I visited Thailand in 1989 not as a tourist but as a Singapore soldier working in our camp. In an official lunch event, I tasted pineapple fried rice for the first time. It was served in a fancy way. In my subsequent visits to Thailand as a tourist, I associate this dish to tourism because I hardly see local people eating that. Then I found my love for Thai seafood fried rice in Silom soi 4 and in recent years crab meat fried rice at Charm Eatery and Bar Ratchakru (near Ari BTS station)
Just the best content creator about food on RUclips! Your channel is superb and very informative. It must have taken your team value resources to research each historical facts to share with your audience. I am humbled by the quality of your channel.
There is one old dish, historically way back to the royal Thai palace, that uses pineapple as the main ingredient … “ม้าฮ่อ” pineapple topping with sweet-herbally ball.
Interesting and enlightening as always. In all my years of being obsessed with Thai and Asian food, I’ve never fancied this dish. But thanks to you, I can’t wait to try it!
Wow! Thank you for making this video. I had always thought it was invented for tourism. Thai people really have been and always soo passionate and creative about food. Thai food is probably what Thai people are most proud of 🥰
Thank you so much for this video. I like to watch videos about the history of food as I'm eating it and this video was EXACTLY what I was looking for. I had ordered Pineapple Fried Rice from my local Thai restaurant and searched for "The history of fried rice" as I sat down to eat my dinner. And I was ecstatic when I found your video! I really wanna go to Bangkok and try some genuine P.F.R. out of a pineapple now.
Oh, Adam! You're making my stomach growl, now that I'm watching your video at midnight in my Bangkok house. Thanks for the history of this delicious item of our Thai cuisine. The last time I had Pineapple Fried Rice was more than 30 years ago, or probably longer than that. Your video is giving me an urge to find a nice restaurant that serves it. Your respect for our culture and cuisine is very much appreciated and admired. I'm going to check out all the videos on your channel now, to see if you have included Khanom Jeen Sao-Naam (ขนมจีนซาวน้ำ). Really curious to know about it because it is one of my all-time favorite Thai dishes. The full version of this dish is one with Jang-Ron (แจงรอน, fish-balls or pork-balls cooked in coconut milk) in it. It's so hard to find these days. Thank you for the knowledge and entertainment in all your contents. May God bless you and all your loved ones!
Don't know much , have just noticed Thai always love eating the main dishes with local fruits(or something easy to grab in the season) and these fruits must be sweet!! ; ripe mango , water melon , pine apple etc , one of my elderly relatives ate ripe mango with her own special souce"Prik Nampla"(fish souce+grind dry shrimp and challots) , and here come the famous Thai dessert , Mango Stickyrice..
I mean- why wouldn’t you eat ripe fruits when you’re in a part of the world where the best stuff grows? Honestly the most shocking thing for me the first time I came to Southeast Asia wasn’t the fruits I didn’t know about- it was how much better the COMMON fruits were
@@OTRontheroad It's normal in my family. To eat fruit, watermelon, pineapple or other fruits with chilli paste, main dish and khanom chin. Ancestor did not separate vegetables and fruits. If you have something in the backyard, eat it all.
The History of American Fried Rice that did not exist in American but Thai children love it so much . As a Thai guy, I really hope u will do this topic.
I live among Thai people for 15 years and eat only Thai food. I had this food once - in Pattaya (yeah that place). I had always believe it was a dish created for tourists. Of all my Thai friends, nobody liked it and I didn't like it either. Pineapple is only used is spicy curries in Thailand - never with fried rice.
Usually most of the time, It looks like pineapple fried rice but actually there is no pineapple in it. So the name of the dish in Thai is not "fried rice" but something like "potted rice", using pineapple skin as a pot. BTW I really don't know where the rest of the pineapple goes.
1) I don't live in Nana. 2) Would love to cover Soi Arab- I've been to literally every restaurant there and adore the area, but it's not super welcoming for filming. Even taking photos with a phone is prohibited in a lot of places there- and the culture of a ton of the people who hang out there isn't super fond of being videotaped. Is what it is. Epic area, would love to do it but also want to be respectful.
Around the same time- late 16th/early 17th century...except it was pretty much immediately cultivated and did well in the local climate. Northern Thailand cashew plantations are some of the most prosperous anywhere.
@@SheshankReddyS I think a lot of the time we eat it fresh Idk about back then in the old time but now we have been cultivating and genetic engineering the pineapple to the point I’d say hard to find other pineapple to compete against like to the south we have super sweet pineapple and even pineapple that can pick out eye by eye and eat by hand and in the north we have mini pineapple that so sweet the first time I tried it I thought it was in syrup and you can eat it core even the core of the leafy part is sweet but of course we have normal pineapple too we juice it or put it in curry ,other foods or desserts.
Out of interest what is the go to curry powder in Thailand for this dish? To my knowledge yellow curry powder isn’t an Indian invention but more a British or British Raj blend of Indian spices - I could be wrong of course 🤣 and of course not all curry powders are the same ✌️
My family uses the Waugh’s curry powder brand for this dish. It’s the most popular brand in Thailand. Andd it’s advertised as a British curry powder so you are correct😂 how fascinating!
I don't know if what you quote from Wikipedia about origin of wok is true. I hardly have seen any Indians cook with the wok-like karahi. Nor the Chinese word for wok came from kuali. I believe it is the other way round, because there are no historical records from those 2 cultures that backup the claims in Wikipedia.
...we don’t get our information on Wikipedia. You know my career is as a chinese chef and we can research in Chinese language sources, too, right? Just because you haven’t seen something- in 2024- doesn’t mean it wasn’t true in ancient history. What a weird comment in every possible way
@@OTRontheroad Maybe you should do one on the history. Back it up with historical records, ancient drawings etc. The answer that wikipedia gave only quote a "historian" that is just looking to complete his thesis. Another name for the karahi is cheena chatti.
This food history search is fun and informative!
This channel is so underrated. Now you’ve one more subscriber! 😊
I visited Thailand in 1989 not as a tourist but as a Singapore soldier working in our camp. In an official lunch event, I tasted pineapple fried rice for the first time. It was served in a fancy way. In my subsequent visits to Thailand as a tourist, I associate this dish to tourism because I hardly see local people eating that. Then I found my love for Thai seafood fried rice in Silom soi 4 and in recent years crab meat fried rice at Charm Eatery and Bar Ratchakru (near Ari BTS station)
Just the best content creator about food on RUclips! Your channel is superb and very informative. It must have taken your team value resources to research each historical facts to share with your audience. I am humbled by the quality of your channel.
I am humbled by your comment! Thanks a lot
There is one old dish, historically way back to the royal Thai palace, that uses pineapple as the main ingredient … “ม้าฮ่อ” pineapple topping with sweet-herbally ball.
According to Disney's legend, pineapple fried rice was just a clash of Minnie's and Micky's boats at a floating market in Thailand ...😂😂😂
Kaopad-supparodddd
Interesting and enlightening as always. In all my years of being obsessed with Thai and Asian food, I’ve never fancied this dish. But thanks to you, I can’t wait to try it!
Thai people are very creative and innovative.
In Thailand we put pineapple in some curry too.
I love it with roast duck in red curry.
Wow! Thank you for making this video. I had always thought it was invented for tourism. Thai people really have been and always soo passionate and creative about food. Thai food is probably what Thai people are most proud of 🥰
Awesome video. "If I was an emperor, I would eat this. I eat this now". 😊
Awesome vid! Very informative and fun
Whoever does your music is brilliant.
Thank you so much for this video. I like to watch videos about the history of food as I'm eating it and this video was EXACTLY what I was looking for. I had ordered Pineapple Fried Rice from my local Thai restaurant and searched for "The history of fried rice" as I sat down to eat my dinner. And I was ecstatic when I found your video!
I really wanna go to Bangkok and try some genuine P.F.R. out of a pineapple now.
Well given that I am one of those who likes Hawaiian pizza, I just have to give this a try!!! Another great and informative show OTR!!
Actually Thailand is the biggest canned pineapple exporter in the world and we use it in many savory dishes. You can search for that.
You're right, it did pass the Philippines for top canned pineapple exporter in early 2000s. 32% of the global market now apparently. Good call.
So you're saying a pineapple fried this rice?
Oh, Adam! You're making my stomach growl, now that I'm watching your video at midnight in my Bangkok house. Thanks for the history of this delicious item of our Thai cuisine. The last time I had Pineapple Fried Rice was more than 30 years ago, or probably longer than that. Your video is giving me an urge to find a nice restaurant that serves it.
Your respect for our culture and cuisine is very much appreciated and admired.
I'm going to check out all the videos on your channel now, to see if you have included Khanom Jeen Sao-Naam (ขนมจีนซาวน้ำ). Really curious to know about it because it is one of my all-time favorite Thai dishes. The full version of this dish is one with Jang-Ron (แจงรอน, fish-balls or pork-balls cooked in coconut milk) in it. It's so hard to find these days.
Thank you for the knowledge and entertainment in all your contents.
May God bless you and all your loved ones!
Don't know much , have just noticed Thai always love eating the main dishes with local fruits(or something easy to grab in the season) and these fruits must be sweet!! ; ripe mango , water melon , pine apple etc , one of my elderly relatives ate ripe mango with her own special souce"Prik Nampla"(fish souce+grind dry shrimp and challots) , and here come the famous Thai dessert , Mango Stickyrice..
I mean- why wouldn’t you eat ripe fruits when you’re in a part of the world where the best stuff grows? Honestly the most shocking thing for me the first time I came to Southeast Asia wasn’t the fruits I didn’t know about- it was how much better the COMMON fruits were
@@OTRontheroad It's normal in my family. To eat fruit, watermelon, pineapple or other fruits with chilli paste, main dish and khanom chin. Ancestor did not separate vegetables and fruits. If you have something in the backyard, eat it all.
The History of American Fried Rice that did not exist in American but Thai children love it so much . As a Thai guy, I really hope u will do this topic.
American Fried Rice, and the Absurdist World of Asian-Western Food
ruclips.net/video/142B8-fay_Q/видео.html
Enjoy!
I’m Thai and I love pineapple fried rice! But I’ve never had it in a pineapple before! Need to try that 😮
I love goat.....bbq’d, curried.....it’s awesome.
lol....good response.
I live among Thai people for 15 years and eat only Thai food. I had this food once - in Pattaya (yeah that place). I had always believe it was a dish created for tourists. Of all my Thai friends, nobody liked it and I didn't like it either. Pineapple is only used is spicy curries in Thailand - never with fried rice.
Now Thailand is World's No.1 canned pineapple exporter.
In Tagalog, our word for wok is similar to kuali. We call it "kawali." Hence, we call crispy pork belly "Lechon Kawali."
This would go best with Nam Pla Prik.
Usually most of the time, It looks like pineapple fried rice but actually there is no pineapple in it. So the name of the dish in Thai is not "fried rice" but something like "potted rice", using pineapple skin as a pot. BTW I really don't know where the rest of the pineapple goes.
Khao phad sapparod v khao ob sapparod?
So good 😊
Awesome. Another interesting one is the history of American fried rice. Would say that’s abit more popular among Thais
Did that one! ruclips.net/video/142B8-fay_Q/видео.html
Ah shit! Amazing
Since you're in Nana, wanna cover the Middle Eastern settlement there?
Also the South Asian presence in soi Puttha Osot area (Charoenkrung)
1) I don't live in Nana. 2) Would love to cover Soi Arab- I've been to literally every restaurant there and adore the area, but it's not super welcoming for filming. Even taking photos with a phone is prohibited in a lot of places there- and the culture of a ton of the people who hang out there isn't super fond of being videotaped. Is what it is. Epic area, would love to do it but also want to be respectful.
10-15 THB added from a pineapple(make 2serves) could raise a 50-60THB fried rice to a 120-150THB dish.
You should do a collaboration with Mark Wiens!
I love your rant about goats 🐐🤣😂🙏
I'm guessing the hotdog wasn't part of the original Royal recipe. Also... did the cashews come to Thailand before or after the pineapple?
Around the same time- late 16th/early 17th century...except it was pretty much immediately cultivated and did well in the local climate. Northern Thailand cashew plantations are some of the most prosperous anywhere.
@@OTRontheroad what do the Thais do with the fruit? They make fresh fruit juice in Brazil. They ferment it and make a Cashew Feni (spirit) in Goa.
@@SheshankReddyS I think a lot of the time we eat it fresh Idk about back then in the old time but now we have been cultivating and genetic engineering the pineapple to the point I’d say hard to find other pineapple to compete against like to the south we have super sweet pineapple and even pineapple that can pick out eye by eye and eat by hand and in the north we have mini pineapple that so sweet the first time I tried it I thought it was in syrup and you can eat it core even the core of the leafy part is sweet but of course we have normal pineapple too we juice it or put it in curry ,other foods or desserts.
@@Jet_npch I was speaking about the cashew fruit. That's what I am curious about.
@@SheshankReddySdeep fried it put some salt and eat as snack same as peanut.
Out of interest what is the go to curry powder in Thailand for this dish?
To my knowledge yellow curry powder isn’t an Indian invention but more a British or British Raj blend of Indian spices - I could be wrong of course 🤣 and of course not all curry powders are the same ✌️
My family uses the Waugh’s curry powder brand for this dish. It’s the most popular brand in Thailand. Andd it’s advertised as a British curry powder so you are correct😂 how fascinating!
I don't know if what you quote from Wikipedia about origin of wok is true. I hardly have seen any Indians cook with the wok-like karahi. Nor the Chinese word for wok came from kuali. I believe it is the other way round, because there are no historical records from those 2 cultures that backup the claims in Wikipedia.
...we don’t get our information on Wikipedia. You know my career is as a chinese chef and we can research in Chinese language sources, too, right? Just because you haven’t seen something- in 2024- doesn’t mean it wasn’t true in ancient history. What a weird comment in every possible way
@@OTRontheroad Maybe you should do one on the history. Back it up with historical records, ancient drawings etc. The answer that wikipedia gave only quote a "historian" that is just looking to complete his thesis. Another name for the karahi is cheena chatti.
I missed New York hotdog done right, so who to says what is tourist's food
1000% agreed.
My Thai wife calls it "tourist" food 😂
So you stay near Nana huh 🤔
Straight out of King Rama IV cookbook ... with processed sausage. seems legit
Pineapple dont belong on fried rice
I can take 3 drops of sriracha without crying, i really can 🙅💪👊
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