Malaysia, Thailand, and other SEA travel.
A friend who does not eat sweets came back from Bangkok talking about one mango sticky rice. Fifteen Thai desserts worth the detour, from street-cart khanom krok to the Portuguese egg-yolk trinity that Maria Guyomar brought to Ayutthaya royal kitchens in 1685 and is still served at every Thai wedding.
A morning bowl of khao soi on Soi Intawarorot, the herb-loaded sai ua sausages at Warorot Market, hang lay pork curry at a Lanna banquet table, and the food stalls that make Chiang Mai Sundays the best street-food night in Thailand. Three days of eating in the north.
Thai green curry at a London takeaway and Thai green curry at a Bangkok street stall are not the same dish. A regional field guide to fifteen curries across the country, how the paste is the actual dish, and where to eat each at its source.
A field guide to the 15 noodle dishes of Thailand, from 20-baht boat noodles at Victory Monument to northern Thai khao soi in Chiang Mai. With Thai names, noodle types, stall-by-stall picks in Bangkok, baht prices, and honest notes on which ones to detour for.
Patong Beach is one Phuket. The Old Town twenty minutes inland is another: Sino-Portuguese shophouses, moo hong pork belly braises, 1946 Hokkien noodles, and the spicier end of the southern Thai kitchen. Named restaurants, baht prices, honest opinions.
George Town has the specialist stall, the duck egg upgrade, and the loose-egg oyster omelette. A Penang hawker food guide with street names, ringgit prices, closing days, and honest verdicts from four trips.
The Bangkok street food scene — Yaowarat after 9pm, Victory Monument boat noodles, Go-Ang khao mun gai in Pratunam — mapped by neighbourhood and hour. Thirty-odd dishes by name, in Thai and English, with current baht prices (2026), MRT/BTS exits, and the stalls actually worth queuing for. Plus what to skip.
A field guide to the tropical fruits of Southeast Asia — what durian, mangosteen, rambutan, jackfruit, salak and the rest actually taste like, when to find them at peak season, which wet markets give the best prices, and which ones are genuinely worth chasing over the rest.
