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Bang Khun Phrom Palace stands on the banks of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, and plenty of people know it for its Western architecture. What gets less attention is the slice of Thai cultural history tucked inside its walls. Now the Bank of Thailand Learning Center (BOTLC) opens a new exhibition that helps you make sense of the past through something we all understand, food.
'Fine Arts of the Kitchen' unpicks the taste and daily habits of the people who once lived here. Skip the dusty documents behind glass. You get dishes instead, recreated so precisely your stomach might grumble as you walk round the rooms. Each one is arranged to match a particular moment and the table it sat on.
Look closely and every choice, from the ingredients to the way a spread is laid out, tells you how a household ate a century ago. It works as gallery and archive, a record of a way of life that has long gone. The building earns the trip too, all columns, high ceilings and worn floors.
Visitor information (free admission):
- Open Saturdays and Sundays only.
- Two sessions a day, at 10.30am and 2.30pm.
- Capacity capped at 60 visitors a session, so the rooms never get crowded.
- Book ahead through the website.
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