Jan
04
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 …
Jan
03
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 …
Jan
02
“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 …
Dec
22
It’s hard to escape the apsara in Siem Reap. The celestial nymph is everywhere we look. Clad in silk and a colossal golden headdress, she seductively adorns temple walls in the form of elaborate carvings, or in human form as a graceful and distant dancer performing the Dance of the Apsara Divinities. They are strange, …
Oct
09
We like to think that if discovering the food of a destination is a way into the heart of a place’s culture, then learning to cook the cuisine is the route into its soul. That’s why doing a cooking class is high on my agenda whenever we arrive in a new destination. In the last …
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