although everything we're gonna eat
today what is the most delicious I think
you would enjoy a jumping bean salad
jumping shrimp salad
yeah a lot of ice cream the jumping out
of their car all the ingredients mixed
okay no nothing tastes better than food
that's a lie true yeah it's true
so you just go I'll do whatever you do
you're gonna be jumping around we eat
them while they're still alive the
moment of pudding in my mouth it's hard
to get used to
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welcome to Chiang Mai this is my first
foodie mission into Thailand in this
five video series is going to have
everything among the southern central
and northeastern regions northern
Thailand has a culinary identity all its
own and I came here searching for the
most unique food I could find I'm
talking risking my life to eat raw pig's
blood soup somebody ate this soup one
time yes and they got a parasite yeah
why aren't people eating this if it's
dangerous I'm talking foraging for wild
food in the mountains freshly roasted
bugs first of all do you have any ranch
dipping sauce I'm talking tons of
delicious foods that even the most timid
traveler will be head over heels for oh
my god
one of the top five desserts in
Southeast Asia holy crap so be sure to
subscribe to this channel and check back
for each video in this series today I'm
focusing on some of the most unusual
tasty treats in northern Thailand some
of them taste great some take a bit of
time to get used to I'm here with my
guide Bao I what kind of tour is this a
scary one to watch oh is it scary for
maybe party now because
it is high output because I pull out
this bow I is part of a chef store a
highly recommended tour company that's
connecting knowledgeable locals and
hungry visitors like me you eat all that
stuff in your normal life growing up
they put on diverse tours throughout the
country and today Maui is taking me on a
custom tour with the aim of getting me
out of my comfort zone I like it one
word I prefer the Superman bamboo she's
already trying to scare me with her worm
talk
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but I've yet to meet a worm I didn't
like I wanna taste it regret the food
that we will try here is a raw Buffalo
salad Raghava
I mean means Buffalo salad you don't
like to eat raw food no I don't like it
well good but most of people from there
not here to eat raw food so today I'm
gonna eat it raw raw Buffalo salad yes
let's do this I've never had Buffalo let
alone raw Buffalo but here goes location
1 starts us out at a pretty typical
Street side restaurant where you can see
Thai style fast food soups and stews
pour it into a plastic bag for easy
pickup and take away before we get to
the raw Buffalo will warm up with some
grilled pork toes I ask you do we use
Forks for chopsticks and you said no no
we eat in my hand the way how lots of
people we have to knead it by hand I
learned that you're supposed to use like
the tips yes chips yes ok last time I
had the food like up here I was like
calming it in it wasn't good this looks
very straightforward it's use some tongs
yeah just take them now should they dip
and some dip are you gonna eat this one
of me sure yes ok let's do it together
Dori you don't need to eat the wrong
ones I know you don't like the wrong
mmm chili sauce salty spicy and the
tongue is quite tough yeah that's really
really Juliano usually the men who are
to dream beyond the skin they love to
eat a pie remember a real portal if
you're trying to give this down in ten
minutes for lunch you're gonna get
lockjaw by the end of it but if you're
having a fight here and there taking a
shot a shot of what's this
by Oh Pablo by their surprises all over
on this way
in the lab the raw Buffalo salad is
actually called larb larb is found
everywhere in northern Thailand it can
be made with chicken beef fish buffalo
pretty much anything it can be raw or
stir-fried and I personally found it to
be heavily seasoned with spices like
cinnamon nutmeg cloves star anis and
loads of lemongrass our Rob Buffalo larb
today will also have a sprinkling of
buffalo opals blood and buffalo bile
which has a deep bitterness very
difficult for me to get used to
we're not going to be drinking and
either file today but that is one of the
ingredients in our log here no way how
we eat it we make a sticky reliable then
just this and use the family help to
keep the food
I did that seems pretty easy so you just
get a little ball and gold on there it
is
try putting cherry on top and as she
leaves and it actually afterwards oh
yeah
holy why not Ali oh that is fantastic
there's so many herbs in here about 13
spite that already in here it is loaded
with spices herbs and flavors a lot of
lemongrass coming through you don't even
really feel the stomach it just gives a
little extra texture on there another
delicious bite of raw Buffalo
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yeah I'm a big fan it's a bit bitter the
vial for today's dessert grilled a
fermented sour pork after fermenting for
some days the pork is heated up on the
grill this is the way how not in people
preserve the food for fides a little bit
salty cause of the fermentation for a
few days yeah they have something like
this in central Vietnam yeah and do I do
the sticky rice falling in your eyeball
again with the ball it gives you like
something to put the food again and with
the garlic yeah
Wow these are some intense flavors going
on here
pork already it's salty it's sour I love
the rice because it's so chewy
it gives awesome texture to it but so
delicious it makes sense this way of
cooking a hundred years ago no one had a
refrigerator but is one you can keep
light bulb every a week as beautiful
this is awesome
what a great starts with a daring let's
keep going up next something I never
even knew existed jumping shrimp at this
beautiful lakeside retreat right behind
us is the kitchen where they're making
the jumping shrimp there are certainly
jumping shrimp in there I don't know if
is making the right word there where
they're gonna make the shrimp jump those
are tiny you have to eat it raw just
wanna watch me okay tastes delicious
sweet I can't even imagine how this
works so let's just go find out after
starting with a small bowl filled with
fresh herbs chilies and spices
the shrimp peas are invited to the party
the chef needs to be quick so several
shrimp EES are not lost in the process
some more daring among the trim piece
aim for a quick getaway while those who
remain will be shaken up and served with
a beer it's probably one of the most
unusual things I've seen and I like
audience mixed together okay the owner
of this recipe is actually here which is
a wonderful thing because she's gonna
show me how to do it actually I'm gonna
put that one back is that rude was that
rude is that dirty I don't know so you
just go I'll do whatever you do oh but
they're getting out okay you just eat it
and then do you eat it some lettuce yeah
I like that she's also like surprised
okay I don't know I was gonna put it
back but I guess I'll put it in my mouth
sorry
oh I missed it Oh got it yeah crispy
juicy lemony flavor in there if the
shrimp is a little too much for you if
you feel like you've crushed too many
live creatures you're gonna just nosh
also on some vegetables oh my god plus
we got some beer don't forget about this
whole thing and opening it
opening the lid right here to reveal
look at these guys so they're still
jumping out they haven't lost any gusto
people just keep eating and drinking
eating and drinking and he'll eat all
these why why eat them alive does she
know maybe you could ask her to say that
if the dream is dead not religious just
the sweetness from the dream must have
to eat it when alive to be honest it is
it
it's like juicy yeah crunchy yeah and
then the seasoning in there is amazing
salting and then there's a bunch of
citrus explosion unexpected but it's
quite good even though she's the owner
of this establishment where they serve
this dish
she still jumps when they jump yes you
say that be careful when you eat a meat
rim salad sometimes the stream jumping
and then they're all the chilies and
spit into your eyes Oh be careful it's
their only weapon their only way to
fight back mmm it's good it's delicious
it's just a lot to get used to then it
showed him a hard time
I don't like the Thai food that most
foreigners know comes from Thailand
central region the north is known for
having more brothy dishes and less
coconut milk more chicken and pork and
less seafood and our food from the not
part of Thailand receive infant from
India Burma and China our next
destination we have a frog soup and a
soup with freshwater eel with a side of
fried pork intestine and stir fried eel
this one looks fiery and threatening but
that's just tamarind sauce
using texture we will talk only to our
retina they'd like to try these things
all right but why not
I feel like more Westerners need to eat
intestine use soup oh ok this is kind of
a small you know it looks really spicy
yes it's a bone still in the eel yeah I
eat it or spit it of it
no don't if they born yeahjust even meat
ma'am spit ball all right some real
chunks of eel inside let's try it out
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mmm that is spicy
I just I taste lemongrass and spice and
fire but that meat is delicious ain't
nothing weird about eel
eels great mmm that's terrific
we got one more we're gonna try here and
before we move on and this is a frog
that's not so stoom and you can still
see the frog skin on this nice
Wow so right there that's just
straight-up wrong something's gonna hold
frog all right let's try it out fatty
rubbery
oh that's also tremendously spicy Wow
when there's soup with like the bones
inside that's like a landmine that's
dangerous in this case we just have a
straight meat skin no bones so you can
just get a big heaping scoop of frog
parts and just eat it without a care in
the world
it's very delicious how were full
flavors I mean look at that a whole frog
leg right here it's like a quadricep
hamstring that is a strong leg I'm
sweaty the sweat is coming already
for you that's even spicy yeah very
spicy I cannot get spicy food wow that
is intense but I like it I like it a lot
though some of today's dishes are
completely foreign to this bandana
wearing dude from Minnesota the flavors
have been amazing but our next food will
really put that to the test
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we are in a local market where they are
selling produce fruit vegetables meat
and bugs wait that's all right is this
the bug place yes and bugs should we go
eat bugs
sure okay um lettuce I've seen that
before that's no big deal
broccoli no big deal no doll where do
they hide the bugs okay well let's go
there I think we're approaching oh oh
yeah we hit the jackpot
bamboo lungs and warm suit lung and
somewhere there are so many worms here
this lady just works your son worm yes
oh why - what why um why did she choose
the bug like many people from the other
part of the country when they come here
in chairman holiday they love to buy a
bamboo worm and sit want to take back
bamboo worm is the most expensive one
fake bamboo worm fried bamboo worm those
tools way more expensive than the rest
cricket is the cheapest sorry cricket no
one cares about you I would say I'm
scared but I'm not I've done this a lot
I'm deep into the bug game the thing
with bugs if they're fried it's no issue
really they're just crunchy and they
kind of disintegrate in your mouth so
we're gonna get a little bit of
everything let's start with some
grasshopper okay they're stuck together
it counts as one and a small grasshopper
- just cuz it's cute water bugs I'm
looking for the biggest baddest water
bug they got here
this one looks freaking huge that is a
monster water bug oh gosh for my eating
partner - oh it looks like they're
assaulted though that's nice the
crickets are cheap because they're just
these are like popcorn basically
crickets are good oh now this cricket
this cricket is where it gets a little
different because that is a big head
it's a big everything thorax abdomen oh
but those are some nice legs on there
very meaty and I'll get another friend
for him - from the top they look just
like cockroaches and then here we're
gonna get this bag of seasoned and fried
bamboo worms that actually looks tasty I
gotta say
once you've had bugs for the first time
you're like okay it's not a big deal
they look scary but the taste is usually
fine yeah but there's a lot of haters
out there and a lot of people don't
understand it so can you explain why do
some people in northern Thailand eat
bugs like this
buying line need of more chicken is
expensive they cannot buy it so the
local people in the village go out and
find this in the jungle but now it's
getting popular in the city if a fly
lands on this food yes is that okay I'm
gonna say it let's start with the
crickets all right a little country
flavor and there otherwise it's salty
it's crunchy they're like the peanuts of
the insect world not bad actually
I passed the grasshopper are you afraid
of this no I'm not you don't like him I
try it okay what about this big one
though yeah not a lot of flavor and
papery oily from being fried and then
salty but not a ton of flavor beyond
that these ones look terrifying because
from the top they look like a cockroach
do people ever eat cockroaches yeah why
not we don't hate cockroaches dirty but
this is intact like this from the tonto
so much like when I was in Vietnam some
people in the country would eat rat and
it's because that rat was a rice rat it
wasn't eating garbage
it wasn't diseased it was like a nature
Paleo rat people aren't eating
cockroaches from the street or anything
like that these insects are all from the
jungle they've been eating natural thing
yes maybe do eat a rat that come from in
the rice field yeah that's you
oh I gotta try that you're giving me
ideas I like it I want to try these
worms these worms actually look yummy my
favorite doctor favor yeah this is the
most expensive one to two thousand five
hundred mat-su kilo per kilo almost $80
yes for these worms yeah these are the
most bougie worms I've never eaten
that's crazy
it's almost like a rice cake they just
like disintegrate it's like a bag of
Lay's potato chips mostly air I know
just a little bit of bugs
I mean chips wait what I got a bit of a
surprise for you I got the small one for
you I I passed did this not but
everybody watching now is
said that you're passing we're going to
try it before what you never charted
never try this guy because it looks
scary
right yeah so now we can admit maybe
it's scary for everybody and not just
for me
oh she said that then hit hard can eat -
oh great
guys you can eat the head - ok ok
Hey be brave yeah here we go
your dog has a Sherlock this mama what
do you think Oh too hot to shoot oh he
didn't rub off I don't think I can chew
it I don't think I can follow it and we
have a tissue
flavors good hmm
it's just way too hard to chew that's
like an actual like thick fingernail
type texture good job your first water
bug yes let's stick to worms yeah
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we are on our way to our last food our
last destination in another market here
where they're grilling up some piggy
brains but maybe not in the way you
think I think it'd be hard to grill pig
brains just like loosely setting them on
a grill so here they're wrapped up in a
banana leaf yeah banana this one this
one
yes ah you're right it says brain right
yes Bob but of course so we got brains
here yeah they have a whole assortment
of different qualities and good
Christmas presents wrapped up in banana
leaves
I see brains I want to eat brains let's
do it let's order come on greens please
right now he's opening up the leaf to
reveal a little kind of square brain
cake with all the other ingredients in
there it looks real nice real nice let
me get a sticky lie to eat me the brain
sounds good to me
we've got some sticky rice here now to
mix the hue I light a ball eat it my
hand like how not some people we eat it
hmm so the brains are usually like
really fatty salty let's see let's see
how it is oh I mean come on it's creamy
fatty and packed with salt and like
lemongrass flavor just ton of that
lemongrass coming through him same with
a lot of the stuff we ate today but you
never get sick of it when you mix it
with the rice it's perfect that they
balance each other out and this is
immensely creative delicious and
mind-blowing
it was mostly mind blowing for the
package his mind was blowing all over
this leaf
Cheers yeah I want to thank a chef store
again for taking me along on this
amazing culinary adventure guys this
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a peace
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