Tag: bangkok food
On behalf of a well-respected travel site, a well-known travel writer recently visited Bangkok on a quest to find the “perfect pad Thai.” It was a noble, if not …
In Bangkok taxis are cheap (fares start at 35 baht), and abundant, and every color of the rainbow. Most drivers don’t speak much English, and they hate traffic. Fucking …
The over-the-counter pharmacist, with whom I’ve done business for years at a Ratchaprasong pharmacy that shall remain nameless, said that he’s fresh out of Xanax. “Oh, no, no more. …
Most nights, the roti vendor camps out near the western, street-level stairway for the Ratchathewi BTS Skytrain station on Phayathai Road. He’s behind the bus stop there, to be …
Bulldozers demolished what was left of the condemned, abandoned buildings, these battered relics of a Bangkok priced out and put down. Soon after the concrete rubble would be cleared …
He always makes a scene when he sees me. He makes a real show of it, for the amusement of his fellow vendors, and for the amusement of the …
By Brian Spencer To single out just one dish — a simple, everyday Thai standard at that — from the culinary vortex that is Tawandang German Brewery’s accomplished kitchen …
Update 9/30/14: We’re sad to report that Kuu has closed down, but still encourage you to torture yourself over what could have been by reading about this sadly departed …
A soused thirtysomething Thai, his eyes bloodshot and arms covered in tattoos, waves his cigarette in the face of an obese, droopy-eyed dog next to him who’d just hopped …
“So where are you going first?” I’d just booked my ticket for a quick 10-day reacquaintance with my dear old friend Bangkok later this month (yay!), and my wife, …
It’s difficult to find tasty, authentic, ungreasy Mexican food in Brooklyn. Sure, there are some solid taco joints here and there, but given the volume of taquerias, or more …
The wood-fired pizzas are always appealing, and though they’re considered a specialty, I’ve never tried one. Sushi is excellent, particularly the blowtorched salmon roll, and I try to save …
