The last few months have seen plenty of column inches devoted to the 600-rai plot of greenery situated in the heart of the city, just twenty minutes from downtown Siam. The Makkasan rail depot is owned by the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) who are looking at redeveloping the land in an attempt to...
Home to long-time culinary stalwarts like Swee Choon Tim Sum Restaurant, Cheng Mun Chee Kee Pig Organ Soup, Beach Road Scissor-Cut Curry Rice and Lavender Food Square, this neighborhood has been a popular foodie destination for years. It’s also home to some of the city’s sleazier...
Bangkok Car-Free Day 2012
In our Aug 17 issue, we asked, “What Really Pisses You Off Bangkok?” More than half of you picked traffic (57%) as your main grumble. That got us thinking about what it would take to fix your number one problem.
After all, we’re currently seeing more and...
Everywhere we look these days it seems like old shophouses and old family homes are being knocked down and replaced with shiny monoliths to urban living. Sure we all yearn to live in state-of-the-art condominiums but at what cost? Condo living may suit our modern lifestyles but it also has a major...
Do screaming celeb fans annoy you? They seem to be everywhere dogging that poor famous person’s every step. But there’s more to it than a stalker sensibility. There’s an etiquette and there’s a whole new network of new friends, with at least one shared interest, if you do...
You’ve probably come across it while channel surfing: a station solely devoted to famous panda Lin Ping, capturing her every move: which mostly involves, sitting around in her cage, eating bamboo, and sleeping for hours. You may have rarely spent more than thirty seconds on this channel, but...
Center One, Silom and CentralWorld may get all the headlines, but Klong Toey is also on the city hall’s list of disaster zones. Sadly, Klong Toey has been a disaster zone for much longer than this May. It is home to some of the poorest communities and an ongoing battle between the new...
Since it opened in 1964, Siam Square has been a hangout favorite, a dating spot, almost a second home. It’s where we Bangkokians grew up (or at least pretended to grow up) and it’s where we still go for the latest fashions and trends. Despite the protests and the fires, it remains...
The ink is still fresh on the most violent page of Bangkok’s modern history and here we are, advocating visits to the mall. Call us superficial but we don’t believe staying at home and fighting online about politics is very healthy. We were addicted to malls before the crackdown, and we...
Home to a police station, a post office and an immigration bureau, this stronghold of bureaucracy just off Sathon Tai also contains a density of food choices to keep all those paper pushers happy.
For the seasoned street eater, there are more stalls in Suanplu’s main drag and numerous sub-...
