Is BKK Boring Without Street Vendors?

[eldragon]

It's getting to the point where there is a noticeable absence of street vendors in BKK. Many of the popular and even some of the less populated areas are totally barren now. So what do you think? Is it as boring as everyone said it would be?

I have been in favor of organizing the street vendors a bit or doing away with them entirely in some areas. But I gotta admit the place looks a little bleak now.

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[The Dancer]

It's horrible, it sucks and it's <deleted> up my lifestyle, part of which was going out late each night after a hard day's work to sit down to a cold one at a roadside place and watch the world go by.

 

I want the old Bangkok back. The crazy, quirky, insomniac one. And I doubt I'm alone.
 

[nuakmuaynina]

Yes it really is. it takes away the life. Ok it could get annoying but I enjoyed the hustle and bustle.

[Kinnock]

Yes - it's getting that way.  And without the colorful distraction of the street stalls, you begin to focus on the poor condition of the sidewalks, open drains, rats etc.

 

 

[eldragon]

Yes - it's getting that way.  And without the colorful distraction of the street stalls, you begin to focus on the poor condition of the sidewalks, open drains, rats etc.
 
 

This is exactly what I've been feeling, but couldn't articulate my thoughts. The city is not pretty enough to do away with street stalls completely.


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[fruitman]

People who miss them a lot can be missed as well in BKK.

 

Now it's easy to walk to a mall or real restaurant...also now it's possible to see the real shops along the sidewalks.

 

I agree the condition of the pavement is very bad and should be dealt with...

[gdgbb]

15 hours ago, Kinnock said:

Yes - it's getting that way.  And without the colorful distraction of the street stalls, you begin to focus on the poor condition of the sidewalks, open drains, rats etc.

 

 

Open drains?  Where?  Which pavements are in such poor condition?  There's nothing much wrong with Sukhumvit or Silom pavements.

[gdgbb]

3 hours ago, fruitman said:

People who miss them a lot can be missed as well in BKK.

 

Now it's easy to walk to a mall or real restaurant...also now it's possible to see the real shops along the sidewalks.

 

I agree the condition of the pavement is very bad and should be dealt with...

I agree with you apart from the pavement conditions, which pavements do you mean?

[Thainess]

Boring then, boring now. Bangkok is truly a hole of epic proportions. 

[chrisandsu]

I'm fearful it will turn into hua hin . For the people that want a generic hell hole , go to Singapore . I love the hustle and bustle of bkk with the street stalls . Let's just send every poor person from their land to become street sellers , now that's not good enough so next stop is a factory packing boxes all day watching the clock . Isn't that why most of us left the sterile west ? 

[zorro1]

I'm in lower Sukhumvit, no open drains but the side sois need to be upgraded.
I'm over the moon with the vendors gone! Although there still are a few at night on suk near soi 11

There is a police tent right there and 10 meters from it is a sex toy stand operating open for business

[smokie36]

We're caught in a trap.....

 

 

I love this crazy city...still plenty of stalls around and new food areas...you just need to search em out.

[Calach]

I'd miss the pad thai and other street food vendors, as well as I miss the booze VW vans on Sukhumvit 11, but the ones selling viagra, fake Rayban, fake Beats headphones, fake whatever-is-trending and other trinkets, not much. 

[bkk6060]

HMMM, where are you talking about because they have slowly been coming back on Sukhumvit from 3 on up.  Walked it last night and many street vendors back along that stretch. Also food vendors down several of the Soi's ate on 4 last night off the street.

If you are talking about the street bars with LB's and Africans, happy to see them go.

 

  

Edited January 20, 2017 by bkk6060

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

3 hours ago, gdgbb said:

Open drains?  Where?  Which pavements are in such poor condition?  There's nothing much wrong with Sukhumvit or Silom pavements.

So Bkk only consist of two roads? There are many open drains and broken pavements in Bkk just go ourside the bright light areas.

[zorro1]

HMMM, where are you talking about because they have slowly been coming back on Sukhumvit from 3 on up.  Walked it last night and many street vendors back along that stretch. Also food vendors down several of the Soi's ate on 4 last night off the street.

If you are talking about the street bars with LB's and Africans, happy to see them go.

 

  

Depends what you mean by many. As a percentage and I walked it just the other night there was no more than 5% compared to before and that's being generous and they were tucked in tight to shops, barley half a meter of foot path stolen

Clearly there are a few that are exempt from the new law. Maybe relatives of the general or something

[Searat7]

They have been slowly coming back to Silom too, but just one side of the sidewalk in an area near Patpong. Strangely though a large sign was erected about two weeks ago (in Thai and English) announcing the return of the street vendors to the sidewalks but I have not seen much change since the sign appeared near BCH on Silom Rd. 

[paulinbkk111]

Long overdue, best thing to happen to my neighbourhood. Cooking with gutter oil, stinking sewerage and ruined paths doesn't make a great city.

 

 

[samsensam]

20 hours ago, The Dancer said:

It's horrible, it sucks and it's <deleted> up my lifestyle, part of which was going out late each night after a hard day's work to sit down to a cold one at a roadside place and watch the world go by.

 

I want the old Bangkok back. The crazy, quirky, insomniac one. And I doubt I'm alone.
 

 

i guess you're not disabled, elderly or with young children. clearing the pavements so ALL society can move easily and safely is a good thing.

[paulinbkk111]

3 minutes ago, samsensam said:

 

i guess you're not disabled, elderly or with young children. clearing the pavements so ALL society can move easily and safely is a good thing.

 

100% spot on.

[Thaidream]

Street vendors are what makes Bangkok what it is and makes it different from New York, London or the others. If you want order and cleanliness go to Singapore or the West. It's no wonder tourists are giving Thailand a pass. 

[NoshowJones]

21 hours ago, The Dancer said:

It's horrible, it sucks and it's <deleted> up my lifestyle, part of which was going out late each night after a hard day's work to sit down to a cold one at a roadside place and watch the world go by.

 

I want the old Bangkok back. The crazy, quirky, insomniac one. And I doubt I'm alone.
 

I can understand those who want the vendors back, that's fine, but only with a compromise, we cannot have the vendors crowding the pavements and forcing pedestrians on to the road, ie between Sukhumvit  heading down to Asoke on the odd numbered Sois in the evening.

[NoshowJones]

3 hours ago, zorro1 said:

I'm in lower Sukhumvit, no open drains but the side sois need to be upgraded.
I'm over the moon with the vendors gone! Although there still are a few at night on suk near soi 11

There is a police tent right there and 10 meters from it is a sex toy stand operating open for business

Brown envelopes.

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, zorro1 said:

Depends what you mean by many. As a percentage and I walked it just the other night there was no more than 5% compared to before and that's being generous and they were tucked in tight to shops, barley half a meter of foot path stolen

Clearly there are a few that are exempt from the new law. Maybe relatives of the general or something

As I have already said, brown envelopes.

[KMartinHandyman]

On Nut is clear and although she misses the selection of food even my wife says it's good for walking now and most of the food can be gotten in the side sois.

[Patanawet]

9 hours ago, fruitman said:

People who miss them a lot can be missed as well in BKK.

 

 

Cretin!

[mcfish]

Street vendors are what makes Bangkok what it is and makes it different from New York, London or the others. If you want order and cleanliness go to Singapore or the West. It's no wonder tourists are giving Thailand a pass. 

Because they can't buy a wooden penis on a whim? Real dollar tourist do not slurp chicken soup from a roadside stall.. That's for desperate pensioners and the occasional smelly back packer

I'm ecstatic that the Arabs are now staying in soi 3 instead of jamming Sukhumvit with the entourage of 7 wives low balling every trinket on the now thankfully gone stalls [emoji4] [emoji4] [emoji3]

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[fruitman]

11 minutes ago, Patanawet said:

Cretin!

 

You can walk to the market dude...or to the mall. or order roomservice....

[bkkcanuck8]

29 minutes ago, mcfish said:

Because they can't buy a wooden penis on a whim? Real dollar tourist do not slurp chicken soup from a roadside stall.. That's for desperate pensioners and the occasional smelly back packer
 

 

And the vast majority of working Thais, who don't have kitchens in their apartment and they don't have money to spend in more expensive restaurants etc.  But he, scr#w the locals -- as long as people who should have never left home can have the same thing here that they left in their home country.... hmmm.... so many complain about how things are here.... eventually demanding what they left.... when what they really should do is leave themselves because they obviously are not happy here.

[mcfish]

3 hours ago, bkkcanuck8 said:

 

And the vast majority of working Thais, who don't have kitchens in their apartment and they don't have money to spend in more expensive restaurants etc.  But he, scr#w the locals -- as long as people who should have never left home can have the same thing here that they left in their home country.... hmmm.... so many complain about how things are here.... eventually demanding what they left.... when what they really should do is leave themselves because they obviously are not happy here.

LMAO! the only Thais eating there are hookers and stall holder's, cab drivers and motorcycle taxis and I could give a flying <deleted> about them !

You sound like a 2 week tourist

The Thais living in broken down wooden shacks on the perimeters of bangkok will still have cheap food

But you've missed the point completely. Thais want there streets back! The elderly and disabled want room to move.

Citizens deserve a modern bangkok. The time for that has started and farang can buggers off to Cambodia if they want real 3rd world

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