Hot Thai Kitchen: Bringing Home-Cooked Thai Food to the World

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The Surprising Reason There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in
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Hot Thai Kitchen


We're happy to have Pailin Chongchitnant as our guest this
week, creator and host of Hot Thai
Kitchen, a popular YouTube channel based in
Vancouver, Canada that shows people how to cook delicious Thai
food recipes in their kitchens.


A handful of places - Italy, Japan, Vietnam, India - have
food that's so tied to their culture that the food itself is
somewhat of an ambassador, and Thailand is no exception. The
question then becomes how much Thai culture can a foreigner
absorb simply by watching how the national cuisine is
prepared?


Pailin also gives some insight into how Thai food is
perceived overseas & how "hipster Thai" joints are taking
over, and describes how she comes up with ideas for shows. She
also describes some of the insane ways foreigners try to give
their native food a Thai spin by splashing peanut sauce on it -
or even using - (ugh) - peanut butter!


And in a post-interview email that Greg reads, Pailin also
weighs in on a recent article
describing how the Thai government helps Thai nationals
overseas open Thai restaurants, which may or may not help the
cause, depending on how passionate the owner is about "real" Thai
food.


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