Some hard truths about Thai food - October 26

[@BrianinBangkok]

Tim, picking at your face even more than usual today. NOT criticism, just observation

[@gordonsmith532]

agreed!

[@G-rig6969]

Almost a sentence lol

[@WahPreua]

@@BrianinBangkok but why, who g a f?

[@ethansmith701]

@@WahPreua I'd say about 50 people (or more) who click they agree with him.

[@richardspencer4373]

I noticed that also.

[@ianfitton272]

Hi Tim, get Steve to help you with the "mai" tone pronunciation. You are saying "wood spicy instead of " no spicy".555

[@KimmyWood]

Food in Vietnam looks better than Thailand..I will try next year

[@WahPreua]

@@KimmyWood I’m afraid it’s not better, but not far behind, but of course it’s a matter of personal taste.

[@stillstanding123]

You are so wrong about sticky rice as anyone from Isaan will tell you. Thais here regularly eat sticky rice with Somtam, laab, and grilled chicken with sweet sauce not just mango.

[@timnewtontoday]

I just don’t like it. I don’t like the texture. It’s just a preference.

[@stillstanding123]

I agree with you. I much prefer basmati rice, my Thai wife will kill me if she reads this 😂​@@timnewtontoday

[@timnewtontoday]

@@stillstanding123 my lips are sealed

[@BrianinBangkok]

@@timnewtontoday Tim you did say that sticky rice is eaten mainly with desserts. Really nowhere near true. You should visit the north or northeast. My other half (alone) from Lampang, gets through 10 kilos in a month and never eats desserts.

[@vktravellog1242]

@@stillstanding123 we promise we will hide this comment from her 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Revonish]

Many foods contain glutamic acid (aka glutamate). Parmesan, roast meats for example.

[@TheSwede70]

Tom Yum Goong. Outstanding spice mix.

[@terrycolvin775]

My wife's cooking has changed over 51 years of marriage. In the early couple decades lots of veggies, moderately spicy hot, and American style breakfasts with bacon, eggs, and pancakes. Middle decades more cosmopolitan cooking after three years in Naples, Italy and Panama. She cooks decent pasta dishes and a great tuna fish salad. Later decades more meat, esp. fish, and less veggies. We dine out only a few times a year. My wife is critical of the quality and quantity. Some favorites are 'Gang Gy' with green curry sauce, Chinese doughnuts, Chinese brown eggs with pork, chicken with lots of potatoes, carrots, celery, more veggies which we call 'Airplane chicken', 'Jok' or porridge, bacon and eggs maybe once a week or so, and plenty of fish either tilapia, red snapper, white snapper. We no longer eat turkey at American Thanksgiving as GoT only allows pre-cooked Butterballs as they are protecting the Thai turkey farmers. Not so many restaurants here just south of Hua Hin. The quality and portion size is reduced due same price, new cooks, and whatever. I buy chili, butter beans, and Prego in cans.

[@BrianinBangkok]

Why is it strange to move to Thailand if you don't like Thai food?? Thailand has temples, beaches, music, waterfalls, culture, wide variation of peoples, art and so much more.

[@timnewtontoday]

You might go to a temple or a beach once a month… a year? You eat three times a day.

[@cruisingthethaiway6881]

I don't like any of that.

[@pdeforest]

Coming to Thailand and eating only Western food? I can’t imagine it. You miss so much of the culture if you ignore the food. If you don’t speak the language, don’t share the religion, know the culture, or eat the food, why on earth would you be living there?

[@mattivirta]

@@timnewtontoday temple, waste only time , one has seen no need see more. i move retiree to Thailand because food have perfect healty, weather have perfect, best all world, and life quality have better cheap live and healt have lot better than north europe. same money can live lot lot better high quality comfortable life than all europe.

[@WahPreua]

@@BrianinBangkok quite right! Thais not only have one continuous meal a day, but their conversation is centred around food all day too. Followed by wealth and possessions of course. If you want to have a western style conversation with a Thai, you’re gonna need someone who’s not only western educated, but well travelled too.

[@WahPreua]

My favourites list included Moo bot kap sataw (See my icon), shu-shee, which is Fish Paneng with loads of bai macroot, the green thinly cut leaf served with Paneng curry sauce. Masaman BEEF, and Gai tod met mamuang, with cashew nuts, Phat Krapow, and last but not least a northern speciality called Geng Hang Leh. I don’t like seafood or soups.

[@urquhmc]

Sticky rice is common with meals in the north (chiang mai/rai) and north-east (Issan), not just desserts. BTW, I'll take your sticky rice and condensed milk while you can eat the mango Tim, as I became extremely allergic to mango after 25 years of eating it.

[@timnewtontoday]

Deal

[@Digseys]

Hi Tim I’m looking for the electric razor on Lazada and see the same for 2000B. In your video you said 150B-200B so wondering if it’s 2000B? Will still get it if it is Kind regards

[@timnewtontoday]

Maybe it was shottemu.com… I can’t really remember

[@vktravellog1242]

Food poisioning. I never got it in thailand. Only place I remember getting food poisioning is USA, Indonesia, France, and recently 4 months ago Japan! Yes Japan! I couldnt believe it myself because I been there about 10 times and lived there for 2 years and never got food poisioning until my last trip! I ate raw shrimp in Ao Nang Krabi and didnt get sick. I travel international every year and this year alone been to 4 countries (mexico, japan, malaysia, thailand) and of the 4 i got food poisioning in Japan. Go figure!

[@mattivirta]

food poison, not newer has last 30 year in Thailand, hygien and quality have very good all street food plastic chair restaurants.

[@petersutherland1985]

Came here for the music, never the food.

[@alfvanderhulst8489]

😂

[@KimmyWood]

Music 😂

[@petersutherland1985]

@@KimmyWood pleng

[@Adair9800]

Never had Thai food in my life until I flew to Thailand for work in the mid 1990s. Whenever I visit Thailand I must have Spicy Papaya salad. 60 baht from a cart on Beach road in Jomtien, and many other places. When I was living there I would stop by the cart near the end of my bike ride for takeaway. So satisfying.

[@vktravellog1242]

@@Adair9800 yea I always get som tom! One of my favorites and is something I always get

[@alfvanderhulst8489]

Big fan of the fruit in Thailand. I like the jasmine rice or Hom Mali, but try to limit the amount as i believe its quite high in sugar content. MSG is a thing. My wife hates it and rages against the prevalence it has in dishes. I dont eat seafood other than the odd prawn in a Tom Yum. This is a bit of an issue as the Thais just love the seafood. I do like noodle soup, Laab Nam Tok Moo or Kai, Pad Kaprow Moo, Gang Dang, Gang Kaew, Moo Menau. I also like Pa-Lo made with pork, but find many vendors make it very sweet. I dont much enjoy Thai deserts, they seem extraordinarily sweet to me. Fairly much anything you can cook at home where you can control the amount of salt and sugar is good. Maybe locals have become larger in general due to the type and amount of rice they now eat, and maybe pork and chicken is more available so they eat more of it whereas maybe they ate less meat and more vegetable before? Maybe more people can afford 'worse' food?

[@pdeforest]

Mark Wiens has a BK restaurant called Phed Mark.

[@timnewtontoday]

Yes. I explained that

[@urquhmc]

Eaten there 😊 YUMMY! You can pick your level of spiciness.

[@kennymcalpine8970]

Good home cooked Thai food is fantastic and occupies a strong position in my personal global top 10 cuisines .. shout out to Bingo rev 2.0 on Koh Tao and Lookka Kitchen in Maenam , Koh Samui , highly recommended and in the words of Big Arnie "I'll be back" again x

[@Aaron-bu3mo]

Noodles can be be exquisite

[@mattivirta]

i love spicy papaya pok pok salad, need eat ewery day this, my favourite. but hate this if have nut in food. and krapow have good.

[@SeanHendy]

I think the sensible conclusion about Thai food and health, is that if you eat Thai food the way Thai's eat, that is massively different from the range and frequency of dishes that us westerners would likely consume. Just like British food is known for something like fish and chips, well if you eat that every day you'll die very early. But look at something like pad kha pao, in terms of nutrition, whilst the meat might be cooked in a pan, there is only a small amount of oil in it. Also, the ratio of meat to vegetables and rice, is also more modest than we would typically eat in the west. (Plenty of reports of us westerners eating far more protein and animal fats than we should). More than healthy enough. Plenty of other dishes of course to choose from as you've covered in the video, but I know that during extended stays in Thailand, eating predominantly Thai food every day, I've lost a decent amount of weight, for all the right reasons.

[@KimmyWood]

Mai sa kai. I love sticky rice. It needs to be eaten with fish etc.

[@vktravellog1242]

The thing I dont like about thai food is msg, sugar, and vegetable oil. Usually i avoid all these things in the US but on vacation I ate a lot of these but felt fine. I do notice pad ka prao was vert salty but I am ok with it because I sweat so much there 😂

[@torevalberg3510]

The MSG hysteria is ridiculous. Its a type of salt that also exists in Nature in for example cheese and tomatoes (yes tomatoes). It also exist in almost all western prefab food, things like sauce/soup/stew free dried ingredient mixes, flavored potato chips and many many more. But its not listed as MSG, its listed as “flavor enhancer” or E621. Along with its close brother E622 Most people eat MSG every day without knowing it

[@SajidAli-dk3to]

I must admit I do like Massaman curry but rather made with chicken than with beef.

[@Jefe_Perro]

Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens is a fantastic book.

[@garyaltenburger6667]

The vegetable I absolutely hate is puk chee, coriander. The tiniest piece puts me off the entire meal.

[@urquhmc]

If eggs are washed, the natural membrane around the outer surface is destroyed, therefore you'd have to refrigerate.

[@brianoconnor4518]

Most Thai food is very carbohydrate heavy…lots of sugar…..I’ve noticed many Thais have diabetes…almost everything fried in palm oil…very difficult to eat low carb here but everything is delicious

[@iskandartaib]

There's a Chinese hardware store in Kuantan called "Fook You". I have a photo somewhere to prove it.

[@jim.pearsall]

OTR Food & History is a great KZbin Channel about Thai food. 👏🏻👍🏻 5⭐️ Gary Butler’s The Roaming Cook, is also very good - focused on street food in western Bangkok / Thonburi.

[@th3gam3rguy]

Khao soi ???

[@ianpunter4486]

Favourite!

[@OmAn-oy5vm]

Massaman curry??? About the most popular Thai dish in Oz and around the world. I guess not so in Pommyland!

[@timnewtontoday]

Massaman isn’t quintessentially Thai, infused with Indian heritage and a bit from across the southern border. And not really on the top 10 with many Thais.

[@timnewtontoday]

And the reference to pommyland? You think I’m British?

[@OmAn-oy5vm]

@@timnewtontoday Oh, thanks for your reply mate, I discovered Masaman in Sydney many years before I ever thought of going to Siam, and pretty much every Thai restaurant in Syd, Melb, & Bananaland had it on the menu. Once in Siam it was not so easy to find, but then I was in Issan parts so I thought the towns/villages were too small to have that sort of restaurant. But Bkk was good for it.

[@OmAn-oy5vm]

@@timnewtontoday I mean the list of food you mentioned, I thought was from a pommy guide, my bad!! (I know you're a fair dinkum Aussie.)

[@chriscrookson8524]

I remember being asked by the cook at a Thai Restaurant when I ordered my Som Tam; "you like prik and poo?" I made a hasty retreat. Now I understand 😂

[@OlofKarlsson-d1v]

Many thai dishes here are actually chinese which came with immigrants. Laab ( Larb) as ex originates from Lao.

[@petera.neumanndr.1666]

MSG problems are a typical American blablabla complaint…….

[@neil5294]

Phanaeng curry is a very old Thai dish and has absolutely nothing to do with Panang in Malaysia. Wikipedia has recently been partly corrected but not fully. If the writer had actually read Mom Somchin Rachanupraphan's book Tamra Kap Khao, it would explain the true Kymer meaning of Phanaeng.

[@TRIPONTHIS]

I'm sure lots of people think i'm dreaming of Thailand because of the ladies but I'm really looking forward to the street food and prices. This country may be my winter wonderland if all goes well. Sorry I missed the live stream🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@betweendrinks8885]

If you research the oils used often cheap canola etc for Thai dishes is very bad for your body - I insist my wife use good quality Virgin olive oil and leave out the MSG stuff too

[@mattivirta]

ALL high level master chef say, "not newer use Virgin olive oil fried anythink, Virgin oil come lot more carsinogen poison if fried, lot better use Real butter and other oil. and ALL chefs say same Thai food have perfect to healty, lot better than all western food ewer can be. Thai food have lot better you body than western all food. MSG no matter can use all lifge and not make bad you body ewer.

[@SeanHendy]

Beef rendang in my humble opinion is one of the best dishes in the world. I would also add aromatic crispy duck, pad kha pao, beef wellington, Tod Man Pla, and Tom Kha Gai to the list.

[@misubi]

I live in Chiang Mai and am stunned by the lack of vegetables and the huge amounts of sugar in the local food. Not healthy at all, but still love this country.

[@dustybrabbit1]

funny im in issan and they eat tons of healty food 🎉🎉🎉

[@misubi]

@@dustybrabbit1 So it's not just pad kra pao and lukchin?

[@dustybrabbit1]

@@misubi if thats what your eating !!! i eat bbq fish bbq steak lol and a whole lot of health veggies my guy ...... maybe cause your in a tourist trap like phuket but here food is healthy for everyone

[@misubi]

@@dustybrabbit1 It's not what I'm eating, it's what the locals are eating is what we're talking about.

[@dustybrabbit1]

@@misubi the locals in chang mai are different then the locals in Esan and they eat very different dishes i have been all over thailand and i can confirm without a doubt that tourist areas always suck for food chang mai pattay bangkok phuket koh samui had some esan food that was pretty decent since the woman cooking came from esan

[@angelomia6691]

Cooked in seed oils, saturated with msg and sugar. Eat Thai food at your peril.

[@timnewtontoday]

I peril at least twice a day.

[@alfvanderhulst8489]

😂👍​@@timnewtontoday

[@ExpatUA]

Why Thai? I am addicted to the chili! Hottest thing I’ve eaten was Jungle Curry, followed closely by a Som Tom that was so hot as to be inedible. Should have been marked as Radioactive Wasre!

[@7674ru]

555 tim at 19.48 you are eating a fried handbag 😋😋 krapow v kaprow

[@Moonam75]

Fortunately they do not use any vegetable/seed oils in Thailand… 🙊

[@JohnSmith-vg1by]

What does 555 mean in all those comments?

[@thomasjohnrobinson4658]

5 in Thai is Ha,ha ha ha.

[@timnewtontoday]

You pronounce the number 5 as ‘ha’.

[@thomasjohnrobinson4658]

@@timnewtontoday ok, sorry sir.

[@KimmyWood]

I like geow nam but actually its wonton actuality Chinese

[@davidwalden2887]

Wonton soup from 7/11 with an egg flowered in the microwave, lovely and a bit of soi source or any source you like. Takes 3 mins.

[@SeanHendy]

Tim, shame you can't tell the difference between rice. Thai jasmine rice tastes very different to Basmati rice, which tastes very different to standard 'American' quick cook rice. Thai jasmine rice will always stand out as the number one choice for me.

[@mattivirta]

my Thai friends say when taste first time western "uncle bens" rice have old big shit rice, not normal good, too old, old rice used only feed animals and dog and pig, not human eat newer trash rice.

[@forcesensitive6371]

Going to Bangkok and Samui in December/January. Thank God my condo in Bangkok has a gym! Gonna need it!

[@Hendo1955]

Never eat european food in thahilaind just local never had a problem But i can get frozen nz mussels 🤣

[@SuperBotanica]

I eat the carnivore diet only. very low carb.

[@iskandartaib]

Incidentally, through watching the OTR channel.. Bangkok is amazingly cosmopolitan. Lots of immigrants, er, expats from all over the world, and they bring their food with them. Think of ANY cuisine.. Eastern European, West African, South American.. and you'll find a restaurant selling it in Bangkok.

[@coling2011]

There is no better food than the super healthy Colin Salad at the The Cafe in Kathu.

[@timnewtontoday]

But has severe side effects like over-cleaning and putting water in your engine.

[@IamNoone67]

We have 2 Thai restaurants here in my town 30 miles north of London. The main takeaways though are Indian, Chinese or burgers of numerous descriptions. Almost forgot the good old Kebab which is still a great go to when returning from the pub.

[@thomasjohnrobinson4658]

I like it but seeing the grease floating on top of the soups doesn't inspire confidence.

[@WahPreua]

BREAKFASTS - yes there are breakfasts which are preferred by the locals, mainly in rural areas, though, as city life doesn’t really have time for it. They generally like Tea or Old Fashioned Coffee (literally translated), Gow Thom, Patong Gor or Chao Koi in the south, with condensed milk dip, fried chicken with sticky rice and crispy onion, or Gow Mok Gai, the Thai equivalent of Chicken Biriani..

[@ariehuibers5341]

Watt jou think aboud gai tio jasei 🤠🥰

[@iskandartaib]

Apparently there was (and is) a lot of MSG in American processed foods such as canned soups.. the Ajinomoto Corp. sold MSG to the American food industry in 10 pound cans, but never sold it to the consumer as a condiment, as they did in Japan and Asia. This whole MSG skepticism began with a letter written to a medical journal by a Chinese American doctor, claiming he had symptoms after EATING AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT. I came across a video last month that pointed out that this came about because SOME Chinese (the Cantonese) had a pre-existing prejudice against the cuisines of other Chinese groups - the way it went was, these other groups used cheap ingredients and therefore used MSG to make up for the lack of flavor. It turns out the doctor who wrote the letter was Cantonese, and he specifically mentioned that the restaurant was a NORTHERN Chinese restaurant. MSG has gotten such a bad reputation that, when it's used in processed foods, they don't call it MSG - it's labeled as "hydrolyzed vegetable protein" and such. Soy sauce naturally contains MSG, it forms during the brewing process.

[@robertpardoe6474]

Tom Yan Gung is my favourite

[@BrianinBangkok]

Talking of rice and carbohydrates, Thai Jasmin Rice comes over the top of the Glycaemic Index scale of zero to 100. Basmati rice being quite low at 50-60

[@substantialopinion1055]

I know several friends here in Thailand who have their own restaurants. And it was an unpleasant surprise for me because I have diabetes. 😮 It's terrible that they add sugar to almost every meal! And not only in soup, but also when they make Pork Belly, they prepare it with sugar and also roast knee...

[@substantialopinion1055]

The last 15 years have seen a very strong influence of Western cuisine on the Asian population. We used to admire the beautiful slim figures of older women, and that's why they seemed so attractive and young to us - but today!! We are already seeing 15-year-old children with severe obesity. And gentlemen, you will surely agree that even 20-year-old girls are very far behind the line. You only need to open dating sites and the data is shocking when girls around 155 cm tall often state their weight as over 65 or more kilograms. And this is not at all an exceptional phenomenon. While walking on the Beach road, it is already difficult to find a slim, beautiful figure - that is, if you insist that you are looking for a Lady!

[@123452315]

All this has done is make me hungry. Another 4 hours to dinner time. 🤣🤣🤣

[@torevalberg3510]

Depends what Thai foods were talking about. Lots of healthy options, especially when asking for less sugar. Most Isaan food is quite healthy. Namtok Moo, Laab Moo, Tom Sap, SomTum. All my Thai favorites except maybe Khao Kha moo is fairly healthy. Street food though in general isn’t very healthy The curries as well unless farang sugar versions are quite healthy. Noodles and Rice are obviously not very healthy though. Just pure refined carbs

[@zacharyferreira2469]

“Farang sugar versions” indeed.

[@BrianinBangkok]

And salt - the bad guy for your heart. From Google, the amount of salt in MSG-- "In particular, the US Institute of Medicine suggests using MSG as a lower-sodium alternative to salt and as a way to help food taste good." Both salt and MSG are used as flavour enhancers but MSG must be healthier.

[@TattooAlix]

I think we can look at the people of a country, and tell how healthy the food generally is. There are almost no overweight Thai people, while Europe, Australia and American have PLENTY

[@TattooAlix]

Also, I thought Mark was like 45-48 yrs old 😅😭

[@CyndieGawain]

I am seeing more fat thai people. I just assume they are eating to much western food When u combine eating a regular diet of western food with the excess sugar and rice (carbs) of thai food there will be more and more overweight thais and diabetics

[@terrycolvin775]

55 years ago I saw few fat Thai people, the exception being a few Chinese, Indian, and Caucasians. Now I see many fat children and adults. Processed foods from 7/11 and other Western food outlets as well as more money to buy those foods. The CP burger isn't bad for the price of $1 as well as the ham and cheese. The latter has no crust which I prefer.

[@stillstanding123]

There is nothing that sets Thai cuisine above others. If you love to feel your taste buds melt in the heat so be it, but if you have subtle taste buds which pick out individual ingredients then the overuse of chilli will destroy them. If quality ingredients are used then Thai food (especially fish) can be fabulous. You are missing out about breakfasts, try Kai Katak! The problem is overuse of MSG, salt and sugar to compensate for lack of good ingredients and wok cooking, means inadequate cooking time to release flavours and tenderise poor meat. Indian food and Malay food easily matches Thai food. Its all good to try and find out what you like.

[@TRIPONTHIS]

I was first exposed to real Chinese foord in Melbourn back in 1987 during my work at the TAA facility. We had an Asian dude in our team and he ordered all the food for the table about 15 people it was excellent. After that I was hooked, with all the video about the street food I'm dreaming of the day I step off the plane in Thailand.

[@alfvanderhulst8489]

Thing about MSG, just read the label on half your soy sauces etc.... its probably in there.

[@davidwalden2887]

Just about 90% of Thailand's food can easily be cooked in a single wok or an electric pot you can purchase from Makro, Lotus or any other supplier for BT299. I do it often perhaps 80% of the time I cook in my condo. You can nearly even cook with Western ingredients. Most can be cooked in 30 minutes. Most are different ingredients with 100 different sources from Lotus supermarkets. Chinese cooking is similar. If you cook it yourself it will usually cost only 1/3rd of a restaurant's price or less. But restaurants are still good. You can live well and cheaper in Thailand if you can cook a bit. 80% of the food I cook myself costs less than Bt 2000 a week and is good, and all very simple, 2 eggs for breakfast as french toast, loverly in my Bt299 cooker. It costs Bt20, in a restaurant Bt80, 5 mins to cook Any time you raise the temperature of any oil, any type of oil over 140 degrees, it then just becomes cooking oil, ref. CSIRO Australia (Govt testing lab). Olive oil is good as long as it is not hearted and is usually used cold on salads etc.

[@stanleystuart2008]

Am a noodle man pad Thai lol

[@deanhowells6863]

Hi Tony, what's your thoughts on this TAX vlog.?.....Every Expat Thai Tax Regulations | Living in Thailand The Isaan Farang 14

[@timnewtontoday]

I’ll ask Tony if he knows

[@G-rig6969]

Yeah Street food and local restaurants where the locals eat are fine. The fancy places are aimed at tourists, nice to get in the AC sometimes I guess.

[@stanleystuart2008]

Yes rice cheap filler high in blood sugar that's what does you

[@garyaltenburger6667]

I went to a Thai restaurant in Melbourne. I spoke some of my poor Thai language and no one knew what I was talking about. After asking if my Thai was that bad, I was told that every employee was Chinese, thus they did not speak any Thai.

[@BrianinBangkok]

A bit like Indian restaurants in London, the cooks are all Bangladeshi.

[@picadosinferno]

Tim, most thwi restaurants in the west are funnily, owned by Chinese people, even the so called thai dishes are heavily influenced by the Chinese people that cook them.

[@glenloader639]

Actually Thai people don't use a lot of salt, because they use fish sauce in many dishes which has a salty taste. In the south they put a little bit of shrimp paste in many dishes and fish sauce in dishes so they use very little actual salt. In the north east they use pla rah in many dishes which has a salty taste and they use fish sauce as well. As for MSG most home cooks and restaurants put a little MSG in every dish, but the actual amount is very little. Probably less than half a teaspoon.

[@petersutherland1985]

Fish sauce is 30% salt😢

[@iskandartaib]

My favorite Thai food are those handmade stuffed sausages, that have rice and glass noodles in with the meat. I have my favorite stall in Chiang Mai in front of the 7-11 near the Chang Phueak Gate, which sells the halal version - two are enough for a meal. Since I eat a lot of rice at home I tend to see rice dishes as being "ordinary" and stuff like "milk chicken" skewers as reasons to visit Bangkok. Currently my favorite Thai food channel is OTR - they take really deep dives into the subject. I was quite amused to find that Pad Thai was actually invented by the military dictator of Thailand right before WW2, the government actually promoted it. Similarly, the sudden popularity of Thai food overseas was the result of a VERY successful Government program to promote Thai food overseas, and wasn't an organic expansion. As a result there are various Thai dishes (Pad Thai, the three Stoplight Curries, Tom Yam, etc.) that are seen as the standard Thai dishes.

[@iskandartaib]

I suspect the Star Talk channel is an offshoot (or perhaps parallel with) a regular TV spot on the American Public Television network (forget what it is called at the moment), that's been going on since before i was watching it in the 1980s. Used to have a different host, who was fairly elderly back then and has been replaced by Degrasse-Tyson.

[@BanKentheRabbit]

FISH BALLS didn't make the top 10 then.

[@timnewtontoday]

And the fish are happy

[@hathom]

the most interesting thing about the healthiness of thaifood is the massive content of pesticides in the vegetables

[@Hendo1955]

Best kfc in Asia

[@Revonish]

My partner is a really good cook. I love Tom Kha Gai, and Khao soi. Also, some of the fermented stuff such as Thua nao.

[@Revonish]

Interesting food vlogger & historian of food - OTR Food & Hostory

[@Revonish]

excuse typo - OTR Food & History

[@Wortsandall]

The problem i have is having ao much to choose from i get overwhelmed by the amount of food on sale. Having a lot of variety for me scrambled my little brian

[@evansmusic2009]

Interestingly I never liked Thai food in Australia - I thought it was always way too sweet, and avoided going to restaurants...Then I visited Thailand and realised the thing missing was the spice - especially in Isaan....Even in Bangkok its hard to get good Isaan/Thai food as a farang - appearances and language are everything...

[@D.Appeltofft]

I think the best thai food is generally served in the food courts in malls.

[@frankcherry3810]

Nikita’s Restaurant at Rawai Beach

[@kimS1964]

Food channel in Thailand, we watch Mickey Stotch (spelling?)

[@_Alfa.Bravo_]

... did this russian guy tried to avoid serving in the army and go to Putin's war ? Horrible accent

[@cjeremie]

Regarding Australia's first Thai restaurant. Your watcher stated his and wife was the first, however actually they weren't. "Australia's first Thai restaurant was Siam (also known as Siam Cuisine), which opened in Sydney in 1976. It was established by Australian couple Glenda and Laurie Jessup, who returned from Thailand and were inspired to share authentic Thai flavors with Australians. The restaurant introduced Australians to traditional Thai dishes, which sparked a new appreciation and demand for Thai cuisine across the country."

[@timnewtontoday]

I really don’t care. He believes his wife started the first Thai restaurant. They’ve probably dined out on that story for the last 40 years. And good luck to him.

[@Kevin-to7dz]

MSG sensitivity is hysteria, 99.5% of the time.

[@BoninBrighton]

Uncle Joe is the favourite food vlogger in Thailand- our teacher Kruu Usanee told us. Having watched him he’s very very funny!

[@merckxbelgium]

Sticky rice is served with most dishes here in the north of Thailand (Chiang Mai), especially if you are in a restaurant that specializes in northern Thai food.

[@BrianinBangkok]

Yes, the comment that sticky rice is mainly used in desserts is so untrue.

[@gotamd]

The name of the effect you’re looking for around @28:50 is psychosomatic, not placebo 😊

[@gotamd]

Sticky rice is not just for dessert! It’s commonly served with Som Tum, for example.

[@sflxn]

I do love that Laotian and Malaysian food… I meant Thai food.😂. However, krapow and pad thai are truly Thai. The others on that list were “borrowed” from their neighbors.

[@ubiquitousdiabolus]

A big problem with most restaurant/street food everywhere is the huge amount of salt.

[@TRIPONTHIS]

About oils: Seems like going back to the old ways is best ( from my research). Fry in beef fat, tallow, or lard . Vegatable oils are very bad, the way its made is crazy it also doesn't have a long life has a frying oil. I'm making my own mayo since i'm trying to stay away from the cheap oils. Do your own research, I'm just some idiot on you tube.

[@street2030]

i fried spring rolls with beef fat today. just sayin

[@iskandartaib]

Aside from mango sticky rice, you'd be most likely to encounter sticky rice at street food stalls that sell sausages, grilled squid, meat skewers, fried chicken, etc. It comes in fist-sized lumps in a plastic bag (they actually weigh it), usually for 5 baht, sometimes 10, 15 at really upmarket places like Chatuchak Market. You're supposed to eat it with what you bought by pinching off bits of it through the plastic (I've watched people do it, and I have gotten fairly adept at it). I dare say most tourists, and even resident farangs, don't know about this - it took me a while to find out about it myself. The sticky rice is usually kept out of sight, in a cooler to keep it warm, and you have to ask for it.

[@Truthseeker371]

Excessive plastic bags and packaging. Too much sugar and artificial taste enhancement in Thai food. Royal Thai food is totally another level.

[@warrencombes8256]

Paid a thai lady 1000 baht to trim my lawn edges.. worked for 15 minutes.. then gave.. Last time i employ my wife!

[@HaklGuru]

MSG has pretty much become banned in Canada. To the point that it has been hidden on all types of package food no longer being called or referred to as MSG but is now referred to as yeast extract! So anytime you see ingredients, saying yeast extract it is MSG! Which is pretty much anything that has flavouring in North America … chips, soups, canned food…