Yaowarat Road to get makeover

People sit down to eat at food stalls along Yaowarat Road, one of Bangkok’s main street food attractions, last month. (Photo by Nutthawat Wicheanbut)
People sit down to eat at food stalls along Yaowarat Road, one of Bangkok’s main street food attractions, last month. (Photo by Nutthawat Wicheanbut)

Yaowarat Road in Bangkok's Chinatown will get a new look early next year, deputy Bangkok governor Sakoltee Phattiyakul said on Monday.


"The food carts will be more ordered, their appearance will be harmonised and the operations will be more environmentally friendly," Mr Sakoltee told food vendors and local officials who attended a meeting on the street's planned revitalisation.

The meeting, held in Samphanthawong district, was intended to inform business operators and local residents of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's plan to give the tourist destination a makeover.


The BMA often clashed with vendors in their crackdown on unregulated street food carts, and in most cases the conflict resulted in closures and relocation of the vendors to BMA-approved locations.

City Hall will allow food vendors on pavements along these two roads, if they follow sanitary and environmental rules.

Vocabulary

  • clash: to argue very angrily with someone - ขัดแย้ง
  • conflict: an angry disagreement between people or groups - ความขัดแย้ง
  • crackdown: strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity - การใช้กำลังเข้าปราบปรามของเจ้าหน้าที่
  • makeover (noun): the process of improving the appearance of a person or a place, or of changing the impression that something gives - การเปลี่ยนแปลง, การปรับปรุง, การปฎิรูป
  • pavement: a path with a hard surface beside a road. The American word is sidewalk - ทางเดิน, ฟุตบาท
  • relocation: the process of moving someone or something to a new place - การย้ายที่ใหม่
  • revitalisation: giving new life, energy, activity or success to something -
  • sanitary: connected with keeping someone/something clean and healthy - เกี่ยวกับสุขภาพอนามัย, ถูกสุขลักษณะ, ซึ่งปลอดเชื้อ
  • unregulated (adj): not controlled by laws or rules - ไม่ได้ควบคุมโดยกฎหมายหรือกฎระเบียบ, ไม่เป็นระเบียบ
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