Traversing The Orient Magazine

Ben Hopkins meets the world famous Chef Ken Hom in Bangkok’s Mason Chin Restaurant Photographs by Louis Teran Back in the late 1970’s Chinese cuisine in the UK was in its infancy. Pork balls drowning in soy sauce alongside prawn crackers were considered ...

From their office in the “gem district” of Bangkok, which begins around Silom Soi 11 and stretches down to the banks of the Chao Phraya River, Liz Smailes meets with GIA, Graduate Gemologist, (Gemological Institute of America) Mark Power and his business partner and jewelry designer Laurie Hardoon Adulayavichitr....