How to make authentic Thai food: chef’s Koh Samui cooking school teaches popular dishes

How to make authentic Thai food: chef’s Koh Samui cooking school teaches popular dishes

What makes Jungle Kitchen stand out from the cooking-class crowd is the traditional way meals are cooked – over a charcoal fire. The only electricity used is for lighting. A guests at Jungle Kitchen cooks over a charcoal fire. Photo: Jungle Kitchen On a humid day in June, Charlesworth welcomes guests (up to a maximum … Read more

White Lotus fans already have Thailand, backdrop to season 3, in their sights

White Lotus fans already have Thailand, backdrop to season 3, in their sights

Some tourists are getting in before the next season’s airing. The Sicilian town of Taormina has seen an avalanche of visitors after the airing of The White Lotus season two. Photo: Shutterstock “You still can’t get into the Four Seasons in Taormina – it’s completely chock-a-block,” says Misty Belles, spokeswoman for Virtuoso, a global network … Read more

Opinion | Four Seasons Koh Samui next up for murder, mayhem and more tourists if HBO picks Thai island hotel for The White Lotus season 3 – which it will

Opinion | Four Seasons Koh Samui next up for murder, mayhem and more tourists if HBO picks Thai island hotel for The White Lotus season 3 – which it will

Haley Lu Richardson as Portia and Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya in HBO’s The White Lotus season 2, which was filmed at the Hotel Taormina, San Domenico Palace, in Sicily. Photo: HBO The Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea. Photo: Shutterstock The fact Thailand will be given the White Lotus treatment next has been a badly … Read more