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The $300,000 dinner at Bangkok's Lebua Hotel
Apr 4 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

For a country where hot spicy cuisine is sought after by every food enthusiast of the world and where Prime Minister once hosted his own cookery show on Television, it is not unusual that food will always remain at the center stage of love as well as...

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