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GIANT LOBSTER TOM YUM!! Insane Thai Street Food at Night Market in Bangkok, Thailand! - YouTube
Channel: Mark Wiens
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- Hey everyone.
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I hope you're having an amazing day.
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It's Mark Wiens. I'm in Bangkok, Thailand.
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This evening I am eating at
the Talad Rot Fai Ratchada,
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which is the Train Market.
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This is one of the most popular
night markets in Bangkok.
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There's a ton of street food,
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but specifically tonight this evening,
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I am here to eat, I think
they call it the XXL.
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It's a gigantic bowl of lobster tom yam.
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Probably the biggest one I've ever seen.
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So we're gonna eat that and
we're gonna eat some street food
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and I'm gonna share it
all with you right now.
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It's a really popular night market,
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especially with younger
people who come here
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to hang out, to eat street
food, to go shopping,
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and just a quick piece of
history about Talad Rot Fai.
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In Thai, it actually directly translates
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to the Train Market.
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And I remember years and years ago,
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the market actually started
on the railroad tracks.
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There was an empty lot so it
actually started right next
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to the railroad tracks near Chatuchak,
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but that plot of land, I
believe was eventually sold
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or something changed and
then the market shifted
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to two different locations,
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this being the most popular location.
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So there's no more railroad track,
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but the market still retains
its vintage, classic feel to it
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and I am not planning
to eat the XXL jumbo,
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gigantic bowl of tom yam lobster myself.
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I'm gonna meet up with my buddy Ramon.
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Hey Ramon!
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- How are you?
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- [Mark] Awesome. How are you man?
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- [Ramon] Good, good, good.
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Hi! Long time no see!
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- [Mark] Have you told Ramon
what we're gonna eat first?
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- Nope.
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(Mark laughing)
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- What are you gonna eat first?
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- [Mark] We are gonna go eat--
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- [Woman] I think we should wait.
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- [Mark] Oh, okay.
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Let's wait.
- Until we order--
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- [Mark] Let's just go wait and see.
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(all laughing)
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The main reason why we're here today.
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So everybody say, "Hello", to Ramon.
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- Hey, how's it goin' guys?
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- We've been friends for
many years in Bangkok,
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but Ramon is an extremely talented artist.
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I'll leave his channel in
the description box below.
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And Ramon loves to eat.
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(ordering in Thai)
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- In the back.
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- [Ramon] Oh, awesome that
we can smell the seafood.
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Wow.
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- [Mark] She's actually
still preparing all
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the tom yam stocks so we
have to wait a little while
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but in the meantime,
right across the lane,
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we're gonna try some,
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typically Thai khanom krok,
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are little coconut griddle cakes
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and they make them in
the half circle shape.
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They sizzle away
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and it's kind of a sweet,
savory coconut pudding,
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but this one is the most
extreme version I've ever seen.
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It kind of look like a
crossbred between a taco yaki,
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a Japanese street food,
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and Thai khanom krok.
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Cheers.
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- Pretty good.
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- Yeah, that is pretty good.
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Crispy and crunchy on the bottom,
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but gooey on the top,
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and then you've got that change
of texture with the squid.
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Dangerously tasty, oily snack.
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Imitation crab has never been my favorite,
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but it all kinda melts
together kinda nicely.
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- Yeah, it definitely melts,
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and then you got that crunch at the bottom
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that's really good.
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(Mark agreeing)
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- Perfect timing.
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She's getting started on the lobster.
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(shell cracking)
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That's gonna simmer for about 15 minutes,
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and then after that, hopefully,
we'll get them assembling
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the gigantic bowl of tom yam.
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- [Ramon] Is that crab, or are those fake?
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(rhythmic music)
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(speaking Thai)
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- Ramon and I were gonna
walk around as we wait for
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that lobster to boil,
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but we didn't make it far.
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Like literally right across the alley
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from where we are gonna eat the tom yam.
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They're female crabs,
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so you can see those eggs blooming,
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there are like yolks
pouring out of the crab.
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When you order it she makes
it into a green mango salad,
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so she first adds some green mango,
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some julienne green mango.
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Then she adds the crab on top.
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Then she adds some dressing,
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which is just loaded
with chilies and garlic.
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- [Ramon] Oh! She's gonna give me a glove.
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Awesome!
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- [Mark] (laughing) Thank you.
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Alright.
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The spice doesn't kick in until after,
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but that sauce that they have there is
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just really, really potent.
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Oh that's insane.
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Oh, it's so rich, it
just melts in your mouth.
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It's so garlicky.
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I think we forgot to mention,
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it's raw crab.
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Let me scoop up some of that
green mango at the bottom there
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and its just like soaked in that dressing
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with chilies all over it.
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Perfectly crisp.
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It's refreshing and salty and sour.
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They also have normal-sized
bowls of tom yam noodles here.
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She's making a bowl of normal.
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This is our bowl.
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And that's gonna be full soon.
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Oh man, she's just gonna
litter it with seafood.
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Okay, first goes in the squid.
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They literally emptied
those trays into our giant,
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it's a basin, it's not even a bowl,
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it's a basin.
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Dude, Ramon!
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I don't know if we should
have eaten those snacks.
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(group laughing)
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You gotta come take a look.
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- Wow! (laughing)
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- Oh, oh, oh, wow.
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Now comes the soup.
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(laughing) This thing is
absolutely giganormous.
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It's so massive.
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And you would actually think
that the noodles are below here
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but let me tell you,
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there are no noodles in this bowl.
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The foundation is all fish.
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All the noodles are on a
separate plate over here
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and over here.
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Oh, I just got stabbed by the lobster.
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- You could bathe a newborn in this.
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(both laughing)
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- Actually we did.
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(both laughing)
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This is the most colossal bowl of tom yam
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maybe in the world.
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- This is an average bowl.
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- That's a normal. (laughing)
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(Ramon laughing)
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Just compare. Yeah, just hold that up.
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There's so much seafood
it's hard to even navigate
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where the soup is,
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but there is a lot of soup down there.
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Okay, I'm gonna dig in on
this side of the lobster
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and just get some of
that soup broth first.
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We gotta--
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- [Ramon] I found a spot here.
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Yeah, that's good.
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- [Mark] Yeah
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It's pretty awesomely
good, really nice and sour.
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You taste that herbs in there.
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You taste that saku,
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despite being covered in chilies,
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it's not actually spicy.
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You could go swimming in
this with the seafood.
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- [Ramon] Literally.
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- [Mark] What do you
wanna dive into first?
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- [Ramon] Lets go straight
for the lobster, yeah.
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- [Mark] We gotta go for
the trophy right there
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in the center and this is
the gigantic centerpiece.
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I think we should just kinda
go in and scoop it out,
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kinda leverage this guy out.
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There's the buttery head juice,
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melting in there.
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Wow, that is a huge chunk. Very muscular.
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- [Ramon] Wanna get a
little bit of soup in there.
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- [Mark] Yeah, yeah.
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(marketplace bustling)
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- Tender.
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- [Mark] Yeah and at the same
time a little bit muscular.
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Yeah, just wrapped up in that
salty, sour tom yam broth.
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Alright, lets go for the fish
because the entire foundation
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literally the bottom of
this basin is all fish.
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There's so much fish down there,
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and we can kinda like--
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Oh, you can dig from there,
you can dig from all over.
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It's just sprouting with fish.
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In Thai the name of the
fish is called plah doree,
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and we have a lot of it to eat.
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It's a very, very soft fish.
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- Really soft. Really tender.
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- [Mark] Because it's sitting
at the bottom of the bowl
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so it definitely absorbed
quite a lot of tom yam.
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So that's like a fish tom yam sponge.
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(Ramon laughing)
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Whoa, you can grab the
whole bite if you want to.
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They are definitely stuck together.
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They have been sitting
here for a little while.
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Yes! (laughing)
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- [Ramon] Hey!
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- You dip this into the soup.
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to rehydrate it in the
soup and then you eat it.
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Let's try one of the mussels.
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I think what we can kinda do, fill up--
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Oh man, you've got the right idea.
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Just scoop up some of the broth.
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Just pour it on there,
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the natural spoon.
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Cheers!
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- [Ramon] Cheers!
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That's good.
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(Mark agreeing)
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- Mine is only half-cooked
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so it kinda like melts in your mouth,
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but I like it that way.
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You gotta use a lot of different utensils
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for this bowl.
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Some things you gotta eat with chopsticks,
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Some things you gotta eat with a spoon.
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Some things we just gotta
reach in with our hands.
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- [Ramon] Just dig in.
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- Let's go in for these shrimp.
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And these are freshwater shrimp I believe.
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The head just sorta falls off,
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but there should be some
goodness inside the head as well.
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One of the great things
about this tom yam soup is
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you can dip all your seafood too,
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It's a sauce and a broth.
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And then you can suck up all
the goodness from the head.
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Aw man, from the head,
that's where it's at.
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That juicy buttery-ness.
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- Dripping with goodness.
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(both laughing)
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- [Mark] I think crab is next.
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Little crab drumsticks.
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Everything is saturated with tom yam.
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- [Ramon] It's soft and spongy.
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- [Mark] You can always just re-dip.
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Rehydrate.
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I'm gonna do that spoon method,
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grabbing a piece of the squid
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with some of the broth all at once.
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- [Ramon] Oh.
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- [Mark] At first you think
its gonna be a little rubbery,
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but then it just chews so easily.
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- [Ramon] Yeah.
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- [Mark] Not at all.
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- [Ramon] Yeah. So which
one is your favorite?
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- Out of all of the seafood, oh man,
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the lobster is just a special trophy item,
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but the mussels are so awesome.
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The mussels are excellent.
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How about you?
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- Actually yeah, I was
gonna say the mussels
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are my favorite I think.
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- The mussels?
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- The mussels are great, yeah.
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- It's soft and you got that
spoonful of tom yam in there.
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It's really flavorful.
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(woman speaking Thai)
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- [Mark] Now that we've tasted everything,
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Ramon and I are just kina
snacking on this giant bowl,
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leisurely just nibbling away.
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It's really good,
actually I like the squid.
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It's almost so soft that it
almost has like a cheese,
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like a mozzarella elasticity to it.
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It's not the most fresh
seafood you'll ever had,
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but it's pretty decent and
the flavor is pretty good.
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You really just want to eat
this for the ginormous size,
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and just for how awesome it is to look at.
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- This is amazing.
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And you should see the looks on the people
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that walk by because they--
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- Oh man. People--
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- [Ramon] They look and
they take pictures of it.
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- Some people actually stop
and put their cell phone
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right above our bowl of
tom yam and take a photo.
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It's great. Absolutely great.
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This is a show stopper.
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- Yeah, attention grabber.
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- [Mark] Ramon's digging out the head.
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The juiciest parts are in here.
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- [Mark] If that just like, plops--
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- I don't think I got it all but--
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- [Mark] It looks like a cave!
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- Melts on your tongue.
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- Yeah.
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(rhythmic music)
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(group laughing)
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Hello!
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- [Ramon] Oh hey!
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- [Man] I watch your YouTube.
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- [Mark] Thank you very much.
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How's the tom yam?
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- [Group] Good!
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- [Mark] Where are you from?
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- [Group] Singapore!
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- [Ramon] Nice to meet you!
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- [Group] Nice to meet you.
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- [Mark] Quick update,
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we've been eating pretty
steadily for about 30 minutes,
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and we have made a lot of progress.
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Do you think we can do it Ramon?
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- I think so. I think we can do it.
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- [Mark] We will
definitely see the bottom.
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See the bottom of this.
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We are definitely at the very home stage.
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If you rummage your
chopsticks through here now,
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you'd come up almost empty-handed.
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There's a few things to go fishing for.
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We are pretty much at the finish line.
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For a drink.
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- [Ramon] Together?
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- [Woman] Are you gonna drink it?
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- [Mark] I don't know if we
can drink it together, can we?
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(Ramon laughing)
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That is a lot of salty
broth at the bottom there.
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Alright Ramon, (laughing)
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it's your turn.
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It's like drinking out of a bathtub.
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Alright Ramon, we gotta do this.
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There's still a few pieces of fish.
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We're like moving extra slow right now.
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- I've had to undo a belt hole.
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- Move down the next notch?
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- Yeah, I had to widen
my pants a little bit.
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- [Mark] We do have one final bite Ramon.
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(dramatic music)
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(cheering)
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Accomplished.
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Thinking about getting up.
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but we just can't physically
stand up right now.
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How are you feeling Ramon.?
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- I feel like I am two kilos
heavier than when I arrived.
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- [Mark] The seafood is still here.
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Its at the table.
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But instead of being in the bowl,
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it's now transferred
directly in our stomachs.
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We are gonna be sweating tom
yam for the next three days.
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We're stumbling out of
that stall, that tent.
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And now when we're leaving
it absolutely packed.
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But the entire market
now is packed as well.
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I feel like I'm just
floating along right now
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There's no food in this market
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that looks good to me right now.
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Oh yeah! Maybe a shake.
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(blender grinding)
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Pretty cool. Pretty creative idea.
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This is great.
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After all of that salty tom yam,
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watermelon and ice has
never tasted so good.
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That's the most refreshing
things I've ever had
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at this moment in my life.
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Yeah, it's nice to have a
different taste in your mouth,
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instead of just bites some tom yam.
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- [Mark] (laughing) I agree!
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- [Mark] What are your
final thoughts Ramon?
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- [Ramon] Now that I've
walked around a little bit,
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I think I got a little more room.
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It's a little more room now.
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- It's starting to settle,
starting to settle.
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- It's starting to settle.
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- Feeling better.
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- A lot better.
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- [Mark] Feeling better.
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- [Ramon] That was awesome. Intense
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- I want to say a huge thank you to Ramon
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for helping me eat that.
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But we just had a great time and Ramon,
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again, he has an awesome channel,
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a drawing channel, sketches.
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= I show people how to draw
their favorite nerdy characters,
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from comic books, movies, video games.
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That kinda stuff so if
you guys are interested
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in all that stuff then
definitely check it out.
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Link will be in the description box below.
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Check out Ramon
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and also he loves to eat.
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And we just had a lot of fun.
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So thank you Ramon for joining me.
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- Yeah, Thanks.
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- Thanks man.
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Well that's it for this video.
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I want to say a huge
thank you for watching.
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