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These are edited excerpts from our book A Potato in a Rice Field: During my first visits to Isaan, when we stayed next door in granny Yai’s house, I remember waking each morning to the “crack, crack, crack” of wood as she smashed together her first betel nut hit for the day. This same sound …
These are edited excerpts from our book A Potato in a Rice Field: Fanfan also takes on a project during our year in Broken Road, where she would document a cookbook with the favourite recipes of rural grannies (including Thai Pumpkin Curry). Although the project proved trickier than we expected, given almost every granny in …
‘Lao Khao’, or ‘White Spirit’, as it translates in English, is a popular and potent rice whisky synonymous with Isaan as well as alcoholism in the rural parts of Thailand. And it is an alcohol that is widely available throughout all of Thailand, where it is sold by the bottle from pretty much every store …
These are edited excerpts from our book A Potato in a Rice Field (Chapter 13): Today would be my first visit to the “Big Temple” of Broken Road, which is the central temple to the family’s strict Buddhist routine, and it would be the setting of many more ceremonies to come. But we do arrive …
Since my very first visit to the big temple, there has always been this rickety, wooden float abandoned beneath a shelter next to the front temple hall. And it has always been a bit of an eye-sore, to be honest, where the craftsmanship looks to be no better than rubbish. Or at least this is …
At times I have spent longer in traffic between Sukhumvit and the Bangkok Riverside than on the Euro Tunnel between London and Paris. Which is a stupid analogy, I know, but it does show how a “quick” day out to the Bangkok Chao Phraya River can be comparable to a short break or holiday. And, …
These are edited excerpts from our book A Potato in a Rice Field (Chapter 62-63): Our good buddy Jar joins us in Isaan through the Thai New Year, or the Songkran Festival as the occasion is better known, which marks a three-day celebration, where everywhere in Thailand goes a little bit mental with mass water …
As I spend much of my time living in the rural rice fields of Isaan, I have become somewhat accustomed to the weird foods of the region. But I will forever remember my first days here when I questioned some weird textured meat in my spicy Laab salad. And was told “Uh, that’s brain. Tasty?”. …
My name is Allan Wilson, and below is me at my happiest, chowing down on all sorts of weird and wonderful foods on the streets of Bangkok. An obsession I have pursued for a while now, to feed my passion for both eating and street life in Bangkok. At the same time, I should really …
Menacing locals, stealing from slow-moving vehicles, humping roadside, the monkeys of Lopburi Monkey Temple are wild and mischievous, and are far from contained within temple grounds. And it’s almost like a scene from Gremlins at times where the monkeys rule the streets of the Lopburi Old Town. So it’s best not to expect a cuddly …