For the first time in the history of the prestigious World’s 50 Best Restaurants list – the globe’s most highly regarded restaurant awards, recently announced in London – Bangkok, Thailand, has a restaurant ranked: Chef David Thompson’s Nahm at number 32. Best Bangkok Restaurants on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants List While that’s exciting news for … Read more
We’ve travelled the length and breadth of Southeast Asia over many years. When we first shared this post we’d been living in Bangkok for four months while updating a guidebook and working on stories. Bouncing across the region on assignments, we’d travelled all over Thailand, we cruised along the Mekong, and travelled to Vietnam, Laos … Read more
One of the first things we like to do after arriving in a city following a long-haul flight is stretch our legs and get some fresh air, which generally sees us heading to the nearest park or garden. As we’ve been arriving in Bangkok so many times after long flights, we thought we’d compile a … Read more
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’.A few years A few years ago a “Bangkok’s best restaurants” post would have been inconceivable as it’s often said … Read more
From Klong Toey markets in Bangkok it’s a quick drive and a short stroll through Klong Toey slum to Saiyuud Diwong’s modest kitchen where we’re going to try our hand at, um, Cooking with Poo at the Helping Hands Thai Cooking School. Our walking tour through Klong Toey markets to purchase produce for the cooking … Read more