BMA bans all street food across Bangkok this year

April 18, 2017 01:00


STREET FOOD vendors will disappear from Bangkok by the end of the year in the interests of cleanliness, safety and order, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) says.

In the capital, which is internationally recognised for its street food, famous locations such as Chinatown/Yaowarat and Khao San Road would be cleared of vendors in a bid to beautify Bangkok.

A month after the city was named the finest street food destination in the world by CNN for the second year, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) continued its operation to reclaim the pavements for pedestrians and announced that vendors would be banned entirely from the capital’s streets.

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This follows on the heels of a street food ban in Thong Lor, Ekkamai and Phra Khanong which evidently began on Monday.

Deadline arrives for street food crackdown

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s war on street food – the best in the world from where we (and plenty of others) stand – gets real today as the deadline for vendors in the city’s Thong Lor, Ekkamai and Phra Khanong districts to shutter their street-side outlets has come.

As Coconuts reported last month, a meeting between vendors and city officials failed to produce a workable compromise. Thong Lor is to be the first area targeted before the crackdown spreads to neighboring streets.

Boontham Huiprasert, a Bangkok district chief carrying out the mandate in his jurisdiction, expressed the government’s hardline point of view ahead of the crackdown.

“Just don’t sell on the sidewalks,” he told the AP on Friday. “People who sell stuff on the sidewalks, they don’t pay rent. There are so many out there now, so we have to organize society.”

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