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Bangkok Heat: Update

A Minor Rant

The Fog Clears On Bangkok Heat

Post Your Classics

Hugh Wade sent this in and I think it’s great. You can almost smell them. Some of my best reads came through scrounging around second-hand bookshops or the ignored bookshelf at an ignored resort. I discovered Frank Herbert’s Dune books that way, but even though ... Read More

The Founders of Noir

Last month I was checking on how Bangkok Burn was doing and I saw that a new review had been posted. I’ve got a fair number of reviews, and even though a few of them suggest that I would be doing the literary world a ... Read More

Bangkok Burn T-Shirts

Top Ten Crime Movies

One of those cases where the movie did the book justice. My favorites are I and II, especially II. The story in I is raw, visceral, but the story (plot) and  tension in II win the day (for me). Great twists and characterization; there’s no escape. ...

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Or Tor Kor Market

Or Tor Kor Website (No official website found) so I linked to “travelling-foodies.com” because they have the best photo tour of the market. Tripadvisor Or Tor Kor (Awe Tor Gaw to you, farang), is another favorite place to eat. Grab yourself a table and start ordering ...

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CHESA Swiss Restaurant

I first went to Chesa back in 2000, for a colleagues birthday celebration. I can’t remember much about that night, but I did remember that the food was good. It was some years later that I was in traffic coming from the Emporium, and I ...

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Rossano’s

I thought I’d kick this off with an old favorite, Rossano’s. Someone mentioned to me that the ownership had changed hands; as long as everyone else stays where they are it will be fine – if I find out different I’ll let you know. Rossano’s is featured in Bangkok Burn, when Chance meets with Yakuza Steve; just after the army storming the red-shirt camp in Ratchaprasong. The layout and format has changed since that time, but one thing hasn’t changed – the food. Facebook page. Tripadvisor (with contact and address). ...

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