Category Archive: Food and Wine

Anything to do with eating and drinking!

Aug
03

Gaggan: Where the Influence of Adrià and El Bulli is Felt in Bangkok

It may be the end of an era at El Bulli, the world’s best restaurant, but it’s not the end of the world’s best chef Ferran Adrià’s influence on global cuisine, as Gaggan Anand’s Progressive Indian cuisine in Bangkok testifies. Last Saturday saw the closing of Spanish superstar chef Ferran Adrià’s restaurant El Bulli – …

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Aug
01

Footpath Feasting: Fiery Isaan Food at Khon Kaen Markets

A highlight of Thailand’s Isaan region is its cuisine, so as the sun started to descend on Khon Kaen, we made our way from the lakeside markets through the town centre, where the footpaths are crammed with food stalls, and the night markets were in full swing. I was still blown away by how many …

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Jul
15

Weekend Eggs: the Bangkok Edition

At 7am in Bangkok the city is animated. And of course being Bangkok, a city where food plays such an integral part in the daily rhythms and rituals of life, the cooking, selling, buying, eating, and transporting of food is already well underway. For the food markets, the day began several hours earlier. For those …

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Jul
07

Footpath Feasting: From Street Food to Soul Food

As travel writers, we have to eat out every day, sometimes twice a day. It’s only when we’re in write-up mode, when we’re busy working on magazine stories or a book, that we’ll stay in and Terence will cook, or we’ll order home delivery, or we’ll buy street food from our fried pork lady down …

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Jul
02

Bangkok’s Best Local Bars – Our Personal Favourites

There’s nothing like a few drinks at a buzzy Bangkok bar after a busy week. But we’re freelance travel writers I hear you say! Yes, but we still work every day, we work hard, and we still have those particularly demanding weeks we want to forget about – the ones with too many deadlines and too many …

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