Thailand is well known for its delicious mangoes. Thai mangoes are now in season with mangoes ripening on trees, ready to be plucked. The Thai mangoes can be eaten when it is unripe (dipped with fruit sauce), half ripe and fully ripen. Personally I prefer the half ripe mangoes. I love it because it is [...]
Almost every nook and cranny in Thailand, it would be easy to find a wet market around. Some of the wet markets are at certain fixed locations while some are available on certain days/time. Some markets have a huge variety of food while some go by with about 10 stalls or so. If you are [...]
Sticky rice is eaten as a staple meal, sometimes replacing rice in many rural households. Basically eating sticky rice keeps a person full for longer periods and for farmers and hard labor workers, they need energy sustenance for longer periods with lower cost and sticky rice is often the answer for them. Sticky rice is [...]
Som tum ส้มตำ (papaya salad) is a very popular dish in Thailand. There are a number of variations of som tum depending on the usage of ingredients and sauce. Being quite a common and staple dish, homes in Thailand would usually stock up all the required ingredients to make som tum. The main ingredient of [...]
About 9 days each year, some Thai people would be observing a vegetarian diet. This is for the Nine Emperor Gods Festival which is also observed and celebrated in Malaysia and Singapore. In year 2020, the date occurs from 17 October to 25 October. During this period, you can find vegetarian food in abundance all [...]
Porto Chino is located along the Rama II expressway/ highway 35. It houses many restaurants, eateries and a food court. It also have a co-working place where you can rent meeting rooms or just hang out to do your work (an increasingly popular concept for those working from homes and digital nomads). There is a [...]
Thai people love to take their bread with condensed milk. The first time when I saw the Teapot palace dip on the dining table of my host, I thought, well, who put a cleanser or moisturizer cream on the table? The fact is, having such dips packaged, in a squeezable tube, the same way as [...]
If you wish to drink more milk but are turned off by the milky taste, you can try the Foremost Yummy brand of fresh milk. You can find these milk being sold at all 7 Eleven or CJ stores. They come in low fat, full cream, chocolate and strawberry flavours. I known of some older [...]
In Thailand, you can find an interesting variety of cakes and if you know where the search, the taste is comparable with well known bakeries in the West but you only need to pay a fraction of the price. Sometimes local ingredients are being used to add in a unique flavour that is hard to [...]
Yamazaki is a Japanese based bakery that has come under high recommendations from some Thai friends. They have various types of breads, cakes, pastries, pizzas and sandwiches available. So far we have bought their bread and pizzas and noted that the taste is quite fresh, ie the items are baked fresh daily. It does not [...]
