The GOAT List of Thailand 🇹🇭 (Greatest Of All Time)

The GOAT List of Thailand 🇹🇭 (Greatest Of All Time)

Welcome to the greatest of all time Thailand 
edition. This week I wanted to show my love and appreciation to Thailand. This beautiful country 
has been my home not just for the YouTube channel but for me as a person for over 10 years. And so 
I put together a list of 10 questions about what is the greatest of all time things in Thailand. 
It can be food, it can be destinations, islands, all these types of things I will answer along 
with a few other familiar faces. people who have also called Thailand home or have made 
fantastic content here in the past. Let me know in the comments below the answers to some of the 
questions that we’re going to ask today. Right, let’s get into it. What is the goat Thai dish? I 
love Thai food, almost all Thai food, but probably if I could choose just one dish for the rest of my 
life to eat, it would be southern Thai gang, which in Bangkok is often called ganglang, but it’s a 
sour curry. It is made with lots of turmeric with lots of uh chilies, garlic, tamarind. There’s 
shrimp paste in there. Yeah, it’s one of my favorite dishes. I could eat it every day. For 
me, it has to be pack, right? You can get it pork, you can get it beef, you can get it chicken, 
you can get it tofu, you can get it mushroom, you can get it on the street, you can get it in 
a restaurant, pretty much on every corner in this country. And it’s my staple. Pak kapow with crispy 
pork. You can’t go wrong with it for me. Papaya salad, grilled chicken, and sticky rice. Good 
shower. Ladna. I really addicted to ladna. It’s a I think it’s a rice noodle with vegetables and 
pork in a thick gravy sauce. And yeah, I really love ladna. Pad kra. Come on. You go first. Let’s 
go together. On three. One, two, three. Pad kra. The easy answer is pad kra. But for me, I think 
my favorite dish is mukrab crispy pork with salt, chili, and garlic served over rice. I would say 
for me is Thai boat noodle. The one that they put pig’s blood in the broth. I love a good uh pad 
Thai. However, my favorite Thai dish is pad cu. For me, there’s no doubt about it. It’s a northern 
dish called hangle and it’s a a mild pork curry made with ginger. It’s just absolutely beautiful 
for me. It is kangai. Half fried chicken, half boiled chicken on top of rice with a hot soup 
on the side. I can eat that every single day. What is the goat place to visit in Thailand? I’m going 
to go with Bangkok. This city is insane and there is something for everyone here. There’s nice, 
polished, high-end parts of the city. There’s also grimy, chaotic, this insane side to Bangkok. It 
has to be Cowok National Park. The most beautiful man-made lake, but with these incredible limestone 
cliffs, caves, emerald green, and blue waters. If you get the opportunity to stay on the lake on a 
floating hotel, for example, it’s just a magical experience. You’ll never forget your time in Cowoc 
National Park. I’m gonna go with Cows National Park. This place is just otherworldly. I would 
have to say it would be somewhere up around the north and around the pa or the Nan area. And the 
scenery there is amazing. So yeah, 100% I would say PA. Chantaburi. Chantaburi. Eastern Thailand. 
You got jungle, mountains, coast, some of the best food, the best people. Yeah, easy. That’s a tough 
one. But I fell in love with Nan Province, Dean. We went there last year and we fell in love with 
it instantly. Some of the provinces that really come to mind or stand out are Meongan, Chiangai, 
Naan, and in the south, I really love Patalum. I really love uh Ban Kiri Wong, which is a village 
town in the mountains in Nakansi Tamarat. What is the goat local experience that you’ve had 
in Thailand? A nice walk along the river on the co uh Kong sand side is a very nice local 
experience. For us, the goat Loto experience has to be Bun Bang Thai. This is a rocket festival 
held in EAN every year before the rainy season. They fill rockets with about 20 lbs of gunpowder 
all made by hand in PVC tubes and then set them off in the sky. And yeah, health and safety is 
not a big thing here as you know in Thailand, but it’s amazing to see. We absolutely loved 
it and I’d recommend anyone go to Bunbang Fi probably Mata in Patalong. We went to this village 
by the river and we went to harvest clams in the mud and did the mud spa and ate fresh oysters off 
the oyster farm. One of the best experiences in Thailand. A few years ago, I gave a few cameras 
to some subscribers and we went on a motorbike tour around Mi Hong. We did the famous loop. It 
was definitely my favorite experience living in Thailand and traveling around, getting to do the 
Mihong Loop with a bunch of other people creating something magical. I would have to go with walking 
through an authentic Thai market. Can’t beat the uh market experience. So, back in 2022, I was 
in Colanta with my friends Cash and Sabrina, and they travel there every year. They know the 
place Inside Out. So, they took me to a local restaurant called Quan’s Cookery Restaurant, 
run by this lovely lady called Quan. such a sweet person with an amazing personality and she 
would invite you into the kitchen while she was cooking and let you try out different things. And 
this is a place that if I was there by myself, I could have easily just walked past. But because 
Cash and Sabrina knew the area, they took me to the right place, got to hang out with the locals 
and try out some incredible, incredible food. Really [ __ ] excellent. And the dish that I had 
was called cow soy, which I’ve never had before. And it was just phenomenal. So I could more than 
happily eat that forever. Maybe a little side of some vegetable spring rolls. I remember when I 
first came to Thailand, I went to the mountains with a friend and met her family. They were really 
farmers from the country and lived the basic Thai life and he was giving me Lao cow and the Lao cow 
had bits floating in it and they were cooking raw, no hygiene or nothing. And it just felt like I was 
miles away from Chiang Mai city and that’s that’s something that always stuck with me. We’re up in 
rural Pic province in the village. We headed off out into the countryside into the rice fields. We 
caught some giant rats. Then we cooked them up. We made a dry spicy curry. For me, you can’t beat 
driving through Rural Lean on a motorbike being invited in for rice wine everywhere you go. I 
remember there was a time when our car broke down in Huahin and we took it to like a local garage 
to fix and then the lady there was like, “Well, what are you going to do? What are you planning 
to do in the national park here?” and she said, “Why don’t you take my motorbike? I’ll grab 
you some helmets and you can go explore and come back for your car in two hours.” And I 
just thought that was a cool experience and you wouldn’t get that anywhere else. For me, it’s 
getting out of the tourist areas and going into the local neighborhoods and even some of the slum 
I I hate that word slum, but slum areas like Kong toy. I’ve been into those communities and been 
welcomed with open arms. People have invited me into their homes. I went up north and I went 
deep, deep, deep off the beaten track. And this is where your goat local experience can happen. 
I met a couple of teachers. And to go and get off the beaten path is just so rewarding. What 
is the goat thing to buy at 7-Eleven? Don’t say beer. Don’t say beer. Don’t say beer. Don’t say 
beer. Beer. I always buy mixed nuts. Mixed spicy nuts. Easy cocoa max coconut water. Mine might be 
boring, but I always get the jumbo big bow. So, like a steamed bun with meat inside. So, there’s 
these little It’s like kimop. It’s a Korean. It’s seaweed wrapped around a tube of rice with 
something stuffed in the middle. It’s It’s the kimchi flavor. Try it out. Get them to heat 
it up for you and uh let me know what you think. I love the two boiled eggs that they do. It’s a 
little plastic box and you take them home. They’re already pre-boiled. I know it sounds ridiculous, 
but just having hardboiled eggs ready for you is amazing. And you crack them at home, chuck 
them in your lunch, chuck them in your dinner, just add extra protein for about what was it, 12 
B or something. The thing that comes to mind is to which are boiled peanuts. Boring with my my 
snack options. I like to eat a lot of nuts, but the boiled peanuts at 7-Eleven are amazing. And 
also the sunflower seeds. The go thing to buy at a 7-Eleven in Thailand is obviously a ham and cheese 
toasty. But what I always do in the morning is I’ll go to 7-Eleven, get a ham and cheese toasty, 
and then I’ll go to a little stall on the street and get a banana smoothie. And those together is 
just your perfect Thai breakfast. What is the goat island in Thailand? For me, this changes all the 
time because when I revisit or go to a new island, it quite quickly becomes my favorite. But 
right now, if you had a gun to my head, I’d probably say Koset. Kosamett is an underrated 
island in my opinion, and you can really have an awesome time there. And to be able to get there 
in 2 hours is just that’s the winner for me. Koku, it’s in eastern Thailand. It’s super chill. Feels 
like the good old days. There’s no highrises, massive hotels, there’s no traffic. Yeah, I know. 
It’s so nice. Colanta. I’m going to list my three favorite Thai islands. I’ll go with Copanyan, 
Copayam, which is different from Copanyan, and Kosumat, which I learned about thanks to 
Patty. I’d known about it before, but thanks to Patty’s video, I finally went there just a 
few months ago and uh really liked it. Somebody here wants to say hello. Hello, Rosie. This is 
my mom’s cat. I still love Simui, you I still love co movie cuz I’ve got all these memories 
going back to the 80s, you know, where it was like it was like Robinson Cruso. It was like uh 40 
B a night, but it’s still a beautiful island. Got Simui because that’s where we are living now and 
we’re planning to build our dream home here. Well, you know me, I’m a Simui guy. But Simui has so 
much more to offer than just Changang Beach. That’s why I call it home and that’s why it’s the 
goat island. What is the goat Thai word or phrase? It means I eat Thai spicy. One of my favorite Thai 
phrases is which means good luck. And I think it’s a really nice thing that Thai people say to each 
other. My pet my gin, which that’s a very special phrase for me. It translates directly to uh not 
spicy, not eating. I would go to eat at the at my my favorite little aanamang stall, which is a 
stir fry stall. And so I’d eat there every day, but every day I’d try to order a different dish 
so I could try new dishes, but I’d always order it spicy. So every day I’d be like, uh, pka pongari. 
And she’d yell out to her to the chef who was like across the room and be like, pongari, my pet, 
my gin, or padkap, my pet my gin. There are so many funny phrases here, but my favorite 
is falank. When you’re being a cheap skate, when you’re being a cheap Charlie, Thai people 
will say felank. And I think it’s really funny. Black. Black. Black. Black just means strange. 
Weird. Use this one with a, you know, a tie that you know a bit already. Maybe if you’re having a 
drink together and you’ve got a bit of rapport, which means you are a person with no merit 
whatsoever. In your next life, you will be reborn as a cockroach. Mayo, not spicy, not tasty. 
I think that’s the only way to get them to get it as spicy as I like it. What’s the goat hidden 
gem in Thailand? Well, comment below. Oh, I I’d like to hear what your hidden gems are. Maybe 
I’ll go check them out. But for me, you know, I used to consider Raleigh Beach a hidden gem, 
but it’s no longer a hidden gem. But I’m going to say Tonsai Beach, which is literally next door 
to Raleigh. It’s almost empty. It takes you back in time to what that whole area was like, uh, you 
know, 20, 30 years ago. There’s a place in Utaiani called Hoop Patat. It’s a tiny little jungle 
surrounded by limestone cliffs and it’s kind of been isolated from the rest of the world for 
thousands of years and there were really unique little plants and animals and bugs that live 
in there and it’s so magical. Not many people know about it. It’s in the middle of nowhere but 
hoop patat Peton definitely Peton. They have this temple with stacking Buddha statues high up in the 
mountain. Favorite hidden gem? I don’t know. Is there any hidden gems left? If you go to Lumpini 
Park, there’s a black cat. It’s always hiding and it doesn’t come out much unless you got food. So, 
it’s a lovely cat. So, I suppose that is a kind of hidden gem, isn’t it? There’s a place called Pari. 
You got to be careful how you say that in Thai. It is just this teeny little village and it’s just 
got this incredible view. You look down from the village. You’re looking down on two mountains that 
got a like a gap between them and you’re looking down beyond these two mountains to like the plains 
of Chiang Rai province. It just leaves me in awe. Anywhere on the Mechong River up in the northeast, 
Nakon Panong, Bungan, any small town or city, you can’t go wrong. One of the best places on 
earth. I really like Patalong as well though cuz the nature surrounding it is so beautiful. 
What’s the goat overrated destination in Thailand? has to be Phuket. For some reason, I don’t think 
I’m going to be the only person to say this one, but it’s Phuket. You know, Phuket or Paya. 
I’m gonna go with Kosamui and Copangan. Sorry, not my vibe at all. Paya. I just feel like 
it’s a bit not very welcoming for females. My goat overrated destination is not so much a 
destination as it is an event which is the full moon party on Copanyang. Now Copanyang is still 
a beautiful island. Like places like Bottle Beach are just absolutely stunning. But the Full Moon 
Beach party was just [ __ ] right? I’m going to be controversial here. Bangkok. It’s the most 
overrated and underrated at the same time. It’s a giant city. It has everything. But everyone 
goes to the exact same places. But out there, you’ve got a whole city to explore full of good 
food, good people, and yeah, just quintessentially Thai things. What is the goat overrated 
destination in Thailand? That’s a bit harsh. Uh, the second half of the Mihong Loop. It’s a bit 
boring. It’s not as good as the first half. I’m going to go with Huah Hin. I’ve been there twice. 
I was there uh fairly recently and uh I just found it to be a very, you know, overly busy beach with 
hotels on it. Just nothing unique about it. I’m going to say the district of Nana in Sukumit. 
I mean, that’s the busiest part of Sukumvit, but I’m going to say that it’s overrated. It does 
one thing very, very good. And if you’re not if you’re not looking for that one thing, then it’s 
an overrated area. What’s the goat place to have a cold beer in Thailand? Good question. I like this 
one. for us. Anywhere in Thailand, as long as you have a Leo and a nice glass of ice, anywhere in 
Gossipling. Got to be a restaurant on the beach with your feet in the sand. I think you can’t beat 
your first ever bottle of Chang on Kowan Road. For me, it was years and years ago. I think 2008. That 
first sip of Thai beer in a hot, sweaty street with music and the sights and the smells and the 
sensory overload of Kowsan Road. Your first beer on Kowan Road has to be the goat beer in Thailand. 
Sitting on the Meong in Changong in Changraai Province overlooking the river and overlooking Lao 
at sunset. It’s got to be the Mechong River. It has to be. Sitting there watching the world go by, 
looking at the mountains in the distance. It’s one of the greatest places on earth. Couple of salty 
snacks like some crunchy duck beaks. Mhm. Spot on. Probably everywhere is good to have a cold beer 
in Thailand. And especially I love having a cold beer along with jungle food. Have some jungle 
food, salty, spicy, and have a cold beer with that. And that’s a perfect combination. Pi up in 
the north of Thailand when you’re looking out over the hills in the nighttime in a little shanty bar 
in Pi. It just it’s just amazing. That’s that’s probably one of the best places I’ve ever had a 
beer on the beach watching the sunset drinking a cold Leo singer Sam Miguel. Not a Chang. This is 
a no-brainer. Well, recently on Carl’s Thailand, one of my most recent videos, I covered this 
uh beach just inside Chimpon Province as you’re heading south. And it’s just this secluded 
little beach and it’s got like a single bar. It’s definitely not on the on the wellbeaten path yet. 
And it it’s just stunning. If I could have a cold beer anywhere right now, that would be it. What’s 
the goat tourist stereotype in Thailand? Ah, this one is tough. Well, on the island, I see a 
lot of foreigners driving scooters with no shirt on. It would have to be people dressing up in 
elephant pants, elephant shirt, walking around, just being so vividly unaware of how blissfully 
stereotypical they’re being, and I love them. Elephant pants, drunk bricks, walking around 
with no top on, 7-Eleven to theies, Chang vests, sunburn, no spars. I don’t want any spades. No 
spicy. People who land and immediately get dressed into elephant print clothing. Full elephant print 
clothing. Guys, you won’t believe what I just got from 7-Eleven. A toasty. Oh my god. You don’t 
know how amazing these are. These only cost one. Don’t forget to like and subscribe. These are 
pretty good. I think my personal favorite if I was going to think of stereotypes would be maybe 
you call him paya man often times cleanly shaven head there’s nothing wrong with that you know 
bit of a motorbike bit of a pot belly which is nothing wrong with that and maybe a a young 20s 
something tie girl hanging off his arm what’s your personal goat memory in Thailand that’s probably 
the hardest question I’m sure we’ve all got about a million good memories memories. It must be the 
moment where we purchased our land in Gossamoy and the previous owner handed the land papers 
to us. Has to be my series where I rode from Bangkok to the border with Malaysia. The people, 
the destinations, the food. I’ll remember that one forever. A long time ago, me and my friend 
were hitchhiking from Chiang Mai to Pi for fun. And a policeman pulled us over and asked us, “What 
are we doing?” And we explained, “We’re trying to hitchhike. we want to get a free ride to the next 
town and there are trucks passing by and we think we can jump in the back. And we thought, “Oh god, 
are we going to get in trouble?” But no, he said, “Oh, I’ll help you.” And he just stood on the side 
of the road and he hitchhiked with us. He flagged down a car, told him, you know, what we wanted. 
And the couple in the front drove us all the way to Pi. And that happened about two or three more 
times whilst hitchhiking around Thailand. The Thai police here are incredibly funny, incredibly 
friendly, and I don’t think they get enough love in Thailand. If I think of just the YouTube 
era the last 5 years, it’s got to be finding out Paddyy was a Newcastle fan. Maya Bay, I’ve been 
there a couple of times, but when I went there in 2022 with Paddyy and a few others, the timing 
and the conditions were just right to make this place like the ultimate paradise. And the reason 
was Maya Bay had just reopened after being closed for refurbishment for like a couple years, I 
think. Plus, it was January 2022, so we were just coming out the pandemic, so there wasn’t that 
many other tourists around. The sand was so white and so clean. The water was crystal clear. There’s 
little baby sharks just swimming around. And doing what I do and what Patty does, we obviously spent 
a lot of time filming it and getting all the shots we wanted. And then we just had enough time to put 
the camera away for like an hour and just sit down and just take it all in. We met a lovely family in 
Chantterbury and they took us out to the beach to waterfalls. They they made us food. They made us 
Oh, it was just they made us feel like part of the family. And that is like my favorite memory for 
me. It was going down to Kong Toy for the first time, walking into a slum dangerous area, not 
sure if I was going to get robbed or beaten up or have things stolen from me. And then to instead 
be invited into people’s homes and have them share their meals with me. and we drank together and 
I formed friendships that I still have 4 years later. I get invited back to birthday parties now 
and special events down there and I’ve been made to feel like part of the community down there 
which blows my mind. The first time you come to Thailand, you’re always chasing that first time. 
I think there’s nothing more special than when you first get to Bangkok or Chiang Mai, that very 
first time. That will always be the best moment. I think the best the best sort of memory. the best 
that first ever time and especially when I come here to Chiang Mai. Nothing beats that first time, 
man. That that first trip that I made here. 1992 on the two occasions where I got to see a wild 
tiger at Coway National Park when they still had them there. Yeah, that is definitely my uh my best 
memory in Thailand. Uh one time I was in Nakonita Marat and they have this there’s a fruit which is 
called the Nepa palm fruit which are these little jellies and they actually make sugar from it. But 
I had no idea you could make a curry from the the little jellies and also just the the uniqueness 
and the how incredible the fruit is. So we went to a village where they chop where they grow 
nepa palms and then we got one of the it looks like a alien ball. They did the whole process. 
They cut the little fruits and they made this just unbelievable curry from it. We used to go to 
the full moon parties over there on Copangan and uh in a in the late 90s they started getting a 
little bit too commercialized. So we stopped doing that and one night on full moon night we said you 
know what instead of getting a boat going over going over to Hadrin beach for the full moon party 
let’s get a boat let’s get 25 friends together a sound system some lasers and smoke machines and 
go find a deserted island and have a private full moon party with just all of us and that’s 
what we did. Fast forward to the sun coming up and us staggering back onto the boat that we had. 
Driving it, big tie schooner driving it with like uh 25 of us on it, all ghouly eyed by now and 
driving through the Gulf of Thailand. That was a long time ago, but uh that was a great night. 
I look forward to what everyone else has to say here, Patty. Cheers, everyone. Okay, thank you for 
watching the goat list of Thailand. Please let me know in the comments the answers to some of the 
questions below. I would love to hear. And thanks again to all of the content creators who helped 
make this video a little bit more fun and to share their experiences and hopefully to reignite 
some amazing memories of Thailand to you. [Music]

I thought it would be fun to ask some friends (and you guys at home) what the GREATEST things about Thailand 🇹🇭

Thanks to my creator friends who sent through their answers (sorry I couldn’t include all the answers!)

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Chapters
00:00 – 00:37 – Intro
00:38 – Best Thai Dish
2:29 – Place to Visit
4:08 – Local Experience
7:53 – 7 Eleven Item
9:21 – Best Island in Thailand
10:57 – Thai Phrase
12:29 – Hidden Gem
15:59 – Cold Beer
18:05 – Tourist Stereotype
19:28 – Personal Memory
24:16 – Let me know

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