Street Food Swoop – Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)

I’ve heard that people dream of Thailand’s green papaya salad for years after their first taste. It’s a light refreshing dish that can carry a kick, searing your mouth.

14 years ago

Street Food Swoop – Tom Kha Gai

Creamy, slightly sour, with only a slight chilli-tang, tom kha gai is the Thai dish for you if you can’t handle too much spiciness. The main ingredients of tom.

14 years ago

Street Food Swoop – Thai Frog Curry

When it comes to street food, we go local. We pull over at the smallest little roadside places and point and order. If the signs are in Thai, we.

14 years ago

Chiang Mai Market Tour

Our local wet market is a mix of the strange and the familiar. Some things are familiar to me because I’ve lived in Vietnam and Singapore and frequented the.

15 years ago

Thailand’s Secret Sausage Invasion

At some point in Thailand’s history, a not-so-fierce sausage-making nation invaded. The invaders, were repelled, obviously, for Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation never to experience colonial rule..

15 years ago

Cheers From Chiang Mai

Sitting under a faded red umbrella, slurping up a delicious curry chicken noodle dish as monks chant at a neighbouring wat, the huge upheaval suddenly seemed worth it. Our.

15 years ago

Singapore’s Pay-What-You-Want Restaurant

Elegant wood-paneling, cool airconditioned and no menu. No bill either, if you’re a bit skint or just feeling stingy. Singapore’s Annalakshmi is a haven in many ways. All-you-can-eat and.

15 years ago

Meet The Dropouts – Food Writer Robyn Eckhardt

For Robyn Eckhardt there was no “that’s it I’ve had it” moment, instead there was a slow realisation, shared with her husband, that they could build a more fulfilling life than the one they were living.

15 years ago