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Minister Kessiri Siripakorn with Chef & Throwdown! Host Bobby Flay
Chef Nonkran Daks (in red on left) with Minister Kessiri Siripakorn 		image 2
Dancers from the Somapa Dance Company performing traditional Thai dance

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Somapa also provided traditional Thai music for this Throwdown!
The dancers and musicians from Somapa.

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The judges, Chef Aulie (from Bangkok Joes & T.H.A.I. Thai restaurants) & Minister Kessiri Siripakorn

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Bobby and Nonkran talk cooking before the throwdown.

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Chef Nonkran Daks showing off her considerable Thai cooking skills

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Bobby Flay working the tabletop burners
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Team Bobby hard at work

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Team Bobby giving it 110%

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Chef Nonkran Daks explaining the finer points of pad Thai preparation

 

'Pad Thai' Throwdown! with Bobby Flay (at Thai Basil, Chantilly, VA), 2009