WITNESS

Discerning precisely what’s been going on and what went down with the red shirts I feel about as lost as when I’m in a mall parking lot with my grandma trying to find where we parked the car. The red shirts are either a group of naïve folksy folks duped into a campaign pushing the agenda of Thaksin Shinawarta and his elite homies being masked as a genuine grassroots movement, …

Given how much I care about food, how much I think about eating, and my own fickleness in my stances and opinions, I might disagree with what I’ve written down here shortly after I’m through, but, for now, here is my advice for eating in Bangkok: I am weary of suggesting any specific places to eat in a city like Bangkok for a few reasons. First, this city is overwhelmingly …

I’ve been in Thailand just about a week. I’ve already had a significant bout of diarrhea, witnessed a red-shirt bridge takeover, and participated in the epic water fighting clay face-smearing thing that has become Thai new year. None of which were really choices I guess. I mean I could have skipped ordering that mango salad, which all my friends tell me was the culprit. But evidence of red-shirts is everywhere—I’ve …