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Kope HyaTaiKee@Phanfa
Is an ancient coffee shop and this branch
was the first one that opened in 1952. From
being a general store in the owner’s
grandfather’s time, it became a coffee shop.
This shop has an old-style atmosphere with
photographs, equipment, tables of wood and
marble, and wooden cabinets from the general
store. The menu is like an old coffee shop with
breakfast and beverages of tea, coffee, pork
steak, fish steak, rice soup, salmon with rice,
garlic fried rice, salad with grilled pork, salad
with fish, etc.
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02 Nam Op Nang Loi
For more than 85 years, the Thai-Chinese
people have received scented water from Wang
Nang Hiang that produced it to sell in front of the
Nang Loi Market. The famous fresh fragrance of
the scented water has become known among the
people who always say that they were going to buy
scented water at the Nang Loi Market. It took some
time before becoming the brand “Nam Op Nang Loi”. The
business prospered quite well and expanded from the
front of the Nang Loi Market to a wooden row house in the
area of Maha Chai Road, which has become its permanent
shop till today.
03 Ban Bat Community
This is a community that has preserved its livelihood in accordance with
its name. Even now, there are only a few people still making monks’ alms bowls.
The Ban Bat community is located near Pratu Phi on Boriphat Road not far from
Wat Saket. In Bangkok, there is nowhere else that is as excellent in making alms
bowls as the Ban Bat community. International tourists often come here and buy small
alms bowls to take home as a souvenir.
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Trok Shanghai
This is a community of Shanghai Chinese
who migrated to settle in the area of Wat Saket
and Khlong Maha Nak. When the city expanded in
the reign of King Rama IV, Bamrung Mueang Road
was made and commercial buildings were built in this
area. More than 40 Chinese families settled here
and conducted carpentry. This group of Shanghai
Chinese makes various kinds of furniture as
well as conducts wood trade in this laneway,
which is like a major source of the wood
and carpentry business of the city.
Besides this, there is the coffin
business that has developed from
the furniture makers and been
passed down for 3 generations.
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Is a fort that protected Phra Nakhon (Bangkok) constructed in the reign of King Rama I the Great.
It is an important site of the country and has the architectural features of being a large
Wat Saket octagonal fort. The structure is brick with plaster, and the foundations are below ground level. It
Its full name is “Wat Saket Ratcha Wora Maha Wihan”, which is an ancient has 3 levels with a staircase going up to the first and second levels. The fort’s wall has large
temple from the Ayutthaya Era. The important tourist attraction is the Golden Bai Sema (boundary stones) on it except for the flanks of the wall that extend out of the wall
Mount or Phra Borom Bunphot that contains the Buddha’s relics. on the second level. It has Bai Sema that are a tipped point like a city wall. The top
There are detailed chronicles since the of the fort is like an octagonal tower with only 1 entrance. The
relics excavation in which they were roof is constructed of wood covered with tiles
invited from India to Thailand. India like an overturned mesh or lotus leaves. The 2
Umbrella
also has a record as evidence as lower levels of the fort have 6 large
well. Besides this, from the top, permanent cannons. era
Cam Good
visitors could see a view of walking
shoes
Bangkok to the horizon in the
past when there were no tall
buildings. The area on the Sun
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