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Asia’s 50 Best Got More Woke with the Essence of Asia Restaurant List 2021
Street-food stalls, mom-and-pop shops, plant-based menus and community activists. We can’t eat in fancy restaurants every night—and this new list proves why we don’t want to, either.
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Asia’s 50 Best Got More Woke with the Essence of Asia Restaurant List 2021
Street-food stalls, mom-and-pop shops, plant-based menus and community activists. We can’t eat in fancy restaurants every night—and this new list proves why we don’t want to, either.
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This Company is Hoping to Insert Insects into our Diets
Picture it: you’ll finish that sweaty workout with a satisfying slug of… bug juice?
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Drink Green: These Are the Most Sustainable Bars in Southeast Asia
These bars reduce, reuse and recycle, plus replant the rainforest on the path to delicious drinks. Here are a few lessons in eco-mixology, complete with climate-conscious cocktail recipes.
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Lucky 7 Valentine’s Dinners to Help You Get Lucky
If home is where the heart is, these restaurants around our region really set ours aflutter. Here are 7 of our favorite fine-dining spots that deliver Valentine’s Day to your door.
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On the Hunt for Southeast Asia’s Best Peking Duck
In the run-up to Lunar New Year, we fete everyone’s favorite Chinese imperial dish. These are the tastiest Peking ducks in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok.
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This New Thai Restaurant Takes Mom’s Cooking to the Next Level
Front Room in Waldorf Astoria Bangkok has reopened with comfort classics that’ll warm your soul.
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When Room Service Means Masterchefs and Mixologists
Hotels are bringing restaurant service and bar vibes into your suite. So you can drink, social-distance and forget about the dishes.
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3 of the Best Bloody Mary Recipes in Asia
January 1 isn’t just New Year’s Day; it’s Bloody Mary Day. We’re here to help you nurse that massive hangover from last night — or, let’s be honest, all of last year.
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Retox, Detox, Repeat: Trying A Hangover IV Drip After the World’s Booziest Brunch
A new restorative IV-drip bar in the middle of an actual bar means you’ll never have to fear that boozy brunch again.
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Festive Season Is Very Merry Indeed at the Waldorf Astoria Bangkok
From high tea to champagne toasts, this grande dame knows how to celebrate in style.
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A Roadtrip in Search of Thailand’s Best Khao Soi
Khao soi and Royal Enfields combine for the perfect breath-of-fresh-air roadtrip in northern Thailand.
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These Are the Hottest Tables in Thailand Now
French, Italian, Spanish and Thai. The five hardest reservations to get in Thailand today vary in all ways but their utter deliciousness.
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Travel Back in Time at these Adorable Old-School Eateries
Across Southeast Asia time-capsule cafés and bars provide a glimpse of—and a reassuring anchor to—neighborhood diners in simpler times.
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Toast to International Gin & Tonic Day with These 3 Recipes From A Few of Our Fave Bartenders
Everyone knows gin-and-tonic is good for you. But have you ever considered what a truly global invention it is?
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This New Farm-to-Table Restaurant in Phuket Takes Locavore to the Next Level
Grow your own veggies, cuddle ducklings and eat fresh from the earth at a new farm-to-table restaurant by five-star resort Trisara in Phuket.
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How to Pair Natural Wine with Vegan Pasta
A more Earth- and body-friendly version of the heaven-sent combo you love.
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The Meatchop Butcher & Spirits
This stylish steak mecca brings laid-back Brooklyn vibes to Bangkok’s CBD.
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Durian Cream and Butter Cheese—5 Krispy Kreme Flavors Around Asia
When in doubt, donut it out.
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How Lockdown in Bangkok Gave Me a Renewed Appreciation for Local Restaurants
With malls and bars closed during lockdown, we deepened our love for local eating in Bangkok.
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Your First Fine-Dining Meal Post-Pandemic Should Be at This Neo-Indian Restaurant
Each dish on their transportive tasting menu is not only stick-to-your-bones good, but also uses ingredients from their urban garden and upcountry farm.
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This Recipe for Pad Thai Will Cure All of Your Quarantine Woes
Classic Thai comfort food from one of the country’s most beloved Michelin-starred chefs, Thitid “Ton” Tassanakajohn
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This Fine Diner is Making Sure Nobody in Bangkok Goes Hungry
Chef DK of Haoma is serving thousands of meals a days to jobless people and families in Bangkok.
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These are the Most Absurdly Delicious Dishes We’ve Eaten Recently
Quarantining has the T+L staff daydreaming of many things (social interaction?) but especially these dishes.
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Boost the body and mind at these Bangkok Eateries
At the new Mövenpick BDSM Wellness Resort, healing starts with nutritious, delicious meals at Khum Hom and Tamarind.
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Reasons to Travel in March
T+L’s monthly selection of trip-worthy places, experiences and events.
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These Bartender-Recommended Regional Spirits are the Souvenirs You Should Actually Be Taking Home
Rojak gin? Fancy Thai rum? Bring these bottles home instead of the elephant print pants.
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Crowning Jewels at Waldorf Astoria Bangkok
Whether you need a full evening’s fantastic agenda or a just few special hours, Bull & Bear steakhouse, The Loft and The Champagne Bar shine bright like three diamonds above Bangkok.
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Chef Ian Kittichai Is Giving Regional Thai Dishes a Well-Being Boost
At Khum Hom, the restaurant at the Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort, the chef is radically rethinking the cuisine.
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Our Favorite New(ish) Bar Openings
From a funky wine spot in Hong Kong to a bar inspired by Indian heritage in Singapore, these are the new spots where you’ll probably find us drinking these days.
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Bangkok’s Multi-Stellar Michelin Masters
The long waiting lists at these restaurants are worth the wait.
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1919
If you’re craving Italian aperitivo with Sunday-session sharing plates, the new eatery from prolific Bangkok restaurant group Foodie Collection is the place to settle in.
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Samrub for Thai
The maestro who’d been running the line at Nahm for years, chef Prin Polsuk, has been teasing our palates with pop-ups of his deeply researched, forgotten Thai-cookbook recipes. Now he’s settled into his own space, a tiny chef’s-table, open-kitchen restaurant hidden within like-minded locavore 100 Mahaseth.
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Crimson Room
With a mini amphitheater in the middle of the city, the team behind award-winning Rabbit Hole has turned the speakeasy trend on its head— or just taken it back a century, to the Jazz Age.
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Mia
Don’t let the awesome wallpaper fool you. On the wide-ranging menu at the city’s new Instagram darling, the tastes more than match up to the aesthetics.
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Siri House
Finally, a place that transitions seamlessly from day to eve. The clubby Siri House invites you in from breakfast right through midnight.
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Lunch with a View at Mahanakorn Bangkok SkyBar
Bangkok’s newest sky-high venue has just opened for lunch on the 76th floor of the Kingpower MahaNakhon building.
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Charcoal Bangkok
Kebabs take center stage, with melt-in-your-mouth meats, veggies and paneer served in a bright, modern setting. Eat all you can at their smart Sunday brunch, or come at night to try their India-inspired cocktails, crafted to complement the flavors of the tandoor.
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Butter and Bubbles Are Aplenty at This Restaurant That Boasts Bangkok’s First Michelin Three-Starred Chef
An ambitious new restaurant boasts Bangkok’s first Michelin three-starred chef on the floor—and up in the clouds.
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6 Southern Thai Foods You Need to Try
It’s famous for coconut curries and burning spice, but southern Thai food goes beyond the massaman and khanom jeen classics. From Chumphon down to Songkhla, we try six other specialties with influences from Chinese migrants to neighboring Malaysia.
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8 Bangkok Restaurants Redefining a Genre
We’re just going to come right out and say it: Bangkok’s dining scene has never been more delicious or compelling than it is right now.
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Front Room
For this fresh Thai fare with a Danish accent, little is lost in translation.
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100 Mahaseth
This über-sustainable nose-to-tail proves just how many tasty ways you can skin a cow.
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Funky Lam Kitchen
Two princes fulfill their culinary destiny with a hipper-than-thou, hotter-than-many, hill-country restaurant that gives old Laotian and Northern Thai recipes a decidedly modern update.
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Saawaan
Take a hearty trip through Thailand via a tasting menu brimming with delicious dishes we’d like to see a la carte. (The duo of female chefs at the helm is a fab added bonus.)
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Le Du
Delicately engineered plates starring local, seasonal produce are dreamed up by a celebrity chef who traffics less in “twists” than whiffs—call it, the edge of Thai.
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Sorn
Following the trail of history to old village recipes from soldiers and subsistence farmers made these southern boys an instant hit.
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Spinning Straw into Gold at 80/20
With a fresh revamp and a reorientation to tasting menus, one of the city’s secret faves is stepping out of the shadows.
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5 Michelin-Recommended Dishes in Bangkok You Can Actually Afford
Michelin Guide inspectors trawled the city for its best fine dining, but they also recognized 35 Bib Gourmands—good value, consistently quality meals. Several holes-in-the-wall made the list, teeing up a great primer on Bangkok street food. Here are five of our favorites.
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4 Bangkok Rooftop Bars With Killer Views
The Southeast Asian City of Angels definitely looks its best from high up in the sky. Soak in the stellar panoramas from these stylish watering holes.
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5 Unforgettable Dishes You Have to Try
Whether they’re served in a bar, a humble street restaurant or a Michelin-worthy gastronomic temple, some specialties are worth seeking out no matter where in the world they may be.