Trendy food trucks, county health department wonks, watch this and marvel. Shot at the Amphawan Floating Market in Samut Songkram Province in Thailand, this YouTube clip shows in real time how a boat vendor cooks pad thai.
She has her mise en place stacked on plates and a small but trusty wok. And for hand washing? Well, duh, she's surrounded by water. Try watching it without getting hungry, or sea sick.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.