✍ 8 Jan 2024. Our Thai friend kept checking back, making doubly sure that I am up to eating pig brain, literally pig brain 🧠
I never doubted myself for a moment - it's not my first time lah.... 🤭
It's a small street side shop, no air conditioning. The inside was relatively cool but we I chose to sit outside which was hot and dusty beside a busy street because I needed the best light for photos 😔
The small shop was simply laid out and very well kept. Clean and neat.
Kaolao Nang Loeng Pork Brain Soup is in the second generation now. It started as a push cart nearby by the founder. The family running Kaolao Nang Loeng is Hakka Chinese and this is a Hakka style dish.
The ingredients, various parts of the animal from snout, feet to tail, pre-cooked waiting to serve to customers.
Tell aunty what you want, for us it's point and shoot, and she will deftly snip you a portion with her scissors in a jiffy.
She then blanches your order with pork soup to warm up the meat in the bowl.
Pork organ soup which we ate with simple boiled rice.
Checked out the hot soup first as it was the thing that held all the separate and different elements together in the bowl.
It had a nice medium body, cloudy, tasted peppery spicy, tangy, savoury and slightly porcine sweet.
The spicy heat came from pickled green chili pepper which we can add more to the soup if we wish, but it was already spicy enough for me 🤭
There were many pork parts in the soup, all very fresh, with their unique texture, and subtly different flavours.
I love it.
Expertly blanched, the various offal retained their natural soft-tender crunchy, juices and flavours. The soup flavours were also at the right intensity, in that it neither distracted from nor overwhelmed the offal's delicate flavours.
The same for the brain which went creamy in the mouth. Tasted sweetish which was complemented by the spicy, tangy, savoury, porky soup.
Nice.
Oh... Any fear factor?
Nope, it's just like any other pork part with its own unique texture and flavour but well within normal range of my "bizarreness" tolerance level.
Actually, brain is just one of the options, so you can skip it and come here just for "normal" pork offal such as intestine, maw, lung, liver, kidney, etc., which were very tasty too.
Chewy, crunchy, tender, soft pork tendon, fat and skin from pork trotter. One of my favourites in the bowl.
Various sauces and condiments. I didn't feel the need to use these.
They also have pork sausage, grilled pork, fried yam (taro) ball, etc which we missed out this time. Shall be back for these popular items and the pork organ soup again, of course. It's the best that I have had for a long while.
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Restaurant name: Kaolao Nang Loeng Pork Brain Shop ร้านเกาเหลาสมองหมู นางเลิ้ง
Address: 5 22 Thanon Chakkraphatdi Phong, Wat Sommanat, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Nearest MRT: Sam Yot (Blue Line)
Tel: +662 281 5748
Hours: 9:30am - 3pm (Sun off)
Written by Tony Boey on 8 Jan 2024
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