Thailand Temple Tradition Feeding 70 Monks at Sunrise

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:03]Good morning, guys.

[00:00:06]Well, I don't know if you can hear this. I'll go right on the side.

[00:00:13]Hopefully, you can hear it on the microphone, but this is the um the monks doing their chant for the morning. They've been um basically doing it all night.

[00:00:26]So, I think there's about 70 or 80 monks.

[00:00:31]Milo's up and about. Good morning.

[00:00:34]But, let's go and let's go down and see what's what's going on down in the restaurant.

[00:00:40]Tam's already been down there a while.

[00:00:42]She didn't wake me up.

[00:00:44]Um >> [laughter] >> I've just managed to wake up myself, so let's go and have a look.

[00:00:49]But, I know Tam's cooking uh Pad Kra Pao, and she's cooking it I think for about 70 people, so yeah. [sighs] Bless her. Let's go and have a look.

[00:01:02]So, yeah.

[00:01:03]Oh, a bit dark.

[00:01:09]Good morning.

[00:01:12]>> [laughter] >> All right, let's go and have a look and see what's going on.

[00:01:33]I can smell I can smell that. Good morning, everyone.

[00:01:38]Good night.

[00:01:40]Good morning. Good morning.

[00:01:44]So, what is it you're cooking, darling?

[00:01:46]Pad Kra Pao? Pad Kra Pao.

[00:01:49]All right, yes.

[00:01:53]I don't know.

[00:01:53]Mhm.

[00:01:57]Mhm.

[00:01:59]Yes.

[00:02:01]>> Can put in microwave the box? Yeah, definitely.

[00:02:08]You can put enough eggs.

[00:02:11]70 eggs. 70 eggs.

[00:02:14]>> [laughter] >> My inside.

[00:02:37]Oh.

[00:02:40]Another app.

[00:02:42]It's Park Hopper.

[00:02:47]I do love Park Hopper.

[00:02:52]I'm not 100% sure what ceremony this is.

[00:02:56]It's obviously quite a what a Buddhist Buddhist thing in the village or they must have a load of monks from um all over the place come because there's so many here. I'll I've got some photos of uh of the actual monks and everything that are here. So, I will screenshot them and I'll put them on.

[00:03:17]So.

[00:03:20]But like I said, it's quite early in the morning. It's just gone 4:00, I think.

[00:03:26]So, the girls have already been up and they've cooked and prepped and pretty much done what they got to do.

[00:03:34]I'm going to grab myself a Maybe you can sit in there.

[00:03:39]And let's have coffee. No, you can't sit there.

[00:03:44]Uh I'll wake myself up some.

[00:03:54]All right. got some more rice going on.

[00:03:58]I'll uh pop back to you in a bit.

[00:04:01]Catch you later.

[00:04:08]So, that's one batch.

[00:04:11]We're uh Tom's busy waiting on some rice, so uh she's cooking more pakora batter.

[00:04:18]I'll show you the process.

[00:04:23]So, can can you tell everybody what this is actually in aid of for the monks?

[00:04:30]Mhm. Is it a Is it a big celebration or are they We call it Paliwat. If you call 10 recent time Yeah. And 60 monks 60 monks, yeah.

[00:04:44]pray and talk pray for people before pray for everything for the God and Yeah, and they need they really feed monks and people in temple too monks 60 people about 20 people 80 So, about 80 people you're going to feed today. Mhm.

[00:05:18]And uh tell Tell everybody how this has been funded so you can do all this.

[00:05:25]How How people Uh people put money.

[00:05:29]Yeah. Uh Mark put money, my husband put money, Oh, I put money.

[00:05:36]and niece and Everybody can put money and then we buy the we have money. Mhm.

[00:05:43]>> How much we have and then we we buy the food same people.

[00:05:48]How do call in this? Donate? Donate, yeah. Yeah, donate. That's it. Yeah.

[00:05:55]If you have a lot, we cook a lot. If you have a little bit, we cook a little bit.

[00:05:58]Mhm. It's for good luck and good for feeling, too. Yeah.

[00:06:04]Good luck for us, good luck for the restaurant.

[00:06:09]All very good.

[00:06:12]I mean, this week and every week.

[00:06:14]>> [clears throat] >> You like to put cook pan kra pao really, because that's your uh that's your best seller, isn't it, really?

[00:06:29]Pan kra pao.

[00:06:41]We cook already.

[00:06:43]Hm? We got it.

[00:06:46]I know. I I woke up this morning and I thought, "Ooh, what can I smell?" Yeah.

[00:06:56]Is that pepper? Yeah, pepper.

[00:06:58]White pepper.

[00:07:00]White pepper?

[00:07:03]More color.

[00:07:05]More color.

[00:07:20]All right, certainly is a pan kra pao.

[00:07:31]Only more color.

[00:07:34]Yeah, I just steam that off, won't it?

[00:07:37]Yeah.

[00:07:40]It's secret.

[00:07:44]Secret.

[00:07:46]Magic powder.

[00:07:47]>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:07:49]We know all about that magic powder.

[00:07:52]Magic powder.

[00:07:56]Powder.

[00:07:58]Like a sugar.

[00:08:13]Like a salt.

[00:08:21]What sauce is that?

[00:08:23]Oyster Oyster sauce.

[00:08:30]Onion and garlic.

[00:08:34]Fish sauce.

[00:08:38]I like the way you just chuck it in there. After the food.

[00:08:46]I don't cook anything unless I don't measure it all out. No.

[00:08:50]Made to hand.

[00:08:52]Ready?

[00:09:04]More sweet.

[00:09:06]More sweet.

[00:09:25]It's a shame.

[00:09:29]Just boil that down there until it goes a bit bit drier.

[00:09:34]And there's the conveyor going in.

[00:09:53]Hey. I'm good.

[00:09:58]Smells lovely.

[00:10:01]Oh.

[00:10:01]That's Tom's large version of the the pakora pancakes of the monks. So, yeah.

[00:10:06]So, basically then, um, the, uh, he's feeding about 80 people today.

[00:10:14]So, sunrise is just coming up. Let's have a little, uh, little nose around.

[00:10:27]You can just hear the monks in the background, but they've been, um, they've been chanting all night. They haven't stopped all night long, and I mean, they started at, um, I think it was about 7:00, I think, last night, because we were, uh, in the restaurant. So, uh, uh, let's have a quick look at this, uh, sunrise. Everybody likes a sunrise, don't they?

[00:10:56]If we can see it.

[00:10:58]>> [snorts] >> A bit further over. So, uh, pop around the back. Have a good look.

[00:11:11]Oh, good morning.

[00:11:12]>> [laughter] >> All right, let's pop back down.

[00:11:31]These are all going be individually uh wrapped by the looks of it.

[00:11:38]And then we're going to take these down to the temple in a minute.

[00:11:42]So, I'll take you guys down there as well.

[00:11:47]But, there's a few more to make yet.

[00:11:49]Just waiting on some more rice again, so That's a lot of pad kra pao.

[00:11:59]So, this is the boot of uh Tom's niece's car. I was just chucked a load more in there. Be a few more going down and we'll be uh heading off down to the temple.

[00:12:08]Oops.

[00:12:09]>> [laughter] >> Oops.

[00:12:13]Then we'll be heading off down to the temple. I don't know uh I don't know what that was.

[00:12:26]So, yeah. Let's head off down to the temple and we'll uh go and put these down so they're ready to give out to the monks later.

[00:12:36]So, we've just got down to the uh temple. As you can see, it's a bit of a hive of activity.

[00:12:42]Lots going on. Lots of people about.

[00:12:46]Okay.

[00:12:47]You got one? Yep.

[00:12:49]Okay.

[00:13:02]I've got So, uh a lot of people in the village have done a lot of different food.

[00:13:15]So, it'll all be brought down and put down here.

[00:14:10]>> So yeah, there's a lot of uh a lot of mouths to feed down here. I think, well, as I said, I think there's about 60 or 70 monks, plus all the other people who are down here helping and what have you.

[00:14:23]It's a big celebration, so So, all the common girls are at work this morning. It's uh all paid off and done, and uh >> So that's it, guys. We've uh brought our bits and pieces down.

[00:15:32]And uh we're going to head off and leave them to it cuz uh Tam's got to open up the uh restaurant. Well, she's got to go off and get the fresh vegetables and the uh food, uh meat to eat.

[00:15:48]So she'll be going off to go get that.

[00:15:49]So we're As you can see, there's loads of rice and you know, all the village have uh well, not all the village, but a lot of the village have uh chipped in, done a little bit, all else and uh everything else. So it's all about making merit in Thailand and uh do good, you receive good.

[00:16:12]So there you go, guys. That's it. We're going to head off. Um thank you very, very much for tuning in to this one.

[00:16:18]Only a short little vlog this, just to show you what we've uh what Tam's been up to and the girls.

[00:16:26]So uh until the next one, guys.

[00:16:29]Take care of yourselves, take it easy, and we'll see you soon. Take care.

[00:16:32]Bye-bye.