Quick disclaimer then location pins. First, this was a really intense video- unlike a typical food subject (where there's never THAT much written literature), delving into religion, it's...a mountain. We understand that anything relating to religion is a VERY tough subject to get right, and also, it's a deeply personal thing to many people, so please understand that nothing in this video is in any possible way intended to cause offense or personal disrespect. Our goal was to simply stick with facts related to diet and consumption of food. We put a lot of work into trying to get this as historically accurate as possible, and did our best to not give any impression of editorializing, but please, understand that in no way was any offense intended to any individual or group. Thanks for understanding. With that said, this week's pins: -Vegetarian Community of Bangkok - maps.app.goo.gl/VNyG5DX7BTdqegjF8 -Shree Bhavan - maps.app.goo.gl/5qWAx3BNZsBXTHmz7 -Veganerie - maps.app.goo.gl/uQz8o8ZEb5ddb7QS7 -Kini Puffs - maps.app.goo.gl/PXvxs5RNbYQJtLgS9 -The Fried Chicken Lady - maps.app.goo.gl/MyLAzbszeCnuEVhX8

That was a lot to unpack my friend. As a meat eater, the understanding of the religious nature of not eating meat is understood, you know you do you. But then I moved to China and experienced so many meatless options I was blown away. I can now make some sense of it and see how the devout view foods and their origins of that food relating to peace from within. Another delightfully eye opening production from the OTR team.

Let's fuckin gooooo Wife and I are vegan and eat almost entirely Chinese and SE Asian foods at home because of how easy it all is to make vegan, love seeing a channel that talks about it without the western youtuber "LeTs tRy ThiS WeIrd FoOd" veneer. Love your work. Im the cook in the house and I adore channels like yours that actually explore the culture around and in food honestly with an open heart and kind outlook. I was prepared for the "vegan cult" video to be just gawking and pointing at the members and their faith but it was such a sweet video, I go back to it a lot Big fan my dude, tell the Chinese Cooking Demystified folks they rock too

I’m so glad I found this channel from the deep dive on the origin and history of sriracha. The writing and production in these videos is of such high quality and I feel like I’m gradually developing a more nuanced historical and cultural understanding of all these amazing flavors and cuisines I’ve been exploring as a home cook.

This is the first time I have ever seen anyone discuss about Jains and their version of veggie food. Excited to learn more about them.

Better than Netflix thankssss @otr team

This is my favorite video I’ve ever seen on KZfaq. I’ve been to all these places without knowing the background, culture, history, etc. and would have gone a lifetime never knowing. Thank you for making your voice the true representation of this mix of cultures, told in your own unique and transparent way.

I learned about Jainism a very long time ago, but this specific festival aligns with the 9 Emperor Gods Festival in Malaysia and I've been observing that festival's 9 days of meatless eating absent onion and garlic for many years now.

Wow, this is truly mind blowing to learn that Jae aka Nine Gods Emperor Festival in Malaysia is celebrated in such a massive scale in Thailand... In Malaysia it's purely a Taoist celebration where the 9 days vegetarian diet is observed only amongst the Chinese community.

There is a very big difference between vegan and vegetarian. The Jay Festival is vegetarian and by extra religious restrictions even exceeds most vegan standards. That however doesn't mean the ingredients are actually vegan - that's a big misconception. Just because it's a vegetable doesn't mean it wasn't fertilized with fish meal, blood meal or bone meal - all of which quite common fertilizers and all of which turn a vegetable non-vegan.

Really excellent episode. Narrative, edits, cinematography... everything. Congrats, and thank you, from Ireland. So excited to be arriving in Bangkok on Friday. Have been admiring your films for a year now, and this one was just class.

Very very interesting; a ton of information that I was relatively clueless about! Thanx, very very mucho!

Great video. I have thoroughly enjoyed all your content. The deep dives into the stories behind the food is fantastic.

Nice story telling and love the ending part :)

Another gem! You-all are the best! There's one of those big cafeterias in Chiang Mai but, for some reason, it's closed.

I routinely watch all the popular channels about SE Asia. I truly appreciate your approach of telling us history along with foods. Write a book? I adore the James Beard style of writing a quick narrative that gives both a taste of the history of the dish, personal history of the dish and the recipe. You have such a wealth of knowledge that opens up the lineage and future of food. It's rare to find such quality content. Thank you for your work!

Love this. Thanks for providing the map locations to these places.

The intro was long but made the entire video so much more rewarding, great job as always!

Theravada Buddhism have a law for monk that they could not be picky about food they got. And that in turn, leaving the interpretation of "do no harm" being that they cannot order or request to eat meat, so not harming anything by themselves. That also made them cannot request to eat only vegetable too To the extreme is, they can eat meat from the corpse of animal that die naturally. Because they don't harm anything for that meat And so lab grown meat actually sinless in Buddhism

You guys never cease to impress, as borne out by your soring subscriber count! One of the most sophisticated, educational and well produced documentary channels anywhere on KZfaq. Tuesday afternoon is fast becoming my favourite time of the week.

Awesome, loved this episode! OTR Food & History just gets better and better 🙏☺

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL, SO GOOD RESEARCH ON THE HISTORY AND THE QUALITY OF CUTTING, SO WE WHO LOOK AT THE VIDEO WANTS TO SEE MORE, RESPECT TO YOU ALL IN THE TEAM 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤🤍💙💙🤍❤❤

Thanks for making this video. It was awesome!

Nice one guys, Thanks for making such a great vid!

Here are a few interesting topics to explore about Thai cuisine or food in general: * Jasmine rice (+ a few varieties of rice e.g. sticky rice) * Fish sauce (Thai, Korean, etc.) * Fermented condiment/ingredients (e.g. shrimp paste, Nam Budu, Pla Ra) * Fruits being used in savory dishes

Brilliant !, as it always is. Thank you Team OTR.

Oh I didn’t know that the street food vendors modify their food to vegetarian during the Nine Emperor Gods Festival. Interesting! Some (not all) Chinese Indonesians celebrate the festival as well, known as Kiu Ong Tai Tei in Hokkien. But it’s not as big of a celebration as Cap Go Meh (the 15th day of Lunar New Year), where some (not all) in my island of Borneo have the tradition of self-mortification like what they have at the Vegetarian Festival in Thailand as well. I’m too lily-livered for all of these LOL I just wanted to add that many Westerners misunderstand things like tofu and tempeh, thinking that these are exclusively vegetarian or vegan, when in Asia we do have them in combination with meat and even offals 😁

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Another masterpiece of a video, me and the family loved every second of it! A great exploration of a topic that a Bengali household like ours may not be all that familiar with, but your approach was highly informative and appreciated. One small thing I'd like to mention is the statistic that 44% of Indians are vegetarian; every statistic that I've seen from those in the F&B industry here (not that I'm in it myself, mind you) has shown that figure being closer to 20-25%, but also its important to note that a not-insignificant number of Indians observe vegetarianism temporarily (a common example being only following vegetarianism 2-3 days out of a week), thus creating a divide between those who describe themselves as vegetarian and those who don't but still follow the practice... sometimes. Further complicating matters is the fact that some coastal communities (like some of my own family in West Bengal) don't differentiate between vegetarianism and pescatarianism, and then there's straight up oddities like Niramish Mangsho; literally "vegetarian mutton", a dish that involves, get this, actual mutton! Nikhil Kamath's podcast involving people from the modern Indian F&B industries has touched on this topic, I don't remember the exact episode but it was fascinating to hear about it in the context of menu engineering. I'd also recommend reading up on how McDonald's and other QSRs deal with the divide between majority vegetarian and majority non-veg states, if you ever needed proof that India is not as much of a cohesive whole when it comes to this topic as people think (remember, India has more beef eaters than the population of Mexico!)

This is an amazing story. I try to mostly eat plant-based and a big part of that is just a natural sense of ahimsa that I feel. Somehow you managed to link that with with other things that I find so fascinating like the Taoist/Buddhist convergence in Mahayana Buddhism, Chinese Opera and of course Bangkok. I hope I can make it for the Jae festival some day.

So happy you made this video :)

I commend OTR for going to this festival then taking on the immense task of historicizing its cultural connections and spiritual complexities: well done! This video brought back so many familial and childhood memories of seeing, comprehending, and eating vegetarian and vegan food while in Thailand. My cousins were always thrilled when we could visit a Jain or veggie stall just so we could eat the best seitan in Asia (before I realized I had gluten sensitivities). What made the food special for me as a kid was not the religious aspect, nor adherence to tenants in an anthropological sense, but that someone could create a vegetarian dish so akin to the 'original' meat: mock chicken, mock beef, mock pork. Speaking of 'mock', was that 'mock' hor mok in banana leaves on the vendor table? My guess is it would be with mushrooms. maybe. Anyhow, so happy that you do this. Eat slowly and eat well. A

Awesome Documentary, good research and images, better than most pretentious Netflix ones.. please make more of this kind of videos.

I’ve been vegan for 12years. Just found this page from the rice video and coming from a European and Filipino background then going vegan my love and appreciation for culture has really came from food & learning styles and history of food. How it brings us together

Great video, half way through. The research, chef's kiss. But one small point with your history, there was debate during the life of the Buddha regarding meat. Devadatta, a monk that almost created a schism at the time of the Buddha, apparently wanted to have a strict no meat rule. The Mahayana split definitely restarted that conversation but it had already existed before. Now back to your video!

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels

The explanation about Buddha's last meal simply adopts Theravada explanation of what happened and what Buddha ate (and somewhat offensive to a larger population of Northeast asians). India has a strong veg tradition and just because of that it is highly likely that Buddha's diet largley consisted of plants. Jains make up only a portion of Indian population but the majority of hindus practice some sort of vegetarianism making it the largest veg country in the world. There are lots of teachings about being kind to all living beings in Buddha's teachings without even relying on Jainist interpretation of ahimsa. (I'm not a biddhist btw.)

Such a great video that brought me so many memories from BKK, especially of the "The Vegetarian Society of Bangkok" Each time that I visit I must stop by to have yummy vegan food. 🙏👍👍👍🥰

This channel is underrated you guys are going down in history right next to Anthony Bourdain

Very interesting. A Thai chef someday told me it is not possible to combine Thaifood and vegan food. Now I cant wait to try it out. Thanks for the great video!

Beautiful shots. Great narration. A wonderful host. I'll be surprised if you guys don't hit a million subs in 2 years.

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I hate those I personally call "hoovegan" that condemned anyone who eats meat. And I hate western vegan foods. Why do we force people to live miserable lives eating those tasteless foods when we can eat better? As a Thai. I really love jay foods just because it's delicious and would have it every day if it could be found and not bothering others. Couldn't we just live happily while the others around us are happy too?

Great video about vegan and the different practices between different origin. This deserves more views.

The look on your face when you realized they were just cooking regular fried chicken is priceless lol. Also that berry crumble square from Veganerie is one of my favorite deserts in Bangkok. Some of my favorite dishes in BKK are jey food, it's just so dang good.

Jae itself might be directly borrowed from Phuket Peranakan Hokkien’s ‘Tseh’. Nine Emperor Gods/Kiu Ong Ya festival is celebrated in Malaya too, particularly by the older Chinese. It usually also involves burning of sacrificial ships. The ship burning tradition to cleanse disease are celebrated during different times in various regions of diaspora, which I think might have to do with the position and visibility of the big dipper at those particular parts of hemisphere.

A Jain friend explained the prohibition about eating root vegetables - he said the Jain will only eat something that doesn't involve killing off the entire plant - taking leaves or fruit of a tree or a plant will still leave the tree alive, but if it involves removing the entire plant and eating it, or if it involves killing of the entire plant to get at the edible parts, then they won't do it. I'll have to go look for this vegan food court. When I visit Chiang Mai there's a vegan (or vegetarian - I think they use milk, perhaps even eggs) Shan restaurant I often visit. The first time I ate there they wanted to know if onion and garlic were OK for me. One of the amusing things about Thai (and Chinese) vegetarian cuisine is the mock meats - they'll actually have "chicken" or "pork" on the menu without explanation, even though it's actually plant-based imitation meat. I've been told it's because it helps non-vegetarians who are switching over, because it's similar to meat.. I suppose a lot of Thais are part-time vegetarian - they eschew meat during the Jeh festival.

ชอบคอนเท้นต์เฮียนะ เทศกาลกินเจในคอนเท้นต์นี้ ขาดอีกที่คือ นครสวรรค์ เค้ามีที่มาที่แตกต่างกันในเรื่องกินเจที่นั่น Food history แบบนี้ เคยดูแต่ของฝรั่ง มีคนมาทำแบบไทยๆแบบนี้ ก็เยี่ยมมาก ถ้าจะว่าไป แต่ละจังหวัด เค้าจะมีอาหารเฉพาะของเค้าแหละ แต่บางพื้นที่ อาหารเฉพาะก็หายไปพอสมควร เช่นจังหวัดเกิดดิฉันเอง สมัยปู่ย่าตายาย เนื้อส้มที่เค้าจะหมักในไห ปลาหมากนัด ก็หายไปแล้ว ไม่มีให้กินแล้ว ส่วนตัวก็เคยทานสมัยเด็กๆมาก ไม่กี่ครั้ง

One small factor potentially spreading vegetarianism is the rise of Alpha-GAL allergy. Mammal meat becomes completely indigestible, but milk lacks Alpha-GAL, so it's okay. It's made me pescatarian, but vegetarian is the easiest way to handle it. As I'm living in the south to look after an my mother, I will say, it's tough. Even now vegetables are often made with fat back or tasso ham.

'The deep-fried dry shiitake mushroom is my favorite. I had it at MBK food court. Its taste and texture were almost the same as the deep-fried beef. Very delicious!

Honestly for years didn’t know why it was called Jay until now!!! I only thought of Jay Fai 😆

I came across your chanel by acident and have been binging since! Keep up the good work. You are much better then Mark weiner as he is just an influncer but you are a chef and an educator.

I read Gandhi's biography and he was also part of a private group of vegetarians in London. so it must have started before WWII for sure.

Hi! I'm Kritsada from Aranyaphathet city , Part of Sakaeo province in Thailand. I love your video so much I hope you guy come to visit my hometown one day. Thank you .

ไม่เคยรู้เลยว่าอินเดียมีร้านเจแถวอินทรา ต้องไปลองทานแล้ว ขอบคุณค่ะ

On that list of names at 2:12, Vegan is easily the best option! Also, even though I am not a vegan (I'm eating meat while watching this, in fact), I find this video to be absolutely fascinating!

Ok. I'm Thai, I ate Jay food once in a while but I have very little information about the believe itself. Its kinda mixed and have blurry lime between Bhudism and other believe in Thailand nowadays. Also, I love your closing thought. I too believe in delocious food, if you think about it, food really can bring people together.

The resto-chain Loving Hut comes from Thailand. Now I can see why.

i wanna say part of budhisms bent twords vegeterian/vegan diets in china related to the evolution of monastic culture..that in china the begging /alms rounds werent as culturaly viable so they had to farm and prepare their own food...so you see the more hard vegeterianism crop up where the begging/alms stopped

This channel needs to survive, so even as a vegan who appreciates cultural analysis through food you guys need to get some more eye on you. Education is the best way to fight oppression.

Have a study of the pillars of asoka.....marble monoliths inscribed upon what should and should not be eaten......pillars of asoke if you want to study the spread of Buddhism..

Chinese traditional religion is a snycretism of Taoism, Mahayana Buddhism, folk religion and Confusianism. The mixture is so intricate it's sometimes difficult to tell them apart. But the Nine Emperor Gods festival is not actually Buddhism, but more Taoism/Chinese folk religion. Chinese vegetarians don't eat garlic, onions, leeks and chives. Potatoes, ginger and other root vegetables are permitted.

Truffles/ mushrooms might have been the last Buddha meal,the issue of meat eating was different back in Buddha times w/ out industrial farming and slaughter houses and supermarkets full of chilled/frozen meats.

I said it once, and i’ll say it again: You make me and my เจ parents proud

culinary anthropology at its finest

Does the 'chai' concept really imply veganism as opposed to vegetarianism, or is it just that the regional cuisines, whether vegetarian or non-vegetarian, don't involve many dairy products in the first place? Dairy itself is not explicitly forbidden on the Buddhist fasting days or for monks, right? What about for the Santi Asoka community? I've only ever encountered Western veganism. Dharmic vegetarianism doesn't prohibit dairy. On the contrary, dairy products are inherently pure, holy, and even used ritually in some vegetarian traditions in South Asia.

I believe in Bangkok have 2-3 Jain temple.

Is interesting how for a long time being a vegan was a luxury of sorts. Think about it, many philosophies surrounding on not harming animals and abstaining on eating meat developed in civilizations where agriculture was advanced enough to feed millions of people, in very fertile lands such as the Indo river. For a hunter-gatherer society refraining of consuming any animal produce was a death sentence, because unlike us they didn´t had the warranty of getting food every day we now get from granted. We now have thousands of options, and we are getting better on finding new ways to reduce meat and dairy compsuption, even when morality isn´t involved. And just a funny idea I have, I think the reason why Buddha still ate meat was because he himself didn´t knew where it came from. After all we are talking about a man who didn´t knew what was aging, sickness or death for almost 30 years, so I wouln´t be surprised if he didn´t knew why Babe suddenly was gone, yet still had a nice porkchop the night before XD

Thanks for an interesting and informative episode. I loved the reference to the Lotophagoi from the Odyssey, since I read a good deal of that in the original Ancient Greek in high school and can still recite about twenty or thirty of the first lines. That being said, and although I'm in no way vegan or vegetarian, some of those dishes did look appealing and I'd have no problem trying them (although many of them did look slightly bland). One other note for me is that I'm familiar with basic Buddhist and Taoist philosophy and writings, and initially at least neither one speaks of gods or religion per se, although that's how they are commonly perceived (same as Confucianism, which is merely about decency and common sense). I'm not certain, but I believe it was Karl Marx who said that if god didn't exist, man would have had to create one. That's just our human nature, and I'm fine with it. Just don't ever expect me to eat food without onions and garlic, particularly garlic.

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Make one show where u taste the vegan food and tell us how they are. Like more emphasis on the diff food and ingredients.

I got to see this in Phuket last year. Lots of vegetarian food, firecrackers, and self-harm 😅

Apparently heart disease and other life style diseases is associated with food with a high glycenic index. In other words; plant food.

Because of high cholesterol I try to avoid fried food vegan or otherwise.

Im not vegan, but whenever I can I will actively go out of my way to eat Asian Vegan Food, because its actually good food. Its not weird chemicals fake meats or very questionable flavors, its actually good wholesome food. Why the west is so hostile to Asian Vegan food (especially Southern Chinese/Thai/Vietnamese) cuisine completely baffles me

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Lol. Nice T-Shirt! Greetings from Russia!

wow.... you guys ate stink beans. That's very impressive. On the level of tolerating budu and tempoyak (fermented durian).

i would like u to know that so called Hinduism which is whitewashed version of brhaminism(bhramins that r priests, self claimed higher caste who tried to control the subcontinent population,still trying to, despite being the minority) is hijacked from bodh dharam (initial stages of non idolized version of buddhism) lot of buddha's statues in the south Asia were demolished and uprooted or modified to current day god,goddesses of "hinduism" this were done by the bhramins, even universities run by the disciples of buddha were demolished, taking everything out of the universities and even the teachers so that there couldn't be any non idiolized version education,so lot of disciples moved to central,east ,southeast asia for their safety then it became idolized version which is now what we know as buddism, also the bhramins did change/bury a lot of ancient texts,historical texts that would make them look bad a lot of part of history from the subcontinent is missing,and the priests were successful to spread the narrative that hinduism is an ancient religion but its not,the first mention of vedas was in 11th century and the language that were written were the language not older than 10 or 8 th century ,so not from 3000-5000 bc as the bhramins tried to claim and by the texts they wrote for hindu texts,they were successful up until now as new archaeological findings r coming regularly that defies what they tried to claim I am an ex Hindu , antitheist(not against the believers, but I am against any dogma-all religion and even capitalism) no religions r peaceful or violent in nature, they r just mediums to control masses, which removes critical thinking and engages in tribalism which is bad and regressive. capitalists use their capital to manipulate masses to create violence in the name of religion, race, ethnicity, etc. religions r one of the best mediums to create a divide between the working class, so that the capitalist class and politicians can exploit and live in luxury.

As a Thai food fan and lover of history I always drool over these fantastic OTR deepdive into a rabbit hole :) But as a Greenlander I must say that in Inuit culture the only thing close to vegan food is when you catch an arctic grouse you ring its neck, put its butt to your mouth and squeeze its body and enjoy a warm herbal tea. Should be very delicious and healthy with nice flavors of heather and heather berries :)

Bro sounds like navratri?!!

I’m not religious, well not anymore. But growing up in Thailand, Jay festival is definitely one of my favorites food wise. Good job OTR for covering these less known topics about Thai cuisine. I’ve been super homesick since moving to the States and your content takes me right back home.

Buddhism is believed in the way of the balance. buddhism didn't forbid anyone from eating meat or forcing their follower to go full vegan only or not eating foods at all. Vegan pratice and Fasting (not eat anything at all) is the same of extremism believes and it's not how the "balance" is.

Jainism didn't start around 500 BC by Mahavir Swami. He was 24th Tirthankar in the line, which goes back to 1st one as Adinath who lived thousands of years before 24th one Mahavir Swami. I seriously think that you need to do proper research on the subject and not rely on what it feeds you immediately online. Dig deeper to find proper truth as many time truth is overcast by false narratives flooding online.

Vegetarian and Vegan food that is good because it tastes good and those foods are good is... good. Amused to see the video's title acknowledge Veganism is a religion, though.

All of it comes down to compassion. We all want to live in peace. Killing unecessarily for food is the first ever discrimination and violence to a child in a time when we know we don't need animal muscle fibre to thrive.

If eating meat is a choice, I ask why do people choose cruelty. Vegan food is delicious, healthy and far better for the planet. I wish people would step up and make the transition. I guess its easier to just be a follower.

yeah i don't think "soy sauce" is a japanese word by any means 😅

I don't judge. But I also don't trouble myself serving vegan options to guests.

9 days emperor gods festival sounds like navaratri fest in india.. and the name is Jay or victory in sanskrit , same like vijaya in India !! just wondering if there is a subtle long lost connection here! and guess what happens in those 9 days? gods and goddesses visit their earthly abode :)

There’s no “war,” religious or otherwise. I eat what I like, and if others wish to eat the food my food eats, well and good.

22% of world's population doesnt eat meat. Most of them originated from where? Are they willing to have vegetarian diets? Does those who cant afford a simple meal includes in the statistics? I knew only that most vegetarians come from India or Indian people. I am not even surprised if they occupied more than 70% from the 22% total vegetarians you stated.

The Tamil food you showed in Thailand was Brahmin food not jain. There are hardly any jains in tamilnadu. I remember being in thaIland during the month of vegetarianism in Buddhism but even the idea of vegetarianism was alien to most thais, I haven't seen any Buddhist vegetarian cultures. Vegetarianism is a brahminical concept. Of purse the jains are even more strict but main stream vegetarianism is due to brahminic culture. While now a days the brahminical version of vegetarianism is not as strict as jains and some even eat meat.... vegetarianism is basically a brahminical concept and hence the reverence for cows which provides milk to their diet..it's not pure vegan but lacto vegan

Last meal of Buddha was not dinner, Monk don't eat after noon.

It's common for people in India to eat vegetarian food as part of festivals. I don't think 44% of the population is vegetarian. Some people don't consider eggs as non-vegetarian. There's also a misconception of you can't eat beef in India... India has not banned the Slaughter or consumption of beef. Indian states have to decide on such decisions , and not every state agrees on this.

first of all I get some records straight that's why I am writing this comment here.... I'm a born Therawada Buddhist from a really reputed Buddhist family with the history of about 500 years so I feel I am more than qualified to give some contextual facts about this video that I feel that is incorrect according to the therawada Buddhist scripture.... Sir you are implying that load Buddha has had wild boar as his final meal before his passing and I beg to differ on this matter ask this claim is sexually incorrect even according to four and a half Millenia old therawada Buddhist scriptures.... in fact the Buddhist text say as this, the Lord Buddha had his last meal as he was already weak at that moment in time and about 3 months before he had already released his "ayu sanskara" that means he had already decided that he will let go of the last connections to his life and after that in 3 months time he will pass away.... so ask for this fact first of all he had expressed that he will pass away in 3 months so the final meal is only the last reason of his passing.... so the second fact is Lord Buddha had eaten a food item called "Sukara maddawa" as his last meal that was given by that Goldsmith.... so as for the interpretation of the original pali language of so many Buddhist Scholars agree on this that "SUKARA MADDAWA" is a type of a mushroom that is associated with pigs or Pig farming.... there are two common ideas about what kind of a mushroom is this.... first one is there were this type of a mushroom that is grown in mud puddles that has been created by pigs hence called Sukara Maddawa as the word Sukara in pali language literally means Pig.... and the second idea and most believable one is these mushrooms are a type of wild truffles which was believed to be grown in North Indian latitudes that Buddha lived.... as we all know truffles are really directly associated with pigs as for thousands of years pigs were used to sniff out riped truffles only to be replaced by trained dogs in the middle of the last century buy French.... I say this must be true because Lord Buddha died from a food poisoning and in all the cultures in South Asia cook wild boar and most not all of mushrooms thoroughly before eating.... but only exception even today is truffles.... even today they are shaven on the top not cooked in any way most of the time and eaten completely Raw.... so these factors point out that even at that time wild truffles were a rare delicacy only reserved for rich, so as hey Goldsmith obviously he must be rich and could afford the best quality high-end wild truffles that has been brought from Pig herders which in the wild should have trained their pigs to sniff out pricey wild truffles..... and the Goldsmith obviously presented his level best when it comes to food for the Lord Buddha not knowing that the raw truffles that he is presenting eventually will lead to the demise of Lord Buddha himself.... so that's about that.... and in the common context in therawada Buddhism there are no restrictions to a meet based diet but Lord Buddha has shown that there will be consequences when it comes to eating meats and having a lust for taste of meat will hinder your Journey towards enlightenment..... there are much more information about this and could definitely provide more information in the future comments if needed....

Informative video as usual. As a Theravada Buddhist from Sri Lanka, it was surprising to find out that Chinese Mahayana Buddhists do stick to the five precepts and other rules strictly. We usually have a stereotype of Mahayana as having a lax attitude to values of Buddhism lol. Also, interpretation of Ahimsa is the same in other branches of Buddhism, even in Hinduism. It's just the application of Ahimsa is limited to just not killing animals due to msotly practical reason and another reason. That is, it is not forbidden or outlawed as with anything Buddhism. Buddhism doesn't have any rules imposed on it's followers (except the monks) and as such, any Buddhist can eat whatver they want without judgement or fear from breaking rules. So if you like meat, you can eat meat. But if you dont want eat you can just be vegetarian. Simple as that.

We love you guys, great great story telling, good solid inform insights, wonderful and entertaining, great stuff. To soar even higher all we need is to pair your fab narration with more footage of Daria walking talking and eating, we want to listen to you and look at her more more more! Thank you, you are doing wonderful good solid work. It is greatly appreciated; best most informative channel re Thailand best ever best of all.

Love your work, guys! Another great vid. We are to expect a new one soon?

This stuff is great! Thank you!!