Street food festival planned for Bangkok in June

 

Yaowarat//Photo by Thanis Sudto

 

BANGKOK: -- The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is in discussions with Bangkok authorities to host the “Bangkok Street Food Festival”, tentatively set for June.

 

TAT governor Yuthasak Supasorn said recently that the idea would be in line with CNN’s listing of Bangkok as the city with the best street food in the world.

 

The festival will be held in some major roads of the capital such as Khao San, Yaowarat and Pratunam area. Details will be discussed later, the governor said.

 

He denied reports that all street food will be banned from Bangkok, saying the moves afoot were just aimed at regulating the business to ensure order and food hygiene.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30313195

 

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Now it makes sense first ban it to make publicity and then promote it with a festival. Logic isn't it ?

"He denied reports that all street food will be banned from Bangkok, saying the moves afoot were just aimed at regulating the business to ensure order and food hygiene."
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Taken to it's logical conclusion over time, look at the US' war against free market lemonade stands run by children.  In my day, opening a lemonade stand in the summer was a rite of passage.  Nowadays it's a bureaucratic impossibility.  Which just goes to show what happens when the nanny-state arrives.  It's a comin' Thailand, it's a comin...  Stand-by!

Nobody told TAT of the Government's plans.  Another "misunderstanding?"  Thailand is the HUB of them!

15 hours ago, connda said:

Which just goes to show what happens when the nanny-state arrives.  It's a comin' Thailand, it's a comin...  Stand-by!

One thing a nanny state requires is organisational skill. Epic levels of incompetence will surely prolong the day... 

Kobkarn has been shafted and no one remember to tell her? 

It's like living in two parallel universes at the same time here.