Bangkok's Disappearing Street Food

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Although street food has long been synonymous with Bangkok, the city is steadily sweeping the sidewalks clean of its vendors.

 

By Craig Sauers

23 August 2016

 

For decades, Soi 38, Bangkok’s famed foodie haunt on Sukhumvit Road, was a carnival of colours, smells and sounds. Nearly every night, woks sizzled and the narrow road overflowed with roving eaters lining their stomachs for long nights out. Under bright yellow lamps, street vendors served stewed pork knuckle, oily chicken rice and plate after plate of piquant pad thai.

 

But when the owner of this land passed away in 2014, his family sold it to a property development firm and construction of a luxury condominium got underway. Today, instead of the symphony of backpackers, families and young Thai couples filling up at foldable tables, the raspy cry of cranes and backhoes floods the air. While a few vendors remain, the writing is on the wall for this hallowed street food destination.

 

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[Baanguru]

Does it mean street foods will also disappear? Probably the city wants to put them to the right places.