Talat Phlu


Talat Phlu or Talad Phlu is a community and marketplace by the Khlong Bangkok Yai in the Talat Phlu and Bang Yi Ruea Subdistricts, Thon Buri District, Thonburi side of Bangkok.

Description

Talat Phlu has a history of over 200 years since Thonburi Kingdom, in the reign of King Taksin after the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767. Thonburi side, it's used as a new capital of Thailand. Talat Phlu was a community of overseas Chinese or Thai-Chinese, including Muslims and Mon. Until the reign of King Rama I, he moved the capital across the Chao Phraya river to the Phra Nakhon side. Most of the Chinese moved to live in Sampheng, but some of them're still here and descend to the present day.
The name "Talat Phlu" originated this area in the past, the area was a spacious in grown and sold betel covered from Khlong Bang Sai Kai to Khlong Bang Phrom in Taling Chan until Khlong Bang Waek in Phasi Charoen and Bang Khae Districts. Today, although planting a betel have disappeared, the name Talat Phlu is still used for this area.
In the early 1960s, Talat Phlu was a bustling district, until have the parlance. "Yaowarat is how, Talat Phlu like that", it's considered to be another Bangkok Chinatown besides Yaowarat.
Nowadays, Talat Phlu is well known as a neighbourhood with restaurants and many street foods such as beef noodles, Khanom bueang, Khanom jeeb, coconut milk ice cream with frozen yolk, Namkhaeng sai and Bingsu, Khao moo daeng, Yen ta fo, Kuaitiao khua kai, Mi krop, Pad thai, fish maw soup, Thai desserts etc. And the most famous is Kui Chai, it's the food of the Teochew people, made of flour and filled with garlic chives, cooked by frying or steaming. It's a type of Dim sum. In addition, it's also the origin of Khanom bodin a traditional Muslim cakes, which only available in central Thailand, produced and sold at the community around the Suan Phlu Mosque.

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