Thailand is full of wild, hairy animals. If you’ve ever visited Kaosan road you know what I’m talking about. No, no, seriously, there are all kinds of strange beasts crawling, climbing, hopping, flying and otherwise skulking about the country’s dense…
So, as promised, I’ve tried the Southern Coffee, and here’s what I’ve come up with: First of all, there aren’t many of these places yet, according to the website there are five locations in the southern peninsula and four scattered…
Dining while in transit is an interesting undertaking. I, of course, am a huge fan of taking a walk around and finding some random spot to stop and grab a bite to eat, but this is not always practical or…
Many people know of the famous Benjarong style porcelain of Thailand, with its trademark blue and gold diamond patterns. And well they should, it’s gorgeous stuff. But it’s also more the sort of thing you put on the shelf than…
In Bangkok, finding halal food is about as challenging as hailing a taxi. Thailand boasts a rather large Islamic population of its own, and being a major South east Asian business hub that population is made even larger by expatriates…
I’ve been on a bit of an obsessive quest lately, learning as much as I can about the plants and animals of Thailand. Over the course of this sort of research, much of which is pictorial, it is only natural…
It may be no secret that I am a voracious consumer of tea and coffee. More specifically, Thai tea and coffee. By “Thai tea and coffee” I mean beans and leaves grown and processed here in the kingdom. And I…
I started to outline some of the most prevalent forms of transit around Thailand in the first and second piece part of the series. So with planes, trains and coaches out of the way, and without any undue preamble, let…
