Christina Tia is a Lao cook who shows a lot of media savvy in promoting her YouTube channel through Facebook, Instagram and more. She’s been doing it skillfully for several years yet has relatively few views (in the tens rather than 100s of thousands) perhaps because of the specialized interest in Lao cuisine. She definitely deserves a wider audience.
We followed her Lao Steak Recipe and produced an excellent result. (Let us know if you catch the blooper regarding the cut of meat she’s using, at the very beginning.) And when someone asked on Lao and Thai food for an easy Kapoon recipe, there were several links to this video.
One mild criticism: for someone who is so skilled in social media, Tia is lax in policing her own work. She forgot an ingredient in the YouTube steak video, and Kapoon spent some time without sound. If you’re paying attention, it will be easy to catch these errors and work around them. But most creators would have fixed the flubs to begin with.
There’s also a lot of good technique in these videos. While remaining true to traditional results, House of X Tia does not hesitate to find workarounds for ancient methods using modern kitchen tools and facilities. She’s smart, practical and well organized.
House of X Tia is yours to explore for free on YouTube, so get to it. Learn about a new cuisine and help push her subscriber numbers a lot higher. Check it out.
They’re not strip steaks (ribeye)? Fat cap? Different thicknness?
I’m struggling here…
The fact she it endorsed a product doesn’t bother me though.
Shoulda said what brand of fish sauce.
The real problem is they are not the vastly superior chuckeye.
Dave they look like ribeyes with the cap left on, cut extra thick. looks like Whole Foods butcher wrap. Must have cost a few $$.
No matter the cut, looks amazing!