Terence Carter 
Photographing Prasat Phanom Rung temple in Thailand’s off-the-beaten-track Isaan region is a real joy. Exploring the mountain-top Angkor-era temple complex at dawn, when only the temple dogs are awake, is a sublime experience. When we visited the temple a few months ago there had been overnight rain and the sky was quickly clearing. We took … Read more
There are many people in Thailand who believe that traditional home-cooked Thai food is becoming a thing of the past. This image of Bangkok’s junior MasterChef gave me some hope that wasn’t the case. Pre-packaged curry pastes and even entire Thai dishes that were historically the staple of a home cooked meal, now sit in … Read more
When Lara first suggested the idea of a side trip to Saigon from Bangkok, my thoughts immediately turned to food, to Vietnamese food, and specifically to pho bo (or more correctly, phở bò). Soon after arriving, I’d be salivating at the words thit bo kho (thịt bò khô). You see, when I first moved to Sydney … Read more
We love eating street food on the footpaths of Bangkok. But if there is a downside, it’s the sweltering heat and often stifling humidity that nearly constantly hangs over the city. There is a cure though and it’s sipping Singha Beer in Bangkok. Icy cold beer too, like the one in the photo above. There’s … Read more
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 – … Read more