Craftsmanship fair: modern design of the young Thai generation

For some reasons expats seem to prefer to go to new restaurant openings and roof top bars more than to more local events, because I haven't seen too many foreigners at BIG or the recent craftsmanship fair ay BITEC. With this blogpost I hope to help increasing the number at least for the next event: The Thailand Innovation and Design Expo 2014, 18.-21. September, Queen Sirikit Convention Center

So what are those fairs about? Mainly designer stuff from young Thais who are entrepreneurs, business people, artists. They produce organic salad, wooden beds or small houses. Below you will find a selection of exhibits I have seen at the recent fair at BITEC (that's a convention center that is actually accessable by BTS, via Bagna station). One product I like is De La Lita, a salad dressing. Well designed, fresh made, incredible delicious. They do everything right regarding marketing and distribution: A Facebook page www.facebook.com/DeLaLita.recipes, a website www.delalita.com and you can buy the products at Tops, Villa Market and Gourmet Market. Try the basilica dressing, its awesome.

Something very different and on a larger scale is Homes at Home. They are selling houses - made of wood, rather small, but also inexpensive. Sunshine 9, the big one, costs 30.000 USD. It is build in a few days, out of wood from New Zealand. They claims it is termite safe. You can see their products at www.facebook.com/homesathome.fanpage

Since we all want to be more independent mushboom might be a solution for growing your own mushrooms. It comes in a kit in a paperbox, more information on https://www.facebook.com/mushboomkit


Amantee makes finest french style bread, only the shop is quite in the middle of nowhere in 10120 Chongnonsee - Yannawa. Their webiste shows some products. We tried the fig bread and can only recommend it.

Some more impressions below.

Farmers market - or what they call it

I saw it on meetup first, and then Richard Barrow reminded me about the farmers market today at K-Ville. As we eat a lot of vegetarian and healthy food, we thought it might be a good idea to see the latest developments in going green. You have to know that we are new in town, so we had no idea what K-Ville is and that it is actually located in a quite upscale area. We also didn't really know that K-Ville is mainly an expat place. So, coming from Samut Prakan, where foreigners are a minority, we were a bit shocked about the massive falang gathering.


K-Ville is a small but neat shopping area, not really a mall - thats why it's called village (or ville) I guess. So, the farmers market. I was expecting a lot of vegetables, and maybe even animals. The latter was there in form of mini-pigs, just for display, not for eating.

Vegetable-wise there was some selection, but I wouldn't call it a farmers market. It was more an going-green-and-organic market. Nice breads indeed, grilled sausages (no, you can't eat them raw), some japanese rice balls, more bread, Lao coffee, jeans, organic (?) jewellery, and more stuff to eat. Everything delicious and quite expensive. But hey, it's organic, no animal were harmed during the baking of the bread, and no pesticide. At least that's what they say. You can't proof it anyway, and with the lack of independent organisations and instituts nearly everyone sells organic food now. It will get difficult soon to buy good old arsenic-and-cadmium-rich spinach.