| Travel to Khon Kaen Thailand in March 2008 for the inaugural
Isan Food Festival and its culinary masterclass. Festival dates are 7-16 March 2008. The Thai Cuisine Masterclass Weekend is set for March 8 and 9 at the Sofitel Raja Orchid hotel.
Thailand's remote Northeast Isan region is renowned for some of the kingdom's tastiest cooking. Not only that, the area hosts the finest examples of ancient Khmer temples to be seen outside of Cambodia, and the country's most intricate silk weaving.
Bordered by Laos to the East and Cambodia to its south, Isan's capital city of Khon Kaen lies some 450 km from Bangkok, and today is a major regional development centre and university city of 200,000.
Isan is alive with the flavours of neighbouring Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and the region's cuisine is some of the best on offer in the Thai kingdom. Bangkok foodies have long clamoured to Isan eateries in their capital city.
TASTINGS 2008
A 10-day Globetrotting Gourmet® Thailand Tastings food tour
Globetrotting Gourmet® is organizing a small-group, deluxe gastronomic adventure, with VIP reservations at the world first Isan Food Festival and Thai Cuisine Masterclass Weekend in Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Hosted by cookbook author Robet Carmack and textile designer Morrison Polkinghorne, this is a chance for participants to lean directly from the Thai kingdom's best chefs and culinary authorities.
Tastings '08 runs March 6-16 in Thailand, with an optional Burma/Myanmar extension March 17-22.
Thailand's Northeast is alive with the flavours of neighbouring Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and Isan's cuisine is some of the best on offer in the Thai kingdom.
Taste the region's signature dishes like delicious kai yang grilled chicken, som tam green papaya salad, yummy jaeow chili jams, herbal tom som curry, and all served with sticky rice.
The 10-day Globetrotting Gourmet® Thailand Tastings food tour includes stops in Bangkok, the luxury beach resort of Hua Hin, the ancient city of Nakhon Pathom and Thailand's dessert capital of Phetchaburi.
An optional 6-day 5 night trip to Burma/Myanmar, Burma Tastings, runs March 17-22, beginning in Yangoon/Yangon, and includes colourful lunar celebrations on Inle lake: Pndaya's cave festival, the colonial hiss station of Kalaw, and Kakku's colourful festival in an ancient "orchard of stupas".
For further information, please visit www.isanfoodfestival.com
or www.asianfoodtours.com
Update as of July 2007
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