Tag: Thailand
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Hill Tribe Wares: Where Culture & Couture Collide
Authentic Hill Tribe wares in Thailand are becoming impossible to find. Learn the difference between authentic and imitation.
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Driving a Motor Scooter in Thailand: A Warning
This post was updated on October 14, 2019. Dying To Have Fun: Scooters in Thailand What could be more fun than riding a motor scooter in Thailand. Exciting, romantic, adventurous, daring, cheap, convenient, and above all else cool. I couldn’t agree more. But allow me to add one more breathless adjective-lethal. Statistics Do Kill If…
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Fat Rice & Chicken-Kao Mun Gai: A Cultural Chasm Between East & West
Why do travelers to Thailand hesitate to eat the same Thai food as Thai people?
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Bangkok’s Mosquito Bar: Best Sailor Bar in the World
Along Bangkok’s original waterfront at Klong Toey, stood the Mosquito Bar-the most infamous, roudiest sailor bar in the world. Com’on in and have a shot of Mekong Thai whisky.
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Visit The Chiang Mai Fabric District
Want to see old style Chiang Mai? It still exists in the Fabric District of this 700 year-old town. Sweaty, bustling, confusing and authentic. What more could you want?
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Fake Tests for Fake Thai Silk
The “wedding ring” test is a fake test to determine if a fabric is authentic Thai silk. It’s often used by scammers. Get the truth here!
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Queen Sirikit & Thai Fabrics
No single person has influenced Thai traditional textiles and fashion more than Queen Sirikit. Her work with the rural silk weavers of Thailand rescued their legendary fabric.
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The Truth About Chiang Mai: Paradise Lost
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Chiang Mai is ancient, dotted with gleaming temples, and serves up great Thai food. But it’s also a big, polluted city choked in traffic. Let’s get honest about travel to this unique destination.
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Praewa Thai Silk Fabric: The Queen of Thai Silks
Praewa silk is known as the “Queen of Thai Silks”. Follow me on a journey to rural Esaan where this legendary fabric is woven.
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Thai People: A Deep Psychological Profile
Thai people are like you and me. They want the same things in life. Many people can’t accept that simple fact.
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Northern Thai Food-Let’s Eat!
Northern Thai food is a wonderful regional cuisine that must be tried if in Chiang Mai or Chiang Rai.
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Nagas: Buddhist Temple Guardians
Nagas are the serpent like creatures that stand guard at almost all Buddhist wats in Thailand. But what exactly do they represent?
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A Thai Silk Safari to Baan Ta-Sa-Wang in Surin Province
The finest handwoven Thai silk is woven in the small village of Ban Ta-Sa-Wang.
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Confessions of an International Thai Pillow Dealer
This blog post is about my personal journey into the world of Thai pillows. I write about how I first got started buying Thai pillows and becoming an international Thai pillow dealer. I wrote an extensive tutorial about Thai pillows where I discuss their history, where they’re made, who makes them, quality, fabrics, kapok and…
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Thai Pillows: A Buyer’s Info Resource
A complete information resource about Thai pillows. A guide to their quality, history and tradition.
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Mudmee Fabric: A Cultural Treasure of Thailand
This fabric tutorial is about mudmee weaving in Thailand. It’s fundamental that you first understand that “mudmee” refers to a style of weaving and not the thread or yarn composition of the fabric. Thai mudmee fabric can be silk, cotton or even river reeds woven together. Let’s get started. Introduction I have made Thai fisherman…
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The Siamese Enigma of Uneven Floors
Trip. Stub your toe. Almost fall, as you place your foot where you think the floor is (or should be) but isn’t. The culprit is the all too common uneven floor in Thailand . At first you’ll think the uneven floor is an anomaly. An architectural faux pas. But they’re far too common throughout The…
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Boobs, Buddha & You
This post was updated on Nov. 26, 2018 Boobs, Buddha and Thailand. Let’s discuss. Thailand Is Boobland…right??? A casual observer of Thai society could easily think that the country has a laissez-faire attitude about how women dress in public. Boobs are pretty harmless in the Land of Smiles, right? After all, as soon as you…