This Strange Thai Superstition Will Make Us Rich
may the power of this cock bring you wealth and happiness my name is paddy doyle and this is my little honda dream and welcome to next level adventures right now we are attempting to visit every single province in thailand we've had some incredible adventures already but the best part is we're only just getting started so subscribe and join us as we discover this incredible country together welcome to a travel day again we're back on the road we're back on the mainland we're in kanom in the north part of the province of nakhon si tamarat and today we've got 99 kilometers to get to downtown nakhon this is a really local province and i'm really excited to deep dive into it so come join us as we travel from top to bottom in knack on see tamarat let's go banana and mango juice at frankie's cafe with a full english breakfast as well perfect way to start the day one of you guys recommended this actually i just want to show you something because this is how i this is kind of like how i plan my days when i'm doing travel days when i'm exploring destinations provinces islands i look at this this is my google maps can you see all of these green flags right these are a recommendations from you guys in the descriptions of all my videos i have a google form and you copy and paste a google map link and a little description and it loads on my phone thank you look at this full english well kind of there's no baked beans or mushrooms or black pudding but we're getting there yeah when you leave a recommendation it loads up onto my phone and uh so for nakansi tamara we have a and this is how i kind of like plan my videos this is how i accidentally on purpose find these cool places during my videos because you guys recommend them so today we're going to go to sichuan beach then we're gonna check out a [ __ ] temple it's on the way and it sounds interesting and then i think we might we might go up to the mountains there's a cool dam and then um there's a really cool food place you recommended so that might be lunch and then we'll get to nakhon si tamara and we'll find a place to stay and explore the town and i have a couple of little like cafe you know restaurant recommendations but that's basically how i plan my travels is with the help of you so thank you i'm gonna enjoy my breakfast and then we'll get on the road i feel really good i feel like this is like a new a new chapter in the channel i don't know if you saw recently but i was talking about how i kind of had a change of heart about how i wanted to do the channel in terms of the business side and not working with brands and not promoting brands and doing sponsored bits and things like that and going back to chiang mai and seeing my friends and seeing my old work colleagues and just getting a bit of new focus plus it's been good to get away from the islands samui kopanyang beautiful as they are they kind of distract you from the mission you know because they're so beautiful and life is so good there but you know we're not really on holiday we're here on a mission 77 provinces on the honda and when you get back to the mainland i just feel like things become clearer i just feel i have more purpose i have more motivation and i'm really excited about the next few weeks on this channel we're going to finish the south we've taken six or seven weeks to do the deep south and we've worked our way up and i really feel like we've got to start hitting some kilometers we're still gonna travel slow we're still gonna go province by province and have a really good time but i'm just going to take less time off i'm going to work a little bit harder travel a little bit further otherwise this is going to take us 10 years look at these beautiful flowers on these trees i just want to show look at these oh my gosh we take one for good luck let's take one for good luck you see these in um the massage shops they normally have them in bowls of water they smell amazing oh my gosh i want to smell where should we put let's just put them in the basket okay next stop is um some beach and then and then we'll go to the [ __ ] temple okay welcome to si cheon this is the most non-thai named place i've ever been s i c h o n c cheon sounds so spanish to me hola comes pretty sure that was italian kind of a ceremonial place yeah so what you can see here is the picture of the king and the queen base down there and a big statue of the prince of champan and the prince of chimpan is a historical figure and he's known as the father of the uh of the thai navy so whenever there's a navy base you always get a statue of the prince of champan and this is a lovely little beach and there's a rocky out out thingy what'd you call them i don't know what they're called but they stop the waves smashing the boats and things create a nice channel for the boats to go out and then yeah it seems okay you've got still got you can still see samiri quite clear in the distance yeah nice i mean not a lot to do here is there so let's go to the [ __ ] temple this is so typical of what it's like driving in the south of thailand let me show you what i mean so on the left beautiful blue skies clouds palm trees incredible right beautiful day sun cream on let's get a tan let's have some good vibes let's get some vitamin d but then you look to the right and it's just big dark black clouds and you can see the rain pounding and you always kind of hope when you get to a junction like this that you don't want to turn in the direction of the weather but that's what we're doing so we might get wet on the way to the [ __ ] temple that's the name of the uh [ __ ] temple and typical fashion look sunny sunny turn left and you can see it's pissing down up on that mountain which is the direction we're going i think we're getting closer look at all these [ __ ] cockle doodle doo let me get my waterproof jacket on and when my gopro is plugged into this microphone it doesn't become waterproof anymore because the the innards of the gopro are exposed so let me just um get my waterproof jacket on and then we'll go to the hot temple i'm really immature i'm sorry i don't actually mind when it rains firstly it's good for the bike gets rid of all the dust and the mud and it's also just a nice break from driving you can just find anywhere like all along the road you can find millions of places where you can just hide out there's some boys over there who do the same thing and you just see it you just sit it out you wait it out look it's already stopping rain in thailand in the south is very uh zonal it can be raining over here and not raining over there five kilometers difference two kilometers difference sometimes if i'm clever i'll kind of like not listen to google maps and drive around the rain and then i'll get to the place i need to dry and other times it's unavoidable like now but i don't mind it plus it lets me give me it gives me a chance to to google and uh try and research about this white chedi this [ __ ] temple and what are all these [ __ ] about so that when i get there i can pretend to you like i know what i'm talking about a little bit like the prince of trump i bet you were like oh good knowledge paddy i googled it i googled it and tried to pretend i knew what i was talking about when it's raining like this this is actually okay i'll drive in that no problem when it's proper raining it's a little bit dangerous because these things whiz past you and the gust of the wind and the rain a little bit dangerous okay i've googled it and it's so tight it's so funny it's so i'll tell you the story when we get to the temple but we are going to have to buy a [ __ ] because there's a very important reason as i'll explain and i mean you can spend thousands of marks on these golden and silver and colorful ones these giant ones these are all for sale and i suppose depending on the the size of your [ __ ] maybe that kind of increases the likelihood of your your wish to come true um let's go for a big strong [ __ ] purple's my lucky color hi thank you i'll take this one how much is that one 50 baht ha sit back perfect thank you now oi 40 bud ah just 20 oh wow that's cheap okay thank you i don't worry about the bag it's okay i'll put it in my thingy thank you carmen carr cotton car how much is uh this one 5000 baht oh okay and the big one there the same five thousand and what about that giant big one yay mac not for sale okay thank you wow i'm so excited we're going to a temple with a purple [ __ ] now you behave yourself and as you'll find out when we get there this is quite a timely blessing or or or ornament of good luck i should say because we recently just said on the channel that we were never going to do pay promotions because it doesn't feel good and we're going to lose out on some money but with the power of the [ __ ] we may be able to bring in some extra let me get there's about another 5k and all the way down this road are hundreds of these shops so i can't wait to see how many cops are at this temple okay nearly there and it's stopped raining okay we're here at watch eddie okay this place is massive absolutely massive there is it feels like it's disneyland it feels like i need a map to get around this place it's also kind of uh a building site there's the main temple which we'll go to in a second and it's surrounded by brand new structures brand new temples statues of buddha statues of the kid and everything to do with the story behind this place and thai people are flocking here and they they literally can't build it big enough fast enough because they know they're going to make a lot of money here because thai people are so superstitious this is not a religious thing this is a spiritual superstitious thing so in thailand you'll see outside every home every business most of them have spirit houses you've seen them they're colorful painted wooden structures and every morning they thai people give them fruits give them sweet soda drinks and incense and things like that and that's to keep the ghosts and spirits happy in the house and it just brings in good luck thai people believe majority of thai people believe in spirits and in ghosts in fact half of the movies that come out in thailand the thai ones are ghost stories they're setting up fireworks here yeah half of the thai movies that come out are based around spirits and ghosts so they're horror movies generally speaking and i've been to a few and the thai people scream and cry and it's really really scary because they physically believe in the spiritual world and ghosts anyway the story here is now it's a bit hard to understand but here's the gist of it a thousand years ago there was a boy in ayutia and you know long long time ago and he he had some paranormal abilities and when he was nine years old he visited this temple and something happened i don't know what happened but they have a statue of this boy here and the temple has been here for a thousand years and it was recently renovated in the 50s now that's not that interesting but recently thai people because the boy is called uh a guy which means like chicken boy he had a nickname chicken boy recently thai people started coming here and asking you know asking for wishes and their wishes were monetary-based they were people thai people were wishing for better luck in their business they were wishing to win the lottery and some of these wishes were coming true and word spread and thai people be as superstitious as they are and as much as they believe in ghosts as they do they flocked here so much so that this whole buddhist and temple structure that's built around this and the hundreds of businesses in every direction selling these ornaments are based around the fact that if you give an ornament and ask a wish to the boy that um he may grant that wish and so you know recently we just decided not to work with brands and things like that so we took a hit on the business side so why don't we together make a wish now i'll make my wish but let's just focus our energy on this little purple [ __ ] here okay because then we'll go see the little um egg boy statue and you can make a wish right now because all of your wishes will come into this ornament if you believe in that kind of thing make a wish right now about you know something monetary maybe you want money maybe you want your business to do better maybe you want money for someone else did you put the energy and wish into this okay let's go see the egg boy and i'll i'll put the wish down for us all let me make my wish quickly okay there's just so much to this templar i just don't understand if you're thai or you understand thai traditions please let me know because here's the question that i have okay i understand the story i understand the superstitious part of it and i get why you know you come here and you can see the little boy statues and he's covered in gold they've got one of him dressed as a soldier and i can get some of it understand some of the meaning behind it and why people come here but why why do they have like thor captain america iron man everywhere what's that got to do with it they're everywhere here as well then like there seems to be three parts to it you you make your wish at the boy statue and the thai people are very patient and then when it's their turn they they sit on the floor and they make their wish and then they move over to like a fountain um and there's rocking horses and the kids rocking the horse and then you take a picture there and then you move over to the blessing table and you drop down your statue and you make your blessing to finalize your wish but what what's with what's with the marvel they're everywhere i don't get it is it just for the kids is it to keep the kids entertained while mum and dad make a wish is it for photographs or is there a meaning behind it because there are more statues of captain america and iron man and everything than there are chickens or [ __ ] do you know what i thought why are you here may the power of this [ __ ] bring you wealth and happiness thank you to the person who recommended this actually i tell you who recommended me this because it was a thai person do you remember when i was in khao sak national park and um there were those beautiful girls staying in my resort well the really cool one with the orange bikini um randomly when she was like oh when you're a knack on make sure you come to this pizza place and i was like okay and she was adamant about it so i saved it on my maps and it was the you know this is where we are and i've just been driving for an hour in the countryside and i was thinking to myself where am i going what is where you know where am i going basically and there's a lady there rolling out pizza dough and she told me that the pizza is made from rice the dough is made from rice and all of the ingredients are grown locally so i've gone for a hawaiian pizza so local ham local pineapple cheese local green vegetable she mentioned the name but it was entire and i can't remember and then green chili and red chili on top so you can basically make your own i was like give me a hawaiian with chili and then they have a proper you know pizza oven and then she popped it in and it's come out and it looks really good i'm really happy with it um i'm gonna eat it now and i'll tell you how it tastes because i've got to try to remember that it's not the pizza that i've ever eaten before so i'm not going to compare it to italian pizza because you know the dough is made from rice so i'm going to try it's still hot it's still hot you see looks good all right so yeah let's try to remember it's not italian pizza so i'm not gonna judge it against that it's really fresh and um the dough is quite crispy you can kind of hear it you know you can imagine how it tastes right it's good the pier the resistance is the local ipa that they have here it's called jib beer so let's have a little taste smell it oh yeah it's very hoppy very fruity it's got something funny on the label it says beard doesn't it says beer doesn't ask silly questions beer understands cheers oh that's a real beer 140 baht for the beer and i'm not sure where the pizza is but i'll put down here with the total beer price the whole pizza lunch price yummy local thai pizza made from local thai ingredients in a local thai farm how random how beautiful thank you thank you okay we're here long day today um 10 o'clock i left and it's 5 30 now 100 kilometers i mean we don't go in a straight line we divert to go to the temple to go to the pizza place and to just explore the province the town itself nakhon see tamara town is is a bit of a concrete jungle i was just driving in and i was like grim you know when you turn into a town it's just concrete concrete concrete but what i will do is i will pop out now we'll go out or try and find one place kind of fancy some local noodles and a cold beer then i am going to crash out and watch some tv this is 590 bar very typical place i just find a place on google maps normally when i'm driving into a new place pay cash and uh yeah fifteen dollars a night that's pretty much the standard a lot of you guys saying oh you're not living on a thousand bar budget a day sometimes i am um i'd say about half of the time i'm staying under budget and then half the time i'm over budget i'm definitely over budget yes okay but um i still live as cheap as i can as comfortably as i can this is what i want this is literally the definition of the perfect room for me it's 500 to 600 baht it has air con it has plugs it has wi-fi i can edit i can get a good night's sleep and um clean i think it's best to just get some like beer and snacks from seven and hunker down because uh it's gonna rain tonight and i'm not gonna be bothered to go out in the rain searching for food so look oh oh campervan quite rare that you see them nice brown one anyway um i think it's gonna piss down yeah look it's a bit of a concrete jungle it's a bit ugly isn't it look proper gray day as well so let's hope for a better day tomorrow let's hope nakanzi tamara flourishes when we hit up the mountains i've had a fun day today we've gone from the top to the bottom from canon to the city but now it's going to piss down with rain and the locals are running around desperately trying to get cover um let's park up next to these grab grab food guys you see these guys grab food or line man or food panda this is an industry that was born from covered right here they are just hanging out waiting for a wait for a job and uh look i'm gonna get some beers from 7-eleven and some snacks and then i'm going to edit this video and watch a movie thank you dreamy for getting us to nakhon si tamara safely thank you to you guys for watching and uh no not very good ending paddy i'm looking for inspiration but i don't find any least it's half past five so that means we can buy beer and seven have a great day wherever you are thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one when i promise we're gonna do this province some more justice and have some fun another cringy ending
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