Showing 31 - 40 of 48
Raising the roof
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 19/11/2013
» Bangkok's circle of charitable gastronomy continued to thrive with the recent success of the 5th Bangkok Post Charity Wine Dinner, staged at the rooftop Fifty Five restaurant of the Centara Grand at CentralWorld.
For the love of Fish and Rice
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 01/11/2013
» Apart from going to school, what do Thai students do in Chicago? They make sushi.
A venerable legacy
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 01/10/2013
» It's been almost four months since the Venerable Phra Ajahn Mitsuo Gavesako, the famous Japanese abbot of Wat Pah Sunan Tha Wanaram in Kanchanaburi and a highly respected meditation teacher, quietly left the monkhood.
Don't be too quick to turn the page
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 20/09/2013
» This year Bangkok sees itself the World Book Capital _ a title Unesco bestows annually to a city with admirable programmes to promote books and reading. Of course, it doesn't matter if Bangkok is really worthy of such an honour, over the past several years we've been yearning to achieve many... umm... impossibilities, whether it's to be the fashion city of the world, the best tourist destination or even Asia's medical hub.
Shroom seduction
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 16/08/2013
» If we had to name one ingredient whose use has mushroomed most rapidly on the domestic gastronomic scene in recent years, it would definitely have to be the ... ahem ... mushroom.
Land of the locust eaters
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 31/05/2013
» Despite recent media excitement about big city restaurants in the West that highlight bug cuisine, such as San Francisco's Don Bugito, New York's Brooklyn Kitchen and Nice's Michelin-starred Aphrodite, insect-eating is nothing new nor exotic in Thailand, where carts selling crispy fried grasshoppers can be spotted only a few metres from a KFC.
Glitz & giving
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 17/05/2013
» Success is usually a composite of drudgery and luck. But for the Bangkok Chefs Charity Gala Dinner, a unique formula that has allowed this annual event to run prosperously into its fifth year is nothing more than a combination of pure generosity, well-built camaraderie and top-notch ingredients.
It's A small World
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 05/04/2013
» Sometime around 2pm, Baramee Punyabukkana was called from his editorial desk to the scene of a fire. Equipped with the latest-model digital cameras (the office's property, of course), he and his fellow journalists ran to the location amid the sound of sirens. The town's only hotel was on fire and seven firefighters were strenuously manoeuvring the water hose trying to extinguish the flames.
Small is beautiful
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 22/03/2013
» Until last year, Lor Yaowaraj, a Chinese grocery shop in the middle of Yaowarat, bustled with elderly customers and wholesale clients.
Five-star local flavour
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 08/03/2013
» It was sweaty, sometimes dusty, but absolutely fun-filled. We were on the back of a small song taew, with bags full of fresh local produce, listening to a young Australian chef explaining the recipes he planned for our lunch.