hi everyone today I am making a very special video as a big thank-you to all of you my viewers
because hot Thai Kitchen has reached a hundred thousand subscribers a hundred thousand that is
crazy and I could not have done it without all of you so I wanted to make a little behind the
scene video to invite you in to take a look at what goes on around here how each video gets
made okay so I'm gonna take you on a tour from the very beginning to the very end let's get started
so this is where every hot thai kitchen episode starts it starts in my food laboratory ie my
kitchen so yes this is my kitchen and the reason why I don't film here is because as you can see it
is very small and there's really no good angle for the camera to go but it works really well as my
work space is where I test all my recipes before I go to shoot and you come over here I will show you
a little bit of the process so this is sort of my office space in this kitchen this is all the
recipes that I am going to test for the show and if the sheet looks very clean it probably means
I haven't tested it because if I have it'll look more like this so this was sort of the previous
iteration and I've made notes I make notes as I go too you know changes improvements whatever
comes to mind and then this sheet right here all handwritten this is our my drawing board these
are all my ideas it may or may not make it to a video it's just sort of I I have an idea let's
write it down but I just put it up here to make sure I don't forget about it and yeah basically
it goes from here to here and to you I'll show you my fridge but there's a lot of stuff in here
okay every ingredient ever should be in hot Thai kitchen is probably in here there's shrimp paste
tamarind this is oyster sauce which by the way keeping oyster sauce in a squeeze bottle makes
it so much easier to use salted duck egg is my chili oil yeah you know lots of stuff and
now you must be wondering if I don't film here then where is the hot Thai kitchen kitchen but
let's go look for those of you who have been with me from the very beginning you know that
hot I kitchen started out in my little apartment in San Francisco well years later here we are in
Vancouver Canada and we shoot in this cute little neighborhood called Yale town and I particularly
love this place because there's the grocery store literally next door to where we shoot and so when
I forget things it's very useful so here we are in the hot Thai kitchen set that you're familiar with
and this is actually my friend Adams apartment and Adam is also the cameraman and he's a bit camera
shy so he's just gonna say hi to you from behind the camera alright there he is and Adams kitchen
is perfect in many many ways one of which being the fact that Adam doesn't cook so there's a lot
of space for me to work with I'm not interfering with his cooking in any way because there is none
so much and he enjoys the food yes he gets to eat everything that is made on how tight kitchen so
he enjoys the food so so it's a great setup for us just to show you a little bit of how this is
set up there's usually two cameras and one which is a close-up camera which is right about here
and the other one usually sits right in front of this counter that captures me on the wide-angle
I've got both going and if you're interested my the camera that I use really nothing fancy it's
a Canon mirrorless and both of them they were on sale when I got if you're familiar with hot Thai
kitchen from the very beginning you know that there have been quite a few people behind the
camera basically depending on where I am in Thailand in San Francisco here and it's all
just been a production of friends and family none of us are professional so we've all had
to learn on our own it's been it's been really a fun learning process Adam and I both have learned
a lot and then when the shooting is done I am back here at my other office so this is where
the editing happens I do all the editing and I use Final Cut Pro for most of you who are interested I
started out very simply I think I used Windows Movie Maker and then iMovie and then finally
Final Cut Pro and I basically taught myself how to do all the editing so it's been it's
been a fun journey so once it's done I upload it to YouTube and then I go and make a post on my
website and write up the recipe and then unleash it to the world and that is it I hope you enjoyed
that little insight look into the making of hot pie kitchen and again if you want to connect
with me I'm on Facebook Twitter and Instagram and a big thank you to everyone top Khun kha