Tag Archive: Dining

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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Sep
18

Eating Out in Saigon

We’ve long loved Vietnamese cuisine, having been spoilt with authentic Vietnamese food when we used to live in Sydney, home to a large Vietnamese-Australian population. Eating in Saigon (AKA Ho Chi Minh City) did not disappoint. In fact it was an absolute delight. These were the restaurants where we had some of our most enjoyable …

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Aug
08

Chef Ian Kittichai’s Guide to Eating & Drinking in Bangkok

Chef Pongtawat Chalermkittichai, better known as Ian Kittichai, was considered to be Thailand’s first celebrity chef and is a global ambassador for Thai cuisine, with restaurants in Bangkok, Mumbai, Barcelona, and New York City (co-owned with Chef Todd English) and a weekly television cooking show Chef Mue Thong, which has been broadcast since 2001 in 70 …

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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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Jun
22

Footpath Feasting: Tips to Eating Street Food Safely

Footpath Feasting is our new weekly series on Street Food; see this post for details. Eating street food is an intrinsic part of the travel experience for many, especially in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East where a meal on the street is a daily ritual for locals. Many travellers think of their first …

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