At a food festival in Las Vegas, carpenter-turned-chef Andy Ricker prepares a welcome dinner for the participating chefs at the much-loved Lotus of Siam, with chef/owner Saipin Chutima at the helm. Jet Tila rhapsodizes about the days when his family opened America's first Thai grocery store in Hollywood and introduced lemograss, kaffir lime leaves and other ingredients to the American palate.