This is my favorite so far. This is the most mainstream tasting. I think everybody's gonna like it. And if you need to try the durian flavor, this is the best way to do it. Southeast Asian band, they know how to do durian. Last but not least, we have the crispy mango. Yeah. Freeze dried. Freeze dried mangoes. No, would this be fire and some breakfast cereal? Or with ice cream. You know what it is? I think that this was my favorite thing that we had. But if I was to eat it solo, I would have to go with the durian rolls. Okay. What's your favorite? I might say this because this sticks to my teeth more. Because I just have never had this fruit before. I'm gonna roll with the star gooseberry. This is Kimi Lucks Endurance, the Cocoa Rose. Cool. Hey, Kimi, where can they find you on Instagram? They can find me at KimiLucks at K-I-M-M-I-L-U-X. That wraps it up for our food and snack section. And we're actually about to go check out some Thai cocktails and learn some Thai slang. Okay, so we have a selection of Thai beers here. Could you guys explain to us each one? The Shing Ha beer is the most popular one. But it's the first beer that come in US. So people know as Thai beer. The second one is charng. So it come a little later. But it become popular too. So what about these two liquors? Because I think a lot of people did not even know that Thailand has liquor. The most one that people knowing here, even in Thailand, is Mac Home. So this one is more popular here. Freya is a high-end brand. Also smoother. Fila, you got a lot of jokes. Come on, give it to me. I would say that my favorite word is chap. Chap means really spicy, like tasty. But if we use slang, we just mean something very cool, really pretty, very sexy. Is that like a comment you would make on Instagram or something like that? Right, right. Right now we're going to make like special Thai drinks called butter pee. We use like a store-bought vanilla first, for one arm. And then we use like this one, you know, the butter pee fine. It's like a Thai flower. Just have like a purple color. Yeah, so we're going to put this on the top. This one to top it. Oh, to give it the purple color. Alright, I'm here with Gig, one of the servers here. Gig, are you ready to get in the hot seat? How about some Thai stereotypes? Okay, I'm ready. Is it true that Thailand is the land of smiles? Definitely, yes. I would say like Thai people, they don't like speak it very well. They're trying to tell a lot of people when they don't know how to communicate it. They're just smiling. And most Thai people, they're very Buddhist, right? 95%. Are you Buddhist? Yes, but I'm not straight Buddhist. You are bad Buddhist. Is it true that sometimes the ex-pat people they get an act a little crazy? The funny thing is, if you come from states and then you have like some little problems, you just show the state ID or whatever like you like from America. It's like, okay, okay, you're good, you're good. Go, go, go, go. Okay, what's the best street in Bangkok? Bangkok, I would love you can go to the weekend chat-to-chat market which is like open-air local market where they sell every sinker thing. If you go to Bangkok, you have to go to the chat-to-chat weekend market. Hi, my name is Andy, I'm the owner of Nori Thai. My name is Chad. I work with Andy. We wanted to introduce Thai cuisine to a neighborhood that never really had Thai cuisine. There are people come in here by themselves knowing that they're going to see someone else here. You can shoot the s***, you can watch a game, you drink a little bit, you enjoy the food, you enjoy the environment. That's our number one priority. All right everybody, that wraps up our video at Nori Thai. Man, that was just like an entire like Thai date. I'm going to Thailand. I did not get a chance to go. Andrew, you've been there. I'm going to Thailand. It's one of those cultures that everybody's had some form of the food but not everybody's been there and actually there's not that many Thai-Americans where you'll just kind of bump it to them randomly, necessarily. So that's why it's really cool to have restaurants like Nori Thai. And the thing I like about it is that I've been to more expensive Thai restaurants in Manhattan before. But it's not an engaging environment. You come here, everybody's friendly. They have that neighborhood community vibe where you can ask questions and have fun with people. And I think that to me is part of the Thai culture and that's very important. Aren't you guys, please let us know in the comments section below what is your favorite Thai dish. We could have had it today. We could have not had it today. It could have been more of a basic dish like Pad Thai or Pad Siu, Pad Keemow. It's all good. Let us know in the comments section below. Number two, let us know another spot we need to check out in the area. All right, everybody, hit that like button. Click subscribe. Turn on the notifications. And until next time, we out. Peace. Mongo John. Back at it again. Hi. I know you want to share some of your food so I'm going to sit down with you. Let's do it. We're going to see Johnny eat everything in about 30 seconds. This moment right here is what I live for. Let's do it. Okay. I got to get this. We got to get this. Oh, yeah. Right, right, right. We Mongolian. We Mongolian over here. Wow. Boom. Okay. Hit him. What you got next? Chive cake. Andrew hyped up the chive cake so. It's interesting. I didn't say it was my favorite. It's interesting. Boom. The wings. Hit him. Let's use them authentic sriracha. Get in the king trio right here. Boom. Wow. We took the red snapper by the tail. No.