Photos by Chamnanwut Sukhumwanit
BANGKOK, Jan 20 (TNA) – Shoppers of Chinese descent on Friday flock to Yaowarat, Bangkok’s China Town to buy food and other items used in ceremonies to pay respect to ancestors and gods during the Lunar New Year.
Traders are upbate on the return of customers after it was quite sombre during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The director-general of the Internal Trade Department Wattanasak Sur-iam visited a market on Yaowarat Road to monitor goods prices.
He said prices of most goods are similar to those sold during the Chinese New Year period last year except premium food and some products with imported ingredients like noodle.
Orange prices are a little higher as it is almost the end of the harvest season.
He said the Commerce Minisry joined force with supermarkers, wholesale-retail operators and markets to launch a discount capaign for food and necessities during the Lunar New Year celebrations.
Consumers can buy boiled chicken at 125 baht per kilogramme at Big C, Lotus’s, Tops supermarket and fresh markets, participating in the campaign.
Fresh chicken costs 65 baht per kilogramme at Makro. A 99-baht set of worship items is available at 4,600 locations across the country. (TNA)
