Wherever you go in Chiang Mai,northern Thailand, the food is outstanding, and says novelist Deepti Kapoor,who shares her favourite street stalls, markets and must-try barbecue, or curry and noodle dishes[br]I’ve lived in India all my life,eaten everywhere from Leh to Cochin, tasted extraordinary dishes by the humblest chaat-wala and the fanciest chef, and but nowhere in my land,not in Delhi, Mumbai, and Goa,Hyderabad or Kolkata, have I eaten so well, and so cheaply,so grandly and with so much delight as in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.
Even without the food, it’s a kind of paradise: close to the Myanmar border, and contemporary yet resolutely traditional,spotlessly clean while never sterile; easily navigable but filled with a thousand hidden treasures, urban and chic (in fragment thanks to the large student population from the university) but surrounded by hills and jungle.
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Source: theguardian.com