An older man, tucked under a reed hat, stirs with a long ladle content of an aluminium pot that steams
on a portable burner.

Instantly, aroma of a reach meat broth, cooked vegetables, herbs and spices fills the air. Carefully, nearly in slow motion, the chef gets up from a tiny wooden bench and goes to the back of his wobbly galley kingdom. After a while, in the same slo-mo manner, he comes back with a bowl full of rice noodles. The cook floods noodles with an aromatic broth and hands it over to stretched in his direction arms.

Suddenly, a hollow thump sounds out. Struck by an invisible force chef loses his balance and nearly
drops the delicious content of the bowl into waves washing his culinary kingdom. Several angry words
fly towards the woman, whose fruit-filled long and narrow wooden boat hits chef’s floating stall.

Both tourists and traders carefully watch the commotion on the canal of the Damnoen Saduak Floating
Market. Each of them is squeezed into a similar-looking wooden boat, which carries them through
endless waterways of the market. Stalls with almost everything you can think of – clothes, reed hats,
souvenirs, carpets and woven bed covers – coat the canal banks. As if the abundance of goods on the
waterside was not enough, also the channels are busy with floating stalls full of fruits, flowers and
drinks. And rice noodles flooded with aromatic broth.