we've lived in Thailand for over 16 months of our lives and eaten so many amazing foods
from the most obscure we could find at a local market to some of the most popular
Thai Dishes but there's one meal we've never been able to figure out we need help
today we are at the tah Maharaj here in Bangkok and if you remember just over a year ago we
stayed on a boat just over there somewhere on the Chao Praya River so you may be wondering
what this meal is because we aren't usually the ones that are scared of trying new things we've
tried to eat this meal or have this meal once before but we completely messed it up and we
left feeling super embarrassed and hungry and the reason for this is because most of these
places are catered For Thai people everything is in Thai and we just didn't know what to do
and the people working there unfortunately for us didn't speak any English at all we looked
like proper fools it's not necessarily the eating part that's the problem we're pretty good at that
it's the preparation that we have no idea how to do now of course this meal is the hugely popular
moo kata that's served here all over Thailand we're just waiting for our help which today
comes in the form of our good friends Flora a note who are currently traveling all over
Thailand on a road trip on their own YouTube channel so if you're curious to see what their
videos are like please check them out now lucky for us note is actually Thai and he's gone up
eating this food and he can read the menus and he can speak to people so which better way to
learn it than with him and his lovely wife all right let's go and try and find these two now
they've said they're here somewhere this is the shopping center oh here they are hello
laughs now we have no idea what kind of place it's going to take us to today let's hope it's good
wow we kindof like matchy
this is flora and I'm note can you move it too I'm the Thai husband
sawasdee krap
okay okay ready yeah so we're gonna be going to eat Moo kata today but it's a different kind of
moo kata it's an elevated a little fancier at this place called Pranakorn Grill
I'm excited yes and it's Buffet it's all you can eat
that's what we like to eat is it all you can drink
No. note only drinks one drink anyway so yeah it wouldn't be worth it for me
only 219 Baht per person that is super affordable yeah yeah
this is one of the nicest moo kata yeah with this View oh it's hot oh my God
this is what I meant when I say elevated yes usually the pan doesn't look like this yeah
because we tried it once before and we we messed it up so badly but it was just like a black
slate yeah thing and we basically just ended up having like a dry meat and oh you didn't have any
meat I didn't have any meat so basically I had like some fried tofu and that was it yeah and
we made a broth I didn't taste of anything oh it was actually really terrible so does this one come
with a broth the like the hot popping oh that is it that's it yeah this way the broth doesn't mix
with the grill because the traditional one the grill in the middle the meat just like slides
off so it's like you got it nice and crispy and then it becomes soggy okay so what happens now
we have to go pick our own meat our own vegetables and extra soup okay for for this Grill here extra
soup yeah because it will evaporate very quickly right the most important part though is the sauces
the sauces I think that's what we messed up last time I don't think we had any sauces no
I think we had some butter and that was like yeah we didn't know what we were doing nobody
explained anything and it was super overwhelming looks like we need to go and get something yeah
marinated pork pork belly fat liver all kinds of fish salmon there's lots of fish for you
so grab as much as you want just grab a bit of everything and then yeah from there okay the
trick is don't mix the meat so one dish for one meat I don't know which ones which one's which
is that this is pork belly this which is pork tenderloin how do you know I can tell see see
the fat would you mix pork and pork oh no they usually come in different marinades that's why
you don't want to make them because if you like it then you know which one to go back for the one
we went to last time it was more like finely cut meats there's more in here actually this
is really important oh there's a little pig on the door so you know that it's gonna be pork
there's also butter because we need this to um grease up the pan before we cook it okay I'll
grab this one oh yeah that's the type of meat I was talking about that's how we got it last time
like thinly sliced this is yeah this is actually a little bit overwhelming I don't know definitely
got for some prawns yeah everyone wants prawns Everyone likes prawns seafood can go together yeah
so this is Seafood
which is seafood sauce this is the isan sauce and this is
okay it's the sweetest one get a bit of everything yeah this one is a sour one get a bit of
everything yeah let's get a bit of everything what's that a lime juice in case you want it
more sour I usually do the moo kata sauce in the big one because I use the most of this one makes
sense and then the other ones I use the smaller one like if a moo kata place looks nice but the
sauce is terrible no one will go it's all about the sauce it's good to know this was The NAMM gym
very good I like nam jim
and if you're wondering why we're laughing about namjim then just just look it up we're not gonna
explain it in this video we're almost there we have two more things veggies and drinks okay okay
I have got corn noodles eggs mushrooms more mushrooms Morning Glory baby corn
two types of corn it's all corny yep good can we finally start cooking yes let's go
literally gotten dark since we started picking food all right so this is everything we've got
everyone ready to eat well we have to cook it first we're ready to cook yeah
you need two pairs of Chopsticks because one is for raw me one is for cooked meat I technically
I guess I really need to because I don't eat the meat but regardless so you don't confuse
it if you do end up eating use the butt end of the chopsticks for your raw meat and then the regular
end for your cooked meat so you don't get confused and end up putting raw meat juices in your mouth
yes please okay first of all you have to put the
butter on the pan now the traditional way you use pork fat but we're fancy
oh melted I actually just smell really good there you go and then put in your meat
so we cook everything at the same time yeah okay in there
so the fun part is you like playing with it right you have to turn it around all
the time making sure it's cooked and then you flip it if you want to do the honor okay just
use your hands yeah grab the Morning Glory yeah and all of it yeah break it yeah break it again
perfect very nice at the corn in there in the soup mushroom baby corn so essentially is that
being souped or steamed no souped soup hey but the thing is we don't usually drink the soup
oh so you just eat the stuff inside the soup oh last time we were eating
the soup I think that's pretty much the only thing that I ate
I mean you can the soup will taste good it didn't
taste like anything it tastes like water with corn inside yeah
the night the soup will become more bold yeah keep adding stuff okay so you want a
taste the soup maybe the second half of the movement half session okay another top tip
so we're not going to bore you with endless clips of us eating but we can now proudly say that we've
enjoyed proper mukata in Thailand and hopefully this has helped you to visit one of these places
next time you're here so the ice cream here is also all you can eat there's vanilla chocolate
lemon and coconuts I think we have one question for you because we're going to Chiang Mai next
week and you still live there for quite a long time you have one recommendation for the best
kao soi restaurants that we can go to I think is khao soi mae sai I think so too
and next door to them there is a really good ice cream shop walking distance it's like the perfect
little afternoon sorted so for all four of us to eat as much as we wanted including as much ice
cream as we want although we can't fit that much in and refillable drinks it was only 1104 Baht so
that's a pretty sweet deal now biggest suggestion is definitely bring somebody that knows how to
eat moo kata or watch this video again and figure out exactly how to do it when you do yourself
because it's so delicious when done right now after Bangkok we're heading to Chiang Mai like
we said and then we're going to Laos Cambodia and Singapore and many other countries that
we haven't quite finalized yet so if you don't want to miss that make sure you subscribe bye