This Thai-Hakka Street Food Snack Has All But Disappeared
RATCHABURI — Leaves of the sweet wormwood are kneaded into a stretchy dough to make soft, pale-green dumplings at what could be the only shop in Thailand making this rare Thai-Hakka street food snack.
Atmospheric Bangkok Café Struggles to Survive Virus Pandemic
BANGKOK — Blackwood café couldn’t have chosen a worse time to open its doors.
Convert Used Parcel Boxes Into Chairs, Tables for Rural Schools
BANGKOK — Don’t throw away the heap of parcel boxes that come with your online shopping spree. They could be recycled to make education for children in far flung provinces a bit more comfortable.
Why This Uncle Plans to Keep Running His 114-Year-Old Cafe
PATHUM THANI — A coffee shop to the northwest of Bangkok has been serving cups of joe since the time Thailand was still a country called Siam, bustling merchants hawked their wares from canals, and much of the capital did not have running water.
Cash-Strapped Thai Airways Sells Dough Fritters on Silom
BANGKOK — Thailand’s former national airline launched a street food stall at its office on Silom Road selling pa tong go, or deep fried dough fritters, in a bid to make money as the company goes through bankruptcy habilitation.
Satirical Art Exhibit to ‘Put Gold Leaf On’ Thai Elite Powers
BANGKOK — Newspaper clippings, cutouts of campaign posters, and gold leaf normally used on Buddha images are the ingredients for an upcoming art exhibition lampooning Thai politics.
Unite Expat Society! Expat Fair Returns With ‘Unboundry Fun’
BANGKOK — If you are a foreign resident who is so done with elephant knick knacks for tourists and Thais clogging up perfectly good cafes with Instagram modelling shoots, there is a happy middle place to indulge in materialism just for you now, organized by none other than the Tourism Authority of Thailand.
Major Protest to Camp Overnight, March on Government House
BANGKOK — Pro-democracy activist Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak said Wednesday he will stage the next major rally against the government at Sanam Luang, right in front of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
Cast Your Vote in Thailand’s 1st Ever Vegan Awards
BANGKOK — Put a crown on your favorite “jay” street food vendor by casting your ballot from today until the Vegetarian Festival in October.
Thammasat Protest to Go Ahead, Even Without Permission
BANGKOK — Activist leader Parit Chiwarak, aka “Penguin,” said Monday the protest he planned at Thammasat University will go ahead as scheduled on Sep. 19, even if the administration tries to block it.
