10-Day-10-Night Vegetarian Festival in Chinatown

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10-Day-10-Night Vegetarian Festival in Chinatown

 

 

BANGKOK, Oct 10 – Bangkok’s Chinatown also known as Yaowarat will celebrate its Vegetarian Festival from Oct 16 to 25 in a COVID-19 control manner. 

Teeradet Sintopruangchai, chief of a committee organizing the festival, said that the festival would be officially opened on Oct 17 at the Chinatown Gate. There will be the processions of Guanyin as well as dragon and lion dances.

 

Besides, a statue of Wah Toh, God of Medicine, will be placed for people to worship amid concerns about the coronavirus disease pandemic. There will also be demonstrations of vegetarian food cooking and shops of delicious foods will line both sides of Yaowarat Road throughout the ten days and ten nights of the festival. 

 

Full story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news/line-today-english-news-559108

 

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[Orton Rd]

Rest of the year eating anything that moves, or used to ????

[ThailandRyan]

If it is like the Phuket Vegetarian festival with all of the crazy piercings parade, no thanks.

[MarineEquine]

It's not.

The Vegetarian Festival is celebrated in a lot of places around the country but Phuket is the original one and the only place that craziness happens. 

Edited October 12, 2020 by MarineEquine
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[MarineEquine]

On 10/11/2020 at 9:33 AM, ThailandRyan said:

If it is like the Phuket Vegetarian festival with all of the crazy piercings parade, no thanks.