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    Mother knows best

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 01/11/2013

    » One of Bangkok's real culinary pleasures is the experience of stepping into an unremarkable-looking little food shop and finding a dish that is done really well. Food-alert types will know that this is something that happens much less frequently these days than it once did, but most will have a mental shortlist of little places that rarely disappoint, perfect for inviting special friends for impromptu informal meals.

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    Flavours of yesteryear

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 24/05/2013

    » They still do exist, you know: real raan khao gaeng _ curry shops _ where the cook pounds the nam prik personally and takes the time to squeeze genuine, fresh coconut cream, separating it into the hua (first pressing) and the haang, instead of opening a container of dairy milk or (in hanging-offence cases) a can of evaporated milk.

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    Arather mixed bag

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 30/11/2012

    » A food-alert friend of Ung-aang Talay's recently recommended a restaurant in the Silom area, mentioning that it was related to the Sukhumvit-based Baan Khanitha, whose kitchen has been attracting loyal customers for many years with excellent curries and nam prik dishes, and with its signature multi-coloured rice. As a regular at Baan Khanitha back in its early days on Sukhumvit Soi 11, U-a T's curiosity was aroused, and a group supper planned for last week seemed like a good opportunity to give the place a try.

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    Fruit of the egg

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 05/10/2012

    » There was a time when the Bangkok weekend market was held at Sanam Luang rather than at Chatuchak, and those who remember it as it was then will recall that it had a character very different from now. The tourism frenzy that began in the late 1980s was still many years off, and the great majority of the people who went to Sanam Luang to browse the market were Bangkok locals. It would have been unusual to spend a couple of hours meandering around there without running into someone you knew.

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    Northern heat

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 21/09/2012

    » A craving for the nuclear heat of southern Thai food has steered Ung-aang Talay to so many southern food shops recently that when some friends suggested a visit to Gedhawa, a restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 35 that specialises in northern cuisine, U-a T leapt at the opportunity for a change.

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    Surprises from the South

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 31/08/2012

    » Ask a food-savvy Bangkokian to name some southern Thai dishes and you'll usually hear the same list: kaeng tai pla, kaeng lueang, pat sataw, khua kling, khao yam, some kind of fish fried with turmeric _ in other words, the usual. And no wonder, because these dishes, plus a few others, define the boundaries as far as most Bangkok restaurants are concerned.

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    Perfect end to Ramadan

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 24/08/2012

    » Soi Chokechai 4 is one of those after-dark eating and convening places (Sukhumvit Soi 38 is another) where open-air restaurants and an army of vendors join forces to offer dishes of all kinds to a surging and noisy crowd.

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    For the love of larb

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 27/07/2012

    » Once upon a time in Bangkok, som tum was referred to a sugary papaya salad served with coconut rice. In the misty past it was a lunchtime favourite among society women who used to munch it at Dachanee or on the porch of the old Sorn Daeng.

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    Cabbie's tip-off yields reward

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 15/06/2012

    » Food-alert diners-out know that taxi drivers, like policemen, can be rich sources of information on where to go for a good meal. If you are riding in a cab, begin chatting with the driver, and manage to steer the conversation away from politics you will often be surprised at the wealth of culinary information, including recipes, that will suddenly fill the discourse.

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    Serious about noodles

    Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 01/06/2012

    » The sensibilities of the committed noodle connoisseur are very finely calibrated.

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