Around the time of the “Sart chin” Festival, the Chinese have another one called “ting krachaat” or sometimes “tay krachaat”. It basically means to give away basket full of things. It is a kind of Chinese Philanthropy Festival. Local Thai-Chinese business people and private individuals donated a large amount of money to buy food and rice to be distributed to the poor people in the district.
I went to one of these festivals in Taiban, Samut Prakan, this morning. I arrived about an hour early but there were already over a thousands people there. As they arrived they were given a blue ticket.
They were then herded to a tented enclosure where they waited for the ceremony to begin. I had already been to two or three of these events in the past and so knew what to expect. It was complete chaos today and very disorganized.
There was a lot of pushing and shoving as people tried to get to the front of queues to get the free food. They didn’t really need to worry as there was certainly plenty to go around.
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better than KFC and McDonalds lol but the name...