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A living heritage
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 21/02/2020
» Chiang Mai's first luxury general store turned hi-so barbershop turned Lanna restaurant has been in Rungroj "Tao" Engkuthanon's family since the 1880s. The first ever store to use electricity in Chiang Mai, Kiti Panit General Store was unused for more than 60 years, having shut shop during World War II.
A culinary melting pot
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 28/08/2016
» Think of a favourite dish and then consider the various ingredients that come together to make it. You'll see that they are drawn from many different sources, some of them borrowed from other culinary traditions. One good example is pad Thai. Almost everything that goes into it is Chinese, from the small-gauge rice noodles to the tofu, beansprouts, hua chai po (Chinese turnip), Chinese leeks, dried shrimp, peanuts and even the duck eggs (in the past, ducks in Thailand were raised by Chinese). In terms of its ingredients, this familiar dish is Chinese from top to bottom, although whether it was a Thai or a Chinese cook who first prepared it, I don't know.
From Kowloon To Madrid
Life, Published on 25/04/2012
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