Two Bangkok food scribes have a new project that puts the wet market experience within reach of your fingers.
Online shop Outstanding Market Goods, aka OMG, sells handcrafted products such as indigo-dyed farmers’ shirts and larb knives from Phrae province, as well as goods designed by founders Austin Bush and Christopher Wise.
For those who like to know something about what they’re buying, all products come with information about the places and people involved: how Ban Rong Fong once made the chains, metal shoes and other tack for elephants used by the teak trade, or how Mohom Ban PaLuang, a second-generation indigo dyer in Phrae, is one of few still using natural materials.
Bush and Wise, who share several decades of experience tracking down recipes, ingredients, and cooking goods from across Southeast Asia, said the project grew out of their Fantastic Food…
