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  • LIFESTYLE

    Breakfast epiphanies

    Brunch, Published on 20/11/2016

    » Any Britons who visited Thailand in the previous millennium will remember their hosts' sacrilegious attempts to make the full English breakfast -- rubber sausages, fatty bacon, uncooked eggs and toast that had barely made nodding acquaintance with a grill.

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    All I need is the air that I breathe

    Brunch, Normita Thongtham, Published on 20/11/2016

    » 'Please introduce air plant farms in the Bangkok area," an email I received recently requested. I am sure there are hobbyists growing air plants in their gardens or balconies, but because of high land prices, I doubt it if there are plant nurseries in Bangkok. Be that as it may, I went to my favourite haunt, the Chatuchak midweek market, last Wednesday to ask around.

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    Friends in need

    Brunch, Published on 20/11/2016

    » Tao Hoo was abandoned at a shelter. He is a gentle and friendly dog. He used to be on a leash too. He has been vaccinated and neutered.

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    Freshly squeezed

    Brunch, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 20/11/2016

    » Those cold fruit drinks, called nam ponlamaipan in Thai, in which fruit juice is blended together with ice to form a slushy mixture, are very popular in Thailand. You can order them made with the juice of limes, oranges, watermelon, guava, tender coconut, and other fruits, or in combinations. People go for them because they combine sweetness, coolness and the flavour of a favourite fruit. Most coffee shops offer them for customers who are not in the mood for coffee, tea, or carbonated beverages.

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    Never say never

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/11/2016

    » Being a company owner I am seldom wrong. Ask my staff -- when am I ever wrong? "Never," they will answer, with a stress on the "v" consonant, since I assume the role of a broken record for anyone who dares to drop a "naire-wer" in my vicinity. My staff will then give you an all-knowing glance when I am looking in the other direction, revealing crossed fingers from behind their backs.

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    Freinds in need

    Brunch, Published on 13/11/2016

    » Buddy is a pitbull terrier who was dumped at a shelter. He is always friendly to people but must be the only dog in the house. He has been spayed and vaccinated.

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    In His Nature

    Brunch, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 13/11/2016

    » When we were children, one of the first people who taught us what we needed to know was our father. He taught us how to pour ourselves some water to drink, to tuck in our shirts so they didn't stick out on the side, how to be careful when eating fish so that no bone got stuck in our throat and so much else. Once we had learned these things, he moved on to more advanced matters, and when we had mastered them, it made him proud.

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    The road is all the rage these days

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/11/2016

    » What is more valuable in the Land of Smiles -- a brand new luxury car or the dignity of the lower classes?

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    Dog days have just begun

    Brunch, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 13/11/2016

    » Since being attacked at a young age, Praew, 15, has always been afraid of dogs -- no matter how adorable they are. A child with special needs, she would always associate them with that early bad memory and scream whenever they came near.

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    From the ground up

    Brunch, Normita Thongtham, Published on 13/11/2016

    » Last week's column about a sick bodhi tree in the yard of a temple in Tucson, Arizona, reminded me of a letter from Murray Thomas last April seeking advice on the cultural requirements of the edible creeper Piper sarmentosum, known in Thai as cha plu.

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