- I may have to take over.
- The vlog? - The vlog.
On a more permanent basis.
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- Hey everyone it's Mark Wiens with migrationology.com
and eatingthaifood.com in Bangkok Thailand.
I'm sitting down right now for a really quick breakfast
at home but before I start eating, I wanna tell you
a quick story.
Back when I was going to university in Arizona,
that was from 2004 to 2008,
I would always watch a TV show called Bizarre Foods
with Andrew Zimmern, one of my favorite shows
and still is.
I never dreamed that I would have the opportunity
to not only meet Andrew but to kind of hang out with him
and eat a meal with him.
Andrew is in Bangkok right now.
He is filming for a brand new TV show
and I have the honor and opportunity to meet him
and I think we're gonna go meet him.
I know we're gonna ride around in a tuk-tuk
and then I know we're gonna eat at one
of my favorite restaurants in all of Bangkok.
The producer Patrick has said I can vlog
which is awesome as well.
I'm excited, stay tuned for an awesome day in Bangkok
with Andrew Zimmern.
This is (speaks foreign language)
which I actually ate last night
so this is leftover Thai food, my favorite.
Let me pick some of that fish off the side there.
May as well mix that with some (speaks foreign language)
onto the rice.
I gotta get that garlic though, gotta get that garlic
and that chili on here as well.
(groans) The soup is sour, you can taste the lemongrass,
you can taste the garlic and you can taste
that galangal in there as well.
Breakfast was excellent.
I'm on a motor bike now on our way to the BTS
and we are headed to the Dusit area of Bangkok.
We just made it to Dusit Zoo, gate number four.
This is where we are meeting them.
We got here a little bit early, so we're gonna hang out.
This is right across the street from the
Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall.
The whole team has just arrived.
They are setting up all their gear and rigging
the tuk-tuk with some GoPros and some cameras.
And then back in that van, right there,
they're getting all the cameras and equipment ready.
We're about to jump into tuk-tuks soon.
- Show time, show time - This is Patrick
the producer. - Show time, Erin.
Team intuitive content, intuitive content, baby.
Best place for television.
- [Man] He's gonna come and pick a bander, okay,
just do a circle here, okay?
- I am in the tuk-tuk now with P'Weera now.
We are doing a quick circle and then we are gonna
pick up Andrew Zimmern.
I am now in the back of the tuk-tuk with Andrew Zimmern.
Say hello to Andrew, very, very cool.
I am excited and a real honor to be hanging out with Andrew.
We are heading on our way to Soei
which is one of my all time favorite restaurants in Bangkok.
I started off doing mostly blogging,
and now I do mostly vlogging and food videos.
- Sounds more fun.
- Yeah, I love the videos.
- No pressure, but let's see how you are on camera.
The question isn't what aren't we gonna order,
it's how are we going to eat every item on the menu?
'Cause I'm not really a decided kind of guy,
I'm kind of a one of everything guy.
- [Mark] I think we will get along together well.
- [Andrew] It's a much better way to approach it.
- We made it to Soei, hanging out with Andrew and P'Weera.
And we have just ordered a few of the dishes
and Andrew just ate a mackerel head which
is called (speaks foreign language) off of a GoPro
which is a pretty awesome move.
We're getting ready to dig in and I gotta start
snacking on those mackerel heads.
I'm gonna grab
a mackerel cheek. - Crazy good.
- [Mark] Oh yeah, those mackerel cheeks
are ridiculously good.
- [Andrew] Insane.
- [Mark] Just completely crispy all the way through.
How is the food?
- Well, we've eaten six dishes,
five of which have been the best dishes of their types
that I've ever eaten and the sixth one is the first time
I've ever eaten anything like it.
The quality of the cooking here, the skill
and the precision, a lot of great technique.
This is an amazing, amazing place.
Yeah, there's too much talking going on at this table
and not enough eating.
- We just finished the main filming eating at Soei
and now we're just cleaning up this roasted shrimp salad.
It is crazy good.
The flavors are just sensationally good
and what I really love is that he slices the lemongrass
or kind of shaves it so that it's not too woody
but then it just releases so much citrusy lemony flavor
along with the lime juice.
The crew is all taking photos and getting some video
of P'Soei as he's cooking but I just wanted
to quickly show you this one dish which is called
(speaks foreign language) and often times
at this restaurant, I like to order it
with (speaks foreign language) which is
the soft shelled crab but they ran out today,
so we ordered it with (speaks foreign language)
which is shelled crab.
It is an absolute stunner of a dish.
It is a dish that you have to order.
It is a dish that you have to order when you come to Soei.
How is, I've gotta get a bite in here too.
Andrew just stole my bite.
- When I really wanna make a point, I do one of these
and raise an eyebrow.
That raised eyebrow has won me three James Beard Awards.
Practice your eyebrow raises, food geeks.
- Yeah, it's just ridiculously good.
There are egg yolks in here too to elevate the richness
even higher.
We are now sitting down for a whole crew lunch.
This is (speaks foreign language) which is fried rice
with mackerel and this is the type of fried rice
I've never had here at Soei so far.
I'm gonna hit that with a little bit of lime juice
and also you gotta eat this with (speaks foreign language)
which is fish sauce and chilies.
Put that onto the top.
- You should try these. - Okay.
- They're excellent. - Oysters, steamed
with soy sauce.
- Get everything on it or?
- Yeah, I like to include a little bit of everything
on one bite.
- I like to avoid the little red dots
they look like something dangerous is gonna happen.
- With the seeds in them?
- Yeah, but everything goes.
- Okay, yeah, let's eat this together though.
By the way, this is Adrian who is the lead film--
- One of them.
- One of the lead film crew, so he's really cool.
- Wow, that's great.
- Wow, that's ridiculous. - Taking mine.
(laughing)
- [Man] He's the best photographer in Worthington Minnesota.
- Yeah.
This is a dish called (speaks foreign language)
and it is deep fried pork skin.
These little nuggets are pork skin and there are
kaffir lime leaves in here, there's chilies, there's basil
in here and it almost looks like little,
the drippings of a deep fried battered item,
but that is all pork skin.
Oh, that's ridiculous too, mmm.
- Even you felt that it was one of those transcended
meals and that every time you go here
it actually achieves that level of quality.
That's only because all the food goes through
the chef's hands, a special attention towards
health and wellness and lightness with his food
that I think makes it truly unique.
- [Mark] Yes, perfectly said.
- I may have to take over-- - The vlog?
- The vlog on a more permanent basis.
I really think that Migrationology is one of the better
food vlogs and blogs in the world today.
You do a fantastic job,
all kidding aside. - Thank you.
- We're gonna have to send you to Andrew Zimmern School
of Truth Telling and Swearing.
(laughing)
This is the (mumbles) action for your audience.
- [Mark] Yeah, very cool.
Hello.
- [Andrew] Hello pretty lady.
- [Mark] And we got a big bag of sound equipment down here.
- What is it, what do I need?
This is the kind of behind the scenes thing
you only see on Migrationology.
Thank you. - You want an iced coffee?
- I have to go to work now.
- You want a Maserati, you gotta work.
- You gotta work, I do want a Maserati.
- I don't, I just wanna make people happy.
That's all I wanna do, I wanna make people happy.
- If all you wanna do is make people happy,
then why do you make me so miserable all the time?
- 'Cause I love you and you're so good at what you do.
You inspire people, you inspired this man.
You were an inspiration. - Definitely.
- Backwards on the motorbike. - Backwards on the motorbike.
With the awesome Jim-ball.
- This is why he works with us.
- [Man] It's the only reason, it's the only reason.
I'm not good at anything else.
- He's fantastic!
Action!
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- We made it to Ratchawat, we are about
to eat some hot dogs.
Ying just got me an iced coffee, okay.
- [Ying] Thank you.
- [Andrew] I think you made a horrible mistake though.
Here's the deal, do you ever go out to dinner
and just have a date and you make him leave
the camera at home?
- [Ying] I really want him to leave a camera at home.
- [Andrew] I think that should be a new policy.
One dinner date with camera and one without.
One with, one without.
- [Ying] Listening?
- International rule. - Thank you.
- Relationship 101. - Thank you.
- Dried pork.
We stopped for some fried meat.
This is fried pork belly.
- I haven't been walking, I've been carried
on a Sedan chair by a whole herd of lackeys
and (mumbles) whose job is to transport me that way.
- Fried pork?
- Then I'm dropped off and I get out and it looks like
I've been walking around.
- So crispy.
- It's very crispy.
- And perfectly salted.
- It's the absolute perfect street meat.
Doesn't get any better. - Yep, I agree.
Mm, that's good, so good.
We also had some (speaks foreign language)
which is the northern Thai sausage.
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We just finished shooting a drone shot
where we walked into the tuk-tuk and it drove off
in a tuk-tuk all shot from above.
That's gonna be a really cool shot,
can't wait to see it when the TV show airs.
There's the drone coming back in.
Andrew is right behind me now doing a little bit
of an introduction and standing right at the entrance
of Ratchawat Market.
- Every single day. - Say hello.
(speaks foreign language)
- We are all done filming here.
Just wanna say a big thank you to P'Weera.
(speaks foreign language)
He drove us around in a tuk-tuk.
If you ever need a tuk-tuk when you're at Ratchawat Market,
this is his tuk-tuk right here
with the (mumbles) in the back.
Ying and I just jumped onto a bus.
The cool type of bus with the wooden floor,
the classics in Bangkok.
We're heading back to Anusawari which is Victory Monument.
We're almost home but we just decided to stop
for a quick bite to eat at this street food stall
right behind me.
They specialize in Isan food which is food
from the north eastern region of Thailand
and also they have jim jum which is Thai Isan hot pot.
I think there's chicken, there might be some pork on here,
liver, some intestines and there's an egg
right in the center.
What you're supposed to do is just kind of break up
that yolk and stir up at least Ying told me
to stir it all up.
Open up this soup.
There should be some, there's some galangal in here.
There are some kaffir lime leaves, what else is down here?
Lemongrass and I'm just gonna dump in all the meat first.
Or just slide it in, whamp.
Add in all these vegetables.
There's basil down here, sweet basil.
There is water morning glory, so water morning glory.
What you normally need to do, break it
and then just dump it all into the clay pot.
Gotta add that cabbage in there as well.
Okay, I'm gonna just stir this around.
As the jim jum is cooking, I also ordered a side plate
of laab and this is minced pork salad.
There are also some intestines in here
and this is a good looking plate.
I'd better get an intestine in that bite.
Oh yeah, what I like about this version is that
it's really heavy on the (speaks foreign language)
which is the toasted rice, sticky rice powder.
So it gives it that crunchy texture
but also a smoky flavor.
That dressing.
Yeah, I think we're good to go with the soup.
I'm gonna dish myself some of the vegetables.
Yeah, that should be good for now.
I'm gonna take that piece of pork and this is another
different dipping sauce.
Oh, that's hot right out of the pot.
I'm gonna eat some of the vegetables as well.
Yeah, you can really taste that lemongrass in there.
Ying and I are gonna sit here and finish the rest
of this food so I'm going to end the video now.
It was a really cool day and really an honor
and really amazing to hang out with Andrew Zimmern
and walk around and eat at one of my favorite
restaurants in Bangkok.
Big thank you to Andrew Zimmern,
big thank you to producer Patrick Weiland,
also a very cool guy and also to Erin
and the whole team, crew.
Also wanna give a shout out to kylele.net.
I was hanging out with him in Vietnam.
I will leave his link in the description box
but that's how I met Patrick the producer originally.
Big thank you to everyone.
(speaks foreign language)
What's up from Bangkok, thank you all very much
for watching this video and please remember
to give it a thumbs up and leave a comment below.
Make sure you subscribe for more food videos
and I will see you on the next video.
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