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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