I have a couple favorite restaurants in Chiang Rai, one of them is Ja Jaroenchai (ร้าน จ.เจริญชัย) – a popular place that serves a menu mostly of Thai Chinese stir fry dishes. More details here: http://www.eatingthaifood.com/2014/11/best-food-chiang-rai/
Ja Jaroenchai (ร้าน จ.เจริญชัย) is one of the most busy restaurants in all of Chiang Rai, every night, and especially on the weekends, they absolutely fill up with customers, ready to feast. The restaurant mostly serves a menu of Thai Chinese dishes, many of which are stir fried, but they do also have a selection of prepared dishes stashed in the front cabinet of dishes like boiled chicken, braised duck, and roasted meats. During the time I spent in Chiang Rai, this was a restaurant I kept coming back to, just to enjoy their wonderful home-comforting style food.
For this food video, I started off with a plate of a dishes known in Thai as pad yod on tandawan moo krob (ผัดยอดอ่อนทานตะวันหมูกรอบ), or stir fried sunflower sprouts with crispy pork belly. Sunflower sprouts are not all that common in Thai cuisine, especially at restaurants, though you probably can find them at health food stores – so that’s why I was so happy to see them on the menu. The dish was excellent, stir fried with just the right amount of seasoning, red Thai chilies, and finally a few pieces of crispy pork belly to really enhance the flavor.
Easily the most well known dish at Ja Jaroenchai (ร้าน จ.เจริญชัย) is pad makua sawuy (ผัดมะเขือเสวย), the dish that every table that eats there orders – at least I think so, and they should. The dish was basically a simple plate of eggplant stir fried with minced pork, chillies and basil, and the reason it was so good is that it was fried so fresh, served piping hot, and they really got the balance of seasoning – salty, sweet, spicy – down to perfection. I loved every bite of it, and if you ever go to Ja Jaroenchai (ร้าน จ.เจริญชัย) you should definitely order it too.
Next up on our menu, we ordered gai ban tom sab (ไก่บ้านต้มสับ), Chinese style boiled chicken. The chicken, although it looked a little on the scrawny side (it was a breed of chicken that’s skinnier and more like a free range chicken), it has some incredible flavor – not the type of succulent juicy meat – but more like slightly chewy, full of chicken flavor style of chicken. It was served with a fermented soybean sauce on the side, which was a little on the salty side, but nevertheless tasted wonderful.
Finally, to wrap up our meal this time around at Ja Jaroenchai (ร้าน จ.เจริญชัย) we ordered steamed egg (ไข่ตุ๋น), just a simple bowl of egg beat up with some minced pork and shrimp, and then steamed into a fluffy cake. It was juicy and again, just like everything else, it was seasoned perfectly.
There are a number of wonderful restaurants in Chiang Rai, and I think Ja Jaroenchai (ร้าน จ.เจริญชัย) is one of the best if you’re looking for stir fried foods.
Ja Jaroenchai (ร้าน จ.เจริญชัย)
Address: 400/11-12 Thanon Sanambin road
Phone number: 053-712-731
Open hours: 4 pm – 11 pm daily
Prices: Most dishes are in the range of 40 – 80 THB, so for a full meal you might spend 100 – 200 THB per person
ที่อยู่ ถนนสนามบิน (ร้านอยู่ตรงข้ามกับ โรงแรมกรุงทอง) เมืองเชียงราย, เชียงราย 57000
โทร.053-712-731
เปิดบริการทุกวัน: 16:00 – 23:00 น.
Thank you for watching this video, and I hope if you visit Chiang Rai, you can check this place out – the food is wonderful.
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Produced by Mark Wiens and Ying Wiens: http://migrationology.com/blog & http://www.eatingthaifood.com/blog/
Check out our Thai Food Guide: http://www.eatingthaifood.com/eating-thai-food-guide/
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Street food very nice??? good video??
good video??
Eggplant increases your blood pressure.., just like fats
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looks fab !! I'll be trying this place, for sure ! Thanks!
"…looks like a spoon and fork…" ???
Your videos are awesome I'm learning so much about food and places. Question, is there something you don't eat? ☺
How do you stay so fit and slim with all those yummy foods?
I must try when I make a revisit this year.
Last year I go to Chiang Rai and I miss it!
U should state if the food price is for one or two persons..
Yeah egg plant
it's the Wide mouth, Big eyes dude again( Mark Wiens) when he put the food in his Mouth..
After viewing your videos, i really want to come to Thailand, whenever I will be there , really want to meet u
Hey Mark your the best taster in the history of food please more videos can't stop watching.
you haven't changed much in 3 years mark…
The variety of dishes found in thailand is amazing.
Its like each restaurant has its own signature dish that is totally different from the other restaurant's signature dishes !!!!!!!!!!!!
I would say to all of marks viewers and subs is that he should be impartial with his reviewed and now that he is getting sponsored for more money and travels we want him to be fair about the food .
ผัดดอกทานตะวันหมูกรอบอร่อยมากคะ
Back when Mark was not self conscious about the Wieny Head Roll haha
i love to support your video everyday and i hope you will be the next ultimate food vloger .
i love to support your video everyday and i hope you will be the next ultimate food vloger .
The simplest dishes are often the best
Thanks Mark
It's amazing how positive you are in all your videos! also it's great that you respond to your comments!
wow!
I would lie to try one day. Love to take my son there
Looks soooo good
Mark, we need more appearance of Ying or w.e. haha
Mark.. when u visit vietnam.. stop by SAI GON.. not HA NOI ok ..
i really want to visit your country .. oh god.. the food look so delicious and price is way toooo cheap .. i live in us now but i am from vietnam.. i hope that i will stop by one day … i love that prout stir fried… look so delicious and ck .i love steam ck
Looks like a home style restaurant. Yum and I loved steamed egg as a kid, still do!
lol i like when u eat something and goo…….. ummmm O…O 555+
it looks so yummy! =) i like your videos very much! @Mark Wiens 1000 bits for you! @*****
My mom made a similar dish like this. But heavily based with minced pork, pieces of left over bread and a few eggs to make it light and fluffy.
I'd definitely want to try that steamed egg w/ pork and garlic. Never even thought about cooking an omelet w/ steam before!
Thanks for the information on your weight control. I will definitely give what you said a try. I think a lot of people would love to know how you control your weight in detail. This would be a great book for you to write! I would definitely be one of the first customers!
Good video Mark,like always!
hi mark ,I love stir fryed food as well as trying to master all the different sauces. I get a lot of ideas off your vids mark and then try to make them my own. great vid thx 🙂
Great video like always Mark! You make EVERY dish you feature look so good! How do you get to eat all that amazing food and still keep the weight off?
love your videos 🙂 thanks for sharing 🙂
come to singapore xD try some good foods here ^^
subs your video 😀
I love watching you eat Mark! Haha even it always makes me drool… i wanna try the sunflower sprout, it looks interesting.. Hope you can go here in the Philippines. We have so much to offer! We have so many mouth watering delicacies here. 🙂
Is there any type of food you don't like mark ?
Foods are so yumm !!
another great review – thanks