Happy New Year! The temple has been keeping my head nodding to traditional Thai music and it sounded like a war zone with people setting off fireworks last night. I can only imagine what the city is going to be…
Happy Holidays!!! It really does feel like winter in Bangkok. If you’re from the sort of place where frost and snow are the usual sort of scenery this time of year, it almost doesn’t feel like the holidays if you’re…
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…
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 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 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…
Let’s face it, shopping is as big a part of any Thai holiday as the cultural exploration, beach time, or the unending search for gastronomical enlightenment, but there isn’t any reason some or even all of these can’t be combined…
Some of these strange cafes I keep hearing about, definitely the two in my neck of the woods. One of them is called Makura Cat Cafe, at Srinakarindra, Soi 51. Seating is pillows on the floor, fare is light pasta…
