Food

A traveler’s account of eating authentic Thai regional dishes — including khanom chin in Trang, Isan food, and khao soi — during a brief stay in Thailand, contrasting these meals with the author’s usual food writing topics of potato chips, seaweed, and pad kee mao.

The blog post reviews a surprise KFC x Lays Thailand collaboration chip, with the author finding the flavor so accurately reminiscent of KFC’s seasoning that they joke Lays stole the Colonel’s secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices.

A recipe for goya chanpuru (Okinawan bitter melon stir-fry) is presented alongside the “Cooking with Dog” video, with the author claiming their simplified version — which embraces the goya’s natural bitterness and uses alternative ingredients — is the best they’ve ever made.