Khao Sod English

BANGKOK — At nearly every venue marked for protests, kilometers ahead of the press, activists – and light years ahead of the police – are none other than hawkers of fried chicken, fish balls, and sausages.


Minutes after pro-democracy protest pages posted the location of Monday’s protest, motorized street food carts were already staking their ground, frying up crispy street food snacks in anticipation of heavy foot traffic.


Throughout the protests over the past week, netizens have noticed that these vendors are the first to arrive at protest sites even before the demonstrators and activists who called the rallies.

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