Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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If you come to Thailand and want traditional cuisine, there's no shortage of options. But if you want to eat like the locals- you go for Moo Kratha. It's the dish of the new generation, with restaurants all across the country jam-packed every night with young people. The dish itself is basically a combination of Chinese Hot Pot and Korean Barbecue- slapped together onto the same grill pan. But the thing about those connections is they seem obvious, but nobody really knows for sure- or beyond that, how it even happened. So today we're on the trail of Moo Kratha, testing out the theories and chasing its origins and- somehow- actually finding answers.

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0:00 - Introduction
1:13 - Soft Power
4:05 - Questions
5:19 - History and Connections
8:42 - Hot Pot
11:17 - Flaws in the Theory
12:24 - The Grill
13:47 - Genghis Khan
16:01 - Zhi Zi Khao Rou
17:54 - Korean Barbecue
20:50 - Puzzle Pieces
21:55 - Bangkok, 1970
24:23 - The Birth of Moo Kratha
26:22 - Memories
27:35 - The Old Taste
29:59 - Advances
31:56 - Past and Future
35:06 - Soju

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