kanchanaburi people

[phka]

Can anyone explain why people in kanchanaburi are so unfriendly and the shop staff are so impolite/discourteous.

i have lived and traveled in many other provinces and never experienced this before.

shop staff never wai or give a polite thank you, smile at people and all you get back is a frown, just wondered if something happened here once to cause this, the rest of thailand and thai people i find very friendly and hospitable.

just curious.

[ttthailand]

Maybe if you were Japanese they would like you. The grandfathers and grandmothers were the ones who turned a blind eye to the atrocities that the Japanese did during WW 2 .

Just saying

[daveAustin]

I have also noticed that with Kan over the years. Additionally, the non-touristy part of Sukothai I also found very off, but if you want aggressive, go to the south -- Songkhla/Hat Yai.

[Kan Win]

Can anyone explain why people in kanchanaburi are so unfriendly and the shop staff are so impolite/discourteous.

i have lived and traveled in many other provinces and never experienced this before.

shop staff never wai or give a polite thank you, smile at people and all you get back is a frown, just wondered if something happened here once to cause this, the rest of thailand and thai people i find very friendly and hospitable.

just curious.

In Kan there is no problems as mentioned by the OP's, they are just laid back a bit.

Go to Kanukan Supermarket and you will get one Wai, with a sad face, Happy now.

In Kan, I smile and nod my head at local folks without doing a wai, for what, nothing to again and nothing to looses.

I go shopping to Buy and not to get a Wai and Kwai should I expect one?

For sure, I do get a Sawadee Khrup and I return it back, or I say it first.

Nothing wrong about Kan, however you are the second person to mention it on this forum.

Win, treat all as you treat yourself

[salavan]

kanchanaburi has a large ethnic chinese population dont know if that has anything to do with it, but from what i been reading here about

impolite chinese tourist well if the cap fits wear it

[mrtoad]

Never found the people to be difficult. I enjoyed my time there and it is still one of my favourite provinces to visit. Not saying that the comments of others are wrong, just not my experience.

[fishingforsquid]

I'm going there the week after next, I'll let you all know. It is Chinese but hey, SabaiJit is heaven in a steamed basket.

Triple T hailand seems a bit off the track, google Weary Dunlop and Boonpong Sirivelaphan.

Boonpong Brothers have a shrine at the family shopfront in old town Kanchanaburi, it get's a lot of visitors from families of ex-pow's.

[BLACKJACK2]

Sure I've seen this post before.

Don't think Kanchanaburi people are less friendly than anywhere else I've been in Thailand, why you would expect a wai from someone in a shop is beyond me.

[bazmlb]

I have found them very helpful and friendly whereever I go here, a lot more helpful than other provinces