Mom and Pop shop's around Thailand epitomise the Thai entrepreneurial desire. These small shops are found everywhere from the centre of Bangkok to the smallest of Thai villages. They are often at the centre of Thai village life and besides providing goods and services also make excellent places to catch up on gossip.
The shops are often just the front portion of a family home and offer all manner of goods including such things as sweets, foodstuffs, bottled water and even small bottles of gasoline for the local populations thirsty motorbikes.
Mom and Pop shop owners in small villages like where I live in Thailand barely make a living which is not helped by the amount of such shops that you will find, all selling similar things. On Nong Hin main street there are eight other shops like the one in the photograph and the village population is about 500 people.Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you enjoyed this photograph from Thailand. If you did why not get it delivered free by my RSS feed.
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The Bamboo is also a food source for both humans and animals while it also plays a significant role in Chinese culture and medicines. It can even be woven into fabric and is also used to make musical instruments.
The Bamboo clump is known for its longevity(can be up to 120 years) which only ends during a mass flowering of the plants(of certain species), this in itself is a significant event and on the Indian sub-continent has been linked to times of famine since the indigenous people and animals rely on the plant so much. Deprived of a food source many rodent populations have been known to invade villages in India seeking an alternative food source.
Many old Buddhist manuscripts were actually written on Bamboo and you can still see examples at temples in Thailand. The clump of Bamboo in today's photograph is on the main road through my village here in Thailand.
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