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5 days of visiting gourmet chefs
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 10/02/2017
» Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok presents Culinary Greats, a celebration of extraordinary cuisine from Feb 18-23.
Thailand hosts Asia's 50 Best Restaurants next week
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 26/02/2016
» In just three days from now Asia will get to know which dining establishment will be named 2016 Asia's Best Restaurant.
New breed of pledging
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 15/05/2015
» Just like most consumers of the Kingdom's main culinary staple of smooth, polished white rice, Korn Chatikavanij was never much of a fan of so-called novel types of Thai rice.
The good life
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 20/04/2015
» In 1995, eminent banker and Thailand's ex-finance minister Boonchu Rojanastien decided to tear down his holiday home in Hua Hin and turn it into Chiva-Som, one of the world's first wellness and destination spa retreats.
The mushroom treatment
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 19/07/2013
» We live in an era when sex always sells and private details about intimacy issues can draw public attention. If we needed further evidence of this, it came recently in the form of the much-talked about leaked audio clip believed to contain a conversation between former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Deputy Defence Minister Gen Yuthasak Sasiprapa. (When the clip came out, Gen Yuthasak denied it was his voice.) Aside from the politics, the clip has raised eyebrows because the voice that was not Thaksin's mentioned that he was being kept "strong" by taking thang chao. Because of this, national interest in the claimed aphrodisiac benefits of the mushroom has once again been, er, roused.
Knife-and-fork diplomacy
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 28/08/2012
» Charismatic people make good diplomats. A generalisation, of course, but a recent 90-minute meeting with Dr Surakiart Sathirathai at his home bore out the essential truth underpinning this statement.
The lonesome diner
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 20/02/2012
» [B]Former Deputy Minister of Public Health, Anutin Charnvirakul, the subject of this month's Power Lunch column, surely is an influential figure in Thailand's political circle. But the 46-year-old key executive of the Bhum Jai Thai Party, who has attended a great number of five-star dinners and is famous for his discerning epicurean lifestyle, insists that for eight out of 10 meals, people in public will see him eat alone.