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The other side of Songkran
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 12/04/2020
» When Songkran is approaching, people instinctively bring out colourful shirts to wear as a gesture to celebrate the occasion.
The pros and cons of eating out
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 18/08/2019
» I am often asked which one is better and cheaper -- cooking at home or eating out. Some people are wondering why food shops and noodle shops sell the same dishes at different prices. In the meantime, many are figuring out the operating cost of restaurants to compare with the cost of home cooking.
Sweet success
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 21/07/2019
» Sugar is indispensable to Thai cuisine. Granular sugar is widely used in the present day but sugars made from sugar palm or coconut trees or sugarcane are still as suitable for traditional Thai dishes and sweets as ever.
Chilli's complicated history
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 05/05/2019
» Thai food without chilli is not Thai food. Despite its significance in Thai cuisine, there are many questions that remain unanswered about chilli. How did chilli first arrive in Thailand? What kind of chilli was it? How many chilli species do we have now? Which one is most popular? Do Thai people consume the highest amount of chilli in the world? These are questions many people want to explore.
The evolution of coffee
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 20/01/2019
» In the morning, many people need to have their coffee. They spend that time planning what to do with their day. Sometimes, they try to go without coffee and their minds go blank. Coffee is special. It does its job well but in a contradictory way. It makes your body alert and relaxed at the same time.
Weighing risks of herbicide
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 15/07/2018
» Many stories have been told about people, despairing of life, taking the herbicide paraquat as a way out.
Eating pretty
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 10/06/2018
» Food in the global culinary scene is getting more "stylish". By this, we mean to say that several restaurants have started to dress their dishes up in order to make them more photogenic and thus, one may say, more fashionable.
A fruit for all seasons
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 27/05/2018
» The mango may seem at face value like any ordinary fruit. Despite being highly sought after by tourists in Thailand, the cheap, omnipresent fruit is a standard -- even monotonous -- fixture in most Thai homes.
Unwinding the street food clock
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 06/05/2018
» Pad Thai at dawn? Japanese bento for breakfast? Rice porridge at 9pm?
Where food meets faith
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 11/03/2018
» In the past, food and religion were seen as inseparable parts of daily life by Thais. There are several reasons behind this thinking -- some that one may say represents the Thai spirit.