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		<title>Gum Kuo Restaurant, Oakland Congee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gum Kuo restaurant, in Oakland, California&#8217;s Chinatown, is a great place to go for congee (rice porridge) &#8211; johk (or jook or, sometimes, juk). It&#8217;s the restaurant where we go for breakfast whenever we make a visit to the Old Oakland Farmer&#8217;s Market. We&#8217;ll visit there on other occasions as well. Gum Kuo is found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toh-Plue Restaurant in Bangkok</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Babcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toh-Plue restaurant, found at Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, serves delicious, flavorful Thai food. Whenever Kasma takes one of her small group tours to Chatuchak, we always take them to eat at Toh-Plue. This blog gives my impressions and explores some of our favorite dishes there. Chatuchak Market (in Thai จตุจักร), also called &#8220;JJ market&#8221; is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Repair, A Thai Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Babcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sukhumvit Road, just before Soi 55 (Thong Lo, pronounced Tawng Law) there is a very Thai option for getting your watch repaired &#8211; a street vendor. This is one of the nice things about Thailand: you can find entrepreneurs of all types on the street, including tailors who set up with a sewing machine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sudaporn Restaurant in Trang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Babcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever we visit Trang, in the South of Thailand, I look forward to a meal at Sudaporn restaurant. The full name in Thai is Ban Suan Supdaporn. Not only is the food terrific, it has a beautiful garden setting where it is a pleasure to eat. The words ban suan literally mean &#8220;garden house&#8221;. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhism, Ajahn Viradhammo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Babcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ajhan Viradhammo, a Thai forest monk in the tradition of Ajahn Chah, is a westerner whose teachings are accessible and insightful. This blog explores some of teachings from his podcasts. This has been a difficult period in my life. In addition to having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which periodically leaves me virtually incapacitated from exhaustion, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Thai Food in America?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Babcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Most Satisfying Meal! To find the absolute best Thai meal in America I recommend the Advanced Thai cooking classes of Kasma Loha-unchit in Oakland, California. Here, you will find authentic flavors and tastes as well as Thai dishes that you&#8217;ll be unable to find elsewhere once you leave Thailand. Recently at one of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeklong Thai Cooking Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During July and August, Thai cooking teacher Kasma Loha-unchit offers weeklong Thai cooking classes in the San Francisco Bay Area for people who want to learn how to cook Thai food as authentic and delicious as that found in Thailand. The classes are called “intensives” because for 5 straight days you spend all day learning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hua Hin Morning Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Babcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chatchai Market in Hua Hin (also transliterated as Chat Chai), is well worth a visit. Whenever we head to the south of Thailand, on our own or during one of Kasma&#8217;s small-group tours to Thailand, we always plan to stop. The market is located off the main highway, highway 4, also called Thanon Phetkasem (Phetkasem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basil Salmon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Babcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a variation on one of the most popular dishes in Thailand &#8211; Pad Ka-prao &#8211; meaning &#8220;stir-fried with (holy) basil.&#8221; Almost anything you can think of &#8211; pork, beef, chicken, fish, shrimp &#8211; can be stir-fried with basil and served over rice. One of my favorite variations of the dish, and a staple when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Markets &#8211; Oakland&#8217;s International District</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Babcock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When shopping for Thai or Asian ingredients in Oakland, California, one of the best areas is the International District, which covers International Boulevard (formerly East 14th Street) and East 12th Street. There are many Southeast Asian and Chinese markets on these two streets from the Lake Merritt end to 17th Avenue. In this blog I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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