Bonus Episode! The sneaky plan that doubled the number of Thai restaurants in America
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In our last episode with actor Lauren Weedman, she wanted to know why there are so many Thai restaurants in Seattle. And we left her (and you) hanging!
But now we have answers. In this bonus episode, Rachel explores why there are so many Thai restaurants in the United States with Mark Padoongpatt, author of 'Flavors of Empire: Food and The Making of Thai America' and assistant professor of Asian American studies at University of Nevada Las Vegas.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:11.6 | Cairo, Seattle. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello and welcome to your last meal's first bonus episode. |
| 0:29.7 | It may be the last bonus episode. |
| 0:32.1 | Who is time to produce a bonus episode? |
| 0:32.9 | Just kidding. |
| 0:33.7 | We do. |
| 0:34.4 | Kind of. |
| 0:42.1 | I'm your host, Rachel Bell, and as promised, this is a follow-up to the last episode we released with actor Lauren Weigman. |
| 0:46.7 | And if you haven't listened to that yet, I strongly suggest that you do that first. |
| 0:50.0 | It will make this bonus content make a whole lot more sense. All right. So let's get started with a little bit of a recap. |
| 0:59.2 | Lauren Weedman wants pad Thai for her last meal. |
| 1:02.1 | She first tried the dish in Seattle, a city packed with Thai food. |
| 1:05.9 | I wonder, why is there so many Thai restaurants here? |
| 1:07.5 | I don't know. |
| 1:08.3 | Hmm, this is going to just, I don't know, goodbye sleep for the next week. |
| 1:11.4 | I'll just be obsessed. But that's the thing with this podcast is I will look into that. |
| 1:14.9 | My gosh. Yeah. Life is the process. And look into it. I did. I did some research. I emailed people. |
| 1:21.7 | I made phone calls on the actual phone. And I still couldn't figure out the answer. |
| 1:30.0 | Now, the obvious and easy answer would be that Seattle was flooded with Thai immigrants who open restaurants. But that just isn't true. |
| 1:35.4 | There are about 110 Thai restaurants in the city, but only about 1,200 Thai immigrants, |
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