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 – …
Category Archive: Food and Wine
Anything to do with eating and drinking!
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 …
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 …
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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