{"id":11316,"date":"2022-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/?p=11316"},"modified":"2022-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T00:00:00","slug":"koktail-conversation-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/th\/2022\/02\/21\/koktail-conversation-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Koktail Conversations: Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For episode two of our podcast, Nigel Oakins ventured out to the 61st floor of the Lebua hotel to meet with CEO Deepak Ohri and get the low down on \u201cemotive expression\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Available on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yiRvTtFPFsI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3DyiRvTtFPFsI&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1644890711490000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0vEhIRZLcjS9pG5elTeVF8\">YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2JIRQaurOuTsl0up5UYomG?si=d1e5bbfdc4c8440f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/71cGI3kHUlsqdLXxb3zkPp&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1644890711490000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1wIClR_ydeAxgoZcih5NUB\">Spotify<\/a>, the second episode of&nbsp;Koktail Conversations&nbsp;is now out. In it,&nbsp;<em>Koktail<\/em> founder Nigel Oakins sits down for a wide-ranging discussion on Thailand&rsquo;s place as a global gourmet destination, the rights and wrongs of restaurant awards and why emotive expression is a thing when it comes to marketing anything.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen on Spotify:<\/h1>\n<p> <iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2JIRQaurOuTsl0up5UYomG?utm_source=generator&#038;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch on YouTube:<\/h1>\n<p> <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AP5XFQk_zoI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For episode two of our podcast, Nigel Oakins ventured out to the 61st floor of the Lebua hotel to meet with CEO Deepak Ohri and get the low down on \u201cemotive expression\u201d Available on&nbsp;YouTube&nbsp;and&nbsp;Spotify, the second episode of&nbsp;Koktail Conversations&nbsp;is now out. In it,&nbsp;Koktail founder Nigel Oakins sits down for a wide-ranging discussion on Thailand&rsquo;s place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.8 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Koktail Conversations: Episode 2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For episode two of our podcast, Nigel Oakins ventured out to the 61st floor of the Lebua hotel to meet with CEO Deepak Ohri and get the low down on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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