Baan Baat is what is left of a village in Bangkok that handcrafted monks’ bowls. The city swallowed it up, and monks start buying the cheaper, mass produced bowls, so all that is left is 5 families, still making the bowls the traditional way. Their biggest customers now? Tourists. (Although we were the only visitors there, and it took 5 hotel staff and 2 taxi drivers who had never heard of it to figure out where it was and how to get there.)
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