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Dining in Bangkok: Krua Apsorn

A few weeks ago, I accompanied my friend Chow for lunch at Krua Apsorn. Chow, who is the author of Bangkok's Top 50 Street Food Stalls, was researching restaurants for an article in an Australian airline's inflight maga…
Dining in LA: Lukshon

While only in Los Angeles for a few hours between flights, it was time enough for my cousin Jackie and me to join Gary and William for dinner at Lukshon , a small plates restaurant in Culver City where chef Sang Yoon tur…
Visit to Omaha

Near the end of my trip, I drove up to Omaha to spent a night with Andy and Sugi. It is normally about a three-hour drive form Kansas City to Omaha. After about the first hour, I started to encounter snow which grew he…
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…
Food in HK - Another Tim Ho Wan Location

In April 2010, Tawn and I had the opportunity to visit Tim Ho Wan, the Michelin star winning dim sum restaurant in the Yau Ma Tei area of Hong Kong. When you hear "Michelin star" the normal image is of a big, swanky res…
Food in Chiang Mai: Huen Jai Yong

On our final day in Chiang Mai, Tawn and I drove east of the city to search for Huen Jai Yong, a restaurant highly recommended by our hotel's staff. Four or five people around the front desk agreed that this was the res…
Food in Chiang Mai - Khao Soi Sameujai Faaham

Back to food in Chiang Mai, after a morning spent teaching monks how to cook, err... make sandwiches, I was hungry for some Thai food. The previous day Tawn and I had tried one highly recommended place for khao soi, the…
Food in Chiang Mai: Huen Phen

When four independent sources, sources who are friends, colleagues, and other trustworthy sorts, recommend a restaurant, it's a fair bet that the restaurant is worth visiting. For our first dinner in Chiang Mai, we want…
Food in Chiang Mai - Grandmother's Khao Soi

Sometimes you have bits and pieces of information in your head but they have yet to coalesce into a linked arrangement that qualifies as knowledge. Prior to this trip to Chiang Mai, that described the state of affairs i…
Food in BKK: Din Tai Fung

After a year's delay caused by the May 2010 political protests and subsequent fires, Taiwanese dumpling chain Din Tai Fung recently opened its first branch in Thailand at the Central World Plaza mall at the Ratchaprasong…