clear kidney-cleaning water. so good. and so important to a healthy lifestyle. i d imagine. midnight. nam prik moon. that s what you do after you ve had a few drinks, maybe a lot of drinks, because what you need, maybe you didn t know you needed it but you do, is nam prik. thai chili dip. yeah. nam prik is what the vast majority of thai people who live in america who come to thailand to visit and come back end up getting busted at the airport for trying to bring in. we get two kinds. nam prik tua daeng. a combination of chilies, garlic, shrimp paste, dried fish. and this. colloquially known as midnight nam prik num. made from roasted green chilies. accompanied by god s preferred delivery systems for beer-friendly goodness. yeah. yeah on that. a whole bunch of deep-fried
this guy s good. it s one of the great things about a place like this. you ll never have to fill your own glass. that could be me someday, i m thinking. things go just a little wrong, i go off the rails, this would be all too attractive. i could well see myself singing happy birthday in german to tourists at a hotel bar in jakarta or bangkok. enjoy my fren fry. this is a fantastic discovery. this is going to stick in my head now, this song.
clear kidney-cleaning water. so good. and so important to a healthy lifestyle. i d imagine. midnight. nam prik moon. that s what you do after you ve had a few drinks, maybe a lot of drinks, because what you need, maybe you didn t know you needed it but you do, is nam prik. thai chili dip. yeah. nam prik is what the vast majority of thai people who live in america who come to thailand to visit and come back end up getting busted at the airport for trying to bring in. we get two kinds. nam prik tua daeng. a combination of chilies, garlic, shrimp paste, dried fish. and this. colloquially known as midnight nam prik num. made from roasted green chilies. accompanied by god s preferred delivery systems for beer-friendly goodness. yeah. yeah on that. a whole bunch of deep-fried little salty meaty delicious things.
when the journey is coming to an end, when the movie s over, what s left to do? oh, yes, wrap things up. i think we ve learned something here in chiang mai. i can t summon exactly what that might be right now. i was thinking of this whole mohammed said don t tell me what a man knows or what he says, tell me where he s traveled. you learn stuff. maybe it s to remember to bring something to remove makeup before hitting the cabarets. like the first time i spent a long period of time in thailand, that sort of brightness, the spiciness, the simple elements making kind of this bright explosion of flavors, i got back home, i immediately like wished i could be back in thailand. or maybe just say screw it and have a good time. it s quite beautiful. thank you so much. [ speaking foreign language ].
isn t it delicious? this rice is grown here in the village. you just kind of make a little spoon-shaped ball with it. now, what s the famous greeting? is it have you eaten yet or have you had rice? it s both. literally it means have you eaten rice yet. but what it really means is how s it going? it is assumed that if you haven t eaten yet, things are not going well. if you ve eaten, rice is such a fundamental component. eating is synonymous with eating rice. to eat a meal without rice would be unthinkable. what makes their whiskey special? because of the flavoring that they add to it. conveniently, our hosts in addition to having provided us with a fine meal, just so happen to run a distillery out back. they use a spice mixture they add to the yeast balls, let it ferment for five days, then she smashes it with a wood mallet. thai rice whiskey, lao khao, bucket of hootch, whatever you