Purple Taste: beast burger

Thursday, June 19, 2025

[Travel] Exploring Chiang Mai - Dinner at Baan Rai Yarm Yen , and then supper at The Beast Burger and Pizza

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We had a fruitful day visiting the places of interest, and what a pleasant surprise by Salina who was in Chiang Mai that day. She made reservations for dinner at Baan Rai Yarm Yen when we said we would like to try more northern Thai dishes.

The rain was relentless and it didn't let up even during dinner.

resident cat guarding the shop

The restaurant was bustling that evening and we were early. It was interesting to see staff deployed to the car drop-off/pick-up area when it is raining as staff would provide the service of shielding customers with umbrella while they boarded the vehicle there.

Our group of 6 pax was led into the inner section of the restaurant so that it is somewhat further from the live music, to allow us to converse better and still able to enjoy the vibe.

The restaurant has a western country-music style vibe and the live singing was pretty good. They have one or two singers, a guitarist/bassist and a keyboardist from what I observed.

Ed and Salina helped to order and soon our table was full of delicious looking foods.

sausages

Northern appetisers

grilled honeycomb/larvae

stir-fry wild vegetables

deep fried mushrooms

deep fried fermented chicken

I'm eyeing those pork cracklings

We ate a lot and everything was delicious. I loved the sausages here better than any that we had thus far in this trip. The meat texture was softer and the sticky rice was good too. Ate half a pack.

The appetiser came with the green chili dip and it was more mellow tasting in this place. There was a fermented bean/fish paste that came with one of the dish and I liked that too.

There were two dishes that one normally would not order; fried bamboo worms and grilled honeycomb that turned out to be grilled larvae. Fried bamboo worms actually tasted like any twisties or mamee snack due to its seasoning and its hollow body actually made it easy to like, and goes well with iced cold beer. The grilled honeycomb tasted of mild honey sweetness and egg-like texture. Like eating steamed omelette that's sweetened with honey.

draft beer, cheers~

We had steamed fish here as well and it was also one of the better ones that we had thus far.

To end the meal, we tried their housemade coconut ice-cream dessert which was highly recommended by the staff.

The dessert came looking pretty, with purple sticky rice at the bottom and decorated with cut mangoes. Ice-cream was creamier and milkier than any coconut ice-cream tried thus far, and I do understand the rationale of such. Eaten together with the sticky rice and mangoes, the creamy parts does a good job in providing the overall creaminess expected in such dessert. Am also amazed that the warm sticky rice doesn't harden when paired with cold ice-cream.