Category Archives: Food

Gung Hei Fat Choy (Year of the Pig Zhu) 2007 Pattaya

February 16, 2007 – 11:59 pm

Woke this morning in Pattaya to the crackle of fireworks, as the local Chinese celebrated the upcoming Year of the Pig or Pi Mai Moo. I asked my wife if she wanted to scare away the demons with fireworks and she said, “Only Chinese do.” “I see Thais do it too.” “Not real Thai.” With that […]

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Million Baht dinner ala Bangkok

February 7, 2007 – 1:58 am

This weekend Bangkok’s Dome restaurant atop State Tower will be the setting for one of the most luxurious dinners in recent history. Places for the 11-course banquet can be had for a million baht or $29,000 and so far 15 guests have reserved a seat at the table. Six international chefs from around the world will be preparing […]

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Big Al’s Taco Stand (Pattaya)

January 8, 2007 – 11:04 pm

First came milk. Next pabulum. Something sweet. Salty too. Sour. Yech, didn’t like beets. Taste buds take time adjusting to food. Italian from Portland Maine was the first extreme followed by Chinese from Randolph, Mass. No other ethnic cuisines existed until I entered a corner bar on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Concannon and Sennetts had several pinball machines and […]

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Best Pizza in Pattaya

November 28, 2006 – 10:58 am

When I first came to Asia, I thought bread wouldn’t pass my lips until my round-the-world ticket brought me to the baguettes of Paris. I was wrong. In Biak the end of the world where the sea mirrored a flat blue sky, the Javanese store sold bread. As white as Wonderbread. Soft and squishy. Malaysia had […]

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