Food

Bangkok’s most bizarre eating experiences

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Bangkok is well known for its oddities, so it should come as no surprise that it has its fair share of peculiar restaurants.
Here are nine of the most bizarre eating spots you’re ever likely to come across in Bangkok.
Hajime Robot Restaurant
At this futuristic Japanese restaurant, the beady-eyed robots not only bring your [...]

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Population pressure, climate change drive search for new rice varieties

Monday, September 6th, 2010

NAOGAON, 6 September 2010 (IRIN) – Like many farmers in Bangladesh, Abdul Aziz from Naogaon District in northwestern Bangladesh has had to adapt his plantings to increasingly erratic weather: “Twenty years ago we had a rainy season at this time. Now we don’t even know when the seasons come…Twenty years ago we experienced five months [...]

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Hajime Robot Restaurant: Good food, dancing robots, what more could we ask for?

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

CNNGo August 2, 2010 — Among mankind’s many pastimes these days, eating meat and watching robots dance must surely rank among our favorites. But what would happen if the two were combined? Bangkokians can now rejoice for the answer is neatly tucked away on the third floor of the Monopoly Park plaza in Rama 3.
Hajime [...]

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