Archive for the 'Bangkok' Category
Celadon
After my disappointing meal at Thanying the night before, I still stubbornly wanted to prove that high-end dining in Bangkok could compete with all the wonderful casual places and the great street food I’d been having. There seemed to be no better candidate for this task than Celadon, in the luxurious Sukhothai Hotel. [...]
Read More..>>Thanying
I recently read that it is considered polite in Thai culture to leave some food on your plate, indicating both the host’s generosity and the guest’s lack of greediness. Sadly I received no such memo before indulging in eight days of unbridled gluttony in Bangkok. Having been a lifetime member of the Clean [...]
Read More..>>Chote Chitr
Heralded by so many guidebooks and food journalists (most notably the late, great R.W. Apple Jr.) over the past several years, I didn’t expect Chote Chitr to have the unassuming charm that it does. But walking past the sandwich board outside displaying the menu in beautiful Thai script and entering this tiny, five-table hole-in-the-wall, [...]
Read More..>>My Choice
They say that you can’t trust a skinny chef. But you can trust a fat food critic — provided they are as uncompromisingly witty and endlessly knowledgeable as Jeffrey Steingarten. That was my hope, anyway, after reading both his books (each wonderful, by the way). His essay on Thailand in It Must [...]
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