Spicy Thai seafood soup: 100 Baht. Shrimp bombs with spicy sauce: 50 Baht. Ice cold soda water 15 Baht. Total dinner bill for one: $5.30. Welcome to Soi 38, a wonderful and weird gathering place featuring open seating, mismatched food stalls and food vendors that fire up their push carts every evening near Bangkok’s Thong Lo BTS station. Soi is […]
» Read moreA middle-aged American, struggling for months with the text of a book he’s trying to write about his conversion from the life of a western businessman to a resident of one of Southeast Asia’s most undeveloped countries, decides to head to a coastal Thai beach town for some peace and quiet and to write. Salt, sand, wind and ocean air […]
» Read moreThais seem to have a fixation on mobile meals. Tuesday night we saw our fried chicken dinner catapulted into the air and caught on a platter by a guy on a unicycle, who then served it to us while off-tune crooners butchered karaoke songs on a stage across the restaurant floor. The next night, we watched in confusion as a […]
» Read moreI was awakened around 2 on a Sunday morning by a now-familiar sensation: a stabbing pain in my left elbow, radiating toward my wrist. This is no way to start a holiday weekend, I thought. But after a fitful nights’ sleep I was eager to put the pain behind me. I massaged the painful spot in the dark and made […]
» Read moreThis was the first time I’ve had a bike tour guide offer me a chromosome to start the day. Then again, I’ve never met a guide quite like Nok Noysuwan, a diminutive Thai woman half my weight with the riding strength, bike handling skills and comman…
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