- It's just us silently eating for an hour.
Sorry you clicked on this video.
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- Hi, my name is April.
- Hi, I'm Blake.
- Hi, my name is Cheska.
- And my name is Bekki.
- And today we're guessing cheap vs. expensive Pad Thai.
- [Bekki] It's all going to be delicious.
- It's all definitely going to be delicious.
- My dad grew up in Thailand. He's like a military brat
or a C.I.A. brat or whatever.
So we've had a lot of Thai food
and Pad Thai is not like my favorite thing to go to, but
I mean you kind of like order it with your food.
Like you order what you want and then you go
"oh, and I'll also get some pad Thai."
- Okay, so kind of like a side dish?
- On a scale of one to ten
I love pad Thai eleven and a half.
- I love it when it's extra spicy.
I love when they put some egg in it.
And I love, I just love noodles so it's so good.
- I normally only get shrimp pad Thai
- Extra shrimp.
- so this is gonna be weird because
I just started eating chicken again.
So I've never ever ever had chicken pad Thai, ever.
So I might breakout in hives, we'll see.
- We'll see.
- I find that cheaper ones are a little saltier,
so I would be able to sus it out.
- I went to Thailand once so I by no means
- Oo, expert.
I am not an expert.
- I'm excited. Let's try some Pad Thai,
- (woo)
- You ready to do this? Let's go.
Blindfolds up. Are you sure you want green?
Like I mean, the red one looks really cool. You know?
I don't know.
- Do you want some pizzazz? You want some lime green?
- You know if you don't want the green, I'll take it.
- Alright, I'll take the red.
- Yeah, yeah, you know, that's fine, that's alright, okay.
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- Do we cheers forks? Where's your fork? Where are you?
Okay, there you are.
- Hi.
- Aw, okay. Do you have... I don't.
- You know what would be funny
is if this isn't even pad Thai.
And they are just like messing with us.
Like this is actually Olive Garden.
- [Bekki] Wait you found the chicken?
Can I use my hands?
- Yeah, sure.
- [Bekki] Are you okay?
- Yeah.
- [Bekki] This is, ah see? That was easy. I did it.
- The comments better not judge us.
We are blindfolded, okay?
- And I wash my hands regularly.
- [Producer] Define regularly?
- Like every time they need to be washed.
- Man, something is on my fork and I can't get it off.
So, I, it's not you know
just melting in your mouth obviously.
- [Bekki] It's I don't, I feel
like that chicken is kind of dry.
- I would say it's like medium price range
because it's not salty, it's flavorful,
but I don't think it would be the most expensive one.
It's good.
- I don't think it's expensive.
- Yeah, I don't think it's expensive because
- But I also think like cheap would be better.
- Yeah, but here's the thing,
I feel like in L.A. the expensive ones are the fusion ones.
But this tastes like legit Pad Thai.
- Yeah.
- Do you know what I mean?
It doesn't taste like a fusion-y thing.
- Do I look cooler cool with the green one?
I'm still kind of wondering, like.
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- (laughing) Did we just touch forks?
- Yeah, we are forking.
- Why do we always end up in the same area of the plate?
I want, is there anything? If there is nothing on this fork
I'm gonna be very unhappy.
- Oh this is a lot.
- There is nothing on the fork.
- Um.
- Wow.
- Whoa, whoa okay this is just on the table now, huh?
- Why does it, it kinda tastes like barbecue sauce.
- [Cheska] And I got some veggies that
I don't think are usually pad Thai.
- Um, yeah, no this one has like a balsamic taste
or something to it, like, it tastes like
Italian dressing. And it's all over me.
- I think it might be expensive because,
like it doesn't taste like pad Thai.
- Yeah.
- This is totally messing me up now.
- I don't think I've ever had pad Thai that was this sweet.
- It tastes like a fancy chef decided
he wanted to make Thai food.
- His own?
- Yeah, and then looked it up on the internet and was like
hm, I don't like how it tastes
so I'm gonna add barbecue sauce.
- It does taste like barbecue sauce, right?
- I don't know, this bite actually tastes a little more
sophisticated. So maybe it's a little more expensive.
- [Blake] That might actually, I'm gonna agree with you.
I feel like this is like the one that you would
get at like the fusion restaurant. Or whatever.
Like the nice restaurant, and the other
one was just like Panda Express.
- (soft laughing)
(fork taps plate)
- Oh that, that felt substantial, nope nope. Okay.
- [Producer] Does Panda Express serve pad Thai?
- Yeah, they do.
- They serve Chow Mein. It's not
- (oohing)
- Yeah, it's not Pad Thai.
- (fork taps table)
- Between the two of them I think that this one
is more expensive than the first one we tried.
- Is there something on here? Okay.
- I'm sorry to whoever has to clean this up.
- Oh I got a chicken.
- You got chicken?
- No, jk that was a vegetable.
- But the noodles are a little more al dente-y
- True, I do like the bite on the noodle.
- So the noodles are good, but
it doesn't taste like Pad Thai.
- And I like the extra vegetables,
was it like a broccoli?
- Maybe, but it doesn't taste like
Pad Thai. That's why it's expensive.
- Some with like a bite to it,
like there's definitely a vegetable with chew.
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna say this is the more expensive one
and the first one was the cheaper one.
- Yeah, compared to the other one
it may have been a little more expensive.
- That's where I'm going.
- Are you guys gonna tell me if I have something on my face?
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- [Producer] Did you guys get enough?
(fork tapping table)
(fork hitting plate)
- (laughing) It's just us silently eating for an hour,
sorry you clicked on this video.
- It tastes more like Pad Thai than the second one.
But it's a lot more blander than the first one.
- Yeah, I liked the first one the best.
- The first one was the best.
First one might be the cheapest.
- I barely got
- [April] I got a lot of egg.
- [Blake] I barely got anything.
- I got a lot of egg in that one. I'm not mad at it but.
- How do you put it on your fork?
Do you like stick and then twirl?
- I just stab it.
- You just stab?
- Yeah, okay, this is not classy.
Sorry.
- (mumbles)
- I don't know this one tastes similar to the first one.
- Mm, first one was better.
- Oh this is all chicken. It's a big chunk of chicken.
- Oh my gosh, hey, you made a bigger mess,
well I don't know that's kind of unfair.
- (coughing) Oh my gosh.
- You dropped a whole piece of chicken. Speaking of this.
- [April] Oh, poor chicken.
- Oh
- I feel like I underestimated.
It was hard to keep things on the fork.
- I know, it's okay
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- You didn't know you (mumbles)
- It's fine.
- Can we have?
- Oh, this is see this is definitely
some sort of weird (bleep) vegetable.
- The first one we had was the cheapest.
It kind of had like the taste of,
not Panda Express, P.F, Chang's.
The second one that we had which was a little bit sweeter
I think was the middle price.
And the most recent one we had was the most expensive.
- So the first one we tried was the middle one.
The second one we tried was the most expensive.
And the third one we tried is the cheapest one.
- Think so.
- I'm gonna say that the first one is the cheapest.
The middle one is the most expensive
and then the last one was in the middle.
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- Did you make the second one yourself?
And did you put barbecue sauce in it?
- [Producer] No, the second one is actually frozen
Pad Thai you find at Trader Joes.
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- See I think that is a curve ball
that we should have been aware of.
- Because I was thinking it was the most expensive
because it was a fusion, one of those fusion restaurants
that don't do Thai properly.
- I assumed everything was coming from a restaurant, too.
Frozen adds a whole new element to this.
- That was a good curve ball.
- That was tricky. You are tricky.
- Dang.
- I said that the cheapest.
- I got one of them right.
- My, I said that the frozen one was the expensive one.
I told you I don't have a sophisticated palette.
I like cheeseburgers.
- Even though the third one was most expensive,
like, if I'm gonna pick one it's gonna be the middle one
- [Cheska] Yeah.
- [Bekki] Maybe add a little chili oil to it.
- [Cheska] Yeah, that one tasted like it was from Thai town
- Yeah.
- It tasted like it was from an actual Thai restaurant
that caterers to Thai people.
- That yeah.
- It could be a little spice
- That's what Pad Thai is supposed to taste.
Yeah, it could be a little spicer but that's
to everyone's own they ask you what number do you want?
And no one asked us a number. So yeah.
- I mean obviously, we don't know our Pad Thai.
- It's good regardless, so.
- Yeah.
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