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10 things I love about Phetchabun

“Children here learn how to cook from a very young age”

Thai food is not homogenous, and though I could have centred this feature around Bangkok, where I first opened a noodle shop, I’m choosing to tell you about my home region, because if you don’t know about it, and you love Thai food, you should. Thai people call Phetchabun, where I grew up, ‘little Switzerland’. The mountainous landscape and ‘cold’ (for Thai standards) weather is a welcome respite to the heat elsewhere. The area attracts lots of local visitors, especially around September-October, a season often referred to by the Thais as ‘plai fon ton nao’, which literally translates as ‘end of rain, beginning of cold’.

1 Foraging

My family comes from Khao Kho district in Phetchabun. It’s situated between the North and

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