NORTHERN THAILAND was NOT what I was expecting! 🇹🇭

NORTHERN THAILAND was NOT what I was expecting! 🇹🇭

Welcome to Chiang Mai here in Thailand today we’re going to be exploring for the first time chying Mai with the help of a local guide we’re at Co van Kessel Bike Tour so we’re going to be combining a bike tour with trying delicious Thai

Food they’re going to show us the local spots let’s head on inside we’re here for the tour yes four 4our Bike Tour 4our Bike Tour that’s the one may I have your booking name please it’s under J or J ah okay for two for

Two people yes okay and we got your name already and we also have the welcome drink complimentary oh per got welcome drink just over here we can go on inside okay Cup on cup all right guys so let’s slide this

Door wow like a little air conditioned Lounge what was your name peace peace yeah oh like like Peace like Peace yeah that’s awesome uh Jay J nice to me so we uh so Peace is our guide for today and so you’re going to be taking us on a

Bike tour around chai and showing us good food spots yeah okay good local local spot local that’s the important word right uh thank you bye all right guys so peace is taking us to our bikes I’m assuming it is a bike tour yeah this one this one here you

Recommend this one okay good it’s good good bike good and we are off we’re on our tour of Chiang Mai got the bike here I’m going to film like just like this and uh let’s turn left into here all right guys so we’re on our way around Chiang Mai you got Karolina just

Behind we’ve got peace just in front we’re going through these small kind of Alleyways look how beautiful this is over here these beautiful homes and this this is the bike we’re on there’s no gears it’s just just one pretty much

Speed and uh we just have to be pushing with our legs and you can actually see pieces taken us around these kind of small local neighborhoods places that you wouldn’t necessarily go to if you were here without the help of a local guide See’s a yellow motorbike matches the color of

Koven Kastle peace where are we heading to first first we going to a local temple we’re going to a local temple yes but now we have to get through this community to get a a supp local from for the drinks okay so we’re going to somewhere local to get

Some think some drinking water and then we’re going to be heading to a temple M again yeah do you mind the pothole there Carolina filming this one-handedly through these narrow streets is uh It’s Tricky but I had a YouTube channel in the UK where I was purely cycling delivering Uber Eats

McDonald’s on an electric bike so I should be able to manage you can see we’re just going through these small kind of narrow Alleyways we have a bit of traffic up ahead sorry that’s all right hey it looks like we are heading into the temple just over here we’re literally

Riding in with our bicycles wow so beautiful look at all the trees surrounding this Temple very peaceful and uh you can see that all the temples here in Thailand have a lot of gold peace why do all the temples have so much gold colors

Yeah the gold color is mean Prosperity okay so that has before we have we have the gold mine here near changai mhm but a gold mine gold mine gold mine silver mine and there’s a only Rich Temple can decorate

By the go okay yeah so now the day they have to go pain so they they kind of they’re cheating yeah yeah yeah so they’re a lot better and their looks beautiful it does look very beautiful it looks very uh like Rich ah but I guess

It’s the image of being prosperous rather than actually being gold because it’s expensive exactly so this is the temple you wanted to show us no oh it’s just a just passing by oh we’re just passing by taking shortcuts yeah all

Right so we have we have many temples here in changai M more than 1700 Temple okay 1700 yep whole changai just in changai yep but in the the Center District the Center District 120 so this is why you like to take shortcuts through them because it’s usually quiet yeah less traffic yeah

Less traffic okay yeah all right lead the way let’s exit out of here can see someone’s cooking some street food FY cup cup got some fish some meat got to be just careful of the roads if you want to get a tattoo you can get

Tattoos also if you want to get some marijuana there’s a cannabis shop just over here St for local we can stop wherever that the locals are wherever the locals are we want to support them C all right guys so we have got our

Drinks keep us hydrated cuz it is super hot you can see the sun just there it is really blaring down at us what is the temperature right now I think it’s about 30 yeah it’s about 2830 2830 okay so we need to stay hydrated because we have

Around 2 to 3 hours of cycling that’s the duration of this tour and the remainder of the 2 hours is kind of going to local spots temples markets anything else food as well e Delicious Restaurant Chow you can say this to

Anyone anyone so you have to say C if you’re a man a man yeah and if you’re a got a little Tuk Tok and if you’re a woman swaty caraty swaty car but I have to say swaty cup but here swaty child to everyone so

Whether you’re a man or woman you can say swaty chow and it means hello or yes it mean it’s greeting word greeting Y okaya where are we going to next piece it’s a random place we I bring you to I

Cannot take it’s a secret secret it’s a secret all right let’s uh head on we’ve got our drinks in the basket here there you go after you piece and we’re off on another I forgot to take my uh I’ve still got my stand up it’s a lock oh there we go

Perfect I’m such a muppet sometimes so you doesn’t unlock your lock yeah like uh when I say a muppet in England it means you’re a bit of a bit of a donor bit of a bit silly bit of an idiot but we’re off on an adventure

Around changai and it is top secret from peace he won’t tell us H we have two different name first is a docent name so you got so you got two names in Thailand your document name yeah and the name the dad and mom call and your parents call

You peace and your document name PTI PTI Bon Sun yeah wow that’s a long one I like PE more it’s easier for me you see what’s happening here is it like uh it’s a school yeah it’s a school College college you were saying sorry I’m saying uh okay that’s okay I forget

About my words all the time you actually just don’t say it cuz I cut it out of the YouTube videos If I say something really really stupid oh the official name or the docent name only teachers and when you

Visit the officer is is that is that’s when you use it yeah like when you’re maybe going through immigration yeah exactly we got to go quickly oh all right there we go they they stopped they’re very nice here in Thailand they stopped for you you got these beautiful T temples here with the

Lanterns oh bit bumpy hopefully the GoPro stabilization is doing its job but you got the temples here again uh pieces utilizing the temples for shortcuts this one is very beautiful you can see a lot of the gold again we sto oh we’re stopping here

Okay today we’re lucky this Temple was open normally it’s closed it’s normally closed okay Lu you say that to all of your uh all of your tours normally I’m just joking second time I visit this place with the British have a funny sense of humor we’re

Sarcastic you know sarcastic like uh we joke a lot oh forgot yes you got cover myself so to go into the temple here in Thailand the ladies have to cover their knees legs but for for men it doesn’t doesn’t matter even for the the famous

Place like a big Temple like you must like the in Bangkok like the Grand Palace then you need to you see this is like a dragon wow it looks like uh of like a movie dragon these very beautiful colored like a

Mosaic shoes off oh yep shoes off we can put our shoes over here so what is the reason for taking your shoes off is it for like cleanliness like yeah cleaning to clean to clean to clean and before that people have no shoes oh there was no such thing as trainers yeah

So they no shoes and before they get entry the place that we clean the feed if you’re if you’re with Cho and inside Asian people uh believe and it’s a kind of the disrespect the place you bring the dirty soil in into the clean you a

Holy place if you look on the lips of the Buddha they are red because in U chai ma it was once conquered by people from Burma and in Burma the Buddhas are really colorful they have red lips and this is all information that uh pce has

Been saying to us he’s the expert it looks like this you can see yeah red lips red lips you can they come a little bit closer you can see just over there they have got red lips and uh this is where the monks are

Showering I can hear the uh I can hear the plants being watered just over there and this is all the residents the monks are living inside here oh the monks living inside of here okay so behind a beautiful place behind the temple yeah so it could be the the monk showering possibly

Yes do the monks uh cook for themselves or I’ve seen a lot of places they give the monks uh the food for free is this what is this about like do they is is it the fact that they can’t cook or they just no they can they can cook they can

Cook if they are for example if the monks are leave in the jungle the jungle temples yeah and people could not go and offer the frood to them so they can cook but without killing any animal so completely vegetarian can be or people

Offer the the meat to them yeah okay and they they will eat this only when only it’s when it’s offered to them y but uh if they’re not living in the they got the kids in the background when they if they’re not living in a jungle temple

Would they usually uh cook for themselves or do they have uh they have a routine every morning that they have to walk out from the temple mhm around the community to receive the food from the people the waiting for offering

Every morning that is a monk’s routine wow so the people in the communities they are feeling like it’s a religious thing where they are blessing being blessed by the monk so they give the food and the monk takes this eats this

And this is how he is like living very kind of simple yes a very simple life and the idea is make the people still offer the food to the mon every morning because they believe that kind of food going to the ancestor that pass away oh

Wow it’s very interesting I never knew that yeah it’s not only for the monks to eat they believe the food that monk eat had eaten well go back to the ancestors who’ve passed away yeah wow so very like uh superstitious Very Superstitious so

Peace was just saying that this is like the underwater world yeah but also they’ve got the sky and the elephants of flying you’ve got the Buddha Lotus because in uh Buddhism and also in Hinduism the Lotus is very it’s like a

Very symbolic yeah for for the it’s it’s a the the Lotus is a plant of of life and grows okay yeah so it’s grow from the spam under the ground the lotus represents like life yeah and like blossoming life from from the ground

From the mud from the mud yeah all the way up to your life is grow like under the mud yeah and then you grow up through the dirt yeah the dirt Water Fish Little Fish eating little little spam yeah if you’re not strong

Enough you die under the water and you’re not bloom going to bloom and so the Lotus is representing the struggle to for Life yeah wow so that’s why it’s become a symbol of Buddhism wow that’s amazing you can see the they have

Lotuses all over this kind of like Mosaic it’s made out of clay with uh paint wow peace we’re learning so much about uh about Buddhism and uh Thai culture yes yeah Tha culture so we’ve now hit the main road but we’re

Actually coming through to the market right now you can see some bananas just here someone just having nap I love that that is the vibe here in chying my very sleepy oh here we go we got the local

Market we’re going to park over here and you can see they have these kind of moving fans where the food is we’re going to take a closer look but it looks like uh they’re doing that to get rid of the

Flies so we’re parking up here yeah we just leave the GU here with no lock it’s fine no one’s going to steal it yellow shiny too too easy to spot if someone steals it yeah cor you see we’re parking

Up three bikes how you finding oh I’m trying to park it in the same way yeah there you go I like this so just using the pedal there how are you finding the tour so far very good very nice what do you like uh the most about it local

Parts like we are actually um riding around like really local places and we’ve never seen markets like this in changai so let’s go and explore and I don’t see any tourists yeah no tourist I think we’re the only toour is probably here not yet not yet not

Yet cooking class oh they come for the cooking classes to uh shop for the produce for the cooking class and you can see here guys you got these kind of wavering Clans uh fans to keep the insects away from the meat

Cuz the meat’s probably out for a long time no no no we just killed an hours ago oh okay so the it’s like livestock they’re killing them very quickly okay so where we heading we’re heading from that this

Way all the way in all the way in okay yeah so pie was saying that they have the chickens and they’re literally pretty much killing them on site and they’re super fresh wow this is like P

Yeah you know a lot you know a lot T this is our local food this is the local food wow it looks super fresh and they just cooked and then they just ring the mugget just started about an half an hour to go so everything’s basically set

Up new that’s why it looks so beautifully presented and actually I can see sausage like sausage is like a northern this this one yes this one called saiwa Sai saiwa and uh they don’t have sausage in the South it’s more of a northern thing yeah more a northern

Thing more Northern thing we haven’t tried the sausage all right piece what is this over here this is this is sausage sausage yeah sausage a local sausage a local have in the north mhm Northeast of Thailand yeah that’s

Original form the name of it is a sa sa sa sa Gro Sao yeah and it’s aloy aroo aroy aroy aroy in changai we say Lam Lam yeah it’s been delicious so you can say lamb in Chang ma okay so the sausage is lamb all right let’s give this one a go

So you can have like uh two sticks and uh how much does it cost t t for one 20 20 so it’s for two it’s 40 bucks and actually if you noticed guys how uh in Thailand some people say taai but actually in pieace for saying talai

Cuz talai is the the proper way to say it right yeah yeah Tai Tai because a lot of people say it with a l like a talai ah yeah so we’ve learned it to say it like how other people say it t t t Chow yeah that’s a

Nor so there’s a sausage this is H garlic is it I think it’s actually Ginger Ginger oh Ginger Ginger some kind of uh vegetables and chilies we are adding all together go well so you want to mix it all together

And eat it K kapun how did you say that you said K or C again wow all right so the sausage she’s making them here yeah so is this like uh she’s heating them up with the with this machine okay yeah like a local

Um like air fryer like a local Air fryer yeah uh my mom loves using an air fryer for all the meats ah yeah there’s no there’s no such thing as an oven anymore in uh at home just air fryer ah okay you can see guys is the vegetables here are

Super Fresh you going to show me something coconut milk oh wow look at this cup Sy Cup oh my coconut milk yeah this is the coconut milk wow and this is uh are they using it for anything in particular like or they just

Selling the the milk oh they’re selling also this cry paste okay so some kind of curry paste green curry paste green curry shrimp shrimp paste y SE salt oh this is salt yeah sea salt it looks like rice but it’s sea salt and they’re

Selling the coconut milk fresh oh you can see the Coconut’s in the back and I can smell it’s so Cent and strong W do you think I can go in there and see what he’s doing it’s okay we need to ask first

Yesup okay cup cup all right so we have permission and so it looks like over cup so you’ve got the Coconuts just in here they’ve got all of the Coconuts in the back there and it looks like uh they’re shaving the Coconuts just over here so

You can see it’s just shaving off the skin and then uh it looks like they’re adding uh something into the machine it looks like there’s grated coconut over here what is happening in with this machine is it the grated coconut yeah so the it looks like the grated Coconut’s just going over here

And then all the coconut go there for the for the what’s it called for the milk yeah for the milk for the milk so they’re adding all of the uh coconut into here and then it’s getting processed and it turns into the coconut

Milk over there that’s awesome I love that I like seeing kind of how the raw ingredients the Coconuts in the corner turns into the milk because they use all Hello beautiful dog uh and like they have like uh there use a lot of coconut

Milk in Thai food all right so for Thai food thai food from the south region and the middle region mainly Co C coconut is the main ingredient mhm but in the north here you don’t see coconut there’s no coconut milk in the food yeah the

Original way no coconut milk for shangai for Lana for Lana but you but when we’ve been eating in changai we see in like the cow soy they have the coconut milk in there it’s just not not authentic no okay it’s not authentic guys co uh cow

Soy cow soy is a food that get INF from many count Chinese mhm Chinese with noodles and the noodles let’s move away they’re greting the uh the coconut happens in Asia so uh yeah actually the just random noises puts you

Off but so the noodles come from China the curry come from Bama India oh from India okay India yeah okay and the cow soy originally with chicken and beef no pork okay it’s Muslim cow soy was Muslim it was used to be a Muslim food

Originally from uh which country it’s kind of Persian Persian wow so so many different cultures into one dish yeah and then coconut meal from the people who from like Bangkok or around there from my south of uh Thailand and move here and now M and Mer each

Other as a cowy such an international dish we had no idea cow soy is one of my favorite dishes so far I love it absolutely love it Cy become more fre much since Bangkok or people from Senter visit changai okay but it’s not

Authentic food from changai no no but today is all about trying authentic food from this region all right right so go there we’re going this this way you can see they’re selling all kind of little snacks here kind of chips this looks

Like some kind of waffle cone there some eggs this is a pork skin yes so piece has spotted something it looks like some eggs you got some fish here but the eggs look very interesting cuz there looks like there’s something inside of them yeah I’ll I’ll show you

So you have all these meat sticks we okay we’re getting another thing another thing last thing after you P pie is showing us the lights showing us the real authentic food okay so again you got these wind things don’t get knocked out

Piece and this is uh the dish you want to show us yeah and uh what is this exactly jack fruit oh it’s jack fruit okay beautiful with chili and Fry garlic so jack fruit with chili garlic and these are like lots of different types of like curries here so

This is all authentic curries from changai yeah and uh we haven’t seen any tourists around here yet but sometimes they come for the cooking classes so you can see they’ve got beautiful curries here I’m trying not to get hit by this

Uh kind of wind fan I I don’t know what to call this uh thing here most of them they call gang gang so how much is it for uh bag 30 30 including rice including rice okay sticky rice sticky rice so we’ve got sticky rice jackf

Fruit you can see they’re doing something with bananas it’s like uh fried bananas yeah deep fried bananas yes oh we’ve spotted some tourists I think oh they’ve come with their baskets you can see that’s for the uh cooking class it seems like finish

Finish it off it is time to dig into this food we’ve just bought so I think we’re going to start off with the sausage the northern Thai sausage I can’t wait I love sausage looks interesting oh chili do you want a chili

Ah so how should I eat it first the sausage is very very P little bit little bit okay I will maybe try like this do you how do you do it small bite do you bite the chili afterwards yeah after after so a small bite of the sausage

Okay small bite of the chili or maybe the whole one no the whole thing yeah yeah as you can eat mhm it’s a big mouthful that is should I give it a go mhm M M M very fresh and very crispy from outside and soft from the inside little bite little bite

Got the chy here m one more you like it you take more very very nice I took just a small bite M oh wow someone almost got knocked over by a motorbike the flavor of the chili I I

Thought this would be too much mhm but you have this sweet um pork flavor of the sausage crispy outside and then you have uh the chili you just bite into it and it gives it a very subtle like uh spice to it yeah it compliments very

Well like like the flavor in the chili isn’t just like chili it tastes a bit uh like oh some ginger some ginger do you eat the ginger afterwards again yeah same eat this first eat this first okay all right I’ll try the stick

All right I’m going to try the stick and B on the ginger mhm I can take it it’s a big mouthful but the ginger very nice wow and what do we do cabbage need also we can also eat cabbage after you yeah I like cabbage I

Would even know if I came here to the market I would just eat the sausage and not even think to eat the chili or the ginger afterwards very nice is this flavored it’s fresh cabbage from the market it’s just cabbage I’ll eat the

Yeah I like the sausage M if you’ve been watching my videos you know I’m a sausage lover so we’re going to dig into this but the combination with the ginger and the chili honestly I would never think to eat it like that so

Delicious so we just discovered that pece ate the whole of the ch really so he’s getting the sausage you you I T like spicy you like spicy it doesn’t mean we cannot we can handle spicy mhm but we love to eat

Spicy even we can cannot handle no why there it’s a flavor all right then so he’s going to have the sausage and then he’s going to eat the entire chili it looks like second one and he actually she’s going to dive in

And again for another chili you see spiciness come out spicy he’s had the second chili and now he’s sweating so this is omelette omelette omelette omelette okay local people know how to preserve the egg for a long for for

Longer duration when they travel okay so this is like a boil egg if you keep a raw egg it’s my crack on the way okay so they do an omelet with this how first they make a home mhm with a stick and then they take the egg all

Inside out and then seasoning okay stir mhm in other words you fill it back so this it’s been emptied they add they add everything and then they put it back into the egg yeah and this quad keeps it preserved and

Then they steam it they steam it yeah steam it and then they put in stick for reheat it before the S oh that’s why the eggs were on the stick y mhm okay that’s interesting so it’s a way to when you’re going on Long Long Journeys to preserve

The egg so that you have a good quality egg and it’s not going to spoil or smash crack you have to crack the egg yeah it’s exactly the same I love how you’re using the bike as a uh as a plate or as a a place to store all the food or

To crack the eggs all right let’s peel this first and we’ll dig in so this is the peeled egg it looks kind of like brownish but but P says this is just like an omelette so let’s give this a go oh wow there’s no yolk cuz it’s just

Like an omelet m m and this with some spices yeah it’s a bit salt bit salty and it just it tastes like a bit of seasoning it tastes like uh just like a regular egg like a boiled egg but uh what’s the reason they don’t just boil

It to preserve it for a long time but how long would they need to days two days so if you boil an egg it doesn’t last for two days it doesn’t okay that’s that’s news to me no taste in your boiling egg yeah you have to carry so I

Thought you have to carry the salt yeah Sal the seasoning everything this is all mixed this is the real deal I love it next up is the beautiful jackf fruit mixed in with the chili looks like some herbs in there but

First we have to get rid of the bag and we’ve got a makeshift bag that’s pieces made out of paper should I hold that before you this is uh just jack fruit I I’ll show you how it’s made I I’ll let you

Know first they steam the jack fruit so they steam the jack fruit and then they ground it with the seasoning mhm everything and then garnishing with the coriander coriander yes I I’m not the biggest fan of coriander I feel like I

Have the genan that makes me when I taste coriander it tastes like toothpaste it tastes worse it was worse than toothpaste to me but uh I don’t mind it in Foods too much beautiful so we got some chili coriander it looks

Like uh the Jack fruits mixed in with some kind of maybe onion I don’t know sticky rice sticky rice sticky rice the fresh sticky rice logo people do eat like this some of the local people they have no no opportunity

To get meat so they can eat like this and this for the whole day uh why is there no opportunity to eat meat they’re poor oh cu the it’s expensive the meat yeah so the jack fruit is like the the cheapest of any vegetables you can you

Can get them from your backyard people grow them in the backyard so the ja fruits yes and so this is cheaper for them to eat than Meats yeah okay and also the high protein and fiber as well in the jack fruit yep so people do the

Sticky right and then do like this m and after that you’re making like a little spoon there you go and scoop it oh just like that perfect okay let’s give this a go so we just have to make a little

Bowl a bit more a bit more yeah bigger bowl yeah like this and it’s in the hand just yeah just like that mhm and then we make a little spoon out of it like maybe like this yeah and then just scoop it maybe like

This all right let’s get this go guys got the beautiful jackf fruit and sticky rice that’s so delicious wow it’s got a strong like um lemongrass yeah youor you have a big one right there oh a little bit of lemongrass so I got a a huge kick of uh lemongrass

Inside of here and then you got a bit of a kick from the would you actually eat the chili like this yes afterwards all together all together okay so in the spoon you can actually do an ADD bit of the chili to it so delicious

It’s so many spices which are not even visible I I can’t even taste that it’s not meat it t it tastes exactly like meat like the texture of the jack fruit you’re going all together or you’re going B bite but is this one spicier

Than the other one much much spicier okay let’s try this there’s a little bite k a little bite a spoon and a chili little bite and then eat this a little bit more a little bit more a little bit more you actually took like a little

Tiny piece can you taste the flavor in the chili compared to the green chili this one is not fresh this one is dry and it’s coming like the taste is kind of coming it’s more like chili flakes but it’s very nice but is it very spicy actually I don’t know like for me

It’s not spicy now but it’s coming right it’s like an after effect so peace has got us a surprise hidden item that we have no idea what it is so uh ladies first you want to go for it there’s two types so there’s more like a purpley one

I’m going to go for the other one this looks sweet I’m going to I’m just it’s made from uh sweet potato and casawa flour mhm so sweet potato and Cawa flour same same but they have yellow and purple I love that it’s got sweet potato wall yeah I

Love the color your a taro yeah mhm chewy Sweet the kind of sweet potato flavor comes through and crispy from the outside M try your purle one let try the purple one yeah H sweet potatoes I love also that peace is eating with us cuz sometimes on

Tours the only the guests eat right ah but we like to we like we like to share and be involved with the guide and we feel really bad when we’re eating and the GU not eating you show us how to eat the things otherwise we would not know

All right let’s give this Tarana go I’m going to go one bite M Tara one is sweeter it tastes very similar but this one is doughy mhm actually it’s not Laro it’s a purple sweet potato oh Laro is light purple so the both of them are sweet potato just different color Yes

Wow that’s why they taste the same delicious I love it go go on go on Ary what does it say what it say Ary in h in uh CH my is uh one word with l do you remember how to say it Lam L Lam lamb yeah I’ll just remember a baby lamb

So lamb lamb lamb lamb all right so bye super friendly here in the uh in the market you can see everyone with their little baskets going around doing their shopping and so uh people are coming back from work so this Market’s open

Between 3: and 8:00 p.m. and it’s for cup cup and it’s open at that time specifically to cater to the locals who are coming to get their local produce everything was Super Fresh and as a tourist I would never think to come here

Because to be honest I never knew of the place until we came there and it’s compared to the markets we’ve seen around the world especially in Asia it’s super clean and there’s lots of delicious foods that are well kind of

Presented and that’s very important very clean so we’re not going to get sick and be on the toilet we’re joining the main road right now so what I like here on this tour is you go through very isolated very rural areas of chai Ma you

Can see people have got their washing up here got to be careful one-handed because yeah this is a little bit sketchy that’s all right ah we’ve come out to I think the area oh that’s a sun cup all right

So we come out to the river it’s like a canal canal canal we can ride along here it’s okay perfect you good yep so you can see along this canal there are people selling some some kind of foods that look like uh some kind of sweet potato got the lanterns here you get

Some sing souvenirs so we’re just strolling along the canal piece has just said that the water in here isn’t the cleanest it’s the waste water from the town yeah when a shower washing dis cow watch so washing dishes showering and what was the last thing

Cow Car cow watch cow watch car the car oh car wash car wash so that’s where the water is coming too but you can’t smell anything it’s good is you don’t smell the yeah they have the the the the treatment station okay so they’re

Treating the water you can see here these the lanterns actually we came here at nighttime yesterday and we’re actually turning here i’ got to be careful especially with what I’m filming don’t want to crash into anyone but we came there last night it’s very nice because the lanterns all lit up and so

You can walk along the canal it goes for a decent amount of time so you can get get some steps in and have a leisurely walk and they’re selling uh like souvenirs like clothes um some dessert some food but what we’re looking for right now is these local areas just go going

Through here it’s very nice the tour is more of a peaceful Bike Tour it’s not anything crazy maybe in Bangkok the tour would be more intense and more action-packed but this is just more of a relaxed stroll through Ching Ma so

Little did we know that they actually have things like this here in Asia to go over the bridges I only remembered from Belgium and the Netherlands but apparently they have it also here have it in the UK as well mhm so I was just

Not expecting it because there’s not much cycling happening in Asia in general and so you don’t really expect these kind of things but uh the bridge is nice yeah crossing the bridge you’ve got nice view of just the river over

Here and on this side as well this is Ping River ping River yeah ping ping River and you can go for a little dip you can swim uh it’s the the River Deep only in our R about 2 to 3 m not that deep

But it’s wide but it doesn’t look too clean it’s a fresh water from the mountain oh it’s fresh but it’s just because maybe the dirt yeah the dirt and the mud and the soil everything okay so it’s not too bad to you could dip into

It if you wanted to but probably not on this OCC not on this tour no no you enjoying yourself Carolina yes all right let me get my bike so we got a stand there kick it off there we there we go and now I’ve got my handlebar

Stuck there we go so peace how has tourism changed since the pandemic are things pretty good have they recovered no no no not not not 100% it’s step by step so it’s not as good as before the pandemic but uh do you think

It will get back to normal it will it will be it will be back to normal yeah and uh you were telling me earlier that now one of your biggest clients are digital Nomads yeah um but actually still the people who are coming for

Holidays like families yeah yeah and uh mostly the Dutch people because obviously Dutch love to ride their bikes yeah we’re on Dutch style bikes right now yeah and uh but is there a reason why it hasn’t fully recovered do you

Think there is a reason I think because they’re broke oh they’re broke yeah so they’re they’re not having enough money in their uh in their wallets to actually afford it but I actually think that’s true because in the world especially in

The west there’s a lot of talk of inflation oh yeah so people are not wanting to spend as much money because they feel like uh they’re losing their money we’re going left here and so they are also interest rates are going up yeah oh yeah so they’re saving inflation’s happening uh and the

Wages aren’t going up in in line with inflation so I think this is one of the reasons why people aren’t traveling as much it’s cuz they simply don’t want to spend the money cuz they’re worried or they just can’t afford it yeah and they

I think also they’re also scared if their pandemic next pandemic come or something like that oh okay like if another something else happens in the future yeah hopefully not same as taii people taii people think this yeah they they’re all scared so they also save more money than trouble and and a random

Question but in uh Bangkok um a lot of people wear masks is this is this for the pollution or for for both for both yeah for like hyene and yeah and they don’t want to be a carry one to the carry the virus to their L one at

Home okay they want to make sure their family is safe and not and disease free no Co yeah but also because of pollution yeah also pollution bad pollution in Bangkok and I heard from a friend that uh in Northern Thailand they burn the

Feet Fields oh it’s not only in the north here oh they also in LA and BMA they’re burn burning the fields yeah so that’s like creating pollution in the air yeah check this out guys I love these wooden homes there something very retro and I love the old school nature of this road

Here I love the kind of old style neighborhood here wow oh I a junkyard for cars okay yeah we got a car there but you can see lots of scrap cars and uh let’s get going this tour is amazing because it just takes you to loads of local places

You just never would come by yourself and that’s why we would like to do more of these kind of local experiences everywhere we go because you get just you just see the different side not the touristy side you can actually

See there’s a cat on the roof just there can really feel like the culture and live like a local for for a day and there’s just so many of these small little roads and Alleyways pie is just checking if no oncoming traffic is

So if you noticed guys there is no Bell on these bikes and there’s a reason for it the reason that we took the Bel out from the bike because we would like people to have greeting with the locals because when you conversation with the

Locals yeah conversation even just one word hello we’re happy with you not just ring the bell and move out the way yeah so this this came from the owner yeah the the the father of the the the company took get way because they would

Like you to feel the local so this is uh his name is kovan kovan Castle is his name uh full name is jaob man Castle okay we got a car there so this came from the owner who wanted the tourists on these tours to interact with the

Locals and just have that little bit of interaction the C the cats on the uh on there so you see there guys like instead of just ringing the bell and telling the person to move out the way having a little bit of conversation and the the

Locals love it they really do like it cap on cap we have finally made it to our secret location the Sun is setting we are by the water and our food has already arrived P has done a great job of basically making our lives easier having

Everything ready for us so that we are able just to enjoy the tour yeah looks amazing so colorful so please please do join us what what exactly is everything here this a basic menu chicken with cashew chicken oh I love chicken and

Cashew yeah we haven’t tried that yet here M this is Tom Yum Tom Yum Tom yam Nam oh with the prawns no with chicken oh chicken I so we the guy and we have another dish wow Morning Glory but it’s right like tempora

Morning Glory yeah tempura morning glory and we also have some tempure here which looks like is a mushroom yeah and then we’ve got pork skin yes uh sausage everything to try I absolutely love this there’s so much meat I love it I’m not

The biggest fan of like uh Seafood but there is so much meat here and this this is a chili dip dip all these things these are the dips so this is like the starter okay that looks awesome please join us and help us with this

Because this is enough food for I think a a family of five but we have been cycling around trying ma most of it flat that’s why we don’t really need a bike with gears and so we’ve worked up an appetite and

That’s why peace has brought us to this place all right go for it so enjoy your me m tan tany tan tan t t tanow High Aro tan cow High aroy yes tan cow High aroy tan how Kai aroy it means enjoy your meal okay guys so we’re

Going to start off with the tempura mushroom and you dip it into here so this is spicy and this one is this is ground chili the green chili CH and eggplant it’s eggplant and this one this one is min pork with tomato Min pork

With tomato okay I’m going to go for this one oh they have mushroom and let’s take the coriander off cuz I’m not a big fan of coriander have chicken skin ooh wow that’s spicy that’s a big cake this one is not spicy this one is more meaty than tomato

W w I need some water after that one try this one that’s very ped it’s actually having thank you so much is that the that’s the sparkling water right it has so many of the chilies now you got straws yeah um okay

I’ll have a straw yeah oh perfect he does it the same way as I do it actually I love it it’s quite spicy very spicy not no but it’s nice all right I’m going to try this pork mint with the tomato sauce

Here m i we like that one want to move the coriander though coriander is the devil which one is for your favorite uh p uh this one this one okay what’s this one is that the chicken skin yeah it is ah okay this

Is probably karolina’s least favorite yeah you can take the whole piece yeah I’m going to try this one with you but without the sauce all right Cheers Cheers crispy oh that’s delicious aroy crispy as you can tell by the

Crunch okay guys so I got the bowl of tomyum here carrying a kindly poured some in so think I’m going to do is I’m going to get some of this rice here it’s like a little bit like sticky rice it’s kind of like pumped up

Together add it into here I don’t know if this is the right way to do it but last time we had tomyum karolina had no rice with it no rice but we should should you should have it with rice right yeah m o it’s not spicy it’s more sweet so tom

Yum I thought was more like a spicy kind of we have here in the north it’s more sweeter yeah sweeter it depend actually it depends on the the restaurant recipe on the recipe but typically in Northern regions is more sweet more sweet for

Because they’re not their their local food it’s not local food here okay these this is a local dish so the morning glory tempure and this is a local dish this is my favorite thing right now I love the fried mushrooms I love the meat

The skins and then the kind of just be able to dip it in with these kind of different it’s nice except for this one this one spicy oh mine’s broken off now look at that what do you think of the tomyum I’m really enjoying it I really like the

Combination of all of the ingredients like the lemongrass some ginger some chicken some coconut milk very nice and actually this is the first time when I eat it with the chicken usually I eat it with brown like Kong I was very surprised by the tomyum I was expecting like a burst of chili

But it was more like a smooth kind of milder taste coconut there’s coconut milk in there in the tomyum coconut and dairy and dairy and uh piece was saying to us earlier on that in the northern regions it’s not the the local food is

Not with coconut milk all right guys we have had an absolutely beautiful Feast we’ve tried some really local food today from the northern region peace has been absolutely amazing he’s shown us the real local side to Chai my and that was

Our goal today and if you want to book this tour we’ll put a link in the description so you can go book this tour with kovan kessle and you can go ahead and book that one and maybe peace will be one of your uh tour guides yeah

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Co van Kessel Office
1:33 Exploring Chiang Mai by Bike
5:47 Local Shop
9:04 Temple Stop (Red Lips Buddha)
15:21 Authentic Fresh Market (!)
27:13 Tasting All the Goodies
39:50 Chiang Mai’s Riverside
43:30 Rural Neighbourhoods
48:36 It’s Dinner Time! (Northern Thai Food)

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