Uncle Roger
live in America
for work now.
But British cooking,
just like
my ex-wife
child support.
It continue
to haunt me.
Haiyaa.
Last time,
this British talk show, This Morning,
they destroy pho.
And recently,
on that
same show,
they making
Thai green curry.
Oh no!
In the kitchen to help spice things up.
You're making a Thai green curry, a very special...
This chef is
Niece Clodagh.
She very nice person,
but every time she cook Asian food,
she strike fear into Uncle Roger heart.
Special.
So, last week I was in Thailand.
And...
She go to Thailand to learn?
Island called Koh Yao Noi.
Maybe this good?
I've always wanted to go to Thailand, you know.
It's so beautiful.
What she doing?
I've always wanted to go.
So did I.
Are you giving birth or something?
Oh my God, look at me.
I'm in the kitchen of this beautiful,
lovely local lady called Mina.
In those islands in Thailand,
they're all beautiful family local restaurants.
No, no.
Don't go to Thailand and open your leg.
Haiyaa.
Enough people do that already.
I'm making...
I'm grating coconut.
That's how they used to grate their coconut.
-Wow. -Like that.
And it's really actually,
I wanted to go on...
Okay, got flat bottom wok,
got pestle and mortar.
Good start,
but Uncle Roger
don't want to get my hope up too high.
Relaxing because you're in that lovely kind of Zen pose
and you're very relaxed and...
Very therapeutic.
It feels really therapeutic.
Just slow that down
-and put in some nice music. -I love it.
Stop.
This the first time Uncle Roger see three grown women
get impressed by coconut.
If only my ex-wife this easily impress.
But maybe I can impress Auntie Helen
with my new studio background.
Fuiyoh!
Niece and nephew, what you think?
What you think?
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This called Chinese ink wash painting.
Uncle Roger show you properly.
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Uncle Roger love this plushie.
The quality so good, so nice and soft.
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-You don't need to use any oil. -Okay.
Melt coconut cream.
Good first step.
Cream is your oil.
Correct, cream your oil.
That melt away.
While that's melting,
I'm gonna show how to make the green paste.
Wait.
That is the heart of the whole...
Wait, what?
You kinda put coconut milk in hot wok
while you make the paste?
Making green curry paste take half an hour.
By the time you done,
the coconut cream
gonna be all burn to shit.
Haiyaa.
You can of course buy them,
but the difference,
it just makes it
from like a delicious green curry
with a nice paste in it
to oh my God,
this is what it tastes like.
Yeah, so fresh and aromatic.
So fresh and aromatic.
So in there we've got...
White people,
the only people to call Asian food
fresh and aromatic.
So fresh and aromatic.
So in there we've got red chili,
green chili, galangal.
Wait, wait...
But it look like wrong chili.
That look like some jalapeño or green bell pepper.
You have to use
Thai bird eye chili in this, Clodagh.
Galangal,
which if you taste it...
We were just discussing it with you.
You were saying it smells like lychee.
Smells like lychee,
but it packs a punch.
And it looks like ginger.
-And it looks like ginger. -Yeah.
But it actually tastes...
Don't taste it like...
No, I won't.
No, don't eat galangal straight.
Uncle Roger tried that in my green curry video.
Almost throw up.
Tastes like horseradish.
So she was telling me,
-Mina was telling me, -Horseradish.
a good alternative for the galangal is horseradish.
Maybe horseradish got the same spicy, earthy taste,
but Uncle Roger will only use horseradish
if I desperate.
Horseradish is like the tinder of ingredient.
And I immediately would have thought ginger,
but it's not.
-And then we have lemongrass. -Nope.
Which is, I mean, the essence...
Lemongrass, correct.
Oh, I love lemongrass.
We've got garlic and shallots.
Garlic, correct.
Shallot, good.
They always use shallots and not onions
in Thai cooking.
Is that right?
Because they're so much sweeter.
No, it because onion for poor people.
Don't use it.
You want to use onion.
Go make your pasta sauce.
Don't bring anywhere near Asian food.
And then this is kaffir.
Good, good.
Kaffir, good.
So a lot of people would know the kaffir lime leaf.
And then you want something green, which is spinach.
Wait, wait...
What, what?
What did she say?
And then you want something green,
which is spinach.
Spinach for green curry.
Uncle Roger so upset.
I have to put my leg down from chair.
Haiyaa.
Spinach for Thai green curry.
Who wants spinach in your curry?
You need something green, correct.
But the green in green curry come from green chili.
Not spinach.
You're not making smoothie.
What the hell?
By the way, this very good paused image.
Wonder what she doing.
Take a look.
Uncle Roger never see woman make before.
Sorry, back on track.
Spinach, just...
You can't put spinach in pestle and mortar.
Spinach so much water.
It gonna be thick sludge when you pound.
Haiyaa.
Going to be slimy and wet.
Who teach you how to make green curry?
Uncle Roger can guarantee that Thai auntie
never ask you to use spinach.
She said, okay, so when you're testing your green leaf
that you're putting in,
because you put it in for the color,
you just rub it on your board.
Yeah.
And if it comes out,
if it makes a green mark,
you can use it in your green curry.
Oh wow.
Which was really clever.
What the logic?
If you rub anything green hard enough,
it gonna leave green mark.
So how are you gonna make your Thai green curry?
What else you wanna put in there?
Put grasshopper,
dirty diaper,
a frog.
I was like,
okay, that's totally making sense.
So then what you can put this...
Oh no. No.
You just dump everything in there.
Pestle and mortar,
there an order to it.
You start with hard ingredient,
like the spices, like the salt.
Oh yeah, by the way, where the spice?
Where the salt?
She not using any of it?
You have to use hard ingredient first,
then soft ingredient.
Because hard ingredient can give you friction
to pound soft ingredient properly.
This only pounding where you can go hard to soft.
It the opposite of regular pounding.
So then what you can put this all in a food processor,
or if you have a big pestle and mortar,
do it in a pestle and mortar.
She did it in a pestle and mortar.
Good.
I mean, I think it doesn't make a huge difference
whether you do it like this or this.
I like to...
What?
I think it doesn't make a huge difference
whether you do it like this...
What she say?
Food processor and pestle and mortar
don't make difference?
What this?
What drug this woman on?
They completely different.
Please call that...
If the Thai auntie watching this,
you're gonna be banned from Thailand.
Haiyaa.
Huge difference whether you do it like this or this.
I like doing it like this.
That grinding.
That not pounding.
It's quite nice.
It's therapeutic, isn't it?
-Like... -Yeah.
No, no.
Proper pounding
not supposed to be therapeutic.
Proper pounding supposed to make you
full of hate and violence.
Early in this video,
you can see that Thai auntie pounding properly.
Why don't you learn that technique?
And then you grind that down
until it becomes looking like this.
And then this goes over here.
I got one of those.
Good to own one*.
Yeah.
Yeah, I do actually.
So you put it, put two table...
Oh, that don't look like green curry paste.
This salsa.
Where the coriander root?
And where the shrimp paste?
The most important green curry ingredient.
Or a little bit extra* in there.
So maybe less than that one.
Two tablespoons of the green curry paste
into the cream.
And then you want to get that really intense
in color and flavor.
And then the next thing.
It don't look intense or flavorful.
It looked like Shrek cum.
It's the spice that goes in here.
And the spice she told me.
Oh, now the spice go in.
And Thai.
It too late.
When introduced in the last like 20 years or so.
This cumin, coriander, and black pepper seeds.
Cumin, coriander, black pepper, correct.
And then you just want a half a teaspoon of this.
That not right time to put it in.
And then you put in the coconut milk.
No, no...
Not yet.
And then you put in your coconut...
No, you have to saute curry paste a bit more.
Get rid of raw garlic, raw shallot smell.
Uncle Roger don't even hear any sizzling.
Is this pan even turned on?
Or is it frigid like my ex-wife?
So delicious.
It's good, isn't it?
How much coconut milk you pouring?
She didn't teach me actually.
You're making cereal, is it?
Look at that.
That too much coconut milk.
And when I've been a chef for 24 years,
and I never knew how to do it.
Do you know what's so nice about it?
It's not like spicy.
It's like aromatic and flavorsome,
but it's not like...
Because sometimes you eat a Thai curry,
and it's so powerful.
You can't taste anything.
But this is like, I can taste every layer of flavor.
What layer?
It's just spinach and coconut milk.
What layer?
It's not like spicy.
It's like aromatic and flavorsome,
but it's cause sometimes you eat a Thai curry
and it's so powerful.
You can't taste anything.
And that's the whitest conversation ever
about green curry.
That's interesting.
That's exactly what I said to my husband Harry
when I was in Thailand.
I was like, I don't like it too spicy
-because then you can't taste anything else. -Yeah.
Green curry is supposed to be spicy.
Vegetables.
So I've got aubergines.
Eggplant.
Chop it. You could...
Thai eggplant better.
But at this point,
nothing can save this.
I love an aubergine.
You love an aubergine.
And then the peas go in here.
Gosh.
Why this show so many dick joke?
Uncle Roger trying to run family-friendly channel.
Haiyaa.
I know, I know.
I just talk about Shrek jizz.
But Shrek jizz is family-friendly
because Shrek is children show.
Logic check up*.
Oh gosh.
You're going to get murdered for that.
That's not the only murder happening in this video.
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I love an aubergine.
You love an aubergine.
Gosh.
Laughing about aubergine,
laughing about eggplant.
Uncle Roger actually quite envious.
The food so shit,
but they so happy.
Okay.
Aubergine and peas.
Okay.
Pea, pea wrong.
Look how disgusting pea look in there.
And then I'm putting in,
I let that cook for a couple of minutes,
and then I'm putting in the prawns.
Another thing that...
Prawn, okay.
Oh, I know she's watching.
She's going to be like,
I hope she remembers to tell everybody this.
Don't stir the curry too much.
Oh really?
Really?
Why?
Because she was saying
it was so...
It was so common sense.
Uncle Roger think you can stir a little bit?
Stir too much.
You're going to let too much aromas out of it.
You want to keep it all in.
And she was like,
keep all the flavors within the curry.
So if you stir too much, the flavor disappear.
If that the case,
Niece Clodagh, stir all you want
because there are no flavor in there at all.
And then the last thing I'm putting in then
is the kaffir lime leaf.
Okay, kaffir lime leaf.
Okay.
Tear it and then smell it.
I'm smelling...
Looks like a baby.
Oh, here it is...
Tear it.
Isn't that the essence of Thailand?
Uncle Roger love how Thailand,
a whole country
can be condensed down to one leaf.
Oh my God.
And then put in, I've got lovely Thai basil.
Thai basil, correct.
But you could use normal basil,
like some of these...
No, no...
You can't use normal basil.
Oh, that's for Italian food.
Some of these things aren't that easy to get.
I think you can order pretty much anything online.
Exactly.
What?
Some of these things aren't that easy to get.
I think you can order pretty much anything online.
She say it hard to get,
but then she say you can get everything online.
So which one is it?
Is it hard to get,
or is it easy to get?
The more she talk,
the more crime she committing.
Is she like the Sam Bankman-Fried of Cooking?
And do you know what as well,
which we're kind of surprised about,
the supermarkets do these packs,
which is a whole Thai pack you can get there.
You can get Thai basil now in every supermarket.
But yeah, you're like that.
If you...
Wait, wait, is she plating already?
No, no, where the fish sauce?
Where the palm sugar?
Haiyaa.
Serving it with white rice.
Metal spoon and nonstick wok.
The only thing that takes...
And that just look like, eww.
That curry don't look good.
It like spinach soup.
That what it look like.
The only thing that takes time is the paste.
And you want that last in the fridge for about a month.
A month?
Now she giving dangerous advice.
Green curry paste got raw garlic, raw shallot.
It gonna turn black quite fast.
And Niece Clodagh,
your curry paste got so much spinach.
It gonna just start wilting and getting gooey.
Three day maximum.
Three day.
-Serve it with white rice. -Thank you very much.
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British TV cooking always make our ancestor cry.
You go all the way to Thailand
and that what you learn?
Uncle Roger feel bad, you know?
Because Niece Clodagh,
you wonderful chef when it come to Western food.
But this green curry as bad as your pho last time.
Uncle Roger sad now.
Need to go get some proper green curry here in LA.
I need to wipe this memory from my brain.
And we followed her down this road,
then down this dirt track.
Little moped.
Chickens were everywhere.
What are you on, gap year or something?
Cook this. Then, she came...
Put that in blooper.
No.
It not intense or flavorful.
It look more like Shrek cum.
I know I just talk about Shrek jizz,
but you know I still try my best.
I know I just talk about Shrek jizz.
But Shrek jizz is family-friendly
because Shrek is children TV show.
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because this wallpaper back here,
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My whole team and I
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This feels smoother than my own skin.
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He gets to come out of his little cup.
Ah, how cute is that?
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