Thread: Thailand to hold World’s Largest Parade of Food Trucks

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Kingdom is set to host the “World’s Largest Parade of Food Trucks”, and is planning the largest assembly of food trucks in one place.


Tourism and Sports Minister Pipat Ratchakitprakan announced today that his ministry, in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and Food Truck Club (Thailand) will be hosting the “World’s Largest Parade of Food Trucks” on March 7-8, 2020 at IMPACT Lakeside, Muang Thong Thani.


The event will involve more than 200 food truck vendors, making it the biggest such gathering in the world, one which will break the previous record, held by the U.S. State of Florida since March 29, 2014, with 121 vehicles.


Pipat expressed the view that the event should help promote and upgrade the image of Thai street food vendors as well as complying with the country’s Gastronomy Tourism policy. The government has been urging a change in the traditional practice of ‘cooking on the side walk’ to the setting up of mobile food trucks to improve cooking conditions and achieve better order in the popular business.


Indeed, putting restaurants on wheels is growing in popularity in Thailand; according to Food Truck Club (Thailand) President and Founder Chanin Wattanapruksa, there are roughly 1,500 food trucks representing 700 brands in the kingdom. The number is set to expand further as the government supports a greater emphasis on the colorful vending practice.


Those interested in setting up their own food truck business or wishing to turn their restaurant into a mobile food service are also welcome to attend the fair on March 7-8, 2020 at IMPACT Lakeside, Muang Thong Thani, as there will be a dedicated booth where staff will be available to offer suggestions and guidance on how to create a food truck.


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Stupidest place in the world, like a perpetual celebration of mindless idiocy managed by buffoons fir the benefit of cretins.

Sp, instead of ad hoc street side noodle/bbq vendors blocking pavements and littering the urbanscape with detritus luring vermin and cockroaches w are now to have converted VW vans parked up and blocking the roads while they litter the urbanscape with detritus...etc.

Why they can't simply create alfresco food courts with plumbed in drainage and proper garbage disposal within environmentally controlled licensed premises like Singapore is mystifying.

Used to be a highlight of the week in the early seventies when the fish and chip van called by.

That smell of vinegary chips from the hallway had us salivating uncontrollably.

Go live in Singapore if that's what you want, sassy. As my dad used to say 'You can have my share'.

^ Like the corona pop man, ice cream man and milkman. Al off the roads nowadays in the UK and rightly so when you can grab it all at the supermarket.

Why don't the Thai just cook at home, call Grabfood or go to a foodcourt or restaurant, lazy fuckin savages

Originally Posted by cyrille

As my dad used to say 'You can have my share'.

You sure that wasn't 'portion' ?

Thai street food is one of my favorite things in LOS. I personally think it’s a shame the government has clamped down on the vendors. There used to be a place in thonglor soi 55 that sold somtam to die for. They got closed down so I just used the place right outside my building on soi 53. There was a noodle guy there too who sold really nice noodles for 25 baht. My mate who still stays in the building says they are both gone now too. Sukhumvit soi 33 had some of the best street food in BKK but I think the vendors there had been given their marching orders at about the same time I left Thailand which was back in 2008.
Eating delicious food while sitting out on the street and watching people live life was one of my favorite pastimes. Buying some durian for the elephants to give them a change from boring old cucumbers was a bonus....
Happy days ....

I haven’t been to LOS for over 5 years. What is the story in BKK? Have they mostly gone? Are the vendors on soi 11 & 13 still there late at night ?

Have they mostly been made to shut down ?

No, the filthy practice still continues in the evening.

Truly quite depressing to think there are people so evidently devoid of a normal taste experience who actually consider a bit of barbecued meat or stir fried greasy noodles to be a delicious, uplifting experience because it takes place in a dirty, fume-choked environment overrun by vermin and cockroaches and an endless procession of gormless tourists looking for some affirmation they are experiencing the mystical and exotic Orient.

Never liked the grilled meat or stir fried noodles personally. Love the glass noodle soup and I could eat good somtam and sticky rice for lunch every day. Curries , tom yam, fried and boiled chicken were also favourites - and mango and sticky rice for dessert was good in my area. The aromas that fill the air along with the friendly chatter make up the atmosphere that I affiliate BKK with. I draw the line at putting ice in my beer but I personally enjoy eating out on the busy streets of BKK more than sitting in a restaurant largely for the entertainment value of the people watching that goes with it.

I am not sure if a good street store is necessarily less hygienic that some restaurants as they bring the ingredients in fresh everyday and aren’t able to grab something that has been fermenting in its own juices from the back of a fridge like happens in some restaurants.

I can understand how some people who do not choose to eat in such places if they block the sidewalk like can often happen are annoyed by the practice - but I’m pretty sure others share my opinion in thinking street stalls can be fun and serve some pretty good food too.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

over 2 million Thai seek medical help for their upset stomachs annually.

Post up your source sausages..

You do have female chromosomes for sure as you bitch just like an old angry woman..

And that Tax are the stats for admissions, not the number who merely sought assistance.

The frazzled of the forum are actually quite ignorant of the actualité here in their adopted homeland, surprisingly so when one gauges their fawning sycophancy for the country and its wretched hypocritical society.

Quite why they cannot source information for themselves is a mystery but then I suppose most here lack the requisite skills to process the data.

The wingman and I tend to also eat in the same trusted places, two of which interestingly are German in ownership but have a mature Thai chefess in charge of the Thai provender. Both are clean and well run but I rarely eat Thai any more in commercial outlets and stick to the wingman's stuff chez nous - it's good quality, tastes better and boasts the benefit of no squitters afterwards. Vgetable-wise one must simply suspend disbelief and hope the fertiliser use was within internationally approved mores but in terms of canned produce I rely on imported western stuff and source all my meat from Tops or similar butchers.

I have not eaten anything bought on the street for nigh on ten years now. I remember only too well the aftermath of the BKK floods when the weather turned hot and dry for several months and the wind blew sewage contaminated dust everywhere onto everything and everyone seemed to develop eye infections and stomach upsets. The scuttling cockroaches, the brake lining dust and other irritating pollutants wafting in the evening miasma from the gridlocked, exhaust spewing traffic , the piles of rotting detritus spilling out of roadside bin liners gnawed open by rats and torn apart by scavenging soi dogs urinating in puddles left by micturating motorcy taxi louts ......I mean, just why would you eat in such filth?

I never bought into this street food folksy crap.

Usually eat home-made food, some fast-food junk and occasionally Thai street food if in an errand. Agree with Wally, harder to hide something when you're in front of the cooker, overseeing what (s)he does... and tell him/her to skip the MSG and sugar scoops and that's good enough for me. I always choose the "venues" that caster a significant number of customers

Originally Posted by Farang Ky Ay

Usually eat home-made food, some fast-food junk and occasionally Thai street food if in an errand. Agree with Wally, harder to hide something when you're in front of the cooker, overseeing what (s)he does... and tell him/her to skip the MSG and sugar scoops and that's good enough for me. I always choose the "venues" that caster a significant number of customers

I generally try to avoid street food, mostly eat at home and a fair proportion of various western type dishes.
Thai food just now and again