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  • I want to find a dish they won't have tasted.

  • And I'm going to deepest Cambodia to find it off into the jungle toe help cook at wedding and serve food that you won't see anywhere else in Cambodia unique to this tribe.

  • So God knows what's in store first.

  • Helicopter, Right.

  • Okay, that's good.

  • Fuck is home.

  • I'm heading to poop all near the border with Vietnam, home to the belong tribe.

  • For hundreds of years, they've lived a self sufficient life.

  • Cut off from the rest of Cambodia is my chance to discover a cuisine that predates the Camaro Rouge.

  • Celia, there are 30,000 belong people living here in the country's biggest wildest forest.

  • Arranged to meet a local guy called Money to take me to the village of Poop.

  • All I'm relying on him to get me to the wedding feast on time.

  • Break.

  • It doesn't.

  • Don't worry.

  • How are you?

  • I'm good.

  • I'm sorry to let you wait.

  • Don't worry.

  • Okay?

  • Okay.

  • Can you come with me to the village?

  • Yes.

  • Please come in.

  • Yeah, sure.

  • Which way?

  • Left or right?

  • Right, right.

  • The village is another eight kilometers into the jungle.

  • When you see a small house for the spirit has slowdown pumping.

  • Right?

  • Look here.

  • Now this is crazy.

  • Guys use cases down.

  • Strange.

  • It is theme one of the few Westerners the Villagers have ever seen.

  • And that was quite an entrance.

  • How you see a Gordon from Alaska?

  • I see I see belong Welcome Guests with prayers for good fortune on a drink of rice wine.

  • Mmm More?

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • Finished.

  • I finished the light time I fall flat on my face.

  • Well, Paul has just 10 families, but a wedding is big news in Banon culture on 100 guests of join them from the groom's village A day's walk away Pressures on hunger Clue We were cooking out of his world Boar, buffalo snake or even stir fry chicken with honey, God knows, isolated from the rest of Cambodia the belong still use age old recipes.

  • Hyung shows me what's on the wedding menu.

  • Super visit them with pork.

  • Yeah, and it's a village recipe.

  • Yeah, under Hong's direction.

  • They're making a whole array of dishes, including soups, spicy salads and stews.

  • Yeah, you guys have got strong, strong stomachs.

  • Yes, but the centerpiece of the feast is the Buffalo.

  • That's the buffalo for the wedding.

  • Hey, senses.

  • Something's wrong business.

  • A wedding so important they sacrificed their most valuable animal for the feast.

  • Powerful things.

  • Very strong, Strong part of the wedding ritual involves the bride's father killing the buffalo assed.

  • The buffalo is being cut up, ready for barbecuing.

  • We head off to the belongs local supermarket, otherwise known as the jungle.

  • Here's how you see Look within three and very black.

  • Christ up there were shopping for honey huge, but must be thousands of bees in there with up to 70,000 fears bees in the hive collecting it is extremely dangerous.

  • And we set this alliance to subdue the bees.

  • They smoke them out, get stolen from the small.

  • They cannot do anything.

  • Do you just fly away already?

  • Yeah.

  • So we're gonna stone the bees.

  • Yeah.

  • Mind you.

  • It's a big enough joint, isn't it?

  • Counties home made smoker.

  • The bravest hunter climbs over 20 meters to the hive.

  • There's gotta be an easier way of getting honey Surely.

  • Christ, he's got no safety rope on honor.

  • If the bees attack when they've been disturbed, that can easily kill a man.

  • Sit down on the ground.

  • Money is making our defenses.

  • But I'm not convinced a few twigs will be much use against thousands of angry bees.

  • The breeze is leaving basil leaves.

  • Come with me.

  • I did the things I go absolutely nuts.

  • That was almost evacuation point.

  • Bolt out of there as we're panicking Down on the ground.

  • I can't believe the honey collector is hanging onto a branch 20 meters up in a swarm of bees.

  • He just made homeless.

  • Great job.

  • Did they sting?

  • You mean get between?

  • No, no, not once.

  • Look at the money.

  • Maybe you're looking now with the honey in the bag.

  • We've got 1/2 an hour.

  • Walk back to the village.

  • But Holmes got other ideas.

  • Okay.

  • Help.

  • Okay.

  • Oh, go, go, go.

  • Hey, Hey.

  • Wild elephants live in these forests.

  • This one was caught contained by the Villagers over 50 years ago.

  • How?

  • How?

  • How?

  • How?

  • How How How Yes.

  • Okay.

  • You okay?

  • Yeah.

  • First time on his hands has crazy.

  • Yes, Booth Village.

  • The wedding party's warming up.

  • They will be expecting an exquisite belong feast.

  • So, Hong, get straight to work separating the honey closeness and start a quiz.

  • Now, Home shows me his favorite dessert.

  • First he toast some of the tribes Homegrown rice.

  • This is rice from the local field.

  • Sticky rice.

  • Sticky rice turns a wonderful golden color.

  • Hong gets me to pound it into a coarse flour thin I pour in some of the harder and honey, you don't cook it just like that.

  • Yeah, this is like that.

  • I think that's nice.

  • Like a nut brittle.

  • They taste amazing.

  • Let them sort of dry out in the sun now and they get even firmer, more brittle and a lot more crunchy.

  • Who would have thought in a village like this they'd be coming up with a dainty, delicious little petty four that would not the salts of affair Russia things honey in rice recipe could still my success at the royal dinner.

  • So, Shep, the chef, I'm returning the favor, Okay, Very tough now because the meat hasn't been hung.

  • I think it needs a bit of help.

  • I'm showing hung my take on buffalo kebabs.

  • It's fresh, little bit too fresh to cook with.

  • So when I sort of tenderizing do eh sort of marinated version.

  • So dice is in big chunks.

  • So after seizing the meat.

  • I simply add chopped chili to give it a kick.

  • Garlic and soy sauce.

  • Marinade that.

  • So the flavor.

  • Yeah, they've been amazing.

  • Yeah.

  • Get rid of the the flames and get a hot coal underneath.

  • As the buffalo cooks, I'm going to see the final blessing off the wedding ceremony.

  • The bride and groom anoint their family with a village is precious ingredient on.

  • That's the buffalo blood on the floor.

  • I think this is the final separation.

  • Then they're husband and wife.

  • Congratulations.

  • You both husband and wife.

  • What has people order?

  • Stop buying a car.

  • We may.

  • I wish you a very happy marriage and lots of Children.

  • Ceremony over.

  • It's time to eat.

  • Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

  • Now we got the most amazing barbecues.

  • Buffalo going and getting under way.

  • Yes, My marinade.

  • The buffalo kebabs are going down.

  • A storm is very good.

  • Happy kids.

  • Especially your loving the little sweets, the honey and the ground rice.

  • Delicious music started.

  • Party's in full swing.

  • How much weight with the whole tribe tucking into the rice wine?

  • It's gonna be a long night, but I've got to leave.

  • Good bye.

  • Yeah, take care.

  • Take care.

  • Yes.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • I've had an amazing week, but my role appointment looms.

  • Next, I've got to cook Cambodian food fit for a king or prince on a couple of princesses.

  • At least we're literally in the middle without making a nobody.

  • Something.

  • I don't think that thank you.

I want to find a dish they won't have tasted.

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