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Yaowarat Road, or Bangkoks Chinatown, has sprung back to life again as many Thais and foreigners flocked to the area to wolf down various delicacies on Wednesday night.

Walking With The Nation Thailand: Exploring Yaowarat

Customer protection police, together with Food and Drug Administration officers, raided several candy shops in Bangkok’s Yaowarat area selling eye jellies, a candy suspected of making children sick.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has deployed its Department of Law Enforcement officers on Yaowarat Road to ensure people's safety during the Vegetarian Festival from October 16 to 25.

The Yaowarat street food scene is bustling again, as was visible on Friday (May 22) evening after the government eased lockdown measures and allowed selected businesses to reopen.

Yaowarat’s famous streetside eatery, Jumbo Lobster, along with Sripathum University provided food on Tuesday (April 21) to people in the area whose businesses have been struck by the Covid-19 crisis.

The streets in Bangkok’s Yaowarat area were busy as usual on Wednesday (April 15) when people decided to go there not just to shop for food and cooking essentials, but also to sell off their gold ornaments now that the price of the precious metal has risen by Bt550 per baht weight.

People queued at a gold shop in Bangkok’s Yaowarat area to sell their gold after the price jumped by more than Bt1,000 per baht weight this morning (March 24), compared to the price at Monday’s close.

Protective facemasks were much in evidence at Chinese shrines in Bangkok on Friday (January 24) as people marked the beginning of another Lunar New Year.

The government is amendable to a suggestion by the Thai Amusement and Leisure Parks Association to turn roads in Bangkok’s Yaowarat district into walking streets each Sunday, barring vehicle access to open the area to pedestrians and attracting more visitors.

The Mall Group announced this week that it is opening a new standalone supermarket called Gourmet Thai in the I’m Chinatown shopping project at Yaowarat. The store, which is costing Bt10 million, is based on the Group’s successful Gourmet Market chain. 

Kilorun – the running festival of food and fun friends and family – returns to Bangkok on May 26, taking place in the gustatory paradise of Yaowarat Road aka Chinatown.