Mental V.

I'm feeling nervous but exciting on a week is a very short time to get up to speed with something so magical.

But where I connect is with ingredients because they're the hero.

Understanding them properly will be a huge advantage going into a challenge.

I'm heading off the beaten track into the mountains there.

Mama Chow, 130 kilometres from Hanoi.

This is rice paddy country.

And I'm here to get my hands on being arms most important ingredients and to learn the Rolls Royce of rice dishes to impress these people.

One thing you gotta do first off is that right?

Perfectly.

Today the village is celebrating the end of the rice harvest with a feast.

How is the only person?

The village who speaks a bit of English?

That was amazing.

Honestly, I felt like Steve McQueen.

Now I'm a little bit late, okay?

And the harvest is finished?

Yes.

Come in.

Time for the feast, right?

Yes.

Look at those little beauties there.

Yes, I know.

I know this Northern Hill tribe not only pick the rice, they process it too, but there are no mod cons here.

What's going on there?

That is fascinating.

They categorize.

Take a little white screens off plants on diesel swept in the middle of the concrete.

Yeah, I think this is incredible.

Yeah.

Money that you don't like this long in my life.

Can you talk?

Yeah, I'm sweating like a Vietnamese pig.

It's what all the ladies do in the morning harvest.

Yes.

Sometimes the men, sometimes the man look a result toes in a complete, different way.

Now, boy laughing at Big Boy, your turn next in this 40 degrees heat mapping a better stop before keel over time to put all this rice to good use and learn what they do with it.

And was this in making my rice?

So is it that rice?

And it's so is pounded rice?

Yes.

Mixed with water.

Yes.

That's what is amazing for me is the fact that we cook rice one of two different ways in England.

You guys have a complete different meaning on, right?

Yes.

And she puts onions and pork in the middle.

And the metro pork and mushroom.

Incredible.

Thank you for me to make these paper thin rice cakes under the need to play a delicate touch.

What?

Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Chairs, Fucks.

Sorry.

How embarrassing.

Hopefully compressing with my culinary skills.

I've lost half my mix.

Okay.

Wait.

What you called?

Stick into shit to a blanket.

I gotta grow up in Vietnam, you know, uses of the chef.

We get one more time, does it?

Find out to this and I just don't have it.

Come in.

Come in.

Come in, come in.

I'm not gonna screw up anymore.

I'm in danger of busting.

His chair started.

Very good.

I'll buy some new stools.

The entire village of gathered to celebrate the end of the rice harvest.

Pdf my found attempt at rice cakes won't be on offer, so I helped to serve up instead.

Right?

Where do we start With this fabulous feast like this?

You take you take the rice and pass it along on news of my box.

Rice paper making has obviously done the rounds.

My job?

What do you think I d'oh?

Is it that you out actor?

No, doctor, I'm a cook.

Good luck for next year's harvest is happy harvest.

I have bean useless, but sours honored my trip with a gift of rice from the village.

Thank you, thank you.

I will do the rice justice.

Okay?

They treated like gold.

They show it so much respect.

They have a huge technical ability to make rice so fantastic.

It's It's at a different level.

It's been an amazing week.

But tomorrow it's crunch time are being Hanoi to prove to restaurant to Avi that I've cracked Vietnamese cuisine.

So lots of things bubbling and festering away now in my mind and all I need is to I'm disappear somewhere quiet and just start naming down those issues.