Monday night I took three Thai girls out to Tawandang on Rama III to celebrate a birthday. I had been to Tawandang at Intra Rama about 19 months ago, and the two venues are similar.
Seating capacity is around 1,600 people and the reports I get from my Thai friends who go there frequently is [...]

Popularity: 15% [?]

Many people enjoy Thai food worldwide: spicy soups and salads, flavorful rice dishes are abundant. But in Thailand, fried or roasted insects and scorpions are also popular, readily available, and inexpensive.
Insects have traditionally been a rich source of protein, calories, vitamins, and minerals in the Northern Thailand diet. They are also prized as delicacies. [...]

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Papaya salad is almost as much a staple part of my diet as rice is. For sure if I eat out and am not given any som tam, I will soon after be found at a roadside food vendor, correcting the deficiency.
If you lived on a diet of som tam and not much else, it [...]

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I have been living in Bangkok for about 3 months now. I am still exploring the city and learning about all it has to offer. Of course, one of the main attractions is the excellent and economical dining that is available here. Recently, there was a thread on a Thai message board [...]

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If you mentioned Thailand to a westerner say 30 years or so ago, more than likely they would confuse the country with the Chinese Republic on Taiwan. Or, if they even knew the name at all, all it was probably through Hollywood’s slightly libelous version of Thai “history” as portrayed in Anna and the King [...]

Popularity: 16% [?]