Category Archive: Food and Wine

Anything to do with eating and drinking!

Jan
06

Eating Out in Bangkok – Bangkok’s Best Restaurants

(Click to enlarge) Eating out in Bangkok has never been as exciting as it is now. Bangkok’s best restaurants offer up everything from Thai street food with a twist and molecular Thai, to creative contemporary French and ‘progressive Indian’. It’s often said about eating out in Bangkok that the best food is found on the …

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Jan
04

Bangkok Food Tours – a Foodie Walk Through Old Bangkok

We sighed with relief – and salivated a little too – when a trio of young Thai foodies set up Bangkok Food Tours and started offering foodie walking tours in Bangkok, a city we believe to be one of the world’s great food capitals. We signed up for their foodie walk through historic Bangrak, which is …

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Jan
03

Cooking with Poo at the Helping Hands Thai Cooking School

From Klong Toey markets, it’s a quick drive and a short stroll through Klong Toey slum to Saiyuud Diwong’s Helping Hands Thai Cooking School, Bangkok, where we’re going to try our hand at, um, Cooking with Poo. Our walking tour through Klong Toey markets to purchase produce for the cooking course may have had participants’ jaws …

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Jan
02

Cooking with Poo – A Walking Tour of Klong Toey Markets

“Isaan people eat everything!” Poo tells our small group as we negotiate the muddy paths of frenetic Klong Toey market on a walking tour to purchase ingredients for the Thai cooking lessons to follow at Saiyuud Diwong’s Helping Hands Thai Cooking School in Bangkok. ‘Poo’ is the nickname of Saiyuud Diwong, our cooking instructor. Vendor after vendor sells …

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Dec
29

Tips for a Successful Dinner Party Away

We’ve been doing a bit of entertaining the last few days at Lara’s uncle’s house in Bendigo culminating me cooking a five-course meal yesterday for some of our old friends. It got me thinking about entertaining when you’re on holidays, particularly if you’re staying in a home that’s not yours or a holiday rental… Some …

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