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The Suan Lum Night: Bazaar is a great place to go. At the outside beer garden you can get great Thai food at reasonable prices. The beer garden works like most food courts in Thailand, you have to buy coupons first and pay with them at the different food stalls.
Beer comes in glasses, jugs and towers and the girls serving it only represent one brand. If you want HEineken for example you have to wait for the Heineken girl to come by, otherwise get it yourself.
Performances on stage should be applauded for their effort and not for their musical tallent.
Around the beergarden is a huge area filled with small shops selling all kinds of Thai handicrafts, t-shirts and many other things. This is a good alternative to Chatuchack (JJ) Market, as it's less crowded, less hot and open every day.
Cosing of the Night Bazaar:
Actually the Suan Lum Night Bazaar was a temporary solution for the area of land on which it resides now. The plot of land in owned by the Crown Property Bureau (CPB), this is the company managing land that is owned by the King. The CPB is the owner of the land but the tennant who collects the rents from the individual shop owners thus far refuses to move (thank god). The CPB sold the land to Central Pattana who is planning to develop a shopping mall (who wants yet another shopping mall, this is not Singapore please), a hotel and perhaps some residential buildings.
The tennants were given a grace period to leave the premises until the 31st of March 2007, this period has expired by now. The large red signs hanging in front of the Night Bazaar at the moment are in Thai but they read: The Night Bazaar will continue to provide services until the court orders us to do otherwise.
In other words: It could close tomorrow, it could close next year. Enjoy it while you can!
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