As little as a decade ago, dining at an Italian restaurant was a luxury for most Bangkokians, and such places were actually hard to find as a result.
Then, before you could say “spaghetti alfredo”, Italian cuisine was everywhere, from the expat-sighting zones to the seemingly most unlikely of suburbs.
A lot of the cheese you savour at top Thai hotels comes from an Italian in Hua Hin. Just ask for ‘Cheese boy’
Max Mazzalai is an Italian - from Torino, west of Milan, to be exact. Ask him why he now lives in Hua Hin and the answer will be something like, “I just follow the cows.”