A weekend in Phuket is all about soaking up some sunshine for most people. For us it’s all about savouring Phuket’s unique cuisine and culture, punctuated by a bit of pool time. Here’s how to have a weekend in Phuket of sea and food, with the focus on eating. It’s surprising how much you can eat … 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
A Chiang Mai food tour is the number one thing to do in Chiang Mai for culinary travellers visiting Northern Thailand’s ancient Lanna capital. It’s no surprise. Chiang Mai is a fantastic destination for foodies with great eating in Chiang Mai restaurants, markets and on the streets. Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand has long been one … 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, like Chinese-Australian food, Chinese-American, and so on, which Bangkok-based Adelaide-born chef Jess Barnes calls ‘trashy Chinese’. He loves the stuff and so do we, … Read more
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 Sathorn district of Bangkok should be your first stop in the Thai capital if you’re in the city to eat, … Read more