thai food is about the combination of everything,
it creates a meze in your mouth
and we're going to eat Thai style, putting everything in the middle and then we share
(turkish food) it's a tool of communication it is great for social contact it is made to share not to eat
i think we did a really good job in terms of cultural exchange because
I go to your guys house, and now you come to my house...
Thai people eat a lot of vegetables.
most of the world eats a lot of vegetables, it's just the US that's like I need meat and everything
I just like a little bit of this and that I don't even like measure, wish me luck! Tah special!
Feeling like Gordon Ramsay!
I think a lot of countries in the Western world put milk in eggs,
In Thailand, we don't put milk in our eggs.
I started putting milk in my eggs just something like I saw my dad do,
not even something necessarily American.
Normally, you have to put dill as a garnishment, I put it already.
Well, sorry guys, I forgot!
it smells amazing...
Then we're going to eat Thai style, yeah? We share food, so I'm just going to put it in the middle of the table.
So what are you guys up to here? Oh my God, what is this?
Stir fried vegetables!
Ooooh....Even if we were there, in Thailand, probably we were never going to get this kind of experience,
So excited for this! Don't we need peppers though? Like black pepper, red pepper?
Normally we don't do black pepper stuff like extra, black pepper (is) just something we put in the food already.
If it's a side of sauce or something like that, normally we have fish sauce, but they don't have fish sauce here.
So Steve actually saw the process.
Tah and Steve in the kitchen new cooking show, coming soon.
Cooking with Tah and Steve.
I'm probably not nearly as good of a cook as she is, so I'll be the assistant I guess.
Is there any like way to do it?
I want you to do exactly like how we do in Thailand, you just
like share the meal. I think it's like Turkish style too (yeah), but not American style (yeah).
No, we're selfish in America (laughing).
They want their own food.
I love sharing man, (yeah) i love it.
We love omelette. If you go to Thailand, you will even see that they even have Omelette food carts.
They (have) like food carts for omelettes?
Strictly omelette. (That's amazing) because its such a comfort food I would say, and we always eat with rice, we don't eat with bread.
Thanks for serving, us how nice she's like making food and then also serving us and next she's gonna feed us.
I feel like shuck it in your mouth for you two (here you go).
So usually drinking coffee is the tradition for the Thai breakfast?
Not like Turkish breakfast culture like having tea not like that. Thai tea in this case like Thai milk tea.
Oh and one more thing, normally when we eat together we have more than one food.
Normally like two food, omelette stir-fry or it can be omelette soup or it can be stir-fried soup.
How excited are you?
Really damn excited!
From one to ten?
Eleven, I'm gonna go with eleven!
Steve always goes for eleven.
Yeah, that's his answer!
Ooof, this smells so good like (smells)...
I know you use cauliflower green peppers and then what else is in this?
It's dill.
Ahh, you have dill. I love dill. (I love dill) that's something like I love eating on the Turkish breakfast too
Is there like a "Bon Appetit" in That? (yeah, do you say anything?)
Nope, you don't say anything, we just ate man.
Just shut up and eat!
Try to eat together too, so one of egg and a little bit of cauliflower (okay) together in one spoon.
We love mixing things together. (okay) Let me help you.
Thank you, oh yeah I told you she's gonna spoon feed me (laughing).
No, hang on a second, like that and then you shuck it in your mouth.
I mean it's so difficult to eat Thai style.
How is it?
Wow! So freaking good oh my god!
I'm so glad you love it.
No, I love it. This is so good. This is like all sorts of everything like just dancing in my mouth.
I wonder if Steve's gonna be able to manage holding all of them.
No, I'm definitely gonna screw this up.
Tah we may need your help to feed Steve as well, because...
Here Steve, okay so a little bit of this and that, like right a little bit of this...
and you got to spoon in the... yup there you go.
Go ahead Steve!
My turn (laughing)
Don't be quiet for so long (I know) (laughing)...
I love the crunch of like the cauliflower on top of the egg and like the
rice there's like so many flavors all at once. Its really, really good. So talented!
I know, yeah she's very good also in Turkey, we don't usually eat rice and eggs together.
Oh nope, in Thailand we eat rice with everything! Everything!
Fun fact, you know what? We love rice so much
that when we want to say if you eat yet, (yeah) we ask Kin Khaw. Kin is eat, Khaw is rice,
so we just say Kin Khaw (eat rice). Eat rice but it means we eat food. So right now, we are Kin Khaw because rice is
with everything it's a big part of our culture.
(Rice is king) That's amazing, rice is king.
So like, we've eaten Thai food plenty before, but never Thai breakfast, its super delicious.
I think we did a really good job in terms of cultural exchange,
because they go to your guys house and now you come to my house!
When we planned our world trip, we watched a bunch of travel videos about the places we wanted to visit.
Tah was a part of one of the channels we found and in 2020 she made a fresh start as a solo traveler.
As soon as Gokce heard that she was coming to Istanbul she messaged Tah to meet up,
and she welcomed the chance to be our guest and discover Turkey and its culture with us.
Of course, your guest is our guest.
Thank you!
You have to (have to)... (laughing)
And then it was back to her place for some more Thai food.
In Thailand what we always have on the side when we have like a main dish is Prik Nam Pla. Prik is chili Nam Pia is fish sauce.
This chili is not spicy as well even Steve can eat it.
Even Steve can eat it! (laughing)
Even the white guy, from America could eat it and not cry. (laughing)
In Thailand, we normally like put like fish sauce into it,
but we don't have this sauce in uh Turkey, so I will put the soy sauce. So, this is like classic
Thai student who live abroad dish (yeah). So, I'm like proudly (yeah) proudly present this to you guys right now.
Is it done?
Its done that's it, see its very simple.
Oh my god look at this.
What about this one? But this one is kind of like people might hate it, or love it, but I want you guys to try.
Choice of pain. I would say very painful.
Okay, I think let's do medium spicy so then Steve can...
No it's cool don't worry about me, I'll cry.
I mean we already order some spicy stuff (I don't mind).
Order rice! Rice is like simit here... (laughing)
Man, but Turkish rice is the best, I swear.
See, a Thai person says Turkish rice is the best.
Can we put this in the video?
Oh yes, please!
Is that the food?
Yes, Thai food!
i can honestly say it smells amazing.
I mean with the mask, I can still have the smell.
I would never like really think of ordering Thai food here.
Girl, so so we have Tom Yum Goong!
If you say like Italian people are proud of pizza, Tom Yum was like what Thai people are proud of.
We have Masaman, yeah, which is curry base coconut base, still soup kind of foo. Then we have Kaow Pad.
Oh my god! (oh that's her favorite) When i work my friend and I, when we feel like oh man like what we should
eat today, we always go for Kaow Pad. It's like lazy comfort food in Thailand among Thai people.
Oh, this one we have to eat quick, oh my god Yum Woon Sen. So, yum is kind of like salad.
For me i'm most excited for you guys to try this one and Kaow Pad, all right (oh my god).
I think it's cool because we kind of like doing cultural exchange here. I feel like I'm being an exchange student right now. (laughing)
This is the real way to experience a different culture you're just like interacting with each other.
Travel is not just about your experience it's about people getting to know you and what you are like as well.
So we have one rice, so... and then I'm Thai, so you can expect that I have rice in my house! (laughing)
Time for us to try!
All right guys try let's do this one first man (this one?). No, this one because it's gonna get cold.
I love glass noodle though.
Glass noodle is so good, glass noodle for life.
So Thai food is about the combination of everything right,
you have a little bit of kaow pad, you have a little bit of curry
you put it together and man, its so good it creates a meze in your mouth, right.
It's not Thai standard, that's why i said we need this.
Oh man, yeah the sauce that she made is like very hot,
but you know odd way, it's like very pleasing.
I should eat, or should i just film or... ? (laughing)
I'm just here for the experience. (laughing)
We should cut Steve out!
Maybe we should start our own channel...
Gokce and Tah (laughing)
So, which one should we try first?
If you try Kaow Pad (okay) try it with rice.
Okay (oh try with rice...), there rice (or) your rice?
Their rice, try their rice first.
There rice... (no?),
(Bon Apetit). There's so much going on in my mouth right now!
So tom yum, is actually Gokce's favorite from New York.
This is pretty good, but the one in New York was much better. honestly (okay)
Try massaman, try.
Spicy?
My favorite is this one
The Kaow Pad is the best! (yeah!)
Lazy food, comfort food, whatever you want to call it.
Yeah that's so good, but the best dish on this table, is the one that Tah made.
It's really interesting, because I get to see Gokce reaction on food and also I get to
see Steve, because they are from different cultural backgrounds so it's really fun for me to see.
Yeah, we need you to also react, how you feel about your own food.
Let me try Kaow Pad with rice.
Dude exactly like Thailand! Let's see massaman.
Massaman we eat with rice. Not creamy enough.... let's do tom yum.
No not at all. Normally tom yum in thailand you need to feel the lemon grass. This one zero,
six out of ten, ten out of ten, nine out of ten.
Oh, nine and ten are pretty impressive.
Now you know what you should order, Yom Woon Sen, Kaow Pad, exactly, and then chop chop some chili.
Yeah, but that one you need Tah for that.
Uh, you need me.
Tah, thank you so much for introducing Thai food to us in Istanbul, so sad that you're leaving.
My goal just like keep traveling keep seeing
the other part of the world, but I feel like for Istanbul, Turkey... for Turkey in general, there is
still like a lot left, so with that being said it means, that I'm gonna come back!
Tah just left, we're about to leave as well, but even though 2020 has been very hard on, us all of
us obviously and we couldn't travel as we were planning to, but traveling is about exploring
new cultures and getting to know what they eat, what they do, and getting familiar with
that as much as just seeing the landscapes. This whole experience with Tah was amazing for us, even
though we couldn't see her lovely country, it was so amazing to try the food and just
understanding her culture. I think we traveled in a different way, thank you so much for everything
Tah, you've been an amazing friend for us and we can't wait to see you somewhere in the world.