This is Bangkok's original custom's house - which is lying abandoned on the side of the city's river. The stunning neo-classical property was built in 1888 and levied taxes on traders moving in and out of the kingdom along the Chao Phraya river. Designed by Austrian-Italian architect Joachim Grassi, it was inspired by the beautiful homes in the Italian countryside. However, customs operations have long been modernised and today the building stands empty and crumbling. Local officials have made some efforts to renovate the building and preserve it's heritage, while there has also been big money offers from developers who would like to transform it into a hotel or knock it down to build a shopping mall or apartment block. Thailand's Treasury Department confirmed in 2017 that the project to turn the old Custom's House into an Aman Resorts hotel would go ahead under Natural Park's successor, the U City company. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for watching this video on ViralPress! Join our community by sending your videos and following us on YouTube and Facebook.
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Chinatown Bangkok - Yaowarat Street Food Tour (เยาวราช)
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Chinatown Bangkok (เยาวราช), referred to locally as Yaowarat (same name of the street), is one of the most exciting places in the entire city.
The area is especially known for its vast supply of Thai and Chinese street food and restaurants, but Yaowarat is also home to countless gold stores, medicine and herbs dealers and markets that seem to go on forever. Exploring the narrow alleys and markets is a great way to get a feel for this lively area of Bangkok.
In the daytime, Chinatown Bangkok (เยาวราช) is home the Sampeng Market which is one of the city's busiest wholesale market for textiles, fabric and random trinkets. In the night, Charoen Krung road and Yaowarat road transforms into a street food paradise - some of the most famous stalls in the city.
My first stop is the famous Uan Pochana (ก๋วยจั๊บ อ้วนโภชนา) for a bowl of kuay jab (ก๋วยจั๊บน้ำใส) - rice noodle rolls in a porky soup with lots of innards. The soup is nicely peppery and really tasty.
After an appetizer (which was still an entire meal in itself), I cross over the street to T & K Seafood restaurant to order one of my favorite dishes: steamed fish in lemon and garlic sauce. T & K Seafood is not my absolute favorite restaurant, but due to its great location, it makes a convenient place to dine.
Last but not least, not trip to Chinatown Bangkok would be complete without a bowl of Thai Chinese style dessert. There are a number of different stalls and I chose one that served my all time favorite dessert known as bua loy nam king (ginger water with black sesame dumplings บัวลอยน้ำขิง).
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