Thai Seafood at Bangpoo – DELICIOUS Crispy Fish and Sour Soup | สุดยอดอาหารทะเลที่บางปู สมุทรปราการ

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About 25 km from Central Bangkok is a place called Bangpoo (บางปู / สถานตากอากาศบางปู). It’s one of the closest places from Bangkok to the ocean. And although it’s not a swimming ocean, you can feed seagulls there and the best part of taking a day trip there is to eat some delicious seafood at the restaurant on the pier.

So first off in this video, we drove down Sukhumvit towards Samut Prakan (สมุทรปราการ), which is the next southern province from Bangkok. The drive didn’t take long and we decided to stop off in Samut Prakan town to visit the seafood market. If you enjoy seafood, the Samut Prakan market is a great place to visit and look around. Just outside the market, we stopped to have a fresh squeezed juice. I tried an interesting juice combination of bitter melon and green apple. It was a little intense, but I enjoyed it.

We continued on drive to Bangpoo (บางปู). Bangpoo (บางปู) is owned by the Thai Navy and it’s basically a little center where you can walk out of the pier and look at the ocean and feed the seagulls. Bangkok is not located right on the ocean, but it’s about 20 km or so from the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand. So taking a Bangkok day trip to Bangboo (บางปู) is one of the closest places you can get to the ocean from Bangkok.

At Bangpoo (บางปู) you can buy some food to feed the seagulls, and many people do. Or you can just watch the seagulls and they gracefully soar over the pier and mangrove forests along the coastline.

At the end of the pier is a Thai seafood restaurant that you’re not going to want to miss eating at. The restaurant is called Sala Sukjai Restaurant (ร้านศาลาสุขใจ), and it ha a pretty antique classic feel to it with a ballroom in the middle, and two wings of seating. The restaurant is open air so you get the sea breeze, and while you eat delicious Thai seafood, you can watch the seagulls and the view.

Here are the Thai seafood dishes we ordered:

1. Fried fishcakes (ทอดมันปลา) – The fish-cakes were excellent, with good texture and curry paste flavor.
2. Deep fried barramundi fish (ปลากะพงทอดน้ำปลา) – The fried barramundi fish with fish sauce and green mango salad was delicious.
3. Mussels baked in pot (หอยแมลงภู่อบ) – These weren’t exactly New Zealand mussels, but they were pretty good, and steamed in a pot with basil and lemongrass.
4. Stir fried fern with oyster sauce (ผักกูดผัดน้ำมันหอย) – This is a wonderful vegetables, and at this seafood restaurant they just stir fried it with oyster sauce.
5. Potaek seafood soup (โป๊ะแตก) – This was probably my favorite dish at Sala Sukjai Restaurant (ร้านศาลาสุขใจ), the soup was so pure and so sour.
6. Shrimp with mung bean noodles (กุ้งอบวุ้นเส้น) – Not the best version I’ve ever had, but taste was good still.

On this Bangkok day trip to Samut Prakan and Bangpoo (บางปู), the highlight was the seafood meal at Sala Sukjai Restaurant (ร้านศาลาสุขใจ).

If you want to take a quick day trip to one of the closest places to see the ocean near Bangkok, this is a fun place to visit.

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Sala Sukjai Restaurant (ร้านศาลาสุขใจ)
Address: Tambon Bangpoo, Thanon Sukhumvit, Amphoe Mueang Samut Prakan District, Samut Prakan 10280
Open hours: 10 am – 10 pm daily
Phone: 02-323-9911

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– [Mark] We ordered a bunch of seafood dishes. Potaek is another fantastic Thai soup. It should be quite sour but what I love about potaek is that it’s such a pure taste. Taking a trip today to Samut Prakan. You’re looking rather fresh this morning. – [Ying] Really? Reary? Reary? Reary? – Good morning, everyone. It’s Mark Wiens with migrationology.com in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok is located about 20 kilometers north of the ocean, the sea, which is actually the Gulf of Thailand. So today we’re taking a little drive to the, I think it will be the closest sea in, closest sea to Bangkok

Which is in a different province called Samut Prakan. It’s about a 20 or so kilometer drive, not too far away. We’re gonna see the sea. We’re gonna hopefully eat some seafood and we might stop off at the Samut Prakan Market first. In order to drive to Samut Prakan

It’s actually really easy to get there from Bangkok. Just a straight shot down Sukhumvit Road. We just arrived to Samut Prakan right in the center of the town. And what I love about Samut Prakan is that we never left the city to get here, although we’re in a different province. But at the same time, Samut Prakan has such a pleasant smaller feel to it.

It has that small town feel to it as opposed to Bangkok. We’re just walking over to the market. We’re just gonna spend a few minutes walking around the market, the seafood market, just ’cause we’re on our way this direction anyways and it’s a fantastic seafood market. Have you ever seen this before? Horseshoe crabs. Lots and lots of awesome seafood at this market. From fish, lots of platu which are mackerel. And then lots of crab and horseshoe crab. There are little shells and then there are lots of shrimp and there are even some types of rays over there as well as mantis prawns. – Hello! – Hello!

– Hello! – Hello! They’ve got some giant octopus and a variety of different squid. She said they’re really fresh and good. – I don’t really know which is which. – This is always such a friendly market to walk around and explore. Many friendly vendors and so much good food. Oh you know what’s really good? This one with ginger, mom, ginger and green apple. I’ll probably get mixed fruit for Ying. – [Mark’s sister] What would that be, like everything? – Yeah, whatever she decides. – I would probably have more– – Just outside of the market

We have stopped by at a juice stall. She has a bunch of fruit and she’s juicing them. And I ordered a couple of mixed fruit juices which she’s adding in like pineapple and a variety of different fruits. But then I wanted to try an interesting combination

With bitter melon, and also krachai, which is finger root which has a similar taste to ginger as well as I think green apple. Oh and she’s filling in the mixed fruit right now. But we’ll see how the bitter melon one tastes. This one is the mixed fruit that I got for my sister

And she says it’s really good. Oh yeah. It is delicious. It’s perfectly sour and sweet and so fresh It’s perfectly sour and sweet and so fresh. And I think she added in some beetroot as well. That’s what made it so red. For my juice, she added in a couple handfuls of bitter melon

And a whole handful of the finger root and then I think just apple. Wow, that is intensely bitter and awesome. Wow, that is intensely bitter and awesome. Oh, bitter but smooth. And then it’s countered by the gingery taste of the finger root and then very sour from the apple. And I like how it’s squeezed so fresh so there’s still foam on top. It’s almost like a, a bitter melon fruit cappuccino. Ying was at first feeding Micah in the car so that’s when we went to go walk around the market but then she came out. Hello, Micah. – [Ying] Hello! – [Mark] Hello, Micah. And then she went to buy some, what did you buy, Ying? – [Ying] Chips, durian chips.

– She bought, oh durian chips, my favorite! Okay, I gotta grab some of these durian chips immediately. And by the way, thank you, Ying for buying these durian chips. And so these are just very thin slices of durian which are deep fried just like potato chips but durian.

And normally they use a durian that’s pretty unripe so it has more of a firmer texture rather than that pudding texture. This is like the, the top of all chips. And I’m gonna wash that down with some bitter melon juice. Oh! Oh! This is awesome.

Durian chips and bitter melon juice, what a combination! From here we are driving towards a place called Bangpoo. It was just about a 10 minute drive from the center of Samut Prakan. And this place is called Bangpoo. And it’s a navy, Thai navy compound and then they have a pier that goes out into the ocean. And this is not really a beach, it’s not a swimming beach.

It’s more of a looking beach and just a hanging out beach and they have a seafood restaurant here as well. And there’s also, it’s also famous for its seagulls. And walking in here you can already see the mangrove forest. And it’s actually a whole road pier.

You can, I think you can get a golf cart ride to the end of the pier but I can see lots and lots of seagulls in the distance and you can hear the waves crashing. It’s actually quite nice. It’s cool. We are about to walk through the valley of the seagulls. Luckily I have covered Micah’s head so that he doesn’t get any bird crap on top of his head. Some people buy plates of, maybe it’s bread or bird feed to feed the seagulls. So that’s why so many seagulls come. But they’re actually really amazing to watch and just observe. They’re so graceful how they fly. And then all the way at the end of the pier is a restaurant called Sala Sukjai.

And it’s a seafood restaurant and we are going inside now to eat seafood for lunch. We walked into the restaurant and I love the feel of this restaurant. It has a kind of traditional, like 70s feel to it. You walk out to the end of the pier here and then they have a whole restaurant. Even inside they have almost what looks like a ballroom

Where you could have a wedding or an event. And then on the outside to the left, the left or right wing you can choose either one and come out here and they have an outdoor open air dining section with a great view of the water and the seagulls, the sea breeze.

And we just ordered some seafood. – [Mark’s sister] So that’s the thing right when you make the stock? – We ordered a bunch of seafood dishes and they have all arrived. I wanted to order crab but the waitress said that they already ran out of crab. So we came a little bit after the main lunch rush

So I guess they sold out of all their crab. But that’s okay we got plenty of awesome looking seafood. I’ll just start explaining what we’re eating from this dish right here and then just kinda go around clockwise. This is phak kood which is a type of fern, stir fried

And then we also got goong ob woon sen which is mung bean noodles and shrimp in a kind of baked in this pot but with a stove, not in an oven. but with a stove, not in an oven. And then we’ve also got hoi malang poo

And then we’ve also got hoi malang poo which are mussels which are also kinda baked in this pot which are mussels which are also kinda baked in this pot along with some basil. And then that’s seafood sauce there on the side. And then we got tod man pla which are little fried fishcakes.

There’s also some fried basil on top, I believe, as well. And for soup we got potaek thale, which potaek is another fantastic Thai soup. It should be quite sour but what I love about potaek is that it’s such a pure taste. I think a seafood stock and then seafood in there

But then it’s just sour with lime juice and then just a really pure delicious taste. And then finally over here is a fried fish. This is pla kapong tod nam pla. Which is a, it’s a barramundi fish marinated in some fish sauce and deep fried with that wonderful looking sauce there.

Check out that sauce. – [Ying] Potaek. – [Mark] Let me start with that potaek. There’s fish in here, there’s shrimp, there are mushrooms. – She’s enjoying the fish. – Put some of this in my bowl and I’m gonna get some of that fish as well. And a lot of that broth.

Just taste some of that broth. Oh that soup is amazing. Oh that soup is amazing. Oh it’s so sour and then perfectly salty and yeah it just tastes so pure. I think it’s a fish stock broth and then all that seafood in there. You can really taste the cilantro in there.

You can taste the chilies in there, although it’s not spicy. But it has a fresh chili flavor to it. Oh that’s such a soothing broth. You can have the shrimp with mung beans, mom. – [Ying’s mom] Ya. – Okay, I’m gonna move on to the fried fish here.

Try some of this fried fish. Break off this piece here. Break off this piece here. And then that sauce in particular looks awesome. Looks like there’s some, there might be some green mango down here. It looks like shredded green mango with chilies.

Put that on, right on to the fish and eat with rice. Put that on, right on to the fish and eat with rice. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. The fish is so crispy. Kind of a sweet and sour green mango chili sauce. And then next up, for the goong ob woon sen.

And there, they often flavor this, you can see on the bottom, there’s some ginger, there’s garlic, and then also the rak phak chi and then also the rak phak chi which is the cilantro roots which give it some flavor. And then sometimes they also add some

A little bit of pork lard down at the bottom there to give it some, a boost of deliciousness. But just those noodles are really fragrant. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I can really taste the ginger in there. Or maybe that’s ’cause I got a whole piece of ginger in that bite.

But that is really good and the way they’ve made it here, the mung bean noodles are not soggy like they sometimes get. And then also the mussels. Yeah, there’s water at the bottom here so it is steamed. There’s lemongrass also and there’s also basil, sweet basil.

Let me get a little leaf of basil with a mussel and dip it into the seafood sauce. The mussels just have a slight aroma of the lemongrass and sweet basil and then dipped into that chili garlicky sauce. Oh but you can, yeah, you can taste that sweet basil nicely.

I’m going in for the tod man pla. And then that’s all basil fried on top as well. Check out the insides of that. You can see some chili You can see some chili and then also some slices of long bean in there. Sometimes it can have a really really smooth

Almost hot dog texture to it. But this has more of a, like a ground fish flavor, texture to it, which is really good. It’s almost like a fish scrambled egg but deep-fried into a patty shape. And then finally for the fried vegetable which is phak kood which is a type of fern.

It’s always one of my favorite vegetables. It’s crisp and then they’ve just stir-fried this maybe in a little bit of oyster sauce and a little bit of fish sauce maybe. We just finished with lunch. That was a fantastic seafood meal. I think probably my favorite dish was actually that soup, that potaek thale.

If you come to this restaurant don’t miss that potaek. It was so sour and so flavorful. Really really good. And then just this atmosphere here and then also as you’re sitting eating you can see the seagulls flying around. Very nice, very pleasant place. But I can imagine on the weekends

It gets very busy here because this is just such a nice place. And the food is good. This was a great little trip to Bangpoo. And this whole atmosphere here, And this whole atmosphere here, the seagulls are nice to see but I’m probably gonna skip feeding them but if you come here you can feed the seagulls. And then the restaurant serves good seafood. And then it’s just,

It’s pretty close to Bangkok. I think this is one of the closest possible places that you can come to see the ocean. It’s not a swimming beach but it’s nice to look at. We’re heading back to the car and we’re just driving back straight up north up Sukhumvit, back to Bangkok.

And goodbye from Bangpoo. And goodbye from Bangpoo. Goodbye to all of the seagulls. Goodbye, seagulls! And Micah has just been sleeping again throughout this entire day trip. He’s enjoying the breeze though, the sea breeze. Thank you all for watching. Please remember to give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it.

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