4th Generation Braised Goose in Bangkok: LEGENDARY Thai Chinese Food | ห่านพะโล้ ร้านฉั่วคิมเฮง

(chopping)
- [Mark] That is a beauty.
A side of a goose here in,
just, that pool of flavorful juices.
(uplifting music)
Good morning everyone, it's Mark Wiens
with Migrationology.com in Bangkok, Thailand.
Gonna pick up Dwight, my buddy Dwight,
and we are driving over to a restaurant called
Chua Kim Heng, which is very famous.
Oh hold on.
There's Dwight right now.
- Did I just interrupt?
(both laugh)
- It's very famous for serving braised goose.
So we're on our way to go eat some
braised goose today for lunch.
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The drive didn't take too long,
we just arrived at the restaurant,
and this is a fourth generation
braised goose restaurant, and it's one of these restaurants
that's just sort of expanded as it's grown
throughout the years and so it's underneath the highway.
And, you actually have to drive through
the middle of the restaurant, which I think is pretty cool,
and they have a dining room on both sides of the street.
You arrive to this restaurant,
and what's really cool about it is that
there's a driveway, kind of like a little road,
right in the middle of this restaurant,
and so you'll see some cars pulling up
and people getting out and just entering
the restaurant immediately.
It reminds me of, like, an emission or like a mechanic,
or an emissions testing
mechanic place where you just drive in your car,
and then they check your car, that's what it reminds me of.
(chopping)
A couple of the dishes have just arrived,
but what's really awesome looking is the sauce.
Which, I think this is the braised goose sauce.
You can see, just full of garlic and some yellow chilies,
and probably vinegar is what I'm guessing.
I just gotta taste a little piece of that garlic.
Dwight is filming a video too, so we've got two cameras
rolling, and we're both eating.
- We're definitely the most annoying people
in the restaurant, confirmed.
- Oh!
But what's really good about that sauce
is that they're using the Thai garlic.
It's strong, but it's mild at the same time.
That's basically a vinegar-based sauce,
which is gonna go really well together with the salty goose.
We ordered a couple of different dishes,
and the most famous thing this restaurant
is known for is their braised goose,
but the braised goose is only served at lunch.
They are also open at dinner,
but they serve more stir-fried Chinese style dishes.
So we got some braised goose,
and then we also got another dish
that you absolutely have to get.
But I'm gonna start with that braised goose.
That is a beauty, just a side of a goose here.
You can see that, like, marbling of the skin,
and just that pool of flavorful juices.
And there's some cilantro on the top as well.
And they do have the sauce, but since I've already
tasted the sauce, I think I'm just gonna go ahead
and just taste the straight piece of the goose,
without anything and really,
really let it absorb those juices.
- [Dwight] It's just extra fatty, extra juicy.
Even when they're hanging in the window,
you can see them just dripping with this juice.
(laughs)
- Oh yeah!
That's insane.
It's on the salty side for flavor,
but you can taste the undertone of the star anise in there.
And then what I really love about the goose
is that it has a little bit of a muscular texture to it,
which is completely contrasted by that
gelatinous-y skin on the top.
This time I have to submerge it into that garlic-y goodness,
and I actually wanna take the chopsticks
and actually put some of that garlic on top of it.
It's awesomely good. - [Dwight] Confirmed?
- Oh man,
yeah,
confirmed delicious.
It's like at that stage just before it's too salty
to the point where it's so addictive
and so good and so salty.
Not over salty, but perfect.
The next dish we got is Pad Mee Ka Han,
and it comes in its own little baking pot here,
and there's Pad Mee, which are egg noodles on the top,
and then on the bottom are braised goose feet
plus some garlic.
This is one of their signature dishes here.
I wanna see what's underneath all this.
So first, maybe take some of the noodles?
And I'm just assuming that these noodles
have just been saturated with goose juices.
Oh, and there's mushrooms down here, there's ginger.
- [Dwight] So, they've got all the spices
and everything at the bottom.
So I think the way they do it is they cook all of that,
and then they throw
the soaked noodles on top.
So, once we get down to the bottom,
everybody will be able to see a little bit better
that all the flavor from that garlic and the spices
and those giant mushrooms and everything has just been
absorbed by these goose feet.
They're not like duck feet.
They're webbed, right, and they're extra big.
So if you love feet at all, if you love chicken feet,
or duck feet, or anything, this is like the ultimate.
- [Mark] Looks like there's some pork fat down there too.
For extra flavor. - [Dwight] Yeah. Oh.
- [Mark] They know what they're doing here.
- [Dwight] I don't even think you're supposed
to eat all of that stuff, that's just there...
- [Mark] Here's a goose foot.
- [Dwight] To be absorbed.
- [Mark] There's a lot of delicious things going on
in that pot, but I gotta start with this.
This webbed foot.
Rather than a chicken foot, this has a lot more meat,
or a lot more material that you can gnaw on.
You do wanna take out all the little bones.
- (laughs)
Come again?
(laughs)
- Yeah, that is very gelatinous.
You can really taste, like, a black pepper flavor to it.
And I still got one more bone in my mouth.
Unlike chicken feet, which I wouldn't
say are my favorite because they basically just offer
a couple bites of, like, that padding material,
goose feet, on the other hand,
and these particularly, are awesome.
You do have to really like the kinda, like,
the gelatinous-y,
gooey textures.
But if you can enjoy that kind of a texture,
the flavor on them and just that fattiness
and that gnawing on the little bones,
and digging off that little bits of the web,
it's really really good.
And that, like, spice profile that they're using
in their braised juices and sauce
is just absolutely awesome.
Now I gotta taste some of those noodles.
And the noodles not only have the goose juices,
but also that pork at the bottom of the pot,
as well as ginger and garlic, and some other,
probably secret, ingredients.
Woah.
Those noodles are amazing.
- [Dwight] Mm-hmm.
- They're so soft, you can actually
feel, like, the oils and flavors
just filled into the noodles.
We also got a big soup here which is, I think,
a steamed soup with bitter melon and See Khrong Muu,
which is pork ribs, I think.
And I love bitter melon, especially when they're
like these tender piece of bitter melon.
I'm gonna put this on to my rice.
Okay, and then maybe add a pork rib in there as well.
Is this supposed to be eaten with any sauce, you think?
Okay, and I will reach in for that.
(Mark gasps)
- [Mark] Oh!
That just completely falls off the bone.
Oh, that's beautiful.
And then, take it with some of that bitter melon.
(Dwight laughs)
That bitter melon just disintegrates in your mouth.
And it's just so soft and tender,
and it's not really that bitter,
but it definitely has a very porky flavor to it.
That is very porky, and that just was a
very pleasant bitterness to it.
We've eaten all the noodles and most of the feet,
but there's some goodies down below here.
I'm gonna grab one of those mushrooms.
Oh, and I got a noodle attached to this mushroom.
Those mushrooms are ridiculous.
It almost has the same texture as the feet.
It's gelatinous, and it's just filled with the flavor.
I can really taste ginger in that mushroom.
We just finished with this meal.
That was fantastically good.
What I really liked about the goose
is that it's on a saltier side rather than the sweet side.
Actually, I don't even know if it
really has any sweetness to it.
But you can really taste the undertone of
secret herbs and spices that they've braised,
that juice that they braised the goose in.
Really, really good.
And then also the highlight of any meal here
is that goose feet,
kinda hot pot pan, all in one pan.
Even if feet don't sound that good to you,
you should definitely try it because they are amazing.
And what I didn't notice at the beginning of eating it
is that they included a lot of cilantro roots
which in Thai are called Rak Pak Chee,
and that was giving a lot of flavor to this dish.
There's a lot of black pepper corns.
There were some pork fat flavoring it,
as well as a lot of ginger.
And then this is just a classic place.
I love how the master is up there,
just slicing and dicing
that goose up just
remarkably well.
He's a true expert, and he just de-bones it!
He de-bones it all within, like,
just not, like, really fast, but just graceful.
He's very graceful at chopping up geese.
For fantastic and legendary braised goose in Bangkok,
this is a great restaurant.
And they even have some snack stalls
right outside the restaurant.
Ying is now buying
some Makam,
or some Khanoms over here.
- [Mark] Which one is this Ying?
Khanom - [Ying] Khanom Tian
Khanom Tian. - [Mark] Khanom Tian.
In a little pyramid shape,
wrapped in a banana leaf and steamed.
Oh yeah, that's gooey.
And you can feel the oils coming out of this.
You can really smell the banana leaf,
which has been embedded into this.
Mm, okay, I have had this before.
It has kind of like
a grainy, bean-y texture on the inside,
and then on the outside it is, like, very sticky.
And then also, I forgot that there is a little
bit of black pepper in here.
So you can taste a little bit of a pepper flavor as well.
That is a very interesting snack
because it's a little bit sweet,
but then that contrasts with the black pepper.
And now that I keep on eating it,
you can actually taste the black pepper sort of
numbing the tongue.
What'd you think of that goose, Dwight?
- Oh man, I loved it, as always.
This is a great place.
If you're in Bangkok, it's worth coming over
to Chua Kim Heng.
This is not the only thing to eat over here.
There's a great set of restaurants in this area,
so you can really just come over here and explore.
- Thank you all very much for watching this video.
Please remember to give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it.
Also Dwight is making a video as well.
- Maybe.
(laughs)
- I think.
I will link it below if he does,
and thank you all very much for watching,
and I will see you on the next video.
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4th Generation Braised Goose in Bangkok: LEGENDARY Thai Chinese Food | ห่านพะโล้ ร้านฉั่วคิมเฮง

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