It's easily more popular to eat sour green mangoes than sweet yellow mangoes in Thailand, and one of the most popular places to eat "mamuang nam pla wan (มะม่วงน้ำปลาหวาน)" is in Hua Hin at Ran Salee Kapi Boran (ร้านสาลี่กะปิโบราณ).
You'll find Thai green mangoes with shrimp paste in Bangkok, but I've never tasted the quality as I did when we took a trip to the Hua Hin night market (you might remember that epic lobster, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQlWzIpZIFM It's in the same market). Ran Salee Kapi Boran (ร้านสาลี่กะปิโบราณ) is basically just a glorified street food cart that's packed full of famous mamuang nam pla wan (มะม่วงน้ำปลาหวาน) and a huge assortment of different sweet shrimp paste concoctions to choose from.
The owner is extremely kind and she allowed me to sample nearly everything before actually purchasing anything. I guess she knows that once you sample, you just can't resist ordering some to go. The Thai mangoes are picked extremely green, so they are crisp and have some extreme sourness to them. And even though it might sound bizarre to dip a piece of sour mango into a fermented shrimp paste sauce, it's actually genius. The sour mango contrasts yet compliments the fishy sweet sauce to make a brilliant combination in your mouth. Of course, if you're not too fond of fishy things, you probably won't like mamuang nam pla wan (มะม่วงน้ำปลาหวาน), but you should still give it a shot. It's surprisingly delicious!
Each of the shrimp paste sauces tastes a bit different, some are more sweet, others more spicy, and others are less shrimpy. Anyway, at Ran Salee Kapi Boran (ร้านสาลี่กะปิโบราณ) they have got their recipes down to a science, brewing up the batches of goodness in quantity and selling only from their street food cart in the night market of Hua Hin.
It might sound strange, but if you visit Hua Hin, sample the mamuang nam pla wan (มะม่วงน้ำปลาหวาน) from Ran Salee Kapi Boran (ร้านสาลี่กะปิโบราณ).
Hua Hin Night Market Soi. Hua Hin 72 Prachuap Khiri Khan
Open Everyday 5.30 pm - 00.00 am
Tel. 088-879-0010, 081-759-3492, 083-777-9978
ตลาดโต้รุ่ง ซ. หัวหิน 72 ต.หัวหิน จ.ประจวบคีรีขัน
เปิด ทุกวัน 17.30 - 24.00 น.
โทร. 088-879-0010, 081-759-3492, 083-777-9978
กะปิโหว่ 60 บาท
น้ำปลาหวาน 60 บาท
กะปิอาเซียน 60 บาท
กะปิโหดฮิ
มะม่วง ถุงละ 50 บาท
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