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🇹🇭 Hello, welcome! Take a look inside kaa. Here's what I have for you today:​

Bad news first: Thailand confirms end to 60-day visa-free stays to attract quality tourists. Countries with high records of visa violations may face shorter exemptions of 15 days. More info here.

Now the shrimp story: Soi Buakhao Market. Pattaya. Past the motorbike fumes and the t-shirt stalls.

I'm hunting one specific food cart. Saw it in a video. Wanted to try this thing ever since.

The dish is called Goong Ten. "Dancing shrimp."

Sounds cute. It's not.

The reality: live baby shrimp, tossed with lime, chili, fish sauce, and herbs. The little guys keep jumping out of the bowl while the vendor mixes them. That's where the name comes from. Invented in the Isan region. Where the daughters are beautiful and the buffalos are very sick.

50 baht. About $1.55.

The vendor's name was "Is." Which in German means "eat." I'm not making that up.

Her stall: an aquarium. She threw herbs, leaves, sugar, salt, chili flakes, lime juice and fish sauce into a metal cooking pot. Then she dipped a small blue landing net — a Kescher, in German — into the glass tank, fished out a batch of squirming shrimp, and dumped the babies into the pot, covered it with the lid so nothing could escape. And then she shook the pot.

"Is" told me: "10 minute dead okeee." She poured the dancing shrimp salad into a small styrofoam takeaway container. I paid.

And I ate it.

Of course I ate it. You don't film a video about dancing shrimp and then bail.

One thing the chef luckily told me beforehand: baby shrimp have sharp legs. Every bite, something pointy hit the inside of my mouth. That’s why you cannot just swallow them. The risk is too high that they hurt your throat.

The salad part was great. Sweet, sour, fresh. The shrimp themselves were okay. But my brain kept reminding me that I had living beings in my mouth.

It was not for me.

Here’s my video:

But I learned that Pattaya's street food scene has some incredible stuff. It also has stuff that's "okay but not for me." You can't tell which is which from a Google Maps review with 4.3 stars.

That's why I built my Ultimate Pattaya Food Spots Map.

70 locations: street food, shop houses, markets, food courts, restaurants, cafés, western food, other asian food, upscale restaurants. I’ll keep updating the map as I discover more hidden gems.

If you want to eat where I eat in Pattaya, with zero gambling on what's still moving on your plate, then grab the map here:

Chokdee!
​- Tim

P.S. I've put together a playlist of essential videos to watch before a Thailand trip.