Flying vegetables

In Phitsanulok, the night market chef's speciality is "flying vegetables", a dish of fried morning glory, which is cooked very theatrically as shown here. When it's ready, the chef sounds a gong, and catapults the veg through the air to a waiter some ten metres away, who catches it on a plate. Just to add to the spectacle, our waiter climbed onto the roof of a nearby transit van to catch our order.