Chewing Betel with Granny Yai
byThese are edited excerpts from our book A Potato in a Rice Field: During my first visits to Isaan, when we stayed next door…
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Cooking Curries with Yai Thip
byThese are edited excerpts from our book A Potato in a Rice Field: Fanfan also takes on a project during our year in Broken…
Drinking Rice Whisky with Rural Folk
byβLao Khaoβ, or βWhite Spiritβ, as it translates in English, is a popular and potent rice whisky synonymous with Isaan as well as alcoholism…
Buddhist Holy Days at the Temple
byThese are edited excerpts from our book A Potato in a Rice Field (Chapter 13): Today would be my first visit to the βBig…
The Big Candle Festival in Isaan
bySince my very first visit to the big temple, there has always been this rickety, wooden float abandoned beneath a shelter next to the…
Paces of Life on Bangkok’s Riverside
byAt times I have spent longer in traffic between Sukhumvit and the Bangkok Riverside than on the Euro Tunnel between London and Paris. Which…
A Traditional Songkran in Isaan
byThese are edited excerpts from our book A Potato in a Rice Field (Chapter 62-63): Our good buddy Jar joins us in Isaan through…
Weird and Wonderful Foods of Asia
byAs I spend much of my time living in the rural rice fields of Isaan, I have become somewhat accustomed to the weird foods…
Essential Eating: Bangkok Street Food
byMy name is Allan Wilson, and below is me at my happiest, chowing down on all sorts of weird and wonderful foods on the…
Lopburi Monkey Town (Thailand)
byMenacing locals, stealing from slow-moving vehicles, humping roadside, the monkeys of Lopburi Monkey Temple are wild and mischievous, and are far from contained within…
