As Bangkok has suffered from the effects of the pandemic, the city's under-appreciated yet vital pum puang food trucks have stepped in to provide uninterrupted deliveries to some of the Thai capital's most vulnerable residents.
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The voice reverberates out from the speakerphone announcing the mobile grocery truck has arrived, as it slowly snakes its way through the narrow Bangkok streets in the already sweltering mid-morning heat.
The converted pick-up has packages of different vegetables hanging around a metal enclosure. It is also known as the vegetable truck or the groceries truck .
Pum puang trucks started to appear around the early 1990s, a time of great change for Bangkok, as an informal service to bring groceries to urban areas that were hard to reach or which lacked basic amenities.
Dusadee and Naree depend on the construction workers as their main customers, and for the husband and wife, a site manager can act almost like the guarantor, eliminating the need for actual credit or collateral.
The truck arrives at construction sites, helping resolve the migrant workers’ lack of transportation and gruelling working hours which leaves them with little time to purchase necessities
This article was written by WANPEN PAJAI
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