Bangkok's Street Food Markets are Being Shut Down

Food vendors have been a constant presence in Bangkok – but thousands of them are now being chased off the streets thanks to a move by Thailand’s military government to ‘clean up’ the country. A report by Amos Roberts and Philipa Hutchison for SBS Dateline. Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...

For decades the noisy bustle of street vendors has filled the streets of Bangkok, but this could soon become a thing of the past. In a bid to “clean up” the city, the authorities have already cleared away thousands of vendors; at the same time a major riverfront development will see whole communities evicted.

In one small community on the Chao Phraya River, local families are preparing for the day they’ll be moved away, to be replaced by a concrete promenade. “It’s like they want to wipe out the poor,” one woman says.

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