Bangkok Travel Guide
Thailand’s cosmopolitan capital Bangkok can be a chaotic, complex and confounding city – until you cruise the Chao Phraya River, discover the Old City and its glittering pagodas and gleaming spires, and explore the quiet canals. For many visitors Bangkok is little more than a shopping stop punctuating a beach holiday. Yes, there’s cheap accommodation and dirt-cheap street food, but there are also beautiful boutique hotels, heady cafés and buzzy bars, and brilliant restaurants serving inventive Thai food – not to mention new art and design destinations, a rejuvenated riverside, and a rapidly gentrifying Chinatown. Go now.
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Best Bangkok Old City Heritage Boutique Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts
The best Bangkok Old City heritage boutique hotels and bed and breakfasts offer an intimate, personal experience, a quaint taste of the past, and a step back in time, as much as a temporary retreat ...
Best Bangkok Hotel Swimming Pools from Rooftop Infinity Pools to River Views
Best Bangkok hotel swimming pools range from luxury towers with rooftop infinity pools boasting dazzling panoramic vistas of the Bangkok city skyline to charming Chao Phraya riverside boutique hotels offering water views from your sun-bed. I ...
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Chef Sujira Pongmorn of Saawaan Restaurant Bangkok on Food Memories and Inspirations
Chef Sujira Pongmorn of Saawaan Restaurant Bangkok speaks to us about her early food memories and inspirations, her first restaurant experiences and biggest influences, how she conceived her first restaurant Saawaan, and Bangkok's dining scene. ...
80/20 Restaurant Bangkok Chefs on Rebooting the Evolution of Thai Cuisine
80/20 restaurant Bangkok chefs Napol ‘Joe’ Jantraget and Saki Hoshino are creating some of Thailand’s most inspired and imaginative contemporary Thai cuisine. Passionate about local produce, little known ingredients, and preservation and fermentation, the husband ...
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Silom Sathorn District of Bangkok – A Guide to Bangkok’s Buzziest Area
Silom Sathorn district of Bangkok is one of the Thai capital's buzziest areas right now. Home to a spate of new cocktail bars, sunny cafés, seductive speakeasies and two of Asia’s best restaurants, the Silom ...
Sipping Singha Beer in Bangkok
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 ...
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Things to Do on Chao Phraya River Bangkok – Where to Stay, Cruise, Explore and Eat
Things to do on Chao Phraya River Bangkok include hopping on and hopping off the public ferries to see the Thai capital's essential sights and explore off-the-beaten-track neighbourhoods, taking a canal tour by longtail boat ...
Koh Kret Escape – Exploring Bangkok’s Secret Mon Island on the Chao Phraya River
Koh Kret – or Koh Kred – a tranquil Mon island on the Chao Phraya River that remains something of a secret to most Bangkok visitors, and even to some Thais for that matter, makes ...
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Things to Do on Chao Phraya River Bangkok – Where to Stay, Cruise, Explore and Eat
Things to do on Chao Phraya River Bangkok include hopping on and hopping off the public ferries to see the Thai capital's essential sights and explore off-the-beaten-track neighbourhoods, taking a canal tour by longtail boat ...
Thai Cooking Class at the Mandarin Oriental Cooking School
We like to think that if discovering the food of a destination is a way into the heart of a place, then learning to cook the cuisine is the route into its soul. That’s why ...
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Bangkok’s Best Live Music Venues
From a rockabilly band playing at a fish and chips joint to an all-girl rock group performing nightly at an ice bar, Bangkok’s live music venues can most accurately be described as 'quirky'. Bangkok’s music ...
A Guide to Thai Design by Jitrin Jintaprecha
Bangkok designer Jitrin Jintaprecha's striking furniture and light fittings featured in an exhibition of Thai contemporary design that caught the international design world’s attention when it showcased at the 2011 Salone del Mobile in Milan, ...