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
Add a Thai cooking class at the Mandarin Oriental Cooking School in Bangkok to your Thailand itinerary if you’re like us and believe that discovering the food of a destination is a way into the heart of a place and learning to cook the cuisine is the route into its soul – via the stomach! … Read more
We first met Thai-born chef Duangporn ‘Bo’ Songvisava, better known as Chef Bo and her Australian chef husband Dylan Jones – protégés of the legendary master of Thai cuisine David Thompson at Nahm London – after eating a very memorable meal at their restaurant Bo.lan, just after it opened in Bangkok. In the last 18 … Read more
Chef Ian Kittichai, celebrity chef, Thailand’s Iron Chef, and a global ambassador for Thai cuisine, has restaurants in Bangkok, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and New York City, and does a weekly television cooking show Chef Mue Thong, which has been broadcast since 2001 in 70 countries around the world. Somewhat surprisingly, Chef Ian Kittichai (whose full Thai name is … Read more