Tag - Jay Fai

This is a journal about the day I take a Food-walk in Bangkok Chinatown with Muriel. I still remember the faces of my Japanese friends when they slurped into the spicy, sour, and herbal fragrant soup of tom yum and some other ubiquitous Thai dishes for the first time. I was perhaps in my senior year and thick in excitement for joining a series of cultural-exchange programs at the Bangkok YMCA. It was then, at around the age of 19, that I learnt how Thai food, which I grew up eating and thinking nothing of, can be out-of-this-world experiences to those who are from other places. It was a mixture of joy, pride and pleasure when I saw those faces deep...

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