Red Sky at Centara Grand – Awesome View, Great Drinks, Avoid the Food
If you’re looking for a fun and cool – (temperature-wise, that is) place to hang out in Bangkok in an evening and you don’t want food, check out…
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Mo Mo Paradise Shabu-Shabu Restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand – So Delicious
Recently, I ate for the first time at one of Bangkok’s newest shabu-shabu restaurants, Mo Mo Paradise. If you don’t know, shabu-shabu is a form of hot pot…
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Bangkok MRT Subway Fare May Be Increased in 2012
The Bangkok Metro may be raising MRT subway fares next year. In July, 2012 to be precise. The increase the Bangkok Metro is looking for hasn’t been…
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Best Places to Learn Buddhist Meditation in Thailand
Tens of thousands of people visit Thailand every year, not for a holiday but to take a Buddhist meditation course. Thailand is famous the world over for meditation…
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LCCT, Kuala Lumpur’s Low Cost Carrier Terminal Is Truly Terrible
I love just about all things Malaysian – well, all things except LCCT, Kuala Lumpur’s Low Cost Carrier Terminal – a terminal I’ve been through far too many…
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How and What to Teach in English (EFL) Classes in Thailand
During the decade I taught in Thailand, sometimes I ran out of things to teach. When you have the same students, like I did, for two years or…
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Free EFL Lesson Plan: How to Teach and Test New Vocabulary – Thai Students Can Learn New Words
Teaching new EFL vocabulary is usually boring, for teachers and students alike. It’s difficult for a teacher to come up with a lesson plan that’s fun, and it’s…
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How to Use the Bum-Gun (Toilet Hose) in Thailand: Keep Yourself Clean With a Squirt of Water
Using the bum-gun in Thailand is easy One of the most amazing Asian inventions is the toilet hose or ‘bum gun’. This is a small hose with a…
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Best Budget Hotel Deals in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia – Under $50 a Night Easy
Kota Kinabalu is one of Malaysia’s nicest tourist destinations. With its seafood restaurants, waterfront entertainment spots, beautiful beaches, nature reserves, national parks, excellent zoo and crocodile farm it’s…
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Visit Taling Chan Floating Market in Bangkok, Thailand – The Authentic Real Deal
Authentic floating markets not aimed at tourists are rare in Bangkok, Thailand. Once a market that most Thai communities situated near a river had, nowadays with many floating…
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Pubpeab Craze Hits Facebook – Support the Thai Polite Way to Sit Instead of Planking
In response to Friday’s photograph of a monk ‘planking’, a new Facebook page has popped up promoting the Thai way of sitting known as ‘Pubpeab’. Pubpeab is the…
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Rikka Inn on Khao San Road in Bangkok – A Cute, Cheap Budget Hotel
Recently, I went to Khao San Road in Bangkok, Thailand to pick up a friend from Malaysia who was staying at Rikka Inn. Rikka Inn is a…
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Where to Buy Fried Insects in Bangkok and Which are the Best to Eat
Since I moved to Bangkok, Thailand, I’ve become a huge fried insect fan. So much so if I don’t get them a couple of times a month,…
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Free Corporate English (EFL) Lesson Plan – Get Your Thai Students Talking – Conversation/Debate – Is Globalization Good?
One thing many EFL/ESL teachers in Thailand get frustrated with is getting their corporate students talking. That’s why this free corporate EFL/ESL lesson plan on a debate…
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May Kaidee in Bangkok, Thailand Serves Vegetarian and Vegan Food For a Dirt Cheap Price
The first time I ate at a May Kaidee vegetarian restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand was with a western friend who only ate vegetarian food. The food at May…
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Foodland: Bangkok’s Best Supermarket For Fresh Fruit and Veggies and Imported Food
Several years ago, I worked as a corporate trainer in an international company in Bangkok, Thailand. When I started the job, I discovered there was a Foodland supermarket…
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What to Expect If You Take the Train in Thailand
If you really want to see Thailand, you should consider taking the train. Trains in Thailand still run almost everywhere in the country, take longer so you…
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Riding Bangkok’s Public Transportation System Can Certainly Be Exciting
Lately, I’ve been taking buses instead of my usual taxi. Only because it dawned on me a 7 minute bus ride is only 12 baht and a…
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Best Vegetarian and Vegan Restaurants in Bangkok, Thailand
While many visitors to Bangkok, Thailand think they’re ordering “vegetarian food” when they eat food at a local street stall or restaurant, it’s not always vegetarian in the…
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Photo of Thai Buddhist Monk Planking Outrages Thailand’s Cultural Ministers
Living in Thailand, you get used to the Ministry of Culture of Whatever and Ever being outraged about something. Not liking the increasing encroachment of Western, Japanese…
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Visit Baan Celadon in Chiang Mai For Beautiful Ceramics (But Watch the Video First)
Whenever I get up to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, I always come back laden down with ceramics and pottery. Known as being the best place in…
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Where to Buy Organic and Pesticide-Free Meat, Seafood, Poultry and Eggs in Bangkok, Thailand
Buying organic and pesticide-free meat, seafood, poultry and eggs has become very fashionable in Bangkok, Thailand lately. A decade ago, when I first arrived in Bangkok, it wasn’t…
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The Expats’ Love-Hate Relationship with Thailand – Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Living as an expat in Thailand makes you schizophrenic. Really it does. As an expat living in Thailand, I’ve met many other expats living here and they all…
