Steps from the center of Nang Leong Market, a seventy-year-old sundries shop. Kitchenware, shoes and sandals, buckets and mops, hardware, stationery... If you can't find it here, it probably doesn't exist. 'Why would I go to Carrefour or Tesco when a place like this is so close to my home?' our host said to us. Why indeed. 'We have to support our community first,' he added. Khun Montri (above) inherited the shop from his grandmother. Though he welcomed the renovations to the market ('Better than before ... it was very dirty.') they haven't done anything to improve his own business, which he says has suffered terribly over the last ten years. Nevertheless, he's hanging in: ... read more