Eat/Drink

  Daddy Dough Donuts is one of Bangkok, Thailand’s most famous donut chains.  Definitely a Thai-style donut, they’re a bit sweet for my taste but you, of course,…

  Koi is one of the trendiest restaurants in Bangkok, Thailand. Known as the place where “models eat for free” at any time you’ll find the place crammed…

  As a business owner in Bangkok, Thailand, I spend a portion of each month on business lunches. One of my latest was at Evergarden, a Chinese restaurant…

  Cha-Am, a traditional Thai beach resort, is only a few miles north of Hua Hin. Only a two-hour drive from Bangkok, Cha-Am is very popular with Thais,…

  Hua Hin has many wonderful bakeries selling everything from Thai buns, pastries, curry puffs and cookies to German bread, French tartes and other yummy sweets. Start with…

  Mister Donut in Thailand is an off-shoot of the American restaurant chain, a chain which has now closed down in the US. In Thailand though, Mister Donut…

  Any visitor to Bangkok, Thailand, knows know how hard it is to diet or to watch what you eat. Food is everywhere in Bangkok and so cheap,…

  One of the things many foreigners (known in Thailand as ‘farangs’) comment about is how easy it is to gain weight here and how fat so many…

The Riverside in Chiang Mai is one of the city’s most celebrated restaurants so, on my last visit to Chiang Mai I was thrilled to be going there….

  Whittard of Chelsea was originally a British company that was sold to an Icelandic buyer a couple of years ago. At the end of 2008, it was…

  I recently ate dinner at Kobune Japanese restaurant at Central World Plaza in Bangkok with a Thai friend. It was the first time I had eaten at…

Several years ago, I was at Central World Plaza mall in Bangkok, Thailand and discovered a gorgeous Vietnamese restaurant. A few weeks later, I went back to the…

  It’s the beginning of longan season here in Thailand and I’m about to eat so much of it I’ll probably burst. Longan is a fruit that’s sold…

For many visitors to Thailand, eating an ice cream is heaven. After all, with typical Thai weather in the mid-90s, all year-round, it’s nice to be able to…

A western friend recently treated me to dinner at Neil’s Tavern Steakhouse in Bangkok, Thailand. I love steak so was surprised I hadn’t heard of the restaurant, particularly…

  One of the cutest coffee houses in Bangkok, Thailand is Coffee Alley, an independent coffee shop located on one of the best and most popular sois in…

  As taking afternoon tea still continues to be trendy in Bangkok, several upscale hotels have begun their own afternoon tea service. One notable Bangkok hotel that’s well…

  Last time I was in Chiang Mai, Thailand, I stumbled across an independent coffee house called Red Brick Cafe. It was stylish, trendy, beautifully designed, the food…

One great deal a lot of people in Bangkok miss is the “Special Menu of the Month” from K’s Cafe, inside the Kinokuniya bookstore at Siam Paragon. K’s…

My favorite Thai cuisine restaurant in all of Thailand is Baan Ice on Prachaniwet 1 in northern Bangkok. Owned by my best friend’s husband’s grandmother (got that?), Baan…

Recently, I ate dinner at Le Dalat Indochine, the most popular, and many say the best, Vietnamese restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand. I’ve lived in Bangkok for years, and…