Bangkok – City of Angels
Sean Kjetil Nordbo The Thais call their capital city Krungthep, not Bangkok, as it is know internationally. It is short of what the Guinness Book of World Records dub the longest name for…
Food
Regional Thai Food
Northern Thai Cuisine Thai food of the north, in some way, is cooked with the sole thought for the taste for the northern people. The recipe consists of vegetable and…
Pattaya: Fat of the Land
If you pick up a tourist brochure, look at a website, or even talk with one of the expatriates who live there, you’ll keep stumbling on the phrase “paradise” used…
Thai Cuisine, a Facinating Past
If cuisine is about cooking style and food, then its features must be related to people, race, history, tradition, culture and science. In comparing cooking styles of the Thais (actually…
Fried Drunken Noodles
How is it possible for noodles to get drunk, let alone really drunk as the Thai name ‘Phat Khi Mao’ implies? Well, I don’t know the answer, but I do…
Red Pork & Rice or Kao Moo Dang
Have you ever been wandering around the sois of Pattaya and seen hunks of bright red meat hanging inside the glass display cases of some of the street food vendors?…
An introduction to Singaporean food
I’ve been back from my trip to Singapore for about a week now, and while I’ve mostly finished digesting from my six-day noodle bender, I feel like I’ve only begun…
Ten reasons to love Chennai
As my next destination is the Andaman Islands I need to do a stopover in Chennai (also known as Madras) in India and I thought it could be a good…