Chinatown Soi Nana Creative Walk

Arai Arai Cafe and Community occupies a mid-century shophouse near the Twenty-Second of July Roundabout. You can identify the building by its warm wood interior and hand-painted signs, which mark a shift from the typical architecture of…

Bangkok Kunsthalle occupies a complex of three interconnected buildings that once housed the Thai Wattana Panich printing house. This site, which dates back to nineteen fifty-two, stood abandoned for over two decades after a fire gutted…

Ba hao 八號 is a bar and hostel occupying a shophouse on Soi Nana in Bangkok’s Chinatown. The building is roughly sixty to seventy years old, and its name, which translates to "Number Eight," comes directly from its address. You can identify…

Teens of Thailand features a heavy, dark wooden door set into the narrow, shophouse-lined lane of Soi Nana in Chinatown. Beyond this entrance lies a small, dimly lit room that retains much of the building’s original structure, including…

Asia Today is a compact, two-story bar located at thirty-five Soi Nana in the Pom Prap Sattru Phai district of Bangkok. The space is easily identified by a neon sign that cheekily claims the establishment is better than its neighbor, Teens…

Wallflowers Café occupies a century-old shophouse in the Soi Nana area of Bangkok’s Chinatown, easily identified by the lush, indoor-jungle aesthetic of hanging plants and dried flower arrangements that spill over from the street-level…

TEP BAR sits within a hundred-year-old shophouse in a narrow alley of the historic Chinatown district. You can identify the entrance by its antique black door and the traditional Thai music drifting from inside. The establishment is built…