hey YouTube this is going to be a really quick video uh today I'm just getting back from The Chiang Mai diversity night market and I thought I'd show some of the food that I got really all the food
that I got from the night market so that you can kind of see what it is that I'm munching on here in Thailand and then also a little bit of an idea of the prices that should help you
in your planning so uh let's go ahead and get into it without further Ado I do have some stuff coming up at the top of the hour so may I just share the first thing is this watermelon and
I'm not sure how much this weighs it's pretty hefty this was 20 Baht which is roughly around 65 cents for this package of watermelon does come chopped up this is it does have seeds so it's not like the
seedless watermelon that you may be used to where you're from for 20 Baht so about 65 cents pretty good deal I think the equivalent in the US would be yeah probably if you could find it on its own
probably four or five bucks and then this is something that also I think has a lot of value such that it's worth having a lot when you are here in Thailand and this is one of my favorite fruits
this is the dragon fruit this package was also about 65 cents 20 baht it's really really nice to have that because this package in the US would easily be 10 12 maybe 15 so to have it for that
price it's something that I like to have a lot I'll have it pretty frequently you just try to get fruit probably four times a week or so maybe five times a week and it's just so accessible here you
know this is Night Market I definitely need to make a video of it but it's like maybe eight minutes walking from my apartment so really close really convenient and I passed by a 7-Eleven as well on the way
there so if I need to pick up a large container of water I can do that let me see if I can yeah I'll be right back I'm gonna grab a water just to show you what it is
talking about so here we go so this bottle is 13 Baht about it's just calculated out 13. so about 36 Cents and this is see if it has a measurement on it um I think 1.5 liters so this
is about 1.5 liters for uh 36 Cents and I go back and forth on it I know that it's not the most efficient way but so at times the water here oh hey we got a couple of viewers
definitely Oh Hey Ron great question uh Ron asks what's the difference between night market and uh wet Market open this pause to answer Ron's question and then I'm going to hop back to uh just sharing the rest of
what I got tonight got two other items I'd like to share with you so the difference between a night market and a wet Market in my mind is a wet Market somewhat functions like a grocery store you'll typically
go there and you'll purchase raw ingredients to cook at home it's often going to be primarily catering to locals because in a lot of the countries that are you could just say non-western there's a limited group of people
that can afford a high-end grocery store right so those exist but there's a limited audience that has the budget for that and so I probably really think of a wet Market as a place for like I said locals
on a budget perhaps cook feeding a lot of people right like if you're a local person and you're cooking for say three or four people or more then it becomes more and more economical to cook whereas if you're
a single person well you've got four viewers this is a great time to be on hey everybody feel free to throw any questions or comments down below but I'm just answering Ron's question here so yeah you'll get bulk
deals and presumably you can find one that does a really good job and is following some standards certainly somewhat markets are better than others some are you know just not as good as some others but I don't really
shop at web markets I don't cook here in Thailand I have I don't even have a kitchenette in this unit which is fine with me I'm not a big part I'm not big on cooking anyway just because for
one person it can really be pricey you know you talk about adding up all the ingredients and stretching things out I also find food here does not have as much preservatives as it does in America so things tend
to go bad more quickly I tend to not like to keep a lot of leftovers I just find that they they don't stay as good as for long and I think like I said it just goes into you
know the preservative aspect um what else can I say on that so about a night market you're curious about what a night market is well to me a night market is they're they're really popular throughout Asia especially southeast
Asia because it's so hot during the day right and most people are working during the day so during the daytime people are working it's also really hot outside where most people they'd rather be inside I think or a
lot of people would anyway and so at night time everybody gets off work all the students presumably are done with their classes for the day and they have these markets where you can go and they'll typically serve a
lot of different prepared food they might have like uh you know cake shop and like ice cream you know desserts they typically have a lot of stalls too right people who are entrepreneurial but maybe they can't commit to
a full building lease they'll get a stall or a kiosk get a night market and they could still be a business person but they don't have to make quite the same investment that you would make if you're going
out renting a stand-alone building you had to put up all kinds of fantasy decoration you had to hire a lot more staff or you know the night market I think it really does provide that opportunity for people to
pursue that entrepreneurial spirit and in some cases I've heard of stalls becoming full-fledged restaurants right where the owner is so successful they're able to rent a brick and mortar to outfit it decorate it and I've seen this in
the United States as well but I think that happens here in Thailand too I also think like Night Market is prepared food right I don't think of it as a wet Market where you're buying a lot of raw
ingredients I think it's much more like uh you know much more prepared food speaking of which I'll share the next couple of things I bought so I got these uh spring rolls not sure if you've heard of spring
rolls you're familiar but uh we've got on the bottom here is salmon uh I think this is pork and I think this is chicken on top so I've got chicken pork and salmon and then also this spicy sauce
here that has got I don't know if it's Chili Peppers or what exactly it is but it's got this spicy sauce and typically you you know you pour it on the spring rolls or dunk the spring rolls in
there really really tasty and each of these was 10 Baht so this package for one salmon one pork and one chicken was 30 Baht so let's calculate that out 30 baht about 84 cents for those three that's a
really good deal I think like in the U.S I'd be paying probably five bucks for two something like that now admittedly they'd probably be a little bit bigger oh these are already uh yeah these are already cooked so
but I definitely agree with you Ron definitely agree with you it's important to cook I particularly pork all the way chicken these two really should not be undercooked and then the last thing that I got uh really tasty
here um this is pineapple chicken and so uh you can see here they also include a couple of shrimps right there and it's really really good it's I don't think it's traditional Thai food but they make like uh
it reminds me of like a cashew chicken a bit from in the U.S and this ran about 65 baht this uh this pineapple chicken and that's roughly 65 baht 1.82 so about a dollar eighty two and so in
total for these four things uh the watermelon the dragon fruit the spring rolls and the uh pineapple chicken it's about 135 Baht right under four bucks and there's a lot here I'm really excited to dig into it I
definitely should show off that night market there's a lot of other stuff too they haven't uh a pizza spot I haven't tried that yet they have a uh like a a Korean barbecue almost and I did try that
it was incredible I definitely plan to go back it was really a wild experience like they were you know not uh they're not short of fans and so that's definitely what attracted me to them but yeah I hope
this video has been helpful I'm going to wrap up here in a couple more minutes just because I'd say about about five minutes just because I've got some stuff to uh work on around nine but yeah feel free
uh to throw any more questions you have down below it's it's definitely a it's been a nice day in Chiang Mai today I may have a little bit of this dragon fruit I have my Thai language class today
and I'm definitely definitely challenging but um I can number oh Rod asked have you tried durian you know I've tried dirty a few times and I I can't get into it you know I'll I'll keep trying it because
I imagine someday you know it might be like a beer or um wine or something like that where it's an acquired taste personally I just don't think it's worth it it's you know durian is one it's it's really
strong so it smells really strong and I don't really like the smell it's also expensive relative to what I could get other fruit for I'm gonna pay like you know 5x or more for durian it it's just too
too odd for me I think for for what it is jackfruit I'm I think I've tried it before prepared it it's okay it's not my favorite it's uh it's not my least favorite either breadfruit let me look this
up oh wow I need to try it there's actually a hotel named red fruit here in Chiang Mai that's funny apparently it's popular in the Philippines I'm gonna have to check it out sometime Ron that sounds really good
this dragon fruit is fantastic yeah dragon fruit so like I don't know why they're so expensive in the US they're like 10 bucks for one I remember in San Francisco and that's a place where you think it'd be
a little bit cheaper but um yeah I definitely definitely pricey uh so Ron asks how long are you there in Thailand I will be here until next July I think next July I'm looking at uh Vietnam and I'm
trying to think of anything else I might start working my way back to America it really depends on how things go I you know the tech industry picks back up I'll definitely be considering jumping on that opportunity also
uh you know I'd be nice to see Vietnam so I'd really like to go to Vietnam next year there's some other countries that are on my radar as well but I'm not sure how timing will work out so
I think Vietnam is just easy it's like a couple hour flight I could go there as for as little as like a week and feel like it was worth the time and effort to go I wouldn't want to
go for a weekend just because it seems like a really cool and unique Place based on what everybody's told me about it um but yeah it's definitely on my list I haven't been to Vietnam yet so I've been
to um most of the Southeast Asian countries I think that are on people's radar but not all and Vietnam is one of those and then the other one I'll definitely be dropping some hints on it you know if
that time comes uh next year lychee is good I like lychee I like it also like made into drinks I haven't been to Dubai yet and I am definitely a fan of Singapore I love Singapore such a cool
country really beautiful country safe modern advanced it yeah I liked it a lot it was very very hot and that's saying something for this region but that even that you know being said still still a very unique City
I really like it I'll definitely be interested to I'm definitely interested to go back at some point South Korea is on my radar I'm not sure if I'm gonna go um in that direction in the near future but
I've heard uh South Korea is really good for teaching English so I've thought about that you know maybe going and trying it for six months or a year in Seoul or in Busan or in a different part of
Korea just experience what that's like in Taiwan I've had a layover in Taiwan I haven't really done much outside the airport but I really want to go to Taiwan at some point it's uh yeah it seems like a
really interesting country and I've heard it has a lot in common with Japan but thanks so much Ron I really enjoyed chatting with you I'm going to wrap this one up just because uh I'm gonna munch on some
food and then get on my next project but uh yeah I'll talk to everybody soon definitely I appreciate you watching and I hope you have a great great day ahead
