David's Blog

My first time in Bangkok was 1995. What I've learned since then is not in any guidebook.

It sells out every year. Here's what happens inside — and how to be there.

Eight floors, 2,000 stalls. What you buy matters less than who you buy it from.

A half-day with the chefs who guard Thailand's royal culinary tradition. You taste Thai food differently after.

Climate, food, events — what only December makes possible in Bangkok.

Ten meters from the countdown, people are praying. Two Bangkoks, shoulder to shoulder — and why it feels familiar.

The first stay, something was missing. I called it soul. I've been back every year since.

Bangkok has more massage establishments per square kilometer than any city I know. Here's where to go and why.

Past Wat Arun, the eighteenth century is still there. A pre-colonial capital that Europe never touched.

Du Bois and Garvey were watching this part of the world closely. What they saw here still matters.