Chris Menist, Maft Sai’s sidekick at ZudRangMa Records, gears up for the fourth installment of Paradise Bangkok, the monthly shindig featuring a truly eclectic selection of Thai funk, mo lam and luk thung tunes.
As a child: Noisy.
First Job: Dubbing records from Azerbaijan onto DAT tape....
Kesari Badami Kadhai Paneer
From Indus, 71 Sukhumvit Soi 26, 02-258-4900, 02-661-5279. www.indusbangkok.com.
A cottage cheese masala dish that includes kesari (saffron) and badami (almonds) best served with any Indian bread. This serving is for four people.
Ingredients:
100 grams chopped...
To find out just how obsessed we’ve become, our writer kept a diary of how many plastic bags he went through in a normal week.
Monday: 14
A visit to the hospital means two plastic bags to hold two lots of pills which were then placed in a nice paper bag.
Stopping off to grab some bananas for...
Hailing from two-Michelin star Manresa restaurant in California, Chef David Kinch, who grows his own fruits and vegetables, says quality ingredients are the key to his success. As part of the World Gourmet Festival, he’ll be cooking his contemporary Californian cuisine (B4,700) on Oct 10-11,...
As a child: Constantly copying what my older brother was saying, doing or wearing.
Rule for life: Stop copying what my older brother is saying, doing or wearing.
Most annoying thing I have to encounter everyday: That I’m going to have to listen to another 800 daily new tracks released on...
THE PLACE: Ahyat Abalone
Ramada Plaza Maenam Riverside Bangkok, Charoenkrung Rd., 02-291-7781/3. Dim sum available daily 11am-2:30pm.
THE DECOR: The large carpeted room houses sets of round tables. There are also dining rooms for VIPs with views of the Chao Phraya to boot. At the front, a glass...
With super lightweight netbooks available as cheap as B15,000, do people still buy notebooks? Well computer manufacturers like Acer certainly hope so, and with the launch of their Acer Aspire Timeline, promise the lightest and slimmest laptop in the market. And it really is—thanks to the...
This Korat native was bitten by the DJ bug in 2002, and hasn’t stopped touring the world since, headlining mega festivals like Berlin’s Love Parade and Mayday in Prague. This week, she heads back to her motherland for a night of sizzling house, breakbeats and funky-electro.
As a child:...
DJ Super Cozi
With two kids and her own record label, Yokohama-born DJ Supercozi is one busy woman. Known for her genre-bending style, that mixes East and West as well as underground and hi-end sounds, she’s set to crank out acid techno, electro and progressive house tunes alongside her prot...
CALIFORNIAN WAXING
How: Hot wax, smeared on your bushy brows then ripped off with a soft piece of cloth. We should all be familiar with the practice, usually carried out on our legs or more sensitive regions, but this time, the excruciating act takes place right above your eyes. Not for wimps....
