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Best Places To Celebrate Songkran in Bangkok
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Thailand is well known for its festivals, and as of this weekend, Songkran, the most popular festival of all will be with us. Songkran celebrates the start of the new solar year and sees Thailand move officially into its summer season! April is also Thailand’s hottest month, so it is probably good in more ways …
READ MORETop 5 Thai Restaurants Along Sukhumvit Road
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As much as we enjoy our street food, and eating fabulous meals for under 50 baht, we also enjoy visiting restaurants for a slightly different experience of food. Bangkok is such a large city it would be remiss of us to simple pick our five favourite Thai restaurants across the city, so we are going …
READ MOREPopular Thai Snacks
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It’s probably hard to believe that in between all of the tasty Thai dishes we consume each day that we have room to snack, but somehow we manage it – we burn a lot of calories on our food walking tours so we need something to keep our energy levels up! One of our favourites …
READ MOREKhao Man Gai
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As we highlight in our very first post, one of our favourite Thai dishes is the simple and humble, yet tasty khao man gai. Despite being commonly found with street vendors, this is a meal you are unlikely to find in Western Thai restaurants – that said we hear there is a street food chain in Portland, …
READ MOREThailand: Street Food On Sticks
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Thai street food is world famous, but probably every third store that you stumble across will have some form of food on a stick for sale. So why is food on a stick so popular in the Land of Smiles? To be honest, we are not really sure why, but it is probably because it …
READ MORETop Five (Other) Places To Visit In Bangkok
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Well of course, our number one recommendation is the backstreets and alleyways of historic Bangrak where incidentally we happen to host our delicious Village of Love food tour, but when we aren’t busy eating our way through the dishes and culture of the neighbourhood, we do like to get out and explore the rest of …
READ MOREMango Sticky Rice
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Although famous for its delicious savoury dishes, Thailand desserts are perhaps not so well thought of. However, the simple but delicious mango sticky rice is one of the most, if not the most popular Thai desserts and it is also one of our favourites! Although mangos seem to be available in Thailand all year around, …
READ MOREOur Favourite Thai Fruits
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We’ve said it once, and we will say it again, Thailand is known for food. Many of the food stalls you will see adorning the streets will be selling freshly cut seasonal fruits, and wander around any wet market and at least half of the stores will be selling them whole. So we thought it …
READ MOREThai 101
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Thai is far from the easiest language to master. It is a tonal language in which each word has one of five tones that are integral to and can drastically change its meaning. In addition, vowel length is also important. Every word is either short, with a quick cut off pronunciation, or is long and …
READ MOREBangrak: The Village of Love
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Welcome to February! Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and what could be more perfect than doing that little bit something different with your loved one? Our signature tour is based in Bangkok’s Bangrak, or translated into English, “Village of Love” which locals deem as being one of the best areas for food in …
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Welcome to our blog! Here’s where you can find our best recommendations about Bangkok and Thailand, concentrating primarily of course on the wonderful food and places to eat that we love to explore! Even for those who have lived here a while, the wide variety of Thai dishes on offer can seem over whelming, and …
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