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This is what the folks at Chiang Mai's Sorn Chai/Sorn Jan were eating for lunch as we were demolishing their laab khua and nam prik ong.

EatingAsia now has a Facebook page. We're already (obviously) posting here, and Dave and I are both on Twitter and Facebook. So why an EatingAsia Facebook presence?

We thought it would be nice to have a place for Dave's photos that don't really have a blog post-worthy back story (or for which I'm too bogged down with deadlines to write one). And for recipes that have no photo, and short musings on ingredients and the threads that connect the region's cuisines.

There will be bits that are more travel-y than food-y (we are on the road about half the year, after all), like the occasional recommendation of a great hotel or guest house. (We don't accept free meals or lodging in exchange for kind words so if we recommend a place you can rest assured that it is truly deserving.) Updates (where we are, where we're going) and news (like the fact that we're now offering 'bespoke' street food tours) will go on the page as well.

Mostly, we're hoping that the page will be conversation-friendly. Sometimes readers of this blog leave comments that relate to earlier comments on the same post, and that deserve a response from the original commenter (which is great - we love comments!) Facebook seems to make these sorts of back-and-forth exchanges a bit easier.

Meanwhile, content here will stay the same. We won't be spending oodles of time on the EatingAsia Facebook page, so you needn't fear that our posts here will become less frequent. And the page will no doubt evolve over time anyway.

Hope to see you over there.

Comments

[Spike]

For whatever this is worth to you, I auto-post blog updates to my Facebook fan page using Networked Blogs. Much to my surprise, that Facebook page has become my blog's 3rd largest source of traffic. You might want to do something similar?

[Pungjai Jung]

Hi,

I am Thai living in the USA. I have been following your blog for a long time but have never commented. How can I connect with you in the FB? I have an account but not very wise in other things.

[Robyn]

Thanks Spike -- we will do that. When I tweet blog posts that is also a big source of traffic for us. Just catching up with this stuff, sad to say.

Pungjai - go to your facebook account and type EatingAsia in the search box. That will lead you to our page, where you can comment.

Even easier -- hover your cursor over 'Facebook page' in the first sentence of this post and click -- it will take you straight to our page.
Thanks for reading!

[Richard]

Will try to link to my page from your site which looks great!

[arnold leland (bangkok)]

absolutely gorgeopus material and presentation..

bravo!

Arnold Leland (Bangkok)

Member:
American Film Institute
Culinary Historians of new York

[coach purses]

It's really a good posting. I like it. It's pretty much impressive to me. i think others will agree with me.