Why Thai restaurants are everywhere
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Gastrodiplomacy is exactly what I do every day in my bathroom.
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Fun fact, Pad Thai the dish was created as an answer to WWII and floods in the 1930s in order to minimize rice consumption. It has since become a national dish and is beloved world wide.
Similar story with instant Ramen. It was invented after ww2 when Japan couldn't farm because of nuclear fallout so they had to import wheat from the US as grain. Instant Ramen was the only thing close to Japanese that they could come up with that was based on Wheat as every other solution tasted horrible
Isn't pad Thai Noodle, rice noodle????
It may be a national dish. However try phad krapao instead. It's more common than pad Thai. I kinda hate to say it but phad Thai is something Thais don't eat often.
@@vanadium1603Japan did experience a nuclear fallout in ww2.
(Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have had one but not the entirety of Japan)
I had no idea this is really cool!!
America: spends billions on military might
Thailand: here is some delicious food
To be fair a big bowl of grits isn't going to get me to go to America.
Maybe the smokehouse BBQ, but that's about it.
Burgers are all around the world and a lot of american innovations
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Theres probably some serious connections between mcdonalds and some greasier politicians.
American chains are all over the world, many dominate local markets.
We spend Billions to prop up countries we trade with.
This is the type of diplomacy I want to see in the world.
right?
Too bad it's coming from a military dictatorship of a country.
We have a McDonalds and Starbucks in every country.
Matpat did this a few years ago bruv
Britain would have been absolutely neglected lmao
The shock of seeing a Thai place I know on the B-roll footage almost killed me lmao
He knows where you live
Same here
@@cursedcat6467👴🏻👉🏻⛓️👴🏿⛓️😵
That's how countries should spread their influence instead of wars 😢
I'm not mad about this. That mango rice dessert is crazy good.
Do you mean mango sticky rice?
It’s the absolute best
@@MurtadZ86they said they weren’t mad
Mango sticky rice is indeed heavenly
There are actually three base restaurant “styles” that Thai restaurant owners must choose from, ranging from casual to upscale. Everything from the menus down to the decor in the restaurant. The Thai government also routinely audits restaurants for adherence to the proper protocols, food quality etc. So if you ever wonder why Thai food is shockingly consistent at restaurants regardless of the city or country, that’s why!
You are absolutely correct. Many people don't know this.
Wow! That's really awesome. Global quality control. That's so cool.
Sounds like they’re just franchising a business as a country and using their citizens as employees
But what Johnny is saying is blatantly false. Thai restaurants have been loved and enjoyed in the United States (at least on the west coast) since the 1980’s and Phad Thai just so happens to be really good. Especially with peanut 🥜 sauce 😋
The Thai government isn’t behind this! The United States is a melting pot and we know good food when we try it.
@@howto1537 sorry, you’re wrong :) the Global Thai program is well documented and is a real thing. No one is saying Thai restaurants didn’t exist prior to the program, just that it increased the number by providing stimulus funds and startup logistics for new restaurants.
It worked. I love Thai food and want to go to Thailand!
Ya come it's good I don't regret moving here one bit.
Delicious 🤤
It's not actually that great, but it's ok. I lived there for a bit for work. Imho, there are much better cuisines from other countries, but everyone has different tastes.
Their snacks are definitely subpar.
But it's always nice to travel and experience things in other countries.
Welcome bruv eat lots of food before you left ok?
weird, id still go to Thailand for some other cheap things
This happened in Australia too starting around 2002 and I always wondered why! Every town and suburb used to have at least one token Chinese restaurant going all the way back to the early 80s, and then Thai (specifically serving up pad thai and roti) slowly started taking their place. Then Japan came knocking, then Malay & Korean, and now the barn door is wide open. Mystery solved!
He gave no evidence or sources. While
this did happen, it was picked up by major news outlets nearly a year ago, that’s the only reason he’s covering it. I was under the impression this guy cared about the content he made, but he’s just pumping out no-brain nonsense like almost every other creator today
@@geese5170 what an odd take
@@vanilla-plus he’s an independent journalist. I had to independently research to find if what he said in the video is even true or not. He’s failing at his job, or lending too much to the imagination as a journalist
@@geese5170 it's a RUclips short, you're not supposed to get peer reviewed white papers.
It's very smart in Thai food some of the most delicious food in the world and there's such cool different regional varieties in Thailand. I was lucky enough to live in Chiang Mai Thailand for about 3 years so I got a chance to travel around and experience the incredible foods of Thailand
Did you get to ride an elephant when you lived there? Or is that only for the tourist
thai food ia good but its definitely not some of the best asian cuisine imo since its mainly just street food.
south korean cuisine is where its at if you want more then one side dish.
@@adaml2932 No, it's pretty rare, actually. That's like saying everyone in the UK speaks in BBC accents.
@@adaml2932you can ride them if you want, I've never been and i live in chiangmai like the op but both the tiger place and elephant place are more for tourists and I am suspicious of how well the animals are treated. The elephant sanctuaries are apparently pretty good though.
@@notjimpickens7928 I agree that Thai food is just okay.
I lived in Thailand for work for a bit, but I actually preferred some of the Indian food there.
Their seafood salad, mango sticky rice, and tom yum were cheap and decent, but I hated the smell of fermented fish sauce (smells kinda like a dairy farm mixed with wet dog and dirty socks), and it took a few weeks for my nose to get desensitized. I took a bite of a mango snack from 711 and am forever haunted by the taste... I can't think about it without feeling sick. There are a lot of snacks that I think a lot of Americans would find gross.
But it is cool that Thailand's government supported and invested in their people's restaurants abroad. Good way to promote their country and get people to have a favorable view of them.
Thailand is a good country regardless of anything. I am glad I lived there and I will do it again in the future.
Maybe unless you need to work and make $$$ there. Not saying specifically about Thailand just many tourists hotspots looks good until….
nah I am learning Japanese, but i would love to take a japanese girl to thailand, the place is just chill. The funny thing is every city is good because they are very different. Phuket is completely different to Bangkok when it comes down to life. @@johnl.7754
We all know why you went to Thailand
@@TheAlchemist1089 feel free to assume, I could not care less
@@TheAlchemist1089 lol. If it's a guy, it's very clear. Very few men go there with pure intentions.
And it worked!!! I visited Thailand and loved it. Beautiful nice country. So far Thailand is my favorite country that visited so far.
What city or cities did you go to? Anything you’d recommend doing or check out while there?
@@MehulPatelLXC Chiang Mai, Bangkok, and Ko Tao Island. Truly recommend hiking and trying local street food for sure. Once there you'll have endless activities, don't forget to take a cooking class which is so much fun and delicious Thai cuisine you'll taste after.
China: Panda diplomacy
Japan: Anime diplomacy
Thailand: Food diplomacy
What next 😂
Israel: Hollywood diplomacy
Indonesia: Language diplomacy (?)
Pakistan: Mango diplomacy
India: *Rice Diplomacy* 🇮🇳❤❤
USA: sponsoring coups and invasion diplomacy 💀
It also worked in making Thai food prolific globally compared to their other SEA neighbours with equally rich cuisines like Indonesia and Malaysia. Ask most people especially in the West and odds are they know what Thai food is generally like but not many can name Indonesian and Malaysian food.
Makes sense, there's at least three thai restaurants that show up on my menulog, and I live in an in-between suburb (which means inbetween two clusters of suburbs). The fact that I've got reach to more than three within the coast area I live, in Australia, is wild.
There's literally always one in every food court. It's insane, and it tastes goooood
Ireland achieved this without government sponsored programs with Irish pubs everywhere.
In the US? Where in the US?
Yeah and the Irish pub fights too
This has probably brought in Billions in tourism to Thailand
And let's be fair, this also heads off one of the biggest issues with tourists: if the food isn't familiar they either refuse to eat it and instead spend their money on McDonald's, or they try it and complain the whole time.
That’s actually a good way to introduce your culture. Through food. Very smart and delicious ❤
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Wait... so wtf does the fact that OJ filmed a commercial for Hertz that featured him running through an airport have to do with him murdering his ex-wife and her friend in 1994?!?
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This soft power play introduced a lot of people to thai cuisine and I am so glad they did.
That’s the most genius thing I’ve ever heard
Thank you, Thailand. You have an amazing food!
The first time this phenomenon struck me is in 2016. I was visiting family in the tiny Alaskan village of Delta Junction (population around 900), and there was a Thai restaurant in town! I was not expecting to have delicious Thai food in the middle of Alaska!
I miss the Thia restaurant my town had. It had good food but a bad business manager. Also property taxes are too high in this city of 20k people.
My sister brought me to eat the best pad tai in Roi et Thailand. It was amazing. Haven't yet found any Thai restaurants in Sweden that make it that good
We’ve got a whole bunch in Australia too, well it depends on your area but my specific area has a lot oddly for an area not a state capital
Imagine China did the same program. You would f loose your mind. And the tone of this short would be much different
No. Its not only in US but also here so many in indonesia too, and the chefs surprisingly are native thailand
With Their restaurants and Muay thai kickboxing, Thailand has a huge cultural reach for their size
they must have done the same with massage parlors, because they are everywhere
The US does gastrodiplomacy with the likes of McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut…kinda worked too.
I love how everyone is just agreeing with this entire plan. Pad Thai is ridiculously good
It’s actually called soft power, Korea does the same with KPop and its beauty industry
That explains why they've a lot of Thai restaurants and shop on Vicar Lane in Leeds, UK.
I see many Thai massage places instead.
What do you call this, Masseusediplomacy?
Jet Tila, a popular Thai chef is well known. He worked for the Thai government in the US helping Thai chefs train & open restaurants. He was also "quality control" for the embassy. He would check on the quality of the food offered in an attempt to keep up their good image. I remember learning this years ago
On behalf of my fellow Canadians thank you Thailand. Y'all literally the best chefs with the best food.
I agree with you
Meanwhile Japan uses girls with hair color of a whole spectrum
No one gonna mention how Italy do this before?
I guess nobody interested.
I thought gastro-diplomacy was when you decide to abort a Dutch oven
Great way to increase its soft power. India should do the same.
I’ve never had Thai food and have lived in the US my whole life lmao
May I invite you to Thailand to experience this awesomeness
Interesting one of my favorite restaurants with this Thai restaurant after 45 years they finally retired and closed it down late last year. It was so good the best Thai food ever the old elderly couple wanted to retire though it was too sad as well. It’s been there since the 80s.
Most of my family is Lao, but my older cousins own a Thai restaurant in the greater SF area. Thai cuisine is much more well-renown than Lao cuisine.
What's the place called?
I wish all countries do this kind of diplomacy rather than the shooty bang bang thingy
Same thing with Chinese food too. I am thankful for it! Nom nom
I, for one, am simply grateful that the Thai people have chosen to bestow such deliciousness on my country. Because Thai food is just AMAZING.
Did you find this out from Matpat Food theory?
I am very thankful to Thailand for going out of their way to share their wonderful food with the world! If only more countries tried this!
Try a good thai curry if you haven't already.
My family took me to Thai restaurant in the early 90s in a suburb of Atlanta. Massaman was my favorite dish. But we could not find such exotic options in Milwaukee. Thai food has been with us for decades in our big cities.
I live in a neighbouring country and our idea of signature Thai food is tom yum, always. Pad Thai to me is just kuey teow with a sprinkling of crushed peanuts.
I just hope the uk wont do the same
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Aaaaand... Let's not mention Pad Thai became the national dish because of fervent nationalism aimed at successful Chinese Thais. Though they got great long last names from it all....
I already knew this Lfg 🎉
Please stop using other peoples work and manipulating facts for videos in 2024
Good to know I'm not the only one who'd seen this covered before. Sam from Wendover also made a video about this, after the press had already reported on it.
@JavisVersion he was great at Vox but started falsifying information not long after
Colombia needs to do this
They want American money
Kind of a sick play tbh
Same in Ireland.
And its working!
There are a row of resteraunts in dublin city from Asia and Eastern Europe with an open front for diners.
You can order from your phone to your table from any of those resteraunts!
Looks like it worked
Swedish meatballs
I love thai food 💜
Original Thai food is much more spicy. Take a famous Som Tam - Thai Papaya salad in its original version.
personally, i love thai food and i always have. i was born in 2002 so it seems fitting, but as long as i can remember the delicacies of thailand have always been a staple of any celebration in my family 😊 thank you thailand for the amazing food and culture you've given the world
Most of these Thai restaurants aint even owned by Thai people and if you find one Thai restaurant that is owned by Thai people, they dont even know such a program exists 😂
Thai food is alright. Not good or bad. Other cultures don’t need to do that… their food is so good on their own that people naturally eat there… unlike this forced Thai bs.
im half sure a big reason is also ethnic minorities didnt have that many job options initially, resorting to opening ethnic food restaurants for jobs
Funny enough many of my favorite thai restaurants are not owned by thai people but often lao or cambodian families.
Because they are delicious!
Yeah we have a Thai place in my town of 5000 and I’ve always wondered why. I’m grateful for it but it seems out of place. 😂
Exporting food is far more civilized than exporting. . . . Freedom
Stick to this kind of stuff your opinion on guns is just..... well stick with non gun topics
I love Thailand. Do you know China's military and intelligence efforts against Thailand?
In my town there’s two restaurants that are literally named like Rice by Mama 1 and Rice by Mama 2 😂
They should have spread a total legalisation of pot globally, before they freaked out and withdrew it.
Green thai curry, Extra hot, Eith chicken and white rice! One of my all time favorite dishes, Always smacks
That also explains why Thai food is the best Asian food, they were trained lol
Better to use food for your diplomacy than millions of refugees
watchout, the wokies will cancel you for appropriating 😂
nepal did this in finland
So cool! This makes every Tom Yum Veg that much more meaningful
America has done the same thing, only with opposite effect
As an Iranian who lives in Thailand, this shit is cool
This guy has clearly never been to a thai restaurant
Thai beef salad is the national Thai dish. Thai beef salad is a godly dish. The only dish i would order at Thai restaurants.
lol this turns “cultural appropriation” on its ear.
Cultural pluralism
WHY?! I think someone should take a deep dive into why they are doing this. I mean, saying anything bad against one of them is extremely illegal and strongly punished. Is it merely a way to increase Tourism, is money sent back to Thailand, are they trying to export Thais, are they wanting to have an excuse to have their people all over for seeking forbidden information, or is there something else? Based on my experience, most of these restaurants can't be out of the red. They are usually not busy enough to cover rent. Maybe they would be in the black if they owned the building?
I will say more people are familiar with Thailand than some of their other neighbors.
I like how some countries just have their own unique way of diplomacy and spreading their culture.
You have this, and then the finish sauna diplomacy, and then you have it. The Norwegian way of spreading socialist workers rights through the stock market.
For those that don’t know: in Finland, there is a law that all official buildings need a sauna and this also applies to finish buildings abroad so a lot of diplomacy between Finland and other nations is done in saunas. under Norwegian influence. As you read this.
And Norway uses the stock market in order to force foreign companies to make decisions that favour improved workers rights. so some companies that you thought were purely American might be under Norwegian influence as you read this
It was a form of soft power to create presence in international stage. Thailand gets their diplomacy power from mainly tourism and rice trade. Having the country’s food everywhere around the world promotes both.
Hmm, not disagreeing with this, but just saying when I moved to PGH in 1994 there were Thai restaurants everywhere and Pad Thai was definitely listed as the national dish. And when I did my internship in Hollywood in ‘95 and the studio peeps would take me out for Thai and I would order Pad Thai, they would just roll their eyes about how gauche I was and how Pad Thai was so passé. 🤷 So the Thai government may have launched a program in 2002 but a plethora of Thai restaurants and the idea of Pad Thai as a “National Dish” has been around a lot longer than that, at least in the US.
The only time I dared to try thai food was with my work buddies because they said that they had not put spices on it. When tried it it was super bland and I did not like it at all. I didn’t know what any of the spices on the table was either so I couldn’t make it taste any better.
I’m autistic and I don’t like spices, not even black pepper.
Johnny Harris's reason for so many Thai restaurants in the US is fanciful, and even sensationsl. Perhaps, as he claimed, the Thai government had succeeded with their program to train armies of Thai chefs, but leave it the Chinese, who "smelled" an opportunity. By "following their collective nose," the Chinese were led to open and own AaLL the "Thai" restaurants in NYC. 😮
And who do you think owns and operates ALL the "Japanese" restaurants in NYC? Give yourself a Kewpie Doll if you said the Chinese. 😱🤣🤪
Note to Johnny: Never underestimate the entrepreneurship and desire of the Chinese to make a buck, or a Yuan.😝😝😝
As a man who loves almost all foods, from everywhere in most every form ... they say the way to a mans heart is through his stomach.. I can vouch for that. Nothing is quite so comforting as a belly full of good quality, good tasting food. Allah loves wonderous variety. Cheers, namaste, amen, etc.
I tell you what thai stick bud is pretty sweet too and I rarely smoke but they nailed that also.
Um, you could also say that there are so many McDonald's, Starbucks, KFC (even pop eyes are starting) in China. American brands are doing the exact same thing I guess and Russia misses this so much that they are making fake brands like "Vkusna i Toshka(fake Macaas)" just to curb the nostalgia of losing these brands.
In China at least in Shanghai, you could go to Walmart, Cheesecake factory, Costco, Disneyland etc (Beijing also has Universal studios). Although I believe the Chinese government officials will probably avoid using iPhones and Teslas for national security purposes.
I’m not mad about that Thai food being everywhere