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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.
Rustic Laos moves into hipsterville
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 25/10/2019
» Lao Dtom Lao by restaurateur-chef Joke Pairomahakij of Seven Spoons and Laotian chef Dayvith "Daeng" Chanthavongsa has moved shop into hipster Thong Lor in the revived Seenspace.
The new black gold
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 24/08/2018
» Canadian Blake Dinkin is the creator and owner of the world's rarest and most expensive coffee, refined naturally by elephants — Black Ivory Coffee. Partnering with Ban Taklang in Surin and the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, Dinkin produces "elephant dung coffee". However, production of Black Ivory Coffee provides valuable income for elephant care-giving families, as well as students who are taught how to wash and dry the coffee. The mission of Black Ivory Coffee is to take a negative situation, namely human-elephant conflict and turn it into a positive one by creating a luxury product that helps not hurts elephants, as Dinkin tells Guru.