Speaking of Thailand, I can’t recommend enough the blog written by my partner: The Streets of Bangkok. Having grown up in Bangkok, she has a fierce love for the city, and whenever she’s there (she splits her time between the UK and Thailand at the moment) she updates it with walks and sights around the city.  She’s also written about Amphawa, a town that’s a day trip away from Bangkok and which we visited together several years ago.  Her second, more recent visit is chronicled here. 

Restaurants are set up on steep waterside steps, with miniature stools and benches acting as chairs and tables. Below are rows of moored boats with their noses nuzzling together; each boat a little kitchen specialising in one or two dishes - some do grilled prawns, squid, crab, or scallops, others do pad thai or som tam. These get passed up the crowded steps to the tables, money passed down. It’s worth doing this just for the experience of eating in what is essentially a 30-capacity restuarant crammed onto a set of canal steps (it’s cosy!); the hot delicious freshness of the food is a wonderful bonus.

Here’s a photo I took, on my first visit, of the boats pressing up against the steps:

It’s a place I want to visit again and again.