I love this dish and it’s a soup that will definitely go on a future menu. It’s full of chicken bits, including shredded white meat, bits of bone with crunchy cartilage, blood cake and braised feet. It may sound a bit extreme, but it’s probably the kind of soup a chicken would hope to end…
Category: Bangkok
A New Adventure in Thailand Starts off Spicy
My first day in Bangkok was exactly what I wanted it to be. Actually maybe just a little bit more. I came off the airplane anxious to shake 22 hours of sitting out of my body. Oh yeah, first I had to take a taxi into the city. Then I could shake it off. A…
Staycation Destination: Chinatown
Whether I”m in New York or Bangkok, the excitement of city living never fades. In New York, most residents flee to the beaches during the summer: Hamptons, Amagansett, Montauk, Martha’s Vineyard etc. In Bangkok, Thais head up-country for a little r&r, or south to charming beach towns like Hua Hin or Samed for a more…
Egg Meets Grill
Eggs are the perfect food. A perfectly designed serving of protein and fat can be cooked and manipulated in endless ways: soft pillowy egg pouches draped in an egg-emulsified Hollondaise sauce, sweet soy sauce boiled eggs stewed with chunks of braised pork, a fried egg perched atop a mountain of fried rice, soft scrambled eggs…
Tangy, Fishy and Curiously Intriguing
As I was walking down the street tonight on my way to pick up my regular evening salad, and thinking to myself, “Should I have cucumber? Long Bean? or papaya tonight?” I spotted a newcomer. Or at least, she hasn’t been there since I’ve had my eagle eyes on the road. She was an older…
The Perfect Papaya Salad
Thailand has a seemingly endless variety of food stuffs to wade through. On my block alone, every 2.5 steps there is a different street vendor–one sells roasted bananas, another rocks a cleaver preparing a Hunan chicken dish, while a young lady sells a fresh veggie soup made to order and her neighbor rolls out sticky…
There’s No Place Like Nahm
Yesterday I ran around Bangkok and tried not to look at the grilled chicken satays, or the zingy papaya salads, or the roasted bananas…or any of the enticing food offerings that tempt with seductive scents. We were going to David Thompson’s Nahm at the Metropolitan Hotel for dinner and I did not want to spoil…
The Other Version of Bangkok’s Weekend Market
I’ve been to Thailand more times than you can count on two hand. I love traveling the world, but somehow, someway, I always seem to end up back in Bangkok. Sometimes I’ll blame it on the fact that it’s just a great hub city. I can catch a flight to most places in Asia from…
blow your budget in bangkok
not really. you can easily sleep, use public transportation and eat to your heart’s content for $10-$$15 a day. and eat well you will. south east asia is easily my favorite place to eat in the world (thus far, but i still have quite a few countries to knock off my list!). eating street food…
passport to eat 