Extreme Food Backyard!! SMOKED CATFISH + Jungle Beans - Thailand Farm to Table!!

hey everyone hope you're having an amazing day it's mark wiens i'm in chiang mai thailand and today i'm at one of the most spectacular organic farms that i've ever seen 30 different edible things to eat right here maybe and the family that runs the farm also cooks amazing food we're gonna harvest our own vegetables and ingredients broken bones is also for lunch today and then we are gonna cook a meal from the land and i cannot wait to share the food with you this incredible meal experience the ultimate farm to table backyard paradise my name is warwick moravid yeah all right and my dad is he's a veteran and he's now preparing something at home so yeah oh okay and this is your family farm though yeah all right great and so first we are gonna go for a farm tour and walk around and see some of the organic produce and things that you grow here yeah let's get started shall we let's go i'm already loving just the naturalness the peacefulness and it's also really cool to learn about the organic practices and strategies that they're using here on the farm [Music] just almost everything that we can eat so we don't have to focus about what to sell such as if the rice price is too low however we we do also have our storage to that that we can keep this one and we can just do something like produce it and eat it so it's self-sufficient yeah also if we have enough for our family so we do also sell this one okay oh this is one of my favorite things long pepper it has more of a almost like a pepper berry taste to it but it is spicy especially when it's red and ripe like that that one's huge and so they have a sea of mango trees which are flowering right now and those are going to produce the fruits yeah very cool and then something that i love about their farm here is that it's so well-rounded so diverse and also that it's used for self-consumption but then also as a training center and i think people can come here to learn about farming practices crop diversification holistic natural lifestyle and then as you get to the back of the farm again rice paddy fields and then you have more and more fruit trees back here there's some avocado there are pomelo citrus and lots of mangoes you've got to see this tamarind it is huge it's face-sized tamarind i believe it's sour i don't know it's definitely not a sweet tamarind it's still hard but massive healthy fresh we should taste one the biggest one oh that one's pretty huge with this one this one's massive how about this one this one's huge huh oh my god there we go wow look at the size it's curled up it's like a smiley face pop this oh man wow that is sour but that is really good it's the texture of a green apple but just about 80 times sourer we are now at the farmhouse beautiful house overlooking the rice fatty fields and the farm there's a fire going there's a whole shelter for camping and cooking and hanging out this place is superb and then there's a bunch of edible herbs and vegetables i think surrounding the house that maybe we'll quickly take a look at back here on the side of the house is the edible more like the daily backyard herbs and vegetables that you can literally just pick and eat straight from the ground it's just a forest of edibles here from fish mint to coriander to tomatoes to chives to pumpkin oh man if you keep going back it's just everything here is edible is it watercress i think watercress as well bunch more tomatoes in the back vines okay 18 different kinds of tomatoes whoa okay we'll check it out here we go 18 varieties of tomatoes and was telling me his dad is a big fan of tomatoes there's little green tomatoes there's tomatoes that have the shape of a light bulb there's big beefy juicy huge tomatoes there's crinkly heirloom tomatoes [Music] carrots and some kind of greens and mustard greens and italian pasta oh i love it italian parsley oh this is very good very healthy your kids happy over there this is wild rocket yeah very strong let's try thank you apply my cup very nice oh wow i love rocket oh man that is it goes up your nose a little bit taste that horseradish taste to it there's nothing fresher oh that's therapeutic that is vibrant this makes me just want to put my face into this greenness again incredibly vibrant and sweet wow that's delicious and this is absolutely amazing within this i don't know 10 square meter radius there's like 30 different edible things to eat right here maybe i mean that's just a total guess but this is unbelievable and everything just growing in harmony and greenness and naturalness and ultra vibrant spectacular so it's a jujube it's like a little plum which comes from this tree right here oh it's starchy a little bit sweet i love this shower kind of sweet the sweetness kind of comes welcome drink thank you [Music] oh yeah [Music] it doesn't get any fresher or healthier than that [Music] better than a straw this came off the tree approximately 15 seconds ago wow oh man that is something that never gets old in your life oh it's sweet it's full of electrolytes otherworldly it's so sweet [Music] last year in march under nine months and you have a banana jungle 66 banana trees giant healthy bananas it's a banana forest going into the banana jungle micah oh it's so cool in here just keep moving because of the mosquitoes they're so useful everything and so edible everything from the trunk to the fruit to the flower the leaves are so incredibly useful it's just a something that's made to be consumed and it grows so fast too yeah it's so no grass nothing can grow under bananas [Music] oh next drink roselle from the garden literally everything is from the property and grown organically oh that's great yeah chrysanthemum i think it's chrysanthemum chrysanthemum white chrysanthemum we're picking some of them mint and oh yeah that just clears out your nostrils that's great yeah over on this side of the house he's already made some teas with the chrysanthemum that we just picked on the side of the house and that mint oh man that's just soothing and minty and then the white crescendo you can just feel how relaxing and just very light flavor that is but just really soothing oh that mint mint is so strong it goes up your nose a little bit and back to that coconut oh man that is the perfect meat of a coconut not too hard not too soft but jelly and it's so incredibly juicy the fresh bale fruit normally you'll see bale fruit which is dried and sliced and made into a tea this is the fresh fruit usually a very sticky inside wow that is like a custard sweet honey [Music] that comes out of that side of it this is so cool yeah [Music] it's time to eat [Laughter] brings the full circle of the ecosystem together and the chickens are an important part so we're just seeing the flock and he is feeding them actually broken pieces of rice [Music] little baby duck micah you got some fresh these are duck eggs [Music] chicken is over here still smoking in the barrel and then over here they have put some catfish on the grill over fire which were marinated in pounded turmeric that they get every literally everything from the chicken to the catfish to the turmeric to the seasonings maybe apart from salt everything that they use here they grill themselves on this farm so cool to have the entire farm tour and then the food will have so much more meaning seeing seeing where everything came from this organic farm is the greatest ever backyard supermarket and we just keep running out of the house and in the house from the kitchen to the yard to grab ingredients one more ingredient that we are going to harvest he said he's not totally sure if any of them are if they're still young enough oh maybe up there but it is in thai it's called linfa in english it's called either broken bones or midnight horror but it's one of my favorite trees it's just this lanky tree with sometimes like a dozen leaves and these giant hanging pods we'll get another one if you're at a market and you buy it you have to do the floppy test to make sure if it's edible or not otherwise it will be woody and dry there we go this one is edible and green we're going to throw this on the fire and roast it those don't pass the floppy test no they're stiff broken bones is also for lunch today [Laughter] now you know how to buy it [Music] those just go plop directly onto the fire uh um [Music] [Music] which is that vegetable with sweet chili with sweet fish sauce which they're gonna make all from scratch again using everything that they make from here at the farm so includes coconut sugar includes the dry tamarind and then also dry chilies take up go in oh [Music] oh and then he's putting the tamarind into some hot water to get that pulp off of them so you just have to boil flash foil i think the neem flowers they are extremely bitter it's ready okay and so in goes the coconut sugar which has been already dissolved into some water to make it easier they'll boil that down until it gets sticky again into a normal syrup okay the coconut sugar has boiled in it here in goes the tamarind oh you smell that sourness right away [Music] how broken bones in the coals they have this really amazing fragrance kind of vegetal and smoky you kind of can char the whole outsides of the skin there and i think peel them back and then we're gonna eat the insides it's okay now oh it's okay so cool i've eaten it many times but never seen it being cooked or harvested and after on the fire then you just peel it back like a like if you were to char an eggplant and then peel back the skin tip really trim them up like a steak almost trim off the edges and the little hard fibrous bits and then they're going to be wrapped in a banana leaf and re-cooked i think complex procedure but right off the tree [Music] wrapped in banana leaves and then go back over the fire to just slow cook now man i didn't know it was such a process to make them absolutely fascinating so much dried chili in there the fumes of the chilies [Music] look at that color oh and the fried shell let's go on top gonna make a mix do one of each a duck chicken and turkey all together in one omelette i love the colors i love the look at the yellowness of that yolk that's duck chicken this one is chicken right and we have all three [Music] the odd shapes and sizes those are real natural free-range eggs so the fish sauce goes in okay god huh [Applause] look at that fluffiness oh look how yellow it is it's a turkey egg a duck egg and a chicken egg all in one omelette something i've never had before and that technique of hers stir it whip it beat it until you drop it in the oil so it's fluffy man that is gonna be i can already guarantee you the greatest omelet ever got it i think we're just about getting ready to eat the catfish are just about done the chicken is ready and it smells incredible and that like sticky crust on the top of the chicken from being slow baked and smoked is unbelievable look at the color of this chicken ying almost looks like a like a chassiu it's so golden wow that is gonna be insane [Music] oh yeah oh wow bitter but sweet and smoky and crunchy mm-hmm although i'm mock up oh that's the best lean fly ever it's like a giant green bean and aloe vera and bitterness and smokiness all together in one you just made one for a bite for me but with the sadao you take all those little buds put it into your spoon with some of the smoky catfish and then some of the the one the sweet coconut chili chili and you eat it all together so you've got so many contrasts so many different things in one bite oh man i can't wait for this bite [Laughter] sour sweet bitter and spicy that's like all you could possibly want in your mouth at once i can't even believe the green colors the shades of green that yellow bright literally a bright yellow omelet the smoky catfish one of the most beautiful meals i've ever seen okay let's try it again so you take some of the sadao especially you want the only the buds mainly right mainly the buds into your spoon and you can take some of the smoky catfish which has been on the on the fire for like two hours so it's kind of dried out and smoky onto your bite really sticky sauce which is amazingly sweet but balanced because it's coconut sugar yet spicy and sour all at the same time oh wow this is sticky rice but brown sticky rice yeah miles it's rare yeah rare to find and even the rice is from your farm oh it's still good so fresh tasting and healthy and gooey okay we've got to move into some of the other dishes i want to try that omelette the fowl trio with a little bit of rice it will be extra good actually you can just pick this up with your fingers because it's sticky right oh man it's juicy and fluffy and rich and that is how eggs should taste free range natural that man unbelievable that's so good the purity this is from the garden seconds ago everything do a little veg bundle into the dipping sauce which is chili and garlic mainly um oh wow with the horseradish taste of that rocket the garlic which one is this like a like a must like a pakkat so maybe like a mustard green or this sauce is just incredible garlicky yeah yum jumpsuit all that mock-up it's so just green chili garlic lime juice mmm wow seconds ago picked oh we gotta try one of these chilis okay very spicy very spicy oh it just bursts fruity oh yeah that's spicy that is a but that is fresh okay and then also coriander oh you can just wad up a ball of coriander the chili comes slowly now it's building and then this is the way a meal should be so many vegetables and natural ingredients nothing compares to this farm to your table we gotta try that chicken again this was smoked for about three hours melt in your mouth yeah it's smoky not dried out so juicy oh that's unbelievable that skin is so sticky from that smoke although i mock up and then with every bite you can chase with some of the wild rocket with some coriander fresh vegetables i could not be any happier than eating a meal exactly like this cooked with so much heart and love and not only the cooking but all the whole process of the ingredients that you guys grow yourself here on the farm that's taken so much care this is like pure love in the food and then we've just got a simple stir fried vegetables a little bit of soy sauce in there and then just the natural sweetness of the vegetables i'm going to chase with some of the lean flour [Music] oh so normally you're going to eat it with a pickup like a shrimp paste chili dip wow and that texture that sliminess that crunch this is a backyard food paradise [Music] thank you [Music] and also just so cool that we're all eating together as a family farm-to-table one of the most special meals i've ever had [Music] and i just found out that there's some of the the deeply the long pepper in the marinade of the chicken [Music] wow it turns purple yeah oh and it smells so good so first the banana is dried yeah dried in the sun for how many four days three or four days yeah and then after that you can cook it or you can no keep in the churro ah before we put it in 15 minutes and then steam it for 15 minutes and this is uh we had to end this meal with some dessert and some dessert from the farm bananas from that massive banana patch for these bananas they take the banana and then they dry it for three or four days and then after that they steam it so it kind of transforms the banana but no additional any things and no chemicals to preserve just all natural chemical just all natural preservation technique wow it's so good though it's like banana bread but the best banana bread you've ever had with no additional anything just sunlight just real banana but it does it does definitely condense the sweetness just yeah it's more concentrated everything is the perfect ending to this meal i wouldn't want anything else i might have not shown it but when we first arrived i really honestly had no idea what to expect we just called we made an arrangement to come and see the farm and do a little bit of i thought it was just i mean we thought we were just going to cook maybe something really simple at the house to do a very simple video but this just turned into one of the most memorable meal experiences i've had treating plants and animals and food with respect ultimate respect the slow food the natural food the way food is really meant to be consumed again i want to say a huge thank you and yeah this was this exceeded my expectations and anything i had ever imagined about this farm and it's what i'm experiencing and then additionally i just want to tell you if you haven't already seen i have another channel which is called big on spice which is dedicated to nutrition to eating healthier we're focusing on organic farms we're going to be eating food that's good for you and food that's still big on spice and so if you haven't already checked out that channel make sure you go check that out i'll have the information and i'll have that link in the description box again so you can subscribe and i'm going to be publishing videos on that channel too but that wraps it up thanks again for watching and i will see you on the next video

Channel: Mark Wiens

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Length: 33min 45sec (2025 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 19 2022