The Historian · Chai · Bangkok
Baan Batr (Monk's Bowl Village)
I walk through here on my way to Wat Suthat every time. The sound of hammering is the oldest sound left in Bangkok.
One of only three surviving monk's bowl-making communities in Thailand. The craft is unchanged from the Ayutthaya period. Eight sheets of metal, eight hammers, one bowl.
— Chai, The Historian
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