As someone who technically “works from home” yet can barely get myself to type a sentence unless surrounded by other quietly productive people, I spend a disproportionate amount of my time in Bangkok checking out different cafés, libraries, and coworking spaces. That’s how I ended upon checking out one of my favorite recent discoveries: the Thailand…
A quiet fixture on the tree-lined Surawong Road in Bangrak, you’ll find one of the city’s most intriguing architectural treasures… not to mention its largest English-language book collection, with over 20,000 titles in its collection. I’m talking, of course, about the Neilson Hays Library — a hidden gem in Bangkok that somehow evaded my radar…
Finding this small Chinese shrine was a happy accident, the result of wandering around the small sois and alleys of Talat Noi on my way to River City Bangkok, one of my standbys in the area. It’s one of those places that feels almost too hidden to enter, tucked away in a hidden but welcoming…
One of the most charming corners of Talat Noi (just down the street from its famous iconic photo spot, the rusted car) is Bâan So Heng Tai (บ้านโซวเฮงไถ่). Bâan is Thai for house, and So Heng Tai is the historic name of the family who has owned this property for generations. This historic Chinese-styled house…