On October 11- 13, 2008 we celebrated the annual Vegetarian Festival with the local Chinese-Thai community. All local residents of Chinese ancestry observed a 3-day strictly vegetarian diet for the purposes of spiritual cleansing and merit making. Vegetarian food was prepared and eaten communally 3 times a day in a tent in front of the [...]
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You can’t stop “progress” on Lanta
It’s a challenge being a foreign writer in Thailand, writing about Thai life because making real, objective observations actually goes against one of the Kingdom’s most sacred notions: Be polite and don’t discuss unpleasant issues. And since I’m trying very hard to be a respectful “Thai” citizen the writing challenge then becomes an exercise of [...]
