Thanks so much for watching! This is obviously a special one to us. But along with all of our own history and stories there were some pretty amazing places in this video, so here are the pins: Fried Banana Rama 5: goo.gl/maps/Vdg3WCX6msRNvCgi9 Kaolao Muang Non: goo.gl/maps/ZyWeJUAwKyHUxxY77 Nonthaburi Market: goo.gl/maps/prQvZg71UdLvJiev8 Cook & Coff Bang Kwang: goo.gl/maps/TTdh8Rtq2wiyHhJK8 New York Diner: goo.gl/maps/FMCfYBQe7rWHNoqG6 Queen of Boat Noodles: goo.gl/maps/BcL3Xn8WzUqCcZ8b8
In an oversaturated market of farangs doing food vlogs in Thailand, OTR has raised the bar so high. You're creating Bourdain-eque content with a bare bones crew and should be super proud of what you've created here!
As one of the first 10 subscribers to this channel,Adam and I knew each other in China.....I feel pretty lucky to get to see my long time friend appear here every week. It’s amazing how you show all about how the foods of the area have evolved and morphed from the early days to current iterations . You have come a long way from that first time we met at Kros Nest, you having filled shoes that weren’t really full to begin with......to now a successful food historian and blogger on a world stage. It’s been a great year OTR team.....and I’m anxious to see what the next year holds.....be well Marlboro Man !
I remember when I opened my first restaurant in Beijing and in those first days, I never knew if we'd make any money, but I knew that I could count on two people (Frank and Liz, not that it matters, but just for the record) who would always swing by for a beer and a snack on their walk home from work. That was all. So at least we had a purpose in opening- we had our guaranteed two customers, and that was good enough to keep us doing the work, and eventually, more people found us, and the place ended up taking off. It was the same with this channel, even when it felt like we were shouting into the void, I knew when we'd upload a video in those first days that I could count on you and Terry Crossman (another old friend from the glory days in Beijing) to watch and comment and enjoy what we were doing. That kept us going, and I'm not exaggerating. Thanks for all your support and can't wait to catch up, either stateside or hopefully over here.
For the quality of videos (themes, effort, editing, high quality audio and visuals, personalities) you are posting you are not getting enough subscribers/views and you are too underrated. Glad I have found you months ago and I utterly enjoy every video each time. Thank you and be proud, regards from Germany. 🥰
That explains why your channel has a familiar "twang" to it. Didn't know you were a journalist. That's why the way you form a story and your investigation skill is of another level. Kudos to you man. Otr has been consistently my favorite in the past 2 months.
OTR you guys are my favorite channel on Thailand. The story telling, the editing, the camera works, and that great voice of telling the story with the perfect diction makes this channel great. As someone who stays in Thailand for many years, always wanted to do this kind of channel, but im not half as good as you guys... Good luck and wishing you many more interesting stories and videos!
Im so glad that this video popped into my recommends. Im a Nonthaburi native and the amount of love and respect you showed to to the place is really endearing. It really is a wonderful place.
The background story that made you relocate to Thailand is kind of sad, but on the other side, I’m glad that you relocated to Thailand so that we can watch this amazing channel about Thai food and many things that even the Thais do not know.
Happy Anniversary to OTR! 🥳🍾🙌 Appreciate you introducing everyone behind the channel. Your background in journalism explains a lot, glad you’ve found the right posse to make it work even after the first hiccup with the professional team. It’s also very obvious that you’re passionate about food, your reaction to the curry paste signify pure joy and there’s nothing greater than that. You’re doing great in Thailand but I hope someday you’ll be able to go back to China and realize your old dream of writing about Chinese food as some sort of a closure if anything. And of course if you’re ever in town here in Indonesia I’ll gladly be your guide. Here’s to many more delicious stories in the future! 🥂
I just realized that so many China based youtubers actually relocated to Thailand because of China changed policies toward foreigners. I am glad that Thailand can accommodate you well and I hope our immigration policy can be changed for the better.
I love telling people about your videos. Every one of them is not just about the food, not just about the history, but an actual love letter to the people and the country of Thailand. From the first video of your team that I saw, I was fascinated. In parts, beautiful, funny, historic, thought provoking and deeply touching, your series is unlike any other I have seen. I can only hope that you inspire other content creators to find inspiration in their own communities, to reach across boundaries and borders, and to share the beauty and joy in something so aspirational and yet so humble as food. Cheers to your anniversary, and here’s to many more years! 🥂🎉
Truely spoken, being a new RUclips expat in Thailand, I feel the challenges as well. The content you guys create are unique and OTR is one of my favorite channel which I never get bored watching. Keep up the good work, would love to support in any way possible. Kudos
Been watching most of your videos in the last two weeks. I was in Thailand for travel but not in Bangkok and I´m already looking for flights to come back asap! And one of the craziest things is to me is Jasper. I don´t know how you found such a cool guy who is this good with video, but especially: who speaks English this well as a Thai! Keep up the good work and I can´t wait for the next videos!
WOWWOWOW! What a story! This is tying it all together. What a crazy story! Poor Daria! But; I love; "....after this whole War and Peace story, it's 'we love food!' " And, then, what a great story within the story; the "Bangkok Hilton" prisoners working at restaurants! With your combination of skills and experiance, it's like you-all were destined for this, turning an awful situation into this great channel! Perhaps, on the other side of the "The Veil," A.B. is smiling and nodding in approval. (+ the whole Jasper, production story is great!)
Thank you for doing this channel , I enjoyed it so much, i am a big fan of Anthony Bourdain and you reminded me to him the way you tell your story its just special. ❤
I stumbled on this channel 2 weekends ago and have been consuming a steady diet of 3-5 videos a day. Your videos hit the story-telling sweet spot for me between food, people, and history. This one about how you got started just made me smile because it is exactly in the spirit of one of your chefs explaining the origin and ingredients of a recipe. As a cook I am inspired to try my hand at these dishes, knowing how they came to be by the people trying to make something beautiful with what they had. Jaspar, Daria, and Adam -- thank you for all that you've done with this channel so far. I very much look forward to seeing how you refine and hone the OTR recipe.
For the amount of work, research and overall theme, this channel has been an amazing one to watch and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos. I thought I knew about food in the region until I came across this channel. Congratulations guys and looking forward to more videos from the team!
Congratulations on a great first year! Love watching your videos. Can't wait to get back to Thailand to try some of the foods I've been drooling over while watching your videos. Will increase my Patreon amount and hope that others will too. Best wishes for a successful second year!
Your 40K+ subscribers does not do justice to the quality or the content of your work. Your long form content is really the best of all the channels I subscribe to while being unlike anything else I watch here on RUclips. Keep up the wonderful work.
Just want to say awesome job to Adam and the team. Although I have been living in the Southeast US for the past 16 years, I was born and raised in Thailand until I was a teenager. Your coverage of some Bangkok neighborhoods really brought back a ton of good memories. My family, on my father's side, is Chinese. They have a small house near Chao Phraya and an old residence of a Queen which is now a museum (also near the area where they shot the famous chase scene in Tomorrow Never Dies). It is very nice to see someone giving the old town a spotlight. When I found your channel, I couldn't believe some of the places I used to frequent as a kid have gotten so popular. There are a lot of things, I think, that many travelers don't know about Bangkok cuisine (E.g. the fact that it is a large melting pot of many different cultures that settled there in the past hundreds of years), and I really appreciate OTR for covering this and other aspects of Thai cuisine in general. Anyway, I wanted to keep this short but I love the channel. Keep up the good work.
This episode of OTR came really close to my home, the school on the right at 26:54 is probably 2 km from my home. But the best part is the New York Diner that you guys went to have breakfast, I never knew that existed until the day this video is uploaded. I tried going there today, the owner is super nice and remembers you guys, also the food there is delicious and reasonable price. Thank you so much to OTR for filming this video and introducing me to this amazing cook shop near my home.
You make the best food documentaries on RUclips, the combination of history truly makes it fascinating for me. Now I know your journalist background it makes for more sense, I was going to say you are a natural, but not really as you honed this skill early on. Great stuff, keep it going.
"The story of food is the story of people" Thank you for your love of food and bravery to start this journey💜 p.s. I've been sharing your journey with family and friends since I found your quality upload. You really deserve more subs and views!
hats off for your work OTR !👍👏when a door is closed, - slammed in your case - a new door opens ! You are unique with your concept and content and editing your vid. i am always excited about your posts ! Thanks alot `!✌🙏love your work
Congratulations OTR on your one-year anniversary! I just stumbled upon your channel by accident or maybe not by accident because I’ve been a long time follower of Chinese cooking demystify. I really love Chris’s funny comments on his channel. Comments maybe a lot of Asian people wouldn’t get such as he MacGyver that. I found OTR very interesting not just a food channel but the history of food inch Thailand in other countries such as Burma and China. Here’s to more years of your history and food success.
Working backwards through the videos and loved learning the backstory on your transition from china to Thailand. Keep up the great work. Y’all are an amazing team.
Happy Anniversary to OTR! Your videos set a new bar for foods channel in Thailand. I really love your videos. And we cannot forget that Behind every successful person is a good partner.
Congratulations OTR! Thank you for all the effort to produced such excellent quality content. It has been very educational and highly entertaining. Keep up the good work!
Appreciate you & Daria’s “Beginnings” content! Jaspars’ variety of shots are terrific, “food porn” !!! the editing and music keeps it fluid. The distinctive from many other popular food vlogs is you provide outstanding investigative historical, geographical, cultural, diaspora’s political context! Your deep dive into “the origins” brings a fullness to your story telling that is captivating! 👏 Keep Enjoying what you’re doing and keep Having Fun!!!
Found the channel when only 2 or 3 videos were out, and after only getting a few hundred views for months - so far less than this quality should get - I am really glad it has been growing well and is finally getting more attention ^_^
@@OTRontheroad Not related that I am aware of. I saw (probably) you posting the Pad Thai video on reddit by chance, which was also not long before I moved to Bangkok myself. Loved the videography from the beginning and kept following :)
Love the content and your hard work Thanks so much! I must say (not to take away from the rest of you), Jasper is the unsung hero! I love his energy and I want to salute him 😃🙏
For some reason this is the first time I've heard you alls China story. It seems like a lot of other China based food youtubers had similar experiences and ended up in Thailand or back home.
Love the content guys. Keep up the great work. Thank you for the behind the scenes peek. Your content and Pat's convinced my wife and I to schedule a trip. I cannot wait to explore and eat my way around Bangkok.
Awesome recap. Your channel has completely changed my attitude towards Thai food. I wasn't a fan because I only ever had the American restaurants for Americans. I have since moved to Cambodia Town in Long Beach, CA, and among the many Khmer restaurants that abound here, practically around the corner of my apartment (it's on the same block) is a Thai/Lao restaurant. Thanks to your story on northern Thai food, I tried it out and it's fucking amazing. Thank you and your crew for opening my eyes and taste buds.
Amazing journey! Y''all deserve so many more subscribers and I'm really looking forward to seeing you get them. Thank you for all the awesome videos and education about Thailand. You have me searching all the Thai restaurants in my area for sure :)
The music is so very spot-on! Quality production and with all the facts without the commercial bloat i really hate. I do appreciate "real" life documentary, If you don´t sell out to bigger buck´s you are followed, by me! (But if you do, I´m gone, I smell crap long before it´s in my face...), wish you all the best and stay true!!!
"Fried Banana Rama V"... Oh wow. Not only did they state what they sell and where they are, but I suspect they had access to the 80's British girl group. :) Congrats on one year of great videos and explorations of Thailand and its multi-varied cuisine!
Without a doubt the best youtube channel on both food and Thailand. Your passion, intelligence, enthusiasm all make each vid sensational and a great pleasure. Not only just great entertainment but great promotion for the culture and the people, all with such amazing sense of delight. Great writing, great shooting great editing, story telling, just far and away the best!
I love your vblogs Adam - co. Like Bangkok Pat you can see the passion in your work. A friend of mine recently met you at a music gig in Bkk, said you are a very nice guy.
Great Season 1 of your channel, looking forward to the next one. And to celebrate I'll upgrade my membership, I will not intervene in the production. 🤞
There's a lesson here. A lesson I also learnt. Don't become too attached to a country if you are on a temporary type of visa. The longer youre there the more it feels like home but it's not!
Learnt Thai at Sydney Uni in the early 90's and have been there a few times, most recently in 2003. I kind of haven't thought about Thailand much since but just started planning a climbing trip to Krabi and Laos for early 2024, so started researching and relearning, going down a few youtube rabbit holes beginning with Mark Wiens and ended up here :)
Mind Blown, huge "On the Road Off the Rails" fan! Mind blown thinking you guys had been living in Thailand for years and doing this channel for way longer than I just discovered only a year in... Love the content supper inspiring, as a former Career Wait Staff, Cook, Barista, Manager Life long Food Industry Worker, totally relate, as since Covid, Career change in the direction of discovering my real passion again Creating and Making being busy with ones hands I have started learning and earning as a Diy Painting Houses, Learning to Weld, Taking on Home Kitchen Renovations and Cabinetry work. Full circle of passionate foodies who we are now venturing into crating some sort of home industry food business together. and all out moving to a new city and constantly on the hunt for delicious food spots and adventures along the way! Supper Content amazing insight awesome adventures, may you all continue to keep doing what your all amazingly talented at for years to come🙏🏼🤞🏻. Nicholas South Africa ❤
Thanks for the kind words. By the way- we edited out of the last draft but one section that had been in this video was talking about what we’d planned to do if we could have moved anywhere- daria and I were hoping to move to Cape Town...we were gonna set up a brewery and restaurant down there. Best city on the planet, at least that was our experience there. And yeah- the great thing about F&B is it teaches honesty and accountability. I love that. You have to do the job or it doesn’t get done, can’t BS anything. Show me anyone who’s an F&B person and I know that’s someone I can trust and depend on in anything.
Yea Cape Towns a Vibe I spent 2009-2018 in the F&B industry there 😉. Brewery gurus in the mother city hit up Ross from "Jack Black" or Nick from "Drifter Brewery"@@OTRontheroad . Though I think your spoilt for Choice is Asia
One of you guys' best. Great to hear your own histories, plus see the old clips. Nice to see what brought you to this place and time, and this reminds me of two of my favorite sayings: "Food is life, food is love", and the second is "I'm just here for the food". Was just corresponding with my oldest and closest friend earlier today and I wrote about my personal take on Asia. I mentioned Shangri La from the novel by James Hilton and the movie with Ronald Coleman (which I happened to catch the last fifteen minutes of this afternoon). Asia, particularly Southeast Asia, and specifically Thailand and Viet Nam and Laos are most certainly my own Shangri La, and I still hope to get back there one day or weeks or months in the near future. Kudos to you and Daria and Jasper for this, hope you keep sharing videos beyond your new restaurants/diners, and wish you all the best. And I have to add that I'm glad you went back to the six panel baseball cap with a curved brim.....that makes it real. PS - you mentioned that Daria is running a beer company now, and as a confirmed and inveterate beer drinker, I would love to know the brand and if its available elsewhere somehow.
Daria's doing other independent branding and marketing work now- her beer company days were back in China. The brands she used to run were Shanghai's Boxing Cat (since absorbed by AB-InBev) and Hong Kong's Young Master, though both of us were highly involved in promotion of the Chinese craft brewing scene in general. Drink any Chinese-made craft beer (at least, the ones that aren't new corporate-designed-as-craft ones) and we'll be happy to hear it.
Good to know, although I'm a Bud Light guy at my age. Gotta keep my slim figure. Looked at your New York Diner menu; you gotta have hash 'n' eggs on the menu to make it authentic. I'm anxious to see how it fares over the first few months. Good luck with your venture. 👍@@OTRontheroad
@@eswillie oh I think you misunderstood- the New York Diner was where we visited on the program in Nonthaburi. My own diners are called Starling, in southern China. However I cannot vouch for anything about their food/menus now- it's changed a ton since I left. That's a subject for another day. However I wish you'd seen it in the glory days. What a place that was
OMG, i saw you eating Hor Mok like a dessert😮. Next time I recommend eating with rice. 👍 Ps. I’m Thai but I don’t like Hor Mok. Ps 2. I really like your ch.
@@OTRontheroad oic...well you've come a long way. A very enjoyable to watch long way👍 p.s. was your redo shoot still use the netflix crew? Or you just use your team by that point?
i think maybe it was duing wathing the Sriracha video , you said you lived in china i thought nice , than herd in another video you said you were sichun chef, i thought great ,than i began to wondering why did you guys left china, could it be govermant or covid related? now after knowing why i m really really sorry to hear what you guys have gone through, hope one day you guys can come back to do the same content but about 小吃
Thanks so much. 我肯定想回中国做一些影片儿！可是现在不容易。So many stories I'd love to tell- the thing about Chinese food is that EVERY village or town has its own unique dishes and traditions. I'd literally never run out of material for fascinating stories.
Pls seriously consider VOICE DUBBING your english language videos. First, why not Thai language, spoken by a native with verve and fluency? Like Shri Jaspar, who is possibly a Godsent in this regard. How many in this world today speak/understand English/US English? But do you know HOW MANY INDIANS are now coming to Thailand, and returning with a zest for Thai FOOD, COOKING, and History. There is much that connects these two nations: Siam possibly derives from the Sanskrit shyAma, dark green, very dark, precisely describing the lush tropical landscape. So -please try to dub your channel, with attractive and expert voices. This was the secret of US radio when it was young, e.g. The Green Hornet! West Bengal will give you Bangladesh, Assam, Manipur and Tripura, and possibly, a big swathe of Odisha as well. Well over 300 MILLION potential viewers, and at least a subscribed viewership of 1 million or more. I know whereof I am talking. Very crap food youtubers in India,have 2-3 million viewers. Your combination of history, etc. along with cooking techniques will attract and keep viewers. There is a lot of shared history; the word DAO exists from the central part of India, with Ho Munda speakers to Thailand of the Ban Chiang cultures. Yes, that early. KHAO is another term. Rice culture in China was begun and refined by the CHAM peoples, NOT HAN, a millet culture. There are so many connections that this is not the place to speak of aromatic rices, their possible evolution, and so forth. Aside from this, there is a small but useful community of Brahmans assciated with the Royal Palace. Their presence was prominent when the late great Monarch passed on. It would be great if someone did a food history of this community, and perhaps more insights arising from your investigations. Bottom line, please consider voice dubbing, first in Thai, then then bangla, and hindi. You will be sure to find Indians interested in such a venture, including the Chatterjee restaurant family of Kolkata who run very successful Chinese and Thai restaurants in India. BTW, your education in BIRYANI happily in continue, and i should love to quibble with you about the name of this dish, its origins, and the huge range of BIRYANIS so beloved in the subcontinent, from Dhaka to Karachi, and Lucknow, Kolkata, and a hundred points south, each with a very specific type and class of biryani. Hope your channels prospers and grows.
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Thanks so much for watching! This is obviously a special one to us. But along with all of our own history and stories there were some pretty amazing places in this video, so here are the pins:
Fried Banana Rama 5: goo.gl/maps/Vdg3WCX6msRNvCgi9
Kaolao Muang Non: goo.gl/maps/ZyWeJUAwKyHUxxY77
Nonthaburi Market: goo.gl/maps/prQvZg71UdLvJiev8
Cook & Coff Bang Kwang: goo.gl/maps/TTdh8Rtq2wiyHhJK8
New York Diner: goo.gl/maps/FMCfYBQe7rWHNoqG6
Queen of Boat Noodles: goo.gl/maps/BcL3Xn8WzUqCcZ8b8
Love you OTR 🥰
Once again, I need to ask: WHY doesn't ORT have more subscribers?
In an oversaturated market of farangs doing food vlogs in Thailand, OTR has raised the bar so high. You're creating Bourdain-eque content with a bare bones crew and should be super proud of what you've created here!
Slim Jong Il is a fantastic YT handle. Also thank you very much for the kind words!
It was wonderful to learn more about the history of the channel. Thanks for sharing!
Man thanks for the comment and your channel is great!
The legend himself
As one of the first 10 subscribers to this channel,Adam and I knew each other in China.....I feel pretty lucky to get to see my long time friend appear here every week. It’s amazing how you show all about how the foods of the area have evolved and morphed from the early days to current iterations . You have come a long way from that first time we met at Kros Nest, you having filled shoes that weren’t really full to begin with......to now a successful food historian and blogger on a world stage. It’s been a great year OTR team.....and I’m anxious to see what the next year holds.....be well Marlboro Man !
I remember when I opened my first restaurant in Beijing and in those first days, I never knew if we'd make any money, but I knew that I could count on two people (Frank and Liz, not that it matters, but just for the record) who would always swing by for a beer and a snack on their walk home from work. That was all. So at least we had a purpose in opening- we had our guaranteed two customers, and that was good enough to keep us doing the work, and eventually, more people found us, and the place ended up taking off. It was the same with this channel, even when it felt like we were shouting into the void, I knew when we'd upload a video in those first days that I could count on you and Terry Crossman (another old friend from the glory days in Beijing) to watch and comment and enjoy what we were doing. That kept us going, and I'm not exaggerating. Thanks for all your support and can't wait to catch up, either stateside or hopefully over here.
For the quality of videos (themes, effort, editing, high quality audio and visuals, personalities) you are posting you are not getting enough subscribers/views and you are too underrated. Glad I have found you months ago and I utterly enjoy every video each time. Thank you and be proud, regards from Germany. 🥰
Thank you so much, and really appreciate your support on Patreon! All the best.
You deserve all support. Would give more if I could. Stay safe
That explains why your channel has a familiar "twang" to it. Didn't know you were a journalist. That's why the way you form a story and your investigation skill is of another level. Kudos to you man. Otr has been consistently my favorite in the past 2 months.
OTR you guys are my favorite channel on Thailand. The story telling, the editing, the camera works, and that great voice of telling the story with the perfect diction makes this channel great.
As someone who stays in Thailand for many years, always wanted to do this kind of channel, but im not half as good as you guys...
Good luck and wishing you many more interesting stories and videos!
Much appreciated. Thanks for the kind words!
Im so glad that this video popped into my recommends. Im a Nonthaburi native and the amount of love and respect you showed to to the place is really endearing. It really is a wonderful place.
The background story that made you relocate to Thailand is kind of sad, but on the other side, I’m glad that you relocated to Thailand so that we can watch this amazing channel about Thai food and many things that even the Thais do not know.
Happy Anniversary to OTR! 🥳🍾🙌 Appreciate you introducing everyone behind the channel. Your background in journalism explains a lot, glad you’ve found the right posse to make it work even after the first hiccup with the professional team. It’s also very obvious that you’re passionate about food, your reaction to the curry paste signify pure joy and there’s nothing greater than that.
You’re doing great in Thailand but I hope someday you’ll be able to go back to China and realize your old dream of writing about Chinese food as some sort of a closure if anything. And of course if you’re ever in town here in Indonesia I’ll gladly be your guide. Here’s to many more delicious stories in the future! 🥂
I’ve never been inspired to eat so much food. Thank you for creating these videos. Absolutely love these!
I just realized that so many China based youtubers actually relocated to Thailand because of China changed policies toward foreigners. I am glad that Thailand can accommodate you well and I hope our immigration policy can be changed for the better.
All your videos are a pleasure to watch. Thanks to Jaspar for for the amazing camera work
Thank you guys for the channel and hope OTR gets as huge as it deserves to be. Really great knowledge sharing and format, like a new Bourdain :)
It really looks like a "real" tv- show! Thank your buddy again! Keep up the great work!
I love telling people about your videos. Every one of them is not just about the food, not just about the history, but an actual love letter to the people and the country of Thailand. From the first video of your team that I saw, I was fascinated. In parts, beautiful, funny, historic, thought provoking and deeply touching, your series is unlike any other I have seen. I can only hope that you inspire other content creators to find inspiration in their own communities, to reach across boundaries and borders, and to share the beauty and joy in something so aspirational and yet so humble as food. Cheers to your anniversary, and here’s to many more years! 🥂🎉
Such a kind message and means a lot. You definitely hit the nail on the head in terms of our goal and mission with the channel. Thank you!
You guys are my most important RUclips notification. Congratulations guys 🎉🎉
Truely spoken, being a new RUclips expat in Thailand, I feel the challenges as well. The content you guys create are unique and OTR is one of my favorite channel which I never get bored watching. Keep up the good work, would love to support in any way possible. Kudos
Congratulations! You guys are awesome.
Absolutely loved this one… so cool to see your journey… ❤
Wow. This is very good indeed. Even I have lived in Nonthaburi for 20 years! Thank you very much ^_^
love the OTR lore drop, and hope you can get the success you deserve, this channel is seriously underrated!
Been watching most of your videos in the last two weeks. I was in Thailand for travel but not in Bangkok and I´m already looking for flights to come back asap!
And one of the craziest things is to me is Jasper. I don´t know how you found such a cool guy who is this good with video, but especially: who speaks English this well as a Thai!
Keep up the good work and I can´t wait for the next videos!
One year, 40K ++, so much scope for growth. Own your success, guys, this is just the beginning!
Happy Anniversary, OTR! That was fun I love Daria's sense of humor!
WOWWOWOW! What a story! This is tying it all together. What a crazy story! Poor Daria! But; I love; "....after this whole War and Peace story, it's 'we love food!' " And, then, what a great story within the story; the "Bangkok Hilton" prisoners working at restaurants! With your combination of skills and experiance, it's like you-all were destined for this, turning an awful situation into this great channel! Perhaps, on the other side of the "The Veil," A.B. is smiling and nodding in approval. (+ the whole Jasper, production story is great!)
Thank you for doing this channel , I enjoyed it so much, i am a big fan of Anthony Bourdain and you reminded me to him the way you tell your story its just special. ❤
Thanks so much for the very kind words
I stumbled on this channel 2 weekends ago and have been consuming a steady diet of 3-5 videos a day. Your videos hit the story-telling sweet spot for me between food, people, and history. This one about how you got started just made me smile because it is exactly in the spirit of one of your chefs explaining the origin and ingredients of a recipe. As a cook I am inspired to try my hand at these dishes, knowing how they came to be by the people trying to make something beautiful with what they had.
Jaspar, Daria, and Adam -- thank you for all that you've done with this channel so far. I very much look forward to seeing how you refine and hone the OTR recipe.
Cheers and thanks for the kind message. Glad you found us!
For the amount of work, research and overall theme, this channel has been an amazing one to watch and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos. I thought I knew about food in the region until I came across this channel. Congratulations guys and looking forward to more videos from the team!
Congratulations on a great first year! Love watching your videos. Can't wait to get back to Thailand to try some of the foods I've been drooling over while watching your videos. Will increase my Patreon amount and hope that others will too. Best wishes for a successful second year!
Thank you very much and appreciate the Patreon increase! Means a lot and very much look forward to seeing you and the family over here in Thailand.
Your 40K+ subscribers does not do justice to the quality or the content of your work. Your long form content is really the best of all the channels I subscribe to while being unlike anything else I watch here on RUclips. Keep up the wonderful work.
Just want to say awesome job to Adam and the team. Although I have been living in the Southeast US for the past 16 years, I was born and raised in Thailand until I was a teenager. Your coverage of some Bangkok neighborhoods really brought back a ton of good memories.
My family, on my father's side, is Chinese. They have a small house near Chao Phraya and an old residence of a Queen which is now a museum (also near the area where they shot the famous chase scene in Tomorrow Never Dies). It is very nice to see someone giving the old town a spotlight. When I found your channel, I couldn't believe some of the places I used to frequent as a kid have gotten so popular.
There are a lot of things, I think, that many travelers don't know about Bangkok cuisine (E.g. the fact that it is a large melting pot of many different cultures that settled there in the past hundreds of years), and I really appreciate OTR for covering this and other aspects of Thai cuisine in general.
Anyway, I wanted to keep this short but I love the channel. Keep up the good work.
Great comment and really enjoyed hearing your take on this stuff. Cheers and thanks for writing.
This episode of OTR came really close to my home, the school on the right at 26:54 is probably 2 km from my home. But the best part is the New York Diner that you guys went to have breakfast, I never knew that existed until the day this video is uploaded. I tried going there today, the owner is super nice and remembers you guys, also the food there is delicious and reasonable price. Thank you so much to OTR for filming this video and introducing me to this amazing cook shop near my home.
You make the best food documentaries on RUclips, the combination of history truly makes it fascinating for me. Now I know your journalist background it makes for more sense, I was going to say you are a natural, but not really as you honed this skill early on.
Great stuff, keep it going.
"The story of food is the story of people" Thank you for your love of food and bravery to start this journey💜
p.s. I've been sharing your journey with family and friends since I found your quality upload. You really deserve more subs and views!
Thanks so much!
hats off for your work OTR !👍👏when a door is closed, - slammed in your case - a new door opens ! You are unique with your concept and content and editing your vid. i am always excited about your posts ! Thanks alot `!✌🙏love your work
Thank you for making one of the best food channels on youtube. Keep up the good work!
And many more to come !
Cheers and congratulations ✌✌👍👍
Congratulations OTR on your one-year anniversary! I just stumbled upon your channel by accident or maybe not by accident because I’ve been a long time follower of Chinese cooking demystify. I really love Chris’s funny comments on his channel. Comments maybe a lot of Asian people wouldn’t get such as he MacGyver that.
I found OTR very interesting not just a food channel but the history of food inch Thailand in other countries such as Burma and China. Here’s to more years of your history and food success.
Been watching your channel for about 6 months, and I must say it's frikkin fantastic! Deserving of so many more views.
Working backwards through the videos and loved learning the backstory on your transition from china to Thailand. Keep up the great work. Y’all are an amazing team.
Your wife (Daria?) is adorable and you guys are adorable together. I hope she’s in front of the camera more often for year 2!
Happy Anniversary to OTR! Your videos set a new bar for foods channel in Thailand. I really love your videos. And we cannot forget that Behind every successful person is a good partner.
Congratulations OTR! Thank you for all the effort to produced such excellent quality content. It has been very educational and highly entertaining. Keep up the good work!
Appreciate you & Daria’s “Beginnings” content! Jaspars’ variety of shots are terrific, “food porn” !!! the editing and music keeps it fluid. The distinctive from many other popular food vlogs is you provide outstanding investigative historical, geographical, cultural, diaspora’s political context! Your deep dive into “the origins” brings a fullness to your story telling that is captivating! 👏 Keep Enjoying what you’re doing and keep Having Fun!!!
Love all your videos. Looking forward for years to come.
I didn't know this channel was so young!
You are the first channel that when you refer some other video and I understand it! Love what you did man.
thanks and I really appreciate it!
Found the channel when only 2 or 3 videos were out, and after only getting a few hundred views for months - so far less than this quality should get - I am really glad it has been growing well and is finally getting more attention ^_^
Wow- thanks! Would love to know how you found us so early- are we related? Hah...
@@OTRontheroad Not related that I am aware of. I saw (probably) you posting the Pad Thai video on reddit by chance, which was also not long before I moved to Bangkok myself. Loved the videography from the beginning and kept following :)
Always enjoy your contents and really glad you like it here.
Been a fan for a long while with your exceptional presentation and respect for Thai culture. Congratz and wish you guys more success!
Chinese foooood! And theeeen? And theeeen? 👍❤️👍 Happy Birthday OTR !
Congratulations Adam and team! 👏🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🇹🇭🥳🎉🎊🍾
Love the content and your hard work Thanks so much! I must say (not to take away from the rest of you), Jasper is the unsung hero! I love his energy and I want to salute him 😃🙏
Haha cheers and no question- he's great and just as much of a perfectionist as I am, which is the reason this works!
For some reason this is the first time I've heard you alls China story. It seems like a lot of other China based food youtubers had similar experiences and ended up in Thailand or back home.
not sure what the motive is for kicking out everyone
Hey you're one of my favourite channels; well done !!
Happy Anniversary!!! 🌹
Love the content guys. Keep up the great work. Thank you for the behind the scenes peek. Your content and Pat's convinced my wife and I to schedule a trip. I cannot wait to explore and eat my way around Bangkok.
Cheers and let us know if you have any questions as you plan your trip!
🎉 Congrad for your 1st year looking forward for your next story ahead
Congratulations, and keep up the good work.
You are my number 1 food channel, please stay as you are :)
Greetings from Croatia
Great hearing your story so fare . Wish you success and happiness for future journey , God bless. 👊 🙏
Awesome recap. Your channel has completely changed my attitude towards Thai food. I wasn't a fan because I only ever had the American restaurants for Americans. I have since moved to Cambodia Town in Long Beach, CA, and among the many Khmer restaurants that abound here, practically around the corner of my apartment (it's on the same block) is a Thai/Lao restaurant. Thanks to your story on northern Thai food, I tried it out and it's fucking amazing. Thank you and your crew for opening my eyes and taste buds.
Amazing journey! Y''all deserve so many more subscribers and I'm really looking forward to seeing you get them. Thank you for all the awesome videos and education about Thailand. You have me searching all the Thai restaurants in my area for sure :)
Wish you a great success 🙏 and thanks for sharing your exploration hf.
Love the content. Just became a member.
Thank you so much!
The music is so very spot-on! Quality production and with all the facts without the commercial bloat i really hate. I do appreciate "real" life documentary, If you don´t sell out to bigger buck´s you are followed, by me! (But if you do, I´m gone, I smell crap long before it´s in my face...), wish you all the best and stay true!!!
"Fried Banana Rama V"... Oh wow. Not only did they state what they sell and where they are, but I suspect they had access to the 80's British girl group. :)
Congrats on one year of great videos and explorations of Thailand and its multi-varied cuisine!
I didn't "hear that rumour".
Congratulations on your success!
Watch your channel from Virginia and really miss home❤
Great video guys, congrats on the growth.
👌👌👌🍻🍻🍻
Without a doubt the best youtube channel on both food and Thailand. Your passion, intelligence, enthusiasm all make each vid sensational and a great pleasure. Not only just great entertainment but great promotion for the culture and the people, all with such amazing sense of delight. Great writing, great shooting great editing, story telling, just far and away the best!
I love your vblogs Adam - co. Like Bangkok Pat you can see the passion in your work. A friend of mine recently met you at a music gig in Bkk, said you are a very nice guy.
Must be Tommie? Yeah, fun chat. Appreciate the comment!
Great Season 1 of your channel, looking forward to the next one. And to celebrate I'll upgrade my membership, I will not intervene in the production. 🤞
massively appreciated, and thanks for all the support since the early-early days!
There's a lesson here. A lesson I also learnt. Don't become too attached to a country if you are on a temporary type of visa. The longer youre there the more it feels like home but it's not!
Learnt Thai at Sydney Uni in the early 90's and have been there a few times, most recently in 2003. I kind of haven't thought about Thailand much since but just started planning a climbing trip to Krabi and Laos for early 2024, so started researching and relearning, going down a few youtube rabbit holes beginning with Mark Wiens and ended up here :)
Keep up the good work!
Mind Blown, huge "On the Road Off the Rails" fan! Mind blown thinking you guys had been living in Thailand for years and doing this channel for way longer than I just discovered only a year in... Love the content supper inspiring, as a former Career Wait Staff, Cook, Barista, Manager Life long Food Industry Worker, totally relate, as since Covid, Career change in the direction of discovering my real passion again Creating and Making being busy with ones hands I have started learning and earning as a Diy Painting Houses, Learning to Weld, Taking on Home Kitchen Renovations and Cabinetry work. Full circle of passionate foodies who we are now venturing into crating some sort of home industry food business together. and all out moving to a new city and constantly on the hunt for delicious food spots and adventures along the way!
Supper Content amazing insight awesome adventures, may you all continue to keep doing what your all amazingly talented at for years to come🙏🏼🤞🏻.
Nicholas South Africa ❤
Thanks for the kind words. By the way- we edited out of the last draft but one section that had been in this video was talking about what we’d planned to do if we could have moved anywhere- daria and I were hoping to move to Cape Town...we were gonna set up a brewery and restaurant down there. Best city on the planet, at least that was our experience there. And yeah- the great thing about F&B is it teaches honesty and accountability. I love that. You have to do the job or it doesn’t get done, can’t BS anything. Show me anyone who’s an F&B person and I know that’s someone I can trust and depend on in anything.
Yea Cape Towns a Vibe I spent 2009-2018 in the F&B industry there 😉. Brewery gurus in the mother city hit up Ross from "Jack Black" or Nick from "Drifter Brewery"@@OTRontheroad . Though I think your spoilt for Choice is Asia
More Burmese contents please, a lot of ppls from Burma support your channel. We(our Food) need to be in spotlight
Have a new one planned very soon that I think you'll really like! Can't wait to revisit Burmese stories.
One of you guys' best. Great to hear your own histories, plus see the old clips. Nice to see what brought you to this place and time, and this reminds me of two of my favorite sayings: "Food is life, food is love", and the second is "I'm just here for the food". Was just corresponding with my oldest and closest friend earlier today and I wrote about my personal take on Asia. I mentioned Shangri La from the novel by James Hilton and the movie with Ronald Coleman (which I happened to catch the last fifteen minutes of this afternoon). Asia, particularly Southeast Asia, and specifically Thailand and Viet Nam and Laos are most certainly my own Shangri La, and I still hope to get back there one day or weeks or months in the near future. Kudos to you and Daria and Jasper for this, hope you keep sharing videos beyond your new restaurants/diners, and wish you all the best. And I have to add that I'm glad you went back to the six panel baseball cap with a curved brim.....that makes it real. PS - you mentioned that Daria is running a beer company now, and as a confirmed and inveterate beer drinker, I would love to know the brand and if its available elsewhere somehow.
Daria's doing other independent branding and marketing work now- her beer company days were back in China. The brands she used to run were Shanghai's Boxing Cat (since absorbed by AB-InBev) and Hong Kong's Young Master, though both of us were highly involved in promotion of the Chinese craft brewing scene in general. Drink any Chinese-made craft beer (at least, the ones that aren't new corporate-designed-as-craft ones) and we'll be happy to hear it.
Good to know, although I'm a Bud Light guy at my age. Gotta keep my slim figure. Looked at your New York Diner menu; you gotta have hash 'n' eggs on the menu to make it authentic. I'm anxious to see how it fares over the first few months. Good luck with your venture. 👍@@OTRontheroad
@@eswillie oh I think you misunderstood- the New York Diner was where we visited on the program in Nonthaburi. My own diners are called Starling, in southern China. However I cannot vouch for anything about their food/menus now- it's changed a ton since I left. That's a subject for another day. However I wish you'd seen it in the glory days. What a place that was
Gotcha. That's what happens trying to watch the video, listening to the Mets game in the background and drinking Bud.@@OTRontheroad
Congrats on your great milestone!
This channel deserves more subs. Just sayin'.
You always look good to me.😊
Your video re Baan Krua just popped up and it led me to this one. Interesting! Do you own a restaurant here?
Time for an OTR Anniversary fan meet?
keep it up
Hey OTR kind of curious, so what happen to your restaurants in China?
Great vlig! Do you have plans to open a restaurant in Bangkok?
OMG, i saw you eating Hor Mok like a dessert😮. Next time I recommend eating with rice. 👍
Ps. I’m Thai but I don’t like Hor Mok.
Ps 2. I really like your ch.
Go to OTOP Fair at Impact Arena please It ends this coming Sunday.
I want to see Cambodian food.
Keep the good stuff going. You are doing a real good show!
I thought I already watched the occult vegetarian food episode. That's your first shoot right? The one you said you won't upload.
Hah! A “first try” of the video we ended up redoing later.
@@OTRontheroad oic...well you've come a long way. A very enjoyable to watch long way👍
p.s. was your redo shoot still use the netflix crew? Or you just use your team by that point?
so sad
i think maybe it was duing wathing the Sriracha video , you said you lived in china i thought nice , than herd in another video you said you were sichun chef, i thought great ,than i began to wondering why did you guys left china, could it be govermant or covid related? now after knowing why i m really really sorry to hear what you guys have gone through, hope one day you guys can come back to do the same content but about 小吃
Thanks so much. 我肯定想回中国做一些影片儿！可是现在不容易。So many stories I'd love to tell- the thing about Chinese food is that EVERY village or town has its own unique dishes and traditions. I'd literally never run out of material for fascinating stories.
I thought Russia and China is buddy buddy, didn't know you need a visa between those 2 country
Yep- the “special relationship” most certainly does not apply to average Russian people in China.
@@OTRontheroad I'm an avid traveler to SE Asia...mainly VN...WISH there is OTR in other Asia countries
@@MrNguyenm3 one day. As soon as we have the budget to do it, we’d love to go further.
เรื่องราวมาไทยประหลาดแท้ 😂 แต่เมกาบางนานี่ของอร่อยจริง
Pls seriously consider VOICE DUBBING your english language videos. First, why not Thai language, spoken by a native with verve and fluency? Like Shri Jaspar, who is possibly a Godsent in this regard.
How many in this world today speak/understand English/US English? But do you know HOW MANY INDIANS are now coming to Thailand, and returning with a zest for Thai FOOD, COOKING, and History. There is much that connects these two nations: Siam possibly derives from the Sanskrit shyAma, dark green, very dark, precisely describing the lush tropical landscape.
So -please try to dub your channel, with attractive and expert voices. This was the secret of US radio when it was young, e.g. The Green Hornet! West Bengal will give you Bangladesh, Assam, Manipur and Tripura, and possibly, a big swathe of Odisha as well. Well over 300 MILLION potential viewers, and at least a subscribed viewership of 1 million or more. I know whereof I am talking. Very crap food youtubers in India,have 2-3 million viewers. Your combination of history, etc. along with cooking techniques will attract and keep viewers. There is a lot of shared history; the word DAO exists from the central part of India, with Ho Munda speakers to Thailand of the Ban Chiang cultures. Yes, that early. KHAO is another term. Rice culture in China was begun and refined by the CHAM peoples, NOT HAN, a millet culture. There are so many connections that this is not the place to speak of aromatic rices, their possible evolution, and so forth.
Aside from this, there is a small but useful community of Brahmans assciated with the Royal Palace. Their presence was prominent when the late great Monarch passed on. It would be great if someone did a food history of this community, and perhaps more insights arising from your investigations.
Bottom line, please consider voice dubbing, first in Thai, then then bangla, and hindi. You will be sure to find Indians interested in such a venture, including the Chatterjee restaurant family of Kolkata who run very successful Chinese and Thai restaurants in India. BTW, your education in BIRYANI happily in continue, and i should love to quibble with you about the name of this dish, its origins, and the huge range of BIRYANIS so beloved in the subcontinent, from Dhaka to Karachi, and Lucknow, Kolkata, and a hundred points south, each with a very specific type and class of biryani. Hope your channels prospers and grows.
Please support us on Patreon so that one day down the road we have the budget to consider something like that. Thanks!
Thank you, I was right, she's amazing and wonderful and lovely. You guys are GREAT!
THANK YOU!
对daria在我的国家发生的事情，我感觉非常抱歉。就像我很早的留言，因为某位两百斤，我也不想再回国了。很高兴你的频道发展得这么好!