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For one month we followed him – through Northern Laos, Hong Kong, Bangkok and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. He found a number of delicacies which even specialists will probably have never heard about. "Kai Pen", for example, from Laos - paper-thin sheets made of spiced river grass from the Mekong. Or "Kao Kiep", tasty crackers from Laotian villages By truck, cargo-boat, ox-cart or on foot he travels. He sleeps in villages, peers into the pots of the peasant women, scouts Asia’s markets large and small. Then the foodhunter is once again in metropolises such as Hong Kong or Bangkok. There he test-cooks, refines, elaborates his discoveries, turning them into “products”. Then he offers them to creative chefs. Star chefs are under enormous pressure to perform. They incessantly seek after the new ingenious taste, however do not have the time to travel. Mark’s discoveries give them an advantage in a tough competition. In the Mekong-delta he came across a unique fish sauce. In the jungle he found the Mak Dum fruit, an ancient form of our present-day orange. In Laos he “discovered” a spicy vine and a wild-growing pepperbush. Travelling with the Indiana Jones of Asian cooking.
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