So being in Chiang Mai and being introduced to a dish that was local, seasonal, regional,
kilometers north of Chiang Mai.
The Ted Chiang short story, "Story of Your Life" is so impactful, so beautiful.
So I moved to Chiang Mai, which was a city of 100,000 people at that time.
I couldn't find anybody in Chiang Mai area that actually made it.
And I will hold up Ted Chiang as the best science fiction author.
And it was put there by Chiang Kai-shek as a sort of our rallying cry to tell Taiwanese citizens
I had the chance to visit a primary school in Chiang Rai, Thailand, a month after Melissa and her students
If anybody here has not read the short stories of Ted Chiang , I got something for you.
And she grew up in a very poor family up near Chiang Mai.
So when they got married, when Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling got married, she invited Whitey Smith and his band to play at their wedding.
I don't know if you will read all the short story from Ted Chiang , "Story of Your Life."
Beginning in December 1949, on his island sanctuary, Chiang worked toward the day when China
You probably know these two, Soong Meiling and her husband Chiang Kai-shek.
And they were-- she is from Chiang Mai, and that's where he had settled in.
And so when you say Thai food to a Thai person, say we're in Chiang Mai and you say to your friend,
And I'd come from all the way up in Chiang Mai and I'd come all the way down through Isaan
Down below are like India, Madras here, Chiang Mai in Thailand, et cetera-- wide variation in colon cancer rates.
He showed up at the airport in Chiang Mai to greet Pierce and it was like, you'd think it was the Beatles or something.
are what I call cave lines, representing the tunnels that Chiang Kai-Shek had his nationalist army carve through the mountains when they came to Taiwan.
But I think one part of the story that often doesn't get remembered is that Cecilia Chiang was doing the same thing
This seat went to Chiang Kai-shek, the then
So right around March, April, they start coming up in the forest and people-- in Chiang Mai, I lived in a small village about 20
I found them in New York through a purveyor there, and I bet if there's anybody from Chiang Mai that lives here, or northern Thailand,
After 1 month, since Melissa and the students came to visit I had the opportunity to visit Chiang Rai in the northern part of Thailand
The oldest residents of the PRC can remember a time when China was governed by a non-communist regime, that of Chiang Kai-Shek