The cultural expertise quiz is back, after a break last week to make room for our weddings around the word series.
This week, we’re talking about Thailand. Here’s the question:
Thailand is one place in the world where you can truly say that “work is play.”
True or False?
Food preparation items are a favourite buy at markets around the world, it seems. Photos this week show steaming baskets on sale at Yaowarat, Bangkok, Thailand’s Chinatown and handcrafted pots and utensils in Bucharest, Romania at the Folk Festival & Traditional Handmade Fair in Cismigiu Park in June 2010.
by gnarlykitty
What’s for breakfast where you are? In some countries, sweet foods are the norm. In others, breakfast is always savoury. Sometimes it’s a light meal, other times it’s a filling dish that will keep you going for many hours.
Selected from our previous posts and photos posted in our Picture Postcards photo group, here’s what PocketCultures readers and contributors around the world are eating for breakfast.
Photo by Marcello
We’d like to say goodbye to 2010 wıth a world tour of favourite posts from each of our contributors. Here they are, in the order in which each one celebrates midnight. Happy New Year!
Marie (New Zealand): The New Zealand Dairy
“Where would Kiwis be without the local dairy? Certainly situations such as running out of the milk needed for the perfect cup of tea or not having enough snacks to share while watching a film on TV could get quite hairy.”
April is the start of the Thai summer. Actually it’s one big hot summer all year long here in Thailand, but this particular month is important. Not only that it is the hottest month of the year, it’s also the month that we celebrate our Thai new year, known as Songkran.
Songkran isn’t just about its famous water festival, but it is also a time to refresh oneself, to turn over a new leaf, to start afresh.
So I’d like to introduce you to one of the most refreshing treats to be had this Summer. The dish is not as popular or well-known as phad thai or tom yum kung, but it does have a significant role in Thai culture — Khao Chae.
I am a huge fan of anything retro. I collect film cameras and I wear clothes my grandmother thinks are fashionable.
So I was ultimately crushed when I heard that there will be a Bangsaen Retro Festival this coming weekend (Feb 26-27), the very weekend I am on assignment to the opposite side of the country.
To help me cope, I’d like to share with fellow PocketCulturers about this interesting event, just in case you or someone you know will be in the country/town this weekend.
Bangsaen is a small beach town in the province of Chonburi, in the same province as the infamous Pattaya. Popular more among locals than tourists, Bangsaen is many locals’ first choice of a beach getaway as it is close to Bangkok and it doesn’t carry the same stigma as a scandalous destination as Pattaya.
The festival will take visitors back to Bangsaen’s glory days before the cluttered beaches and rows of concrete hotels. People are encouraged to dress up in 1960s fashion and there will be old school activities such as ballroom dancing by the beach and orchestra concerts, as well as exhibition of art and photographs and antique store booths available.
So if anyone is planning to head to Pattaya this weekend, take a detour to Bangsaen instead for something different and refreshing.
For more information and photos from last year’s event, check out Tourism Authority of Thailand‘s website (in Thai) or a writeup by Pattaya Daily News (in English).
Read more:
Explore four regions of Thailand in Pattaya’s floating market
Thai takeaway: iced tea in a bag
The real Phad Thai: all you need to know about Thailand’s most famous dish
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The etiquette of visiting around the world
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