Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
Last night, Nam, Max, and I saw something I’ve been expecting to see ever since I came to Thailand. We had finished dinner at a restaurant just down the road and were on our way home in the Cefiro when we came upon flashing lights at a big curve. A police pickup blocked the view […]
Taken from a newsletter found in my inbox today: Here are (sic) some advice from travelers who have been to Japan in the past: “Do as Japanese do” Holy shit, is that the best you can do? Yeah, eat raw sea cows and putrefying fish guts, shit your guts out while squatting over a dank […]
As a wannabe chef, I might have thought about making a submission to the Carnival of the Recipes #3, a showcase for recipes from all around the blogosphere, but got pretty miffed when I saw the introduction at the top of the page: This week, we have a lot of great recipes to choose from. […]
Dude. This is my greatest accomplishment in years. I inadvertently stumbled onto two Neal Stephenson short stories YOU NEVER EVEN KNEW EXISTED. Spew is on the WIRED site, but I guess I just never found it until now. I am posting the entirety of the Great Simoleon Caper in the extended entry of this post […]
At the request of a certain hominid (and I suspect a fellow chowhound), I present borrowed gyudon pics. Here we have the gyudon (center), miso soup (right), pickled cabbage (left), and a cup of hot green tea in the blue cup. This is a set meal that was available at Yoshinoya stores in Japan for […]
With help from the shizzolator, might old Major have been more of an inspiration to the Panthers? Shizzolate that shit: “Now, comrades, what is da nature of dis life a ours? Let us face that shiznit: izzle lives are miserable, laborious, ‘n short n’ shit. We are born, we are given just so much food […]