London has its pub closing-time street fights, Brussels has its open-air chocolate markets and Zurich, well Zurich has its ultra-cleanliness. Here, in Bangkok, we have our street food stalls. The order, which apparently comes straight from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), will affect Soi Thong Lor, Soi Ekamai and Sukhumvit Soi 71, the main street in Phra Khanong. Thong Lor, for example, where we live, has more, and pricey, regular bars and restaurants than I could indulge in over the course of several years. I checked with The Economist's assertion that according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, 2.5 billion people eat street food daily and verified the figure.

Source: Bangkok Post March 26, 2017 22:07 UTC