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  Hands-on Italian cooking classes

  18 Jun 2013 : If you're really passionate about Italian cuisine and would like to get some hands-on experience of preparing dishes yourself, Dusit Thani College has some good news. It is organising a series of two-day "Best of Italian" courses in Bangkok, starting next month.

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  If it's not hainanese it's not really 'Khao Man Gai'

  16 Jun 2013 : Few people will refuse a plate of khao man gai (chicken with rice), at least as long as a crucial condition is met _ it must be the authentic Hainanese versions of the dish. The true aficionado of this dish will probably walk away from the khao man gai sold in food courts or from roadside stalls, where it is usually prepared by vendors from Isan rather than by Hainanese chefs. Also to be avoided are the places that sell khao man gai together with rice topped with Chinese red pork or grilled duck. The cooks there are unlikely to be experts at preparing real khao man gai.

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  Don't blow your top

  14 Jun 2013 : Penfolds, the established Australian winemaker brand, recently sent its high calibre team led by chief winemaker Peter Gago on a mission to quality check Penfolds wines aged 15 years and older with the brand's Re-corking Clinic.

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  EATING OUT

  It's a mall world

  14 Jun 2013 : Deigning restaurants in shopping malls as unworthy of a professional food writer's scrutiny is a poor, indeed pretentious judgement. It's been proven over and over that location does not affect the quality of a restaurant.

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  2013 BCC RECIPE

  Chefs pair up to present a taste of Italy

  14 Jun 2013 : As a first-timer in creating a dish for the Bangkok Chefs Charity event, Martin Fischl is glad to have partnered with Gaetano Palumbo, a master of Italian cuisine.

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  COVER STORY

  Guru's guide to street food

  14 Jun 2013 : CentralWorld is buzzing with more people than usual at the moment because a fair dedicated to street food is being held there until Sunday (see Food, p20), attempting to cement Thailand as the hub of street food. The fact is we can celebrate street food all year round given the sheer number of food vendors in this city. However, for first-time visitors (or even some Bangkok khun noos) the street food scene may feel like unexplored territory. We are here to help with our very own guide to Bangkok street food.

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  Sushi SenSei

  14 Jun 2013 : While fans of your standard Japanese buffet are used to the Thai-ified concept of sushi - thin pieces of raw fish that barely cover a rice ball to be dunked into soy sauce so pungent because a big dollop of wasabi has been mixed in it - true sushi enthusiasts know that savouring a piece of sushi is a more delicate affair than that.

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  HEALTH

  Root of all goodness

  11 Jun 2013 : At first sight, it's tubular in shape and similar to a small potato. A closer look reveals the knobby skin of ginger or galangal root. When having a bite, there is a light, sweet flavour to it. On chewing it is slightly crunchy, reminiscent of water chestnuts and yam beans (mun kaew). When cooked it can be not only tasty but healthy as well.

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  'Old' Pathum thani worth a day trip for taste and tradition

  09 Jun 2013 : Suppose you want to get out of town for the day with a plan that includes a meal at an ordinary restaurant, nothing fancy, but with good food at reasonable prices. Also on the list of wants is the opportunity to enjoy a pleasant rural atmosphere, and perhaps a chance to see ancient sites and check out local arts and handicrafts. One destination that checks all of those boxes is Pathum Thani.

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  EATING OUT

  Savours of the South

  07 Jun 2013 : Bangkok's Chinatown is so dense with good places to eat that a committed foodie could spend years exploring the neighbourhood. As happens so often in this city of ours, an inverse relationship can exist between the outward appearance of a restaurant and the quality of the food inside.

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  DINE & WINE

  Winzer winners

  07 Jun 2013 : The Austrian embassy led by Ambassador Dr Johannes Peterlink, together with Bernhard Bohnenberger, president of Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas, recently hosted an exclusive wine event to showcase some outstanding Austrian Winzer Krems wines at Six Senses Yao Noi.

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  2013 BCC RECIPE

  Soup for the soul

  07 Jun 2013 : Soup may sound like nothing much more than a household gastronomic comfort, or, at gourmet level, a soothing appendix to a meal.

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