There are well over 300,000+ street vendors in Bangkok alone.
37% of these vendors sell food.
Vending is often the only income these people have to earn a living and support their entire families.
It is a very hard and demanding living.
Food has to be prepared and carted to the selling location.
The vendor is at the market on their feet all day or all evening, in the scorching heat and humidity, trying to sell the food they have prepared for the day.
When the shift is over, pots and pans have to be cleaned, food has to be put away, and all the shop carted back home.
Sometime all this work can be for as little as 300 baht a day.
I wonder if any of us ever give these food vendors the credit they deserve?
We too are often tired from working in the office in the comfort of air-conditioning and just plain decide we are too lazy to cook.
Why cook when all this delicious food, with 1,000’s of choices, has alreay been cooked for us?
Such a self-righteous attitude, look at me, buying my food already prepared because I am too lazy to cook for myself.
We never once acknowledge all the hard work and skill that goes into preparing such delicious low cost meals.
The next time you buy food from a street vendor, give them some thanks and credit for doing such a good job; a job even you don’t want to do.