Travel, Interior Decoration, Photography and Food

Renovating your kitchen can be expensive. Thus, designing a well functional kitchen is important. Depends on the size, kitchen can be one of the important areas to entertain your guests if it is well layout. So, how to plan the layout of your kitchen? The layout of a kitchen should consider where to place the appliances, type of countertops, and storage. This arrangement will determine how user-friendly your kitchen is. Basically, think about 3 major items that are regularly used in the kitchen; the stove, the sink and the refrigerator. These items should be placed at the tips of a triangle. Usually, the larger the area of this triangle, the better it will be. This triangle will ensure an effective traffic flow in the kitchen i.e. taking raw meat to the sink and taking washed vegetable from the sink to the stove.   Ask yourself the following questions when designing the layout of your kitchen How easy for me to get the cooking oil/water to top off a pot on the stove? Do I have sufficie

After tired listening to the presentations and shopping, it is time to fill in the hungry stomach. So we when to Mak Yah Restaurant which is located very near to the N1 Rachathewi Station (Sukhumvit Line). There are several other halal restaurants near this BTS station. When people visit Bangkok, they always talk about the "tom yum". What is it? Only "tom yum" should be tried? The word “yum” means salad but the taste and its looks are not the same as the western salad which is variety of vegetables served with different kinds of dressing, while in "yum" many kinds of herbs and spicy are added. Most of the yum-type dishes are sour and spicy.  "Yum mamuang" or the green mango salad is one of the popular salad. It is sour (mango/lime juice), salty (fish sauce/dry anchovies/shrimp) and can be very hot (bird eye chillies). Having "tom yum" can be a surreal experience as you will enjoy the taste while burning your mouth.  The green

These are some of the photos from the latest Bangkok trip. The photos only covers Wat Arun and The Grand Palace which are located near the edge of Menam Chao Phraya. These interesting places can be easily reached by public boat, just take the BTS Skytrain (Silom Line) to Saphan Taksin station (Sathorn or the Central Pier), then from here take the orange flagged boat to Stop No. 8 Tha Tien for Wat Arun and Stop No. 9 Tha Chang for the Grand Palace. Each ride will cost 15 Bahts. For Wat Arun, from Tha Tien pier, you will require to cross the river by the crossing boat which will cost you 5 bahts. The Grand Palace is just 500 metres from the Tha Chang pier, just follow the crouds. The entrance fee for the Grand Palace is 400 bahts and worth every penny. Enjoy..... :-)  Wat Arun....the Temple of Dawn The Grand Palace Wat Arun by the Menam Chao Phraya The exterior of the Grand Palace Resting area in the Grand Palace The Main Palace of the Grand Palace One of the gate