Thailand Vegetarian Food Festival (Part 2) - Bangkok 2012

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Head over to for lots more delicious Thai food And if you love to eat, check out the Eating Thai Food Guide here: The Thailand Vegetarian Festival ) is a celebration that takes place annually in Thailand. It was in the 1800's that a group of Chinese opera singers were on tour in Thailand and traveling around. They landed in Phuket where they performed and eventually became ill. After some thought and discussion they decided they had not been showing respect and honoring the Nine Emperor Gods in the Daoist Chinese beliefs. To get better from their sickness, they made up their minds to go for a cleansing diet by remaining pure and eating a diet of only vegetarian food for the first nine days of the ninth lunar month. Along with the food, they also performed a number of rituals and ceremonies. The vegetarian festival has since become a yearly event celebrated across the entire country of Thailand. The event attracts not only local Thais, but also a huge number of foreigners that come to experience wonderful vegetarian and vegan Thai food in abundance. The biggest of festivities takes place in southern Thailand, and especially in Phuket where there's a large population of Chinese. In the south of Thailand, the festival includes religious rituals, some ceremonies and also the famous self flagellation events, which are fascinating to witness. Participants in these sorts of activities believe that they are possessed by spirits and when they are cutting and slicing themselves, they don't believe they are actually hurting themselves but rather the spirits. In Bangkok, the festival is less about self mutilation, but still includes plenty of ceremonies and plenty of vegetarian Thai food sprawled through the entire city. If you're in Bangkok, Yaowarat Chinatown is the home of the most significant celebration. Everyday during the festival, the streets are lined with yellow flagged vendors that serve snacks and meals that are purely vegetarian. In this Part 2 of the Thailand vegetarian festival I first enjoy a deep fried snack known as ewkuay ) and then wash it all down with some nam lawhungkuay, a healthy herbal beverage. Then I head over to the Fan Jao Jo Surkong Chinese Temple in Bangkok ) to see the ceremonies. Finally to wrap things up at the Thailand vegetarian festival 2012, I eat some tasty fruit salad
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 9

Dhanistha Tham-Amnuaysuk
romy hernandez Since it's vegetarian festival, nothing bad is going to happen to those turtles. It's like a locals way of earning money. Turtles signifies longetivity and good health so the locals probably caught them to sell to the people participating in the festivals so they can buy and release those turtles into the lake as an act of good deeds asking for good health. I know it sounds pretty ironic LOL
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Nic
I'm going to Bangkok next month for the 4th time and watching your videos just reminded me of how much I love Bangkok and all their awesome street food. Thank you for taking the time to edit/film/upload the videos: ) Haha I'm not sure if I could eat as much as you in the video(s) and NOT gain weight though Cheers: )
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Mark Wiens
Hey, I really enjoy filming and editing, so I'm extremely happy you enjoyed it, and thank you for taking the time to watch. Great to hear you'll be coming to Bangkok again soon Hope you have an awesome visit and be sure to eat a lot
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princessarisa
malaysia has this festival too: -D also vegeterian all the way. i guess where there are chinese people there will be such same festival. btw tge fried balloon snack looks yummy
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Mark Wiens
Thank you very much, I've been in and out of Thailand for about 3 years now My Thai should be much better than it is - I can only talk about food
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evoGage
Another mouth watering video(s, I've come to the conclusion that there are literally no horrible foods in Thailand Must visit in the future.
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Mark Wiens
Hi Karl, I've never heard of that restaurant, so thank you for sharing If I have a chance I'll try to eat there, and take a video, thanks
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ichsagewas
Mark, you make me hungry. Its 03: 10 a. m. now. and Im going to get something from my kitchen to eat. Oh. man. you are terrible. :-(
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L Sulasno
No chillies, garlic, spring onions, etc including lime is used when preparing vegetarian food and the food is rather bland.
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