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Explore the various aspects of Thailand, from its vibrant cities to its serene beaches, with Thaiger’s Best-of Guides. Covering a wide range of topics including lifestyle, entertainment, travel, and property, these guides will help you discover the hidden gems and top attractions in the country. Whether you are a tourist, expat, or local, our Best-of Guides provide valuable insights and tips to make your Thailand experience truly unforgettable.
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THINK Design: Art you can eat
PHUKET: We’ve all heard about those elegant and exclusive, more than five star little boutique resort properties hidden away around Phuket but few of us ever get the chance to visit one. It was my good fortune to be invited by Publisher Michael Earle to attend the 40th THINK Design art dinner at Iniala Beach House, tucked away on a…
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Bodega: The evolution of flavor
PHUKET: “If you don’t move forward, sooner or later you begin to move backward,” once said former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a speech at the Harvard University. He might have been addressing the issue of nuclear disarmament but his words remind us of one of life’s great truths – change is not only unavoidable, it’s necessary and good.Owners…
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Phuket Vegan Dining: Real food, in the raw
PHUKET: If you hear the term “raw food” you might, like I did, take it to mean “food waiting to be cooked”. But in Rawai, in the island’s south, the owner of Atsumi Raw Food Cafe, Anna Wasin is championing the health benefits and sublime, simple flavors of natural, raw, organic, unprocessed and uncooked ingredients by crafting dozens of tasty…
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Phuket Dining: Eat like a president
PHUKET: There are times when you simply can’t turn down an invitation. When the personal chef of the President of the French Republic invites you for a dinner, it is one of those times. Even more so when it’s Bernard Vaussion, a chef who served under six consecutive French presidents, who recently came to Phuket to cook a presidential dinner…
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Phuket Lifestyle: Climbing to the top of the list
PHUKET: Three establishments from the greater Phuket region found the formula for a perfect wine list and grabbed top spots in the 2013 Wine List of the Year Thailand competition. Over 60 leading food and beverage establishments and media gathered at Crave Wine Bar & Restaurant in Sukhumvit’s Aloft Hotel to witness the 2013 Wine List of the Year Thailand.…
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Phuket Lifestyle: A breath of fresh O2
PHUKET: Most of Phuket’s beach clubs throng the sands of the west coast, but O2 Beach Club is bucking the trend and bringing great food, music and beach-side fun to the southeast coast at its stylish venue near Chalong Pier. Walking through the imposing ancient-style entrance gates, you enter a hidden oasis, the centerpiece of which is a huge jade-green…
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Phuket’s Iron Chef goes live tonight
PHUKET: Chef Scott Flaxman came all the way from Zimbabwe, via England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland and Morocco, before he finally landed on Kao Yao Yai, 15 kilometers east of Phuket. There, he became the Chef and F&B Manager of GLOW Elixir Koh Yao Yai Resort – a place he now proudly calls home. Voted one of the best chefs…
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Phuket Lifestyle: Meals on three wheels
PHUKET: We love them, we hate them, we can’t live without them (or can we?) – tuk-tuks have been getting a lot of bad press in Phuket recently. But all that is about to change thanks to Tom Somsanuk, better known as Blue Wave Radio’s DJ Tank, and his new business idea – the Tuk-Tuk Diner. “In the States we…
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A true taste of Phuket
PHUKET: With so many Western-style restaurants and the longstanding popularity of Northeastern-style Thai food in Phuket, it is sometimes easy to forget that the island has its own unique cuisine. You won’t find it in the tourist areas though, for an authentic taste of local food, you have to head to Phuket Town, and in particular, to the famous Lock…
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A taste of Tokyo in Phuket Town
PHUKET: GINZA, located on Yaowarat road, is a relatively newcomer to the Phuket culinary scene. But within the space of just four months since it opened, the restaurant has already managed to garner quite a following. The popularity is largely due to the establishment’s strict adherence to the pillars of Japanese cuisine – the freshest and highest quality ingredients. The…
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The devil is in the detail – Phuket’s Les Diables
PHUKET: Walking into Les Diables bakery to interview creator and master pastry chef Peter Webber, I find him hunched over his work bench, meticulously crafting a tiny toilet out of white chocolate. Curious, I ask him what on earth it is for and he replies matter-of-factly: “It’s for a customer, they were having a trailer-trash party and they wanted the…
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Carnivore’s delight – Phuket Food
PHUKET: I miss you dearly, my friend. Maybe not at first, not in my first months in Thailand when I was sucked right into the world of lemongrass and coconut milk. When pork (and Thailand is up there with the best of them when it comes to the quality of pork) and poultry became the foundations of my daily diet.…
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Phuket Lifestyle: Top of the list
PHUKET: Jon Hyams, founder of the Wine List of the Year Awards, says that one of his biggest aims when starting the competition was education. But this time, it’s not teaching consumers about the wine, but rather teaching the sommeliers and waiters how to present their product to you, and helping them get rid of their inherited, old and often…
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Phuket Food: Hurry for a curry
PHUKET: Given that Phuket offers very little in terms of flavors from the sub-continent, we pounced on the opportunity to try out one small Indian restaurant recently discovered by a couple of friends way out in Cape Panwa. Only a stone’s throw away from the city center, Cape Panwa seems like a parallel universe compared to the rest of Phuket.…
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Phuket Food: Go Brazilian at Rodizio
PHUKET: Looking at a map of the world, Phuket, Thailand is about as far away as you can possibly get from the soccer-and-samba-crazed nation of Brazil. But don’t buy your ticket to Rio just yet, Patong’s newest restaurant has saved you the trouble of flying halfway around the globe and brought a taste of Brazil right here to Phuket. Rodizio…
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Phuket Eats: Off Course – The 19th hole
PHUKET: Finding somewhere to spend a day with the whole family while keeping everyone happy can sometimes be a challenge in Phuket. Often, kid-friendly activities can leave the adults twiddling their thumbs and wishing they could be somewhere else. The owners of Phuket Adventure Mini-Golf in Bang Tao, Pia and Thomas, have solved this problem by creating a family-friendly venue…
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