Our Thailand Adventure - The 'Talent'

  

What happens when you take three couples from Australia: newlyweds from FNQ, primary teachers from Melbourne and a couple of mums from Perth and drop them in Asia for a week of cooking ‘surprises’?

We’ve spent the last couple of weeks in Thailand for our client Five Tastes (a new range of Asian meal kits, sauces and pastes) – putting it to the ultimate taste test with the help of our new besties: Brodie & Ash, Steven & Chris and Lara & Di.  The highlights will be seen in a series of minisodes and commercials coming soon.

Brodie and Ash had to outsell local street vendors in Bangkok’s busiest eat street – Soi 38, cooking Thailand’s most famous dish: Pad Thai.  But not before we made them catch the shrimp for the dish – in Brodie’s case with his bare hands!

Nice one Brodster!

Ash's Pad Thai brought all the boys to the yard!

Chris and Steven – who can’t cook, had to cook traditional Thai green curry for a wedding party in Chiang Mai.  I’m not sure what was funnier – them busting some Thai dance moves or them trying to climb palm trees to retrieve coconuts for the coconut milk they had to make the traditional way.

The boys giving Alms to the monks

Taking a dance lesson

We asked Lara and Di to trade their glam maxi dresses and heels for some traditional farming outfits and sent them into the mountains to work a rice paddy and cook Thai red curry for lunch for the locals.  The catch?  It was a frog red curry!  And they had to catch the frogs – along with some eels and catfish for a bit of added protein!  Oh – and we also made them eat crickets, silk worms, cicadas and an array of other critters!

Di wasn't too happy about eating insects

Frogs so big you could saddle them!

Thankyou guys for making this #FiveTastes adventure so much fun and for being so brave, enthusiastic and gracious – no matter what we asked you to do.  You Rock!