At any hour of the day in any town in Thailand you will find the aromas of chili, lemongrass and galangal floating through the air and tempting you down a street vendor lined Soi (side street). Come nightfall Thais of all ages fill the metal tables surrounding their favorite vendors. […]

Where you stay in Bangkok is a very important decision for a simple reason: the city is sprawling and a huge pain to get around. A limited number of major roads makes traffic a nightmare when getting from one area to the next. The metro system is improving but does […]

When I tell people I spent months in Southeast Asia to put together a street food guide the first question typically is “how many times did you get sick?” My response is this: I have devoured hundreds of things off the street in the past decade. I have never got […]

Pad Thai. Green Curry. Drunken Noodles. Most of what we know of as Thai food in the West comes from Bangkok and further south. Northern Thai is very different. There’s more emphasis and sour and aromatic flavors from lemongrass, kaffir lime and fish sauce. Add in a language barrier and […]

Imagine the food offerings of an Asian megacity crammed into a town of 150,000. That is Chiang Mai. Within a 30 minute stroll or short tuk tuk ride you can reach all of the best markets the city has to offer. And because the city received so many visitors, english […]