Thailand

Jerry Hopkins: Jim Morrison's Biographer Finds a Strange Kind of Bliss in Bangkok

Pa-Ord: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Night + Market: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

10 Best Eats in Thai Town: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

Some call it East Hollywood, but many more know it as Thai Town, a glowing, neon causeway of great late-night restaurants, karaoke bars and slingers of Chang beer towers. It's an area of town that not only welcomes after-hours consumption, but glorifes it --- filled with brimming bowls of pungent no ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/10 - 12/14

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "'It's the food I grew up with, but my version,' says the chef." Josef Centeno's Bar Amá Opening Tomorrow. "Each of the cookies listed below is locally made, fresh baked and available to order for all of your holiday cookie- ... More >>

Night Market's Kris Yenbamroong: New Dishes A Trip to Thailand

In Bangkok and barely over jetlag, Night Market chef Kris Yenbamroong of helped his diminutive 81-year-old paternal grandmother, Vilai Yenbamroong, into the back of a white van for what he calls "an epic trip." Their game plan was to head out of the city up the Friendship Highway through Isaan ( ... More >>

Elephant Dung Makes a Smooth Cup of Coffee

Civet poop is so yesterday for coffee connoisseurs. Coffee beans "laundered" through elephant dung is where it's at. Called smooth and earthy in flavor, an exotic new brew is made from beans eaten by a herd of 20 Thai elephants and retrieved the next day from their dung, the Associated Press report ... More >>

In-Chan's Little Secret

This family restaurant in Van Nuys delights with northern Thai dishes — as long as you ask for the special menu

Top Chef Masters Recap: Un-Thaied

Curtis Stone is, in the words of Derek Zoolander, "really, really, ridiculously good-looking," so not the type, we'd imagine, to get tongue-tied around the ladies. But leave it to hometown girl Dita Von Teese, L.A.'s (and the world's) queen of burlesque to make TV's reigning pin-up boy blush. Von T ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Boiling Point's Thai-Taiwanese Combo Soup

Is it Thai, or is it Taiwanese? It's both. We're talking about the Thai Flavor Hot Soup at Boiling Point, a Taiwanese soup chain with several Southern California locations, including a new one in San Gabriel.

92: Thai Boat Noodles at Pa-Ord

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 92: Thai Boat Noodles at Pa-Ord. You ask a friend with a reputation for never traveling beyond Sepulveda if she wants to join you for Thai food. She tells you, ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Food Newspaper Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Night + Market: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Jonathan Gold Reviews Night + Market

Kris Yenbamroong mixes Thai with hip

L.A.'s Idea of Thai Food vs. What Thais Really Eat

Our Venn Food Diagram series so far has hopscotched all over the globe, exploring Indian, Midwest American, and, most recently, Korean foods. As you probably can tell, this series is an organized chaos; our destinations are chosen in no particular order. Today, we randomly focus on Thailand to see ... More >>

Top Thai Chef Comes to L.A. A Recipe for Duck Larb

Barbara Hansenchef McDang​Royalty just left Los Angeles. Now it's coming again. The royal personage arriving this week is chef McDang (real name ML Sirichalerm Svasti) of the Thai royal family. Not content to rest on regal laurels, McDang has become a culinary celebrity in Thailand, appearing ... More >>

CNN Names The World's 50 Most Delicious Foods

Flickr/rockYOfaceMassaman curry: CNN's favorite food​CNN has a lot on its plate. Literally. Not only does the news empire have to follow Anderson Cooper around the globe, trailing camera crews and earnestness, but it has lately gone on a quest to identify The World's 50 Most Delicious Foods. W ... More >>

The Hangover Part II: Been There, Drunk That

EVERYBODY THAI NOW!

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Eastern spiritualism meets a voracious appetite for VHS in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes winner

And Now for Something Completely Different: Fried Chicken

D. Gonzalez Samusas at Jasmine Market​ When it comes to dining in Los Angeles, there are can be paths of predictability. Depending on the craving, there are areas where nearly every other restaurant is a safe bet and others where we should have known better. But then there is fried chicken, ... More >>

Esaan: A New Place to Eat Thai Food Downtown

B. HansenPad Thai salad at Esaan​ If you're standing at the bus stop at 5th and Hope in downtown L.A. and you suddenly get the impression you're in Thailand, not waiting for the 720 to Santa Monica, you're not delusional. Someone has just opened the door to Esaan, a Taste of Thai, allow ... More >>

Fusion Without the Pretension

Daisy Mint aims to please all lovers of Asian food

Bill Clinton Replaces Mel Gibson As Celeb Cameo Of Choice In 'The Hangover 2'

Psycho Hollywood bad boy out, vintage White House bad boy in​Zach Galifianakis threw a tantrum last month when "Hangover" director Todd Philips so much as considered giving the world's biggest arse a few minutes of screentime in the July 2011 sequel to the No. 1 bromantic comedy of the ots. W ... More >>

Rama: Upscale Thai on West 3rd Street

Barbara HansenRama dining room​The latest addition to West 3rd Street's restaurant row is what has been missing there, a Thai restaurant. Rama, which opened September 1st, isn't just another bare bones neighborhood place with quick, cheap lunch specials. It's so handsome you would go there no ... More >>

Steven Erik Prowler, Onetime L.A. Resident, Gets 25 Years For Having Sex With Underage Boys In Southeast Asia

FoxHerbert.​A Los Angeles man was sentenced to 25 years behind bars after an original sentence of 10 years for traveling abroad to have sex with minors was rejected by a federal judge as too light. He was convicted of having sex with underage boys in Southeast Asia and Mexico. Steven Erik Pro ... More >>

Siam Sunset: The Thaiest Thai in Thai Town

It's all about the ordinary

Cal State Northridge Professor Defends His Thai Sex Site

BigBabyKenny.com​Cal State Northridge associate economics professor Kenneth Ng was outed by the Daily News Tuesday as the publisher of a website that focuses on sex tourism in Thailand, but the school is not going to try to discipline him and stated that it supports his freedom of speech. The ... More >>

Tiger's Condom "Outfit" Stirs up a Media Storm Thai Condom Salad

Barbara HansenCondom Tiger​Anything related to Tiger Woods generates a media storm, especially if it's titillating. Witness my recent post, on my food blog Table Conversation, about a Tiger Woods statue clothed in condoms. Like a virus, this post circulated around the world. Some news sources ... More >>

Northern Comfort: In Winter, Khao Soi Hits the Spot

Ask Mr. Gold: Northern Comfort. In Winter, Khao Soi Hits the Spot

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I just returned from a trip to Southeast Asia, and while in northern Thailand, I discovered the yellow noodle dish with chicken in curry and coconut milk, known as khao soi. It's the perfect winter comfort food (spicy and cr ... More >>

Dublab Teams with ZubRangMa to Offer Wild-Ass Thai Psych-Funk Podcast [MP3]

For the past few years, the obsessive funk and psychedelic collectors have started venturing overseas to find the obscurities; having dug and dug in search of Stateside gems, the headz have found themselves dug all the way to the other side of the world pillaging Asia for rarities. Which is a cool a ... More >>

They Call Him Mawlummawkhaenfalang

Meet Jonny Olsen, former semi-pro skater and downtown scenester. He’s now a Laotian pop star.

Chai Thung: Isaan Also Rises

The unexpected Thai restaurant

What I Ate on My Summer Vacation

Bobcat Bites to Morning Glory

Renu Nakorn: Spicy Thai Hot Spot Reopens

To make a tiger smile

Best Armchair Travel for the Vacation Impaired

Wild Palms

Thai Town After Dark

The Terrorists Within

Be afraid, be very afraid

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Massage Is the Medium

The deep-pressure art of Suwan Laimanee

The Fourth World

Frenetic leisure, acid archaeology and the new breed of travel writers

Sex Tours and Terrorism

France’s most controversial writer outdoes himself

The Comeback

Thailand Plaza

Bugged

Late-Night Thai

Et Cetera, Et Cetera, Et Cetera!

Anna and the King, plus The Emperor and the Assassin