Northern Thailand

  • This Wine Bar Is a Thai Restaurant in Disguise

    Wine is an unlikely powerful element of Kris Yenbamroong’s restaurant Night + Market Song, the place that brings authentic, rarified Thai street food traditions to LA. Wine has no place in those traditions, and in Thai food, generally, it has hardly...

  • FARANG: The Story of Chef Andy Ricker

    Farang, the Thai word for foreigner, is the story of chef Andy Ricker and how he spun a 25-year obsession with Northern Thailand into the hit success that is his Pok Pok restaurant empire. This feature-length film, FARANG, explores Andy's story from...

  • Chef Andy Ricker Has Always Been Destined for Greatness

    The first line of my first review of Andy Ricker's Portland restaurant, Pok Pok in 2006: "You think you know Thai food, but you don't." It was true then, and it's true now. But I already knew people would surely flock to his doors like a methadone...

  • Northern Thailand’s Raw Food Movement Involves Blood and Guts

    The mention or thought of consuming raw blood in the western world would immediately turn most people into Woody Allen types, but I’m an American ex-pat living in northern Thailand. Here's my own visual guide to some of the best bloody representations...

  • Farang, The Story of Chef Andy Ricker - Trailer

    Our first feature, Farang, is with none other than chef Andy Ricker, whose relentless 25-year-old obsession with Thailand has led to seven restaurants and a cult following.

  • The Pad Thai You're Eating Is Garbage

    Chef Andy Ricker is obsessed with Northern Thai cuisine, and with the release of his cookbook, Pok Pok, everyone else will be too. We sat down with Pok Pok co-author, JJ Goode, to discuss some of the most unusual Northern Thai ingredients...

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