48 hours in Bangkok devoted to deliciousness is our idea of a perfect two days in the Thai capital. While two days and two nights aren’t nearly enough time to eat your way through the city, you’ll certainly get a good taste of Bangkok’s gastronomic greatness if you follow our advice. While you can follow … Read more
The best Bangkok hotels for foodies range from atmospheric Shanghai Mansion, slap bang in the centre of Chinatown, and the sleek Como Metropolitan, home to Nahm, long one of Bangkok’s best Thai restaurants, to the Mandarin Oriental, home to the Oriental Thai Cooking School, one of Bangkok’s finest cooking schools and one of the world’s best … Read more
Bangkok street food dishes you must try when you’re on the move in the Thai capital include rice porridges, soups, noodles, and fried snacks, such as the chefs’ favourite, oyster omelette. You could eat on the streets from breakfast through to dessert, if you do as the locals do and graze all day. When we asked … Read more
Where David Thompson eats in Bangkok is a local guide to eating out in the Thai capital for food lovers. With hundreds of chefs, restaurateurs, gourmands, and food media converging upon Bangkok for Monday’s Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards, we thought we’d share a list of the restaurants where chef David Thompson snacks and dines … Read more
We believe great food should be celebrated in its many forms, whether genuinely old and authentic or the good old-fashioned bastardised cuisines of the kind we grew up on in Australia that Chef Jess Barnes calls ‘trashy Chinese’. We just spent a week in Bangkok, where we were covering the Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle and Chef René Redzepi and … Read more