The Wee Choo Choo Thai Restaurant, Pitlochry
The Wee Choo Choo is a Thai restaurant opening beside Pitlochry Station in a former Norwegian railway carriage that was used for a stunt in the 2023 Tom Cruise film Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
The Wee Choo Choo is a Thai restaurant opening beside Pitlochry Station in a former Norwegian railway carriage that was used for a stunt in the 2023 Tom Cruise film Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
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00:00We have a Thai train restaurant that I've been working on since I was about 16 when
00:19I was still in school because I knew I wanted to do a different type of job when I grew
00:25up.
00:26I just wanted to do something that I'd love for the rest of my life and when my dad brought
00:32the idea of a train to me at first I was like, oh that's actually quite a good idea.
00:36After that we went to the site one day to check on our Mark 3 carriages and this train
00:43was parked next to it and I was like, that's an absolutely gorgeous train.
00:48So my dad was like, go and ask the guy called Simon Reed who owns the freight moving company.
00:57He was like, oh this train was filmed for Mission Impossible 7.
01:01There's a little family Thai restaurant called the Wee Choo Choo, it is a very catchy name
01:06and everyone loves the name when they actually find out what it's called but also with this
01:13train I wanted everyone to have an amazing experience when they come in.
01:19I wanted it to be quite classic.
01:22When I first started I wanted the interior to be more like the Oriental Express in Singapore
01:28but not exactly alike but in the movie as well there was different colours on different
01:34trains as well so it was a different theme.
01:37It was originally supposed to be blue but I changed my mind last second and realised
01:42that red would be a classier colour.
01:45It's all real authentic Thai food as well which my great-grandfather was a chef before
01:51so we're kind of twisting his recipe a little bit but it's still a family recipe that we're using.
01:57You can expect, for example, there's Penang curry right here and then there's also a Pak
02:05a Pol and then our dessert, there's one called Baloi as well, it's quite known in Thailand.
02:12It normally uses fresh seasonal fruit so you can put any kind of fruit in it but I would
02:18rather go by season so it kind of matches with that and then it normally has tapioca
02:24pearls as well so all the tapioca are handmade by my mum as well so she spent hours and hours
02:32rolling it.
02:34It feels amazing, it blows my mind sometimes that it is actually here now but a 16-year-old
02:43me would never believe that I actually managed to make it come true.