The morning after the Loy Krathong
I almost missed Loy Khrathong! I had checked an online date and time site for this years date, but it was wrong and the party was last night. Fortunately, I live next to a temple and it was loud, a…
Khao Tom – Thai Rice Soup
Whoopy once, whoopy twice, whoopy chicken soup with rice. These words from Maurice Sendak’s Nutshell Library have repeated themselves in my mind as a sort of litany as the weather has gotten colder and I’ve been moaning my nights away…
Loy Krathong: River Cruises and Alien Invasions
Loy Krathong is upon us again, and I’m excited. Yipeng came into my radar last year, and I thought it was fantastic. What a beautiful compliment to lanterns that light up the waters, to set the sky ablaze. So throughout…
Seenspace Thonglor
Seenspace Thonglor is a great place to kill a whole evening’s worth of drinking and dining. I mentioned the Fatr Gutz pub in the blog, but my trip to Thonglor did not stop there, though perhaps it would have been…
Vegetarian festival: animal rights
The Vegetarian Festival is something we’ve discussed here before, and something no doubt we will be returning to annually. But in an attempt to keep it from getting too repetitive I’ll look today at a broader aspect of the inherent…
Thailand Green Tea Powder
Macha (or Matcha) is the Japanese word for powdered green tea, and the most widely recognized name of this around the world. It actually came from China, but lost popularity there several hundred years ago. It was retained by the…
Thai Preserved Eggs
A lot of breakfasts, not only in my kitchen but as a general rule are ad-libbed mixtures of various leftover items that are hanging around the kitchen. Fried rice is leftover rice plus whatever vegetables and protein you have, protein…
Traffic and Torrent – Hire a Driver in Bangkok
There are a lot of different ways to get around Bangkok; one of the interesting things about the city really, all the different sorts of public and private conveyance. There are speed boats through canals, taxis, motor bikes, tuk-tuks, minivans,…
