How to follow the Twinkie Diet in Bangkok

The surprising delight of salted caramel gelato

Let me begin this post by clarifying something: the Paleo Diet SUCKS (for my former opinion, go here) After months of wandering past endless shining displays of processed carbohydrates, shielding my misery behind a serene-but-hungry facade of dietary superiority, I eventually had to consider the possibility that, like paleolithic man, I too was on the brink of extinction. If not by starvation then certainly by more sinister means (for who can really carry on living without bread. Might as well not).

How to be Paleo in Bangkok

After a bad run-in with carbohydrates (the horrific details of which you can find here) I turned to google to help me regain control of my runaway paunch, and google in its infinite wisdom referred me to the paleo diet. 

My first thought when reading about caveman cuisine was precisely the same thing people now ask me every day – what do I actually eat? Specifically, what do I eat here, in Bangkok, with 11 million people subsisting on grains and dairy and legumes, the great paleo axis of evil? But once the noodle steam had cleared from my eyes I was able to see that Bangkok actually has a great variety of whole food, cheap and easily accessible, so that you don’t have to venture down too many back alleys to find the food of homo habilis.