Saturday, February 20, 2021

Mark Weins : Food Blogger



born in Phoenix, Arizona, in the USA in 1986.

5 years old  moved Albertville, a small town southeastern France in the mountainous Alpes region. 

Other  going to Hawaii and Canada back and forth a few times to visit relatives

France, he moved to the center of Africa, a tiny village in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (then called Zaire), called Tandala.

In 1996, he moved to Kenya, right into the heart of the capital city of Nairobi.


degree in Global Studies

after graduating he went to South America – Buenos Aires, Argentina

take a diploma of achievement TESOL course to learn to teach English in Buenos Aires!

then traveled through Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile for the next couple of months.

While back visiting the US, with all my fresh memories of South America – the people, the food, the breathtaking Torres del Paine (which I was lucky enough to hike for 10 days), I decided to start a blog – thinking I could just post some photos and experiences to share with my family and friends.

At the beginning of 2009, Migrationology.com was born in about 1 week of mental straining,   a website, and posted my first few articles.

Migrationology   was going to be about travel,  experiences in travel – food especially.

he bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok, 

and traveled throughout Southeast Asia, both with a friend, and by himself for the next 6 months, soaking in as much as he could, and loving every bite of food that fit in his stomach – though food, he fell in love with Southeast Asia, blogging along the way 

With a university degree and a TESOL certification, it didn’t take long for me to land a job teaching English in Bangkok at a private institute, and I signed a one year contract. 


During my year of teaching English, I was still blogging, and at this point, Migrationology.com was starting to grow, and I realized there could be potential for a blog beyond having your family read it.

I made a commitment to blog and experiment with online projects in every spare moment that I wasn’t teaching (even when I was eating).


He published the Eating Thai Food Guide

While teaching and living in Thailand, he met Ying, an incredible cook, traveler, eater, and just the most amazing person he’ve ever met. He consider himself blessed and lucky that he met Ying and that she agreed to marry him.



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