Pattaya Floating Market

This guide to Pattaya Floating Market opens with a September 2023 fire that tore through the wooden shophouses and took more than twenty fire trucks over four hours to put out. It then reaches back to 2008, when Bangkok investors drained and reflooded a swampy plot beside Sukhumvit Road to build an entirely artificial market from scratch, divided into zones for Thailand's four regions. Vendors sell som tam from the northeast, silk from the north, and coconut sweets from the south, each under its own thatched roof.