Thailand and Cambodia
Following a surprise discovery about her DNA, Nadiya Hussain travels alone to explore the people, places and food of Thailand and Cambodia.
Nadiya Hussain was born and brought up in Britain but her family is from Bangladesh. In this first programme of two, she makes a surprise discovery about her DNA which sees her travel solo for the first time, exploring the people, places and food of Thailand and Cambodia. Nadiya's search for connections in these countries takes her from the world-famous temples of Angkor Wat in the north of Cambodia and to a Muslim island in the deep south of Thailand.
She journeys deep into the waterways of the Tonle Sap, the biggest lake in south east Asia, to visit a floating community and make prahok, a fermented fish paste that's Cambodia's staple food. Nadiya uncovers a bakery school in Cambodia training up girls from tough backgrounds in the art of French patisserie to help them get jobs in tourist restaurants and hotels. In a grove of sugar palm trees, Nadiya assists a grandfather in the labour-intensive process of making the buttery, rich sugar that she's taken for granted as a cooking ingredient all her life.
In Bangkok, one of Thailand's top chefs inducts Nadiya into his 21st-century take on his country's centuries-old tradition of eating insects. Together, they create crisps, Nadiya's favourite snack, made from creepy crawlies. Leaving the bustle of Thailand's capital behind, Nadiya heads east to Chanthaburi, a town famous for its noodles, on the trail of one the country's best-known dishes to find out what makes a fantastic pad thai. Wanting to get more of a picture about where her ancestors might have come from, Nadiya ventures to the tiny island of Koh Sukhorn, and learns
how to make a curry paste that's unique to the Muslim community there from a women-only co-operative.
As her time in the Far East draws to a close, Nadiya reflects on the people, places and food of these countries that she has a DNA connection to, and how far she has come in managing to make such a lengthy foreign trip without any of her family.
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Nadiya makes rice balls with the "dessert ladies"
Duration: 01:45
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Nadiya samples the world's smelliest fruit
Duration: 01:08
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"I'm a woman of God but religious buildings give me the creeps"
Duration: 01:37
Music Played
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The Lumineers
Ho Hey
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Florence + The Machine
Drumming
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Elbow
Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl
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The Lumineers
Slow it Down
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Elbow
Real Life
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George Ezra
Pretty Shining People
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Florence + The Machine
Blinding
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Elbow
With Love
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Florence + The Machine
Between Two Lungs
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George Ezra
Blame It On Me
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The Lumineers
Classy Girls
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George Ezra
Drawing Board
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Scott Matthews
White Feathered Medicine
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Nadiya Hussain |
Executive Producer | Louise Murray |
Executive Producer | Martha Delap |
Executive Producer | Emily Shields |
Production Manager | Marie Coyne |
Director | Ben Freedman |
Series Producer | Laura Abrahams |
Editor | Joanna Lincoln |
Production Company | Wall to Wall Media |
Broadcasts
- Mon 3 Dec 2018 21:00成人快手 One except Scotland & Scotland HD
- Mon 3 Dec 2018 22:45成人快手 One Scotland & Scotland HD only
- Fri 4 Jan 2019 01:15
- Tue 14 Jan 2020 23:20成人快手 One except Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Wales & Wales HD
- Tue 14 Jan 2020 23:35成人快手 One Wales & Wales HD only
- Tue 14 Jan 2020 23:50成人快手 One Northern Ireland HD & Northern Ireland only