Around the World in 80 Plates Recap: Thai a Little Tenderness

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By Foggywood | Saturday, June 23, 2012 | 6:00 am | 7 Comments
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Avery and Jenna have their ingredients and are feeling optimistic. Avery shares her story of losing her dad and subsequent addictive behavior. Her daughters pulled her out of her funk. She’s using her past struggles to keep herself moving here. Endearing. And then within the next minute she threatens to kick a small dog. These editors are little bitches, aren’t they?

The Black team is pretty sure their juice concoction will put them over the top and it seems that their pork wrap (according to our resident goalie Nookie) isn’t too shabby either. C + C Food Factory magically appear to give them a 10 minute warning and let them know that Chef McDang’s favorite dish will receive an extra 150 baht added to their total earnings.

The pork larb and pork belly will be sold for 40 baht, while the papaya salad will go for 35. And we’re off!


Obligatory pork larb moo pic – I know I had a request for more food pics and detail, but at this point who are we kidding?

I must now admit I am not a fan of John’s brown “I’m wearing a tie, but not really” t-shirt.


This one is actually an improvement on his – upgrade, John!

The Red team bumps up their price to 50 baht within the first few minutes due to the demand. Which somehow should be against the rules, but we are playing fast and loose this episode.

Chef McDang arrives with C + C to judge the Black team. The mysterious Nookie juice is revealed to be pineapple, coconut, mandarin, and watermelon. Nummers. The pork larb (no “R”!) moo has peanuts, chiles, cucumber, and cilantro. Chef McDang calls the dish a pretty woman without makeup. Cat stands up for hot makeup free women, but I’m sorry – I have to trust McDang here. His face is covered in glitter and he has a shocking pink tuft coming out of the back of his head. He would know, Cat! I mean dang, McDang! You go, boy.


I’m pretty sure he can also do magic

McDang and C + C move on to the White team. They make the salad fresh in front of them and McDang tells Avery to “smack it.” Oh McDang.

Overall the salad is given the thumbs up. And Jenna seems to be thanking anyone and everyone within earshot, so that’s gotta count for something, right?

If this whole chef thing doesn’t work out Nookie has a future as a carnival barker.


Nookie AKA Daniel-San the Carnival Barker

The Red team – shocker! – is running low on their pork belly with chiles and kanah. McDang and C + C arrive. The pork is good, but prepared in a Chinese style – not Thai. Nicole just lost all her Asian street (vendor) cred.

Nookie waters down his juice to ensure more sales. Nookie! Maybe he already is a carny.

The Red team runs out of food. Liz begins to cry. Nicole gets defensive. Millions of eyeballs roll.

The teams gather in what appears to be a temple area for the sacred ceremony of kicking somebody’s ass to the curb. There is no more immunity, but the MVC gets $5,000. Thanks credit card company that shall remain nameless!


Holy Schmoly, who gives a crap – let’s vote!

The Black team admits they watered down the juice. Don’t hate the playa, hate the game – right, Nooks? The Red team is questioned about running out of food and Nicole admits it was her fault.

The White team wins best dish from Chef McDang. But the overall winner is…the Black team! And John is MVC for doing all of their cooking.

Jenna is disgusted the guys were rewarded. Take it easy Miss Coconut Water 2012. Nicole decides that since the White team won best dish, it should be between she and Liz. So she is going to vote for her teammate even though it was her fault they ran out of food. You kind of suck right about now, Nicole.

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7 Comments

  1. 1
    TVKimmy TVKimmy
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 7:00 am

    We just watched The Hangover 2 last night, so this was a perfect morning accompaniment. Thanks for the great recap. Now, where’s that GIF? :D

  2. 2
    Homer
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Nookie in the rice field was too funny! And I can’t believe how evil Jenna is. She cheated on the challenge by adding water weight, yet Nook waters down the drink and she is bent? I’m so glad she is gone. I’ve decided that Nook should win the whole think. Nicole and Liz are so outta there!
    As usual your recaps are spot on and I enjoy reading them more than watching the show. Now as I watch I think to myself,”What is Foggy going to say about this?” haha

  3. 3
    2muchbravo
    Posted June 24, 2012 at 11:06 am

    Frickin’ Jenna (she’s ruined that name for me forever!) was damn lucky she was on for that long. If that challenge was based on the dish and popularity alone looks like she and Avery would have won. Too bad for her. One wonders why, with all her 10 years of being in charge and being a know-it-all chef, she never won Most Valuable. Hmmm….maybe she annoyed the hell out of Curtis and Cat too!
    I think Nicole’s next. She has to be one of the most boring people on reality zzzzzzzzz….
    How does Avery get that stud up on her cheekbone and isn’t it irritating? Loving the Nookster and think he just may take the whole thing. Great recap, BTW!

  4. 4
    NikkiHughes
    Posted June 24, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    If you want to get TECHNICAL, Nookie didn’t cheat. That was their juice concoction, so if they decided that it needed more water, then that is their call. :P
    Adding the coconut water, however, was changing the weight without doing the work. So, yeah.

  5. 5
    Mummy Butterfly
    Posted June 26, 2012 at 5:17 am

    Great recap! I really can’t wait to see the Nookie-Gif! I DIED when he went down…

    Jenna makes me shudder. I couldn’t believe that Nicole would throw Liz “Under the Bus” (if there was EVER a time to use the cliche reality TV phrase…). Avery was on their side! They could have gotten Jenna OUT (without the lovely John’s help…thank you, John!)

    Did Jenna EVER have a “top dish”? I mean, I know she wasn’t MVC, ever. But was she ever close? Liz is a crier (I understand, it makes for a difficult time for the contestant, but it’s great TV), but Liz won MVC once and she was second under John last week – and wasn’t she called out in the top 2-3 before? Obviously, the girl makes good food. (And wasn’t it JENNA who added the “too much cheese”, in an attempt to get Liz out of the game last week?)

    Seems like Jenna just wanted Liz gone, and it backfired on her! :D YAY! SO glad she’s out of there! Now, Nicole can go – just because of her crappy move this week.

    (Also, why NOT spend all your money? Did they get to keep the extra baht and have ice cream?)

  6. 6
    Sel
    Posted June 26, 2012 at 11:31 am

    Yes! Mummy B, I agree with you. Why would you NOT spend all the money given to you? Do you anticipate people not liking your food? And if you have extra food, well, give it away… Throw it away. Whatever. These food-slash-game shows do their research and if they give contestants a certain amount of money, there is usually a reason. Maybe they get to keep extra money to use in the next leg like in Amazing Race?

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    salvadoralexio
    Posted June 26, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    wait a minute, for me this episode made no sense because it seemed like nobody liked the winning team’s food, but they won. I know it was a money challenge but shouldn’t taste have figured in there somewhere? these eliminations are really “unique” alright….

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