Luang Prabang’s Kuangsi Waterfall is best experienced early in Laos’ monsoon season. Most of the peak season mob is gone and by late July the waterfall is flushed and flowing clean. Obviously if a monsoon squall hits then any waterfall is off limits. However within a day or sometimes less depending on water flow Kuangsi Waterfall is safe. It has a brief bit ... Read More »
This truly is ‘hearts and minds’ time in Phuket. The second phase of the government’s island wide beach clean up started in Rawai today, 27 July, with little fanfare. No local press was around to see a battalion of Royal Thai Army soldiers start assembling around 08:00. And after a few short speeches by local officials and a couple PR photos the boys in green ... Read More »
Who wants to eat Thai food in a tree house? This fork reckons most everyone, especially families with children. That must be why Tamachart Restaurant in Phuket Town is still doing a brisk businesses selling reasonably priced Thai food. All from a restaurant build in and around a tree packed with kitsch décor. Once the darling of hipster backpackers, Thais ... Read More »
Patong Beach is so beautiful and lovely now, it makes birds sing. Done and dusted, let the celebration and back slapping begin. Hooray for the ‘super moon‘ high tides for washing most of the evil scum away. Now it is quickly coming back home to roost. Could someone please urgently come back and take away all the rubbish left behind? After tearing ... Read More »
Khun Haroon, owner of Makanan Islam Cafe, is a Thai noodle master. He has to be one the best at what he does, or his tiny restaurant on Sai Yuan Road in Nai Harn wouldn’t be packed daily with its eclectic mix of customers. Thais on lunch break compete with foreign residents and tourist families for a place to sit. Makanan Islam ... Read More »
Phuket River Canoe (PRC) officially launches its new tour business on 15 July in Chalong. And owner Khun Aod is boldly going where no Phuket-based tour operator has gone before. He searched to create something different that would combine river canoeing with ecological restoration of damaged mangrove forest in Chalong. “If Phuket River Canoe is successful that means guests ... Read More »
Chiang Mai Craft Beer (CMCB) is now supplying high quality craft beer to thirsty Northern Thailand. The company recently opened and started importing an exceptional line up of quality craft beers, shipped all the way from America, Japan and Norway This in itself is no easy task. Craft beer is not pasteurised, so it all natural and loaded with heaps of ... Read More »
Ocean Dunes Golf Club in Phan Thiet is a national tourism treasure that Vietnam should preserve for generations to come. Unfortunately it is now under threat of demolished if new owners have their way. And it is not just golfers and tourism officials fighting to save the course. But Ocean Dune Golf Club members and people who invested money in the course are taking up the ... Read More »
Aroon Rai Restaurant serves Chiang Mai’s best Khao Soi noodles. This is a highly subjective, personal point of view to say the least. It is also one of this fork’s all time favourite Thai noodle dishes from any region of the country. It might even come out top compared to noodle dishes from any other Asian country (except maybe this ... Read More »
Running Fork believes merry-go-rounds are one of life’s greatest joys. Fortunately the Children’s Creativity Museum in Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco thinks so too. And Krewe d’Agave is very proud to be one of the lucky outside donors who got to ‘adopt’ a merry-go-round horse, ‘Lil’ Liza Jane‘, in exchange for pitching in on a fantastic renovation project. The carousel had been ... Read More »
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