Vintage community's last stand
Developers are threatening the future of Chinatown's Charoen Chai neighbourhood, bastion of traditional Sino-Thai culture
- Published: 2 Jul 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Life
Sujitra Assavavirairat always remembers her mother returning home with heaps of joss paper whenever she came back from a shopping trip to the nearby Charoen Chai community.
Baan Kao Lao Rueng, a local museum displaying bygone items and artefacts of traditional Chinese livelihoods, was opened last September.
Like many other Thai-Chinese, her mother would go to the decades-old community in Chinatown to look for necessary materials for use in Chinese festivals such as the Mooncake Festival or the Chinese New Year.
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