Tag-Archive: thailand

Cooking Jungle Soup in North Thailand

All over North Thailand you will find travel agents selling “3-days-2-nights” or “2-days-1-night” trekking tours to hill tribe villages in the mountain areas neighboring Myanmar and Laos. One of the descriptions caught my eye on Akha Hill’s homepage: “we will cook our own lunch in bamboo”. And so we packed …
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2012/01/05 Tags: , , , , 1 Comment

Hilltribe Coffee for Breakfast in Chiang Mai

I love coffee. The loud crunching sound of the coffee grinder and the long zishes of the steamer on large Italian espresso machines are the same all over the world. As are the smell of freshly ground roasted coffee beans, the mild taste of a good espresso and the firm …
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2011/12/31 Tags: , , , , 3 Comments

Drinking Fresh Pomegranate Juice in Bangkok’s Chinatown

Bangkok’s Chinatown is quite a big area between the river and Hua Lamphong, the city’s main railway station. Thousands of motorcycles whizz through the maze of little streets and alleyways and it smells of garlic and fried food on every corner. The shop signs are all in Thai and Chinese …
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2011/08/12 Tags: , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Vegan Thai Cooking at May Kaidee’s in Chiang Mai

You can now take a ferry boat from Jinghong in the Chinese province of Yunnan down the Mekong river to Thailand. A few years ago the river was too shallow. The Chinese solved the problem by simply blowing up the rocks that were in the way! In ten hours I …
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2011/07/30 Tags: , , , , , , 1 Comment