The best Phuket cooking classes range from hands-on Thai cooking lessons in state-of-the-art purpose-built cooking schools with dedicated Thai cooking instructors to hotel chefs giving demonstration-style classes in the resort restaurant in between service. You can learn popular Thai dishes that you’ll find all over Thailand or you can ask chefs and cooking instructors to … Read more
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, location of the Oriental Thai Cooking School, one of Bangkok’s finest cooking schools and one of the world’s … 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