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Swastikas Popping Up in the Oddest Places
After our lunch of southern style dishes, Tawn and I did some shopping at Bangkok's famous Chatuchak Weekend Market. With thousands of stalls and vendors, you can find most anything for sale and the people-watching is e… -
Food in Bangkok: Prik Yuak
Bangkok's Chatuchak Weekend Market is popular among locals and visitors alike for its almost endless maze of vendors selling everything from fashion to frogs, souvenir trinkets to silverware for your dinner table. Shopp… -
Helping Abandoned Buildings Shape Up
The skyline of Bangkok bristles with the skeletons of unfinished buildings. These ghostly structures, frozen in various states of incompletion, number in the hundreds and most are a result of the Asian economic crisis o… -
Funny Condo Names
Sometimes I think I should have a series in my blog for funny condominium project names here in Bangkok. I see advertisements for them from time to time and wonder how a particular name was chosen.Take, for example, Ren… -
A Weekend with the Kids
We have several social circles in our life here in Bangkok. One of those circles is with Tawn's high school friends, most of whom are married and are starting their own families. Many of those friends are making a conc… -
Teaching Monks to "Cook Sandwiches"
In the third floor classroom of Chiang Mai's Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University, the eyes of thirteen students registered varying degrees of confusion as I taught the first part of the English lesson: we do not "… -
Buying Girls from Behind Glass
WikipediaWhile in Los Angeles last month, Tawn and I slipped up to The Grove, a shopping and entertainment center near the Farmers' Market located at Third and Fairfax Streets near CBS Studios. While there, we met with… -
Great Eats in Bangkok Volume 3 - Thai Breakfasts
Here's the third video in my "Great Eats in Bangkok" series. In this chapter, Tawn and I head out for a typical Thai breakfast in our neighborhood, Thong Lo. While Thong Lo has developed over the years in the "Beverly… -
Brunch and Garlands
This weekend we enjoyed a return visit by David and Chor Pharn, a Singaporean couple who make frequent visits to Bangkok and whose presence at our dining room table made for a very pleasant Sunday brunch and garland maki… -
Where to Buy Stickers in Bangkok
From the innocuous "men" and "women" signs on restroom doors to the urinating cartoon Calvin on the back of many a vehicle, stickers and decals play a much larger role in the life of Bangkok residents than one may realiz…
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