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Thai temple visit: buildings, symbols and daily life
Thai temple visit becomes more revealing when wat is understood as a complex rather than a single building. Its spaces support religious ceremonies.
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Bangkok museum visit: identity through Museum Siam
Bangkok museum visit can become a question about identity rather than an accumulation of objects. Museum Siam's Decoding Thainess exhibition asks what.
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Thai green curry: colour is not a guide to chilli
Thai green curry owes its identity to a paste built around green chillies and aromatic ingredients. Coconut milk gives the sauce richness, but its pale.
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Late flight from Thailand: rooms, bags and services
Late flight from Thailand does not automatically extend the use of a hotel room until the evening. The end of the room booking, luggage storage and.
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Massaman curry: notice the spices behind the sauce
Massaman curry combines a coconut sauce with the warm aroma of dry spices, potatoes, onions and peanuts. Tamarind contributes a sour note that cuts.
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Phuket Vegetarian Festival: faith and Jia Chai roots
Phuket Vegetarian Festival is a nine-day religious tradition known locally as Jia Chai. It belongs to the island's Chinese-Thai Hokkien heritage and.
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Je food in Thailand: ingredients, belief and flavour
Je food in Thailand, also written jay, is often identified by a yellow flag carrying the เจ sign. It belongs to a plant-based religious food tradition.
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Yi Peng in Chiang Mai: lanterns and Lanna traditions
Yi Peng in Chiang Mai is a northern Thai celebration of light rooted in Lanna tradition. Its most famous image is a sky scattered with illuminated.
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Golden Triangle history: Mekong, borders and museums
Golden Triangle history brings together a border landscape associated with Thailand, Laos and Myanmar and the region's opium past. Around Sop Ruak.
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Photography in Thailand: people beyond the frame
Photography in Thailand can preserve a meaningful moment of work, daily life or religious observance. Yet the value of an image also depends on the.