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Best Thai Food - 29 Dishes You Have to Try in Thai Town!!

2025-09-23 Travel & Events
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Mark Wiens
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Journey Through Sydney's Thai Town: 29 Essential Dishes

Explore Sydney's officially recognized Thai Town to discover 29 must-try Thai dishes, tasting flavors ranging from Isan traditions to Southern specialties. This guide pinpoints the exact restaurants offering the most authentic and highly praised regional cuisine outside of Thailand.

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  • Source authentic regional dishes like Isan raw meat salad (Koi Dip) and Northern Nam Ngiaw.
  • Identify top-rated restaurants celebrated by the local Thai community for maintaining tradition.
  • Experience unique cooking methods, such as deep-frying crab omelets and simmering Wagyu brisket for hours.
  • Note the availability of rare ingredients and specialty products supporting genuine Thai flavor profiles.

The host guides viewers through ten distinct locations in Sydney’s vibrant Thai Town, showcasing 29 specific dishes, many representing rare regional specialties. These stops emphasize authentic preparation, often featuring ingredients and techniques praised even by Thai nationals visiting from overseas.

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Which of the 29 Thai Dishes would you want to eat the most? Today we’re in Thai Town, Sydney, Australia, one of only two officially recognized Thai towns in the world. Along with shopping, most importantly you’ll find some of the best Thai food out of Thailand - and so in this video I’ll be showing you 29 Thai dishes you have to eat and where in Thai Town, Sydney! A huge thank you to the Royal Thai Consulate General in Sydney for sponsoring this video. That being said, I personally chose all the food and restaurants featured. Nua Lao Thai 1. Tam Boo Pla Raa (ตำปูปลาร้า) - Papaya Salad with Fermented Fish Sauce 2. Tom Saep Kraduk Moo (ต้มแซ่บกระดูกหมู) - Pork sour soup 3. Koi Dip (ก้อยดิบ) - Raw meat salad Caysorn Thai 4. Khanom Jeen Nam Ya Boo (ขนมจีนน้ำยาปู) - Crab coconut curry, rice noodles 5. Bai liang pad kai (ใบเหลียงผัดไข่) - Melinjo leaves with egg 6. Khua kling (คั่วกลิ้ง) - Minced meat dry curry 7. Gaeng Som Pla (แกงส้มปลา) - Sour curry with fish 8. Gaeng Tai Pla (แกงไตปลา) - Fermented fish viscera curry Siwilai 9. Boat Noodles (ก๋วยเตี๋ยวเรือ) 10. Nam Ngiaw (น้ำเงี้ยว) - Northern Thai noodles Atom Khanom Thai 11. Khao Neow Mamuang (ข้าวเหนียวมะม่วง) - Mango sticky rice Show Neua Thai Street Food 12. Khao Soi (ข้าวซอย) - Curry noodles Spice I Am 13. Gaeng Keow Wan Neua (แกงเขียวหวานเนื้อ) - Green Curry with Slow Cooked Beef 14. Yam Mamuang Boo Neem (ยำมะม่วงปูนิ่ม) - Soft Shell Crab Green Mango Salad 15. Massaman Bpet (มัสมั่นเป็ด) - Duck Massaman Curry 16. Moo Krob Pad Prik Khing (หมูกรอบผัดพริกขิง) - Crispy Pork Belly with ginger chili paste Yok Yor Thai Food Factory 17. Kana Moo Krob (คะน้าหมูกรอบ) - Chinese kale with crispy pork belly 18. Yam Woon Sen (ยำวุ้นเส้น) - Mung bean noodle salad 19. Pad Phed Pla Dook (ผัดเผ็ดปลาดุก) - Spicy fried catfish Chat Thai 20. Tom Yum Goong (ต้มยำกุ้ง) - Shrimp tom yum 21. Gaeng Phet Bet Yang (แกงเผ็ดเป็ดย่าง) - Red duck curry 22. Crab Omelet (ไข่เจียวปู) Crocodile Senior Thai by Charlie Chan 23. Pad Pad See Ew (ผัดซีอิ๊ว) - Stir fried wide rice noodles 24. Pad Ka Prao (ผัดกะเพรา) - Stir fried holy basil Porkfat 25. Kaw Moo Yang (คอหมูย่าง) - Grilled Pork Jowl 26. Gaeng Phuket Goong (แกงภูเก็ตกุ้ง) - Phuket Curry with Mooloolaba Prawns 27. Gaeng Phanaeng Neua (แกงแพนงเนื้อ) - Phanaeng Curry Wagyu Brisket 28. Laap Moo (ลาบหมู) - Minced pork salad 29. Pla Sam Rot (ปลาสามรส) - Three Flavors Fried Fish Bonus: Goong Ob Woon Sen (กุ้งอบวุ้นเส้น) - Shrimp Baked Mung Bean Noodles Follow for more food: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkWiensAbroad https://www.facebook.com/markwiensfoodvideos https://www.instagram.com/migrationology/ https://www.tiktok.com/@markwiens 👕 T-shirts: https://store.migrationology.com/ 🎥 Camera gear I use: https://amzn.to/3FVdBUd (some of these are affiliate links and I will make a small commission from any sales)

Top Comments (10)

@klephenthurry3284 2025-09-24

Mark, my Grandma almost never eats, she has dementia. But after your videos, she ate a whole plate of food, bowl of soup, and tea. Your videos are so great. Just wanted you to know, in some cases, your content is even more important than just entertainment. God Bless You.

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@andrewkinnear7076 2025-09-23

Thai Town in Sydney is as close as you can get to Thailand without visiting Thailand. Spice I Am is my favourite restaurant - amazing food and friendly people.

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@emu_warrior 2025-09-23

Australia has the best Thai food outside of Thailand

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@ashleymendoza7388 2025-09-23

You really made that owners day. She knew you knew your Thai food and gave you a feast! I can't believe she used bile! Straight from the motherland haha. She's doing it right. Thanks for making her day, Mark :) It made me sad when she said her customers are confused about the cuisine, not Mark!

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@Global.Travel.Information 2025-09-23

If Mark says some Thai dishes are better in Australia then it must be accurate 😅

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@Jupiterdrops0921 2025-09-23

I love this womans enthusiasm and excitement she is awesome you know she loves her passion in cooking real authentic thai food yummmm!!!!!

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@fatdoi003 2025-09-24

the old Chat Thai, @Bangkok, Spice I am were the most visited Thai places when i lived in the city area...... Sydney is blessed with so many Asian cuisines that are very authentic in one city

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@nelle4972 2025-10-06

Living in Sydney for over 10yrs,never realized so many Thai restaurants in Haymarket Chinatown area,definitely will try some Thai foods there😂

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@hartmutthomas989 2025-09-23

Der Mann der von wirklich jedem Essen sehr begeistert ist und es sehr zu schätzen weiß .💪👍

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@sergeigen1 2025-09-28

as a mexican, i love the direction of thai consulates that they make thai food a part of their cultural tourism. i think my country should do something similar because theres is so much fake mexican food out there it drives me nuts.

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