 I've seen people cook a Pad Siu on the street and then throw it to the guy across the street just throwing it in the air and then somebody has to catch it on the plate across the street and that's how you get there. Yo, imagine if you're just walking by and he's got a whole Pad Siu just I wouldn't even be mad. This is a Thai episode of our Beyond series. Just like our Vietnamese episodes we're encouraging people just to delve deeper into the cuisines they already love so we're here with Richie and Tan to eat, debate and share our love of Thai food. This is Beyond Pad Thai. Alright you guys it's going down. Wow. We've got round after round after round it's been organized, categorized. This is a spread. This is a spread. A Thai battle. We want to help people avoid the just going back to the three basics. Maybe what a chicken satay, a pad thai, score a little bit, score a little bit. Tan you just said yo I worked at a Thai restaurant for three days. It was hectic Thai restaurant. Gabe worked at a Thai restaurant too? Yeah. Oh shoot. Worked at Bond Thai. It's actually Seattle's oldest Thai restaurant. I have a Thai iced tea and a Thai iced coffee. That tastes like that coffee candy. Gekopi? Yeah. The first dish I ever had when I came to Thai food was Pad Thai. Right. You know but then I thought I was fired until I enter a whole new world. These spots are all considered like serving a mainstream audience but this is still pushing the envelope within their menu. Round one the first battle which is going to be the shrimp battle. These are just shrimp appetizers. It looks like a rocket. So let's pick one up. Rocket shrimp. That's not just shrimp in there. Yeah I was going to say it almost is like a shrimp egg roll. From what I read it's more inspired from the Vietnamese shrimp roll. This is a really filling appetizer so all right this is a shrimp roll. This one the shrimp shined more. It almost tastes a little bit more like a dim sum dude. All right we got the coconut shrimp. You know but I always like it though. Don't know how I can tell you eat it. Man it was good. We got a lot of rounds to get through. Who's your winner from round one? For me I might have to go with the rocket shrimp for me. I'm gonna go opposite and go with the smaller one. Okay. I'm gonna have to go with the shrimp roll the smaller one. I'm gonna have to go with the rocket ship as well. If this is going to be an appetizer I would like it to ease into my meal you know what I mean. This the small one had a little bit too much flavor. Whatever this one is this is good. All right because Gabe was the tiebreaker he has decided that the smaller shrimp roll is the winner of the first round but so the second round out of seven we have the chicken appetizers. Here we go guys this is chicken satay. That peanut sauce crazy crazy crazy. I like how they left the skin on. Yeah I like how it's brushed with curry watching a Crazier as Asians man one of the lines that I remember was when Henry Golding was like best satay on the island. Best satay on the island for sure. Pané, leaf and chicken. Wow guys. It's like another appetizer that tastes and feels like an entree. Wow with a little bit of that sweet soy sauce. Flavors really in there. Can you guys taste the pandan or you would say tough to say? I would say tough to say. Did you guys taste the leaf though? That actually kind of has like some slight like burn bitterness a little bit to it adding that to the the flavor of the chicken. Yeah man I've never had that dish before. That was good. That was good. Guys the zesty tie wings. Zesty tie wings. The garnishes kind of overpower the actual wing. You know what kind of threw me off was you know I'm I'm big on the funk but just a little too funky smelling wise when I smelled it. With the zesty wing a little too zesty. I'm gonna say this plate is worthy of the last seed. Angel wings stuffed chicken wing. It does it tastes like a chicken egg roll just no no skin though. You know what I'm not a fan of this batter this kind of bread crumb. It reminds you of the coconut shrimp man. Exactly. It just tastes too much like a frozen vegetable egg roll. If you're going to look like that you better come crazy with the taste. I think it's between the guy whore by toi which is the pandan leaf chicken. Yeah. In the chicken satay. I'm still giving it to the satay man. Okay. It takes a lot to take that down and I think this one definitely what did you call it? Guy whore by toi. Pandan wrap chicken. Pandan wrap chicken. You know I try sometimes I wonder if I try to make those unique picks just for the sake of it but this time I can't do it. For sure. The satay one. Satay all-time classic. Going on to round three. Thai fish cake famous Thai street food right here. Wow. It's like a fish sausage. Mmm. That's good. You can taste the herbs. It has some of that lemongrass mixed in. Still has a fishy taste too. Yep. Crispy pork. How do you guys compare to that Mexican chichurron? I mean it tastes pretty similar. Fried pork at the end of the day. Spare ribs. That's the authentic sriracha sauce right there. Do you guys like it that it's more vinegary almost like lemony limey? I like that. I did. I did. I actually was expecting the texture to be a lot rougher but mine tore apart really nicely. I think I feel pretty confident. I don't need to marinate on it. What's your call? I'm picking the Thai spare ribs. Wow. The tangy sauce too is really really nice too. I would say the Thai spare ribs was my favorite out of these three but I gotta shout out to the fish cakes. I was gonna say the fish cakes taste it for me. I appreciate it. Nice lemongrass flavor. This is round four of the protein section for crispy garlic chicken. David you made a good comparison earlier. It does kind of remind me of a general South chicken. Crying tiger steak. Never mad at it. I know what that tiger feeling. Never mad at crying tiger man. Thin. You still get rare. You know you still get the rareness, tender and then the char. The sauce has this like tamarin hint to it that I was not expecting. Good. Yo that was good. That was good. Thai grilled pork. How's the good flavor? I know my winner. And it's uh shocking to me a little bit. Out of all the meats I thought pork was gonna be dead last but uh I got that first place. The flavor was good. I'm going with this one man. Remember I said flip the ratio? Look at this meat. For me I'm actually going with the cry tiger man. I would like to see Gabe in about 10 seconds try all of them. I'm gonna have to give it to the pork. Whoa crazy. Okay so the next round's for five six seven. It's gonna go noodles. You got rice and then ending off with soup. I feel like this the noodle round really polarizing. This is probably the one round out of any like section of Thai food that people have strong opinions about. It's named after Thailand itself so this is Pad Thai. I haven't had Pad Thai in a very long time. I'm gonna say you know I might miss it. I've not had this probably in the last 20 times I've eaten at a Thai restaurant. And it brought me like I will might start getting this again. Yeah for sure. And I like how oily the noodles are. Feels nice on the lips. All right guys this is Pad Siu. We're gonna find out which is the best Thai mainstream meal. It's good. Just like the sauté. Okay I've yet to have a bad Pad Siu. You're right. It's hard to find a bad Pad Siu. A very simple dish hard to mess up. All right I gotta say one thing you guys I've seen in Thailand you know how they're big into uh entertainment. Yeah like shows and stuff. I've seen people cook a Pad Siu on the street and then throw it to the guy across the street just throwing it in the air and then somebody has to catch it on a plate across the street and that's how you get fire. Yo imagine if you're just walking by and you just got a whole bad Siu. I wouldn't even be mad. Thai people like to have fun with their food. Same with the Thai iced tea where they pour it in high. For sure. Really high. Yeah. Cup to cup. All right guys. Gotta get some air in it you know. All right guys this is Pad Ki Mau. The story of Pad Ki Mau is called Drunken Noodle because there was a chef who came home drunk and just grabbed whatever he could out of the fridge and then threw this noodle and created it. Wow. That's packed with flavor. That is packed with flavor. I think when you go to a Thai restaurant you're gonna order one of these three noodle dishes like you're go to obviously you got everyone that ordered Pad Thai, Ki Mau, Pad Siu. I got mine man I'm gonna go with the Ki Mau noodles man. You got a little heat, a little kick. The bamboo shoots are actually underrated. It makes the Pad Thai flavor seem a little boring. Me now I'm rolling with the Pad Ki Mau. I gotta go with the Pad Ki Mau too. What? All right there's a reason why Pad Thai is Pad Thai. The OG. You know I'm not gonna be different just to be different. Okay. Okay. Fair. Okay so here we have the three fried rice. Which one do you guys want to start off with? All right guys this is the crab fried rice. Wow. I definitely do taste the crab meat. Yeah I do. Shout out to the to this spot because they put a hell of a lot of crab in there. Rice is soft. You know what's kind of throwing me off? The peas. Yeah okay. I'm not filling the peas. I think the peas and carrots when you see those in fried rice um it doesn't mean it can't be good but it does mean it's a little bit more Americanized. Yeah. Pineapple fried rice. I think the more western versions have walnuts, the walnuts and raisins. Yeah. Yeah cashews. Indian food. Probably top five favorite cuisines to eat and that's why I feel like I love the pineapple fried rice because it has like that curry, turmeric vibe that I just love. Pak ring curry fried rice. Oh. Tastes more traditional than the other two. The rice itself has a good flavor. Tastes earthy. I would describe that as pleasant. All right guys what's the verdict on the fried rice? I'm gonna go with the third one, the pek ring. I just feel like that one compliments uh more of the dishes that we ate so far. Hey don't forget. Hey when you pronounce something wrong you're like hey I was only there a few days. We were pronouncing good. I work you know what I'll give it to the newcomer. Why not? Um I liked this one right here. I need the 10 second breakdown bro. Andy Johnson got a game coming up. Hands down. Pak ring. Pak clean. Oh. All right man. At a Thai restaurant. Come on man we used to book a Thai restaurant everywhere. Okay last but not least for the final and seventh round we got soups. Okay okay Tom Yung Goon. Let's get it. That is delicious. That was really good. Yeah wasn't too sweet. Some of them can be like too sweet. This is a tom ca. Tom ca. This came strong in a direction bro. Oh my god. This is too milky. It's too left and right for me man. It's not going straight for my palate so I'm gonna. Whoa this is weird. It's weird. Too creamy. Tom Yung Moo. Tom Yung Moo. Well after that I appreciate the little little meatballs of ground pork. Really? I'm going with the Tom Yung Moo. I agree. I've come to appreciate the OG Tom Yung Goon. Yep I would have to agree as well. That was really good. Often come down to these Thai uh the Thai battles. The Thai battles. As often come down we have Thai Randy Johnson. Thai Randy Johnson. Come on Gabe. Okay. Come on with the Tom Yung Moo. Yeah man. Okay. What was your guys' overall takeaways? You know obviously Thai food is probably one of my favorite cuisines to eat. There's so much more than Pad Thai but I can see why people love Pad Thai because even I missed it. After having all this Thai food and even some of these dishes were kind of Americanized but I think it just goes to show you the depth of Thai cuisine. I would say for myself uh you know there's been videos that we've done in the past where if you don't pick the right thing you might go wrong. Like you might go wrong but with this one I feel like you could get anything that we ate and you're still in a good space. Everything is within this Thai lane and pretty like similar to each other so and then also like Tan said man uh my love reignited for Pad Thai. I'm going back to the essence. I like Pad Thai. My favorite thing. Favorite. The rice but without anything else. Just the rice. That's how good the flavor of the rice. You know I'm gonna go with the uh the the the crispy garlic chicken man because uh thank you so much for watching that video and I think the goal of that was just to kind of inspire people and encourage people to go out and try dishes beyond what they're just comfortable with. Every time you go out try some and also to uh support your local businesses because that's really important during this time. Yes sir. Make sure to hit that like button click subscribe turn on your notifications and in the comments down below let us know what your favorite Thai dish is because I'm sure everybody out there has one even if it's Pad Thai it's all good and name one other cuisine that we got to make a crazy battle out of. I want to give a shout out to Richie, Tan, beyond butter chicken. Okay Richie threw it out there. All right guys leave it in the comments below uh thank you Richie for letting us use your set in your office uh Dave and Andrew from Fungro's and until next time we out. Peace. Distributing the sticky rice. Hey instead of breaking red it's breaking sticky rice. Oh man. Sticky rice. Do your Thai food supposed to be eating with your fingers? Uh it can be. Not the noodles but yeah like this this we could. And actually Thai people they don't use uh that many chopsticks.