Thai style BBQ in Isaan (video)
Who with Thai out eten goes will sooner or later in a BBQ end up in a restaurant. Usually at such a buffet restaurant you can eat as much as you want for a fixed amount. In this video you will see the concept of a BBQ the Thai way, also known as the Korean barbecue. This can be done in a restaurant, but also at home as shown in the video.
Eat and eat again
Food is very important to a Thai. I think a Thai first thinks about food when they wake up. Often the menu for the rest of the day is already set. As a foreigner, most of the Thai cuisine also appeals to me. It is tasty and the fresh ingredients and herbs make it a true feast for the taste buds.
Thai BBQ
BBQing like Thais does differ from our western way. A pan with a convex side in the middle is used (see video). A kind of soup is cooked in the ring of the pan. Place meat, fish or chicken on the convex side for baking. I've done it a few times and wasn't really thrilled. I prefer a barbecue like we do in the west, tastes differ.
Well, it's nice to experience it once. It's also dirt cheap. For 200 baht (€ 5,15) you can eat as much as you want. That sounds like music to the ears for some of us.
Video: Thai style BBQ in Isaan
Watch the video below:
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I love the Korean BBQ, delicious and I personally like it better than the Western BBQ (which is nice too!). We regularly eat Korean BBQ in Thailand and also at home in the Netherlands. Never needed extra toilet paper. Of course you do
pay close attention to whether, for example, the meat has not been exposed for hours. So go especially when everything has already started a bit. Of course you never have certainty, as long as you have fun and follow your intuition. Sanook mak mak.
Such a nice Thai BBQ, lots of vegetables, fish, meat, squid everything is prepared on it. I especially like those Thai vegetables. It's a real family meal.
You can rent everything, that's dirt cheap!
And never had an upset stomach or diarrhea after meals! Maybe you just had bad luck Hans
I invariably do it a few times when I'm in Thailand. (Pattayasaisong 4) Very tasty and cozy and never had any problems.
Where is the downgrade button located here? I wanted to downgrade Hans' reaction but apparently can only vote positive?
I love it too.
I (we) also do it regularly at home.
In Pattatya you even have BBQ restaurants where you can buy for Baht 99 (yes, you read that right)
you can go !!
Forgot to mention that especially “the soup” 'from the edge' is delicious.
Can someone give me an address in Hua Hin where this can be done? Preferably a nice restaurant, but a bit more expensive.
thanks in advance
hey ton,
You do have some in HH.
I think one of the better ones is the one at the beginning of the Pala-U road.
Coming from Phetkasem road, enter soi 70 at the traffic lights. (if you don't know this, google it on google maps)
After crossing the railway, continue for +/- 200 m and then turn right, as 95% of the traffic does. Follow this road, and after 300 m it bends to the left. A 100 m after this bend you will find the (big) BBQ restaurant on your right…
169 Thb, if I remember correctly…
Enjoy your food.
In Hua Hin Soi 88 you can have unlimited BBQs to your heart's content!
They call it Ngeun Jaan, it's very tasty! and nowadays it is a fixed amount for the buffet. In a restaurant that costs 149 Baht! At least in Ubon Ratchathani.
So for that price you have a ngeun jaan and also a grid on which you can roast your pork, squid, satay or prawns à la carte!
So instead of 2 ngeun jaans in the movie you can put a grid on the second charcoal pot and you have something for everyone.
Lets eat!!
And in the end you should taste the liquid, delicious, but not exactly good for your cholesterol level! 555
What shall I say, I have an electric version in the Netherlands.
Since recently also an electric hotpot.
Yummy Yummy
Neua yaang kowlee they call it
Delicious in khonkaen near rimbeung many restaurants, but at home we also serve that regularly.arroy mak mak
My girlfriend and I regularly (2 x a month) have a BBQ here in Udon Thani. All you can eat for
around 180thb per person, good quality and we have never gotten sick of it. Usually we sit at Nong Prachak Lake. Nice view and great entourage by the many hikers and groomers around the lake. You can also go for this BBQ within the Central Plaza shopping center (on the 4th floor).
Don't want to mention the nice places in Udon, compatriots from other regions of Thailand will soon be coming there. We are talking about the Isan and many do not know this large area and we better keep it that way.
If you were BBQing at the lake earlier this week, you might have seen me. The farang athlete. At the aforementioned lake in the city of Udon, next to the BBQ, there is also the large floating yellow duck, a copy of the Dutch artist F.Hofman. And now in the mourning period for the King with a black bow.
And in my hometown of Korat there are also many BBQ restaurants.
I just moved into a nice rental house in Udon Thani this week. I would like to see the 'nice places' listed by someone else, but I understand that it concerns restaurants? Is that a setback! I was expecting info on nice public places.
Such a nice BBQ, here in Bueng khong long there are 2 who also deliver at home and then come and pick up the things the next day, people are easy when we eat there I take the whiskey with me and use the people's soda, you can eat as much as you want for 119 Bath, great ice cream and chocolate for the kids.
I don't like it at all, saw an old 60 liter barrel lengthwise at home in the Isaan and welded a few legs oder, full of charcoal, costs almost nothing here, with a grid of reinforcing iron on top where a large T-bone being able to eat steaks, that is barbecuing to me, not such a small lump of aluminum that everything sticks to, just the infusion that they try to call soup… yuck, I call this barbeque, no this is not for me, a good chunk meat with a delicious Chang that's it.
I don't like it either. The meat is cut very small so you don't know what you are eating. not always the best part of the cow or pig in my opinion. Not even for that price. And then the sauce, a bit of petroleum smell.
Big T-bone steaks. In Thailand. Don't know what you're used to, but the average T-bone in Thailand is an inedible dry thin piece of meat.
Australian imports, on the other hand, are fine, but then you are not talking about a full stomach for 139 baht….., rather ten times pp
If prepared with good ingredients (usually not), Korean barbecue is a healthy alternative to barbecuing old style. The soup can indeed be a mouth-watering bonus!
I also like to do it and just think it's fun, everyone takes care of themselves and gets the meat or fish they like, occasionally of course secretly grab something from someone else, but that's part of it, I don't like it that someone is BBQing at a distance and then regularly shouts: who wants another hamburger or a chicken breast.
Here in Buriram they call it Korean BBQ and usually 'Moo Kata'.
Mu kratha (Thai: หมูกระทะ, pronounced [mǔː krā.tʰáʔ]), is a combination of a Korean barbecue and a Chinese hot pot.
Doesn't have anything to do with Isaan in my opinion, is also called "steam boat".
You've only seen it here in the Isan for about 10 years, but it has become terribly popular here, in muang Buriram alone, with about 45.000 inhabitants, I already know about 20 of them.
I've never heard the name 'steam boat' here, usually they just call it 'hot pot'.
I first did it about 7 years ago in Banchang, they called it steamboat there, but maybe it was the name of the restaurant…
In the Golden Mile in Singapore (Thai center) it is very popular, queue of half an hour!
Dear editors,
When we come home to the Isaan, we go with the family to such a BBQ party.
With us it is 200 Bath pp and they secretly take as much as they can with them.
I'm not crazy about it myself, but the eating vestijn is nice to see.
Go early or you will eat next to the tasty pot.
Thai come very early and then the shrimps are gone or no longer available.
As for the rest of the food, it differs per eatery and what they have as standard.
I say try it and eat as much as you can.
Yours faithfully,
Erwin
Mookata or Mu kratha is of Thai origin and very tasty.
Very cozy together around the bbq with family and Leo with ice.
Buffet style is also good but sometimes way too busy.
The Thai love it, but it's not for me. Occasionally I go there but only when I'm really hungry and I don't mean to eat my tripe. Just give me an ordinary western BBQ that tastes much better to me
I think this is a Thai fondue and not a bbq! In my experience, the Thai can barbecue on charcoal like no other.
At least 10 years ago on holiday in Buriram for the first time. Then bought a bowl like that.
Nowadays it is also more common here (central Thailand) and you can pick up everything at a restaurant.
They call it Moo Kaa Taa.
I'm not a fan of it myself.