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Where do Chinese people gather most in Bangkok?

Bangkok Chinatown (ChinaTown), located in the west of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is one of the most prosperous commercial districts in the city. Its scale and prosperity rank first among Chinatowns in Southeast Asia. This veritable "China Town" with Chinese style is about 2 kilometers long and stands in the west of Taijing City. It is connected by three streets: Sanpin Street, Yaowali Road, Shilongjun Road and many streets and lanes. It is one of the neighborhoods of old Bangkok and has a history of nearly 200 years. Most of the houses here are relatively old, but the business is extremely prosperous, and almost all the operators are Chinese and overseas Chinese. The rich Teochew style is the biggest feature of Bangkok's Chinatown, and Teochew dialect is widely spoken here. There are many Chinese in Bangkok, about 500,000. Scattered throughout the neighborhood are thousands of businesses of various types, with eye-catching Chinese signs, selling goods from China and locally produced. Food stores, hotels, department stores, grocery stores, shoe stores, and handicraft stores are everywhere, but the most common ones are gold stores. Although the storefronts are not large, they are splendidly decorated. It is said that 70% of Bangkok gold stores are located in Chinatown. Boutique stores sell well-known products from mainland China, including Moutai from Kweichow, Wangzhihe stinky tofu from Beijing, pills from Tongrentang in Beijing, Pien Tze Huang from Zhangzhou, Gastrodia elata from Chongqing, and other traditional Chinese medicines. In addition, there are bookstores and newsstands selling Chinese books and newspapers, as well as Teochew theaters, Mandarin cinemas, etc. Chinatown still retains the characteristics of typical Chinese traditional culture and customs of the Chinese community. In front of the shops, there are statues of the three officials of Fu, Lu and Shou. There are plaques on and beside the doors. The couplets often read "Loyalty and filial piety are passed down to the family for a long time. Poetry" Auspicious words such as "Books will last forever", "Business will prosper all over the world, and wealth will reach Sanjiang". All Chinese who come to Bangkok like to visit here, and foreigners also come here because of the famous Chinese specialties in Chinatown. The Grand Palace is the palace of the first to eighth kings of the Bangkok Dynasty in Thailand, also known as the "Forbidden City". It is the most perfectly preserved, most spectacular, largest and most ethnically distinctive palace in the past. It is still used for coronation ceremonies, palace celebrations and other ceremonies. Activity. The garden is filled with green grass, blooming flowers, and dancing shadows of trees. The total area is approximately 260,000 square meters. The biggest feature of Chinatown is the numerous shop signs, the most conspicuous of which is the gold shop. On Yaowarat Road, which is less than two kilometers long, there are hundreds of large and small gold shops, with huge signboards at the entrance and glittering jewelry and gold products on display at the counters. 70% of gold shops in Bangkok are in Chinatown. Different from Beijing, the gold jewelry here is placed in piles, exuding a sense of arrogance, as if selling cabbage, making customers unconsciously become generous. Bangkok Chinatown was born at the same time as Bangkok City and has a history of two hundred years. It has now become a bustling business district. There is an inconspicuous alley here called Speech Street, which commemorates the propaganda place where Dr. Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Manchu government and mobilized Chinese people to contribute money and efforts to the motherland. Therefore, it is called Lecture Street.