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More food, quickly. this has become an emergency situation. [ horn honks ] there it is. drunken noodles, dude. >> andy: pad ki mao is actually not a noodle dish, it's something served with rice. >> anthony: how can you have drunken noodles with no noodles? this is what we need, whatever it is. >> andy: it's something devised for drunken people to eat. >> anthony: well, that's us. something to sop up the roiling tide of lao khao sloshing around in my stomach, and i need to sober up in case ernest borgnine calls. she said she'd call. i feel so used. >> andy: in the north, they love to eat pork h...

>> anthony: when did you come to thailand first? >> andy: i believe it was 1987. and i came as a backpacker. it was all about, you know, smoking dope on the beach, eating mushrooms, chasing girls, and drinking beer. i had a three-month ticket and i ended up staying away for four years. here we go. >> anthony: oh man. so what was the dish? there's a dish in every traveler's life where they just said, "okay, you know, my previous life is not gonna be enough for me anymore, you know?" >> andy: it was a particular mushroom. they make soup out of it. it was unlike anything i'd ever had in my life. ...

[ cat meows ] >> andy: meow. >> anthony: andy's favorite spot in chiang mai -- a family-run restaurant named auntie daeng's hammered meat. and the jokes pretty much write themselves, folks. >> andy: no, every year. every year. >> anthony: andy's been coming here forever, since it was only auntie daeng's lightly slapped meat. he's practically family. >> andy: mmm. >> anthony: hammered meat, here anyway, is beef or pork that's

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Been charcoal-grilled, then pulverized into ropy threads to give it a distinctive texture, then served with a spicy chili and galangal dip. >> andy: so i guess, um, i've been accepted by the family. and i'll be living in the house here next door. and, uh, my job is going to be to smash beef with a hammer every night, probably for the rest of my life. [ andy speaking thai ] >> anthony: this woman has expectations, dude. >> andy: i'm -- i'm in deep, deep trouble. it's pretty obvious. >> anthony: why don't they pound it before they cook it? >> andy: it wouldn't look like that if they pounded it b...