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…
Photo of the Week: Thai Wai
Thai Greeting “Wai” Thai greeting called “Wai” is a part of the unique Thai culture and is used to convey a variety of emotions including politeness, respect, honor, gratitude, apology and friendship.
Museum Siam
This week’s destination of choice is the coolest museum I’ve seen in a long time, Museum Siam. Museums are an unavoidable fixture of any thorough travel experience, but so many of these places are not a whole lot more than…
The Bo Sang Umbrella
Slip out of the bustle of tourist-packed streets of Chiang Mai City for a somewhat more quaint taste of local culture and craftsmanship. Only 20 minutes from the city, Bo Sang is the center of Saa paper parasols, where from…
Maeklong Railway Market
The Maeklong Railway Market is one of the most charming and quintessential vestiges of old-school Thainess in this vast and wondrous Kingdom. When Siam Paragon and MBK are the names on the lips of those with shopping in their hearts,…
Bangkok Markets: Talad Iam Sombat
This month we stopped in on the banana fair at Seacon already, so now we’ll head up the road a kilometer or two and visit a real fresh market. I also need some food for the coming week, so let…
Pram and San Phra Pom – Spirit Houses in Thailand
There are a lot of misconceptions about religion in Thailand. Even though Buddhism in Thailand is the dominant system of spirituality and is the national religion (there was a bit of dispute over the declaration of that actually, as it…
