A closer look

Health and safety inspectors would probably need a brown paper bag to breathe here. Navigating the Amphawa canals near Bangkok means buying your dinner from an elderly woman who is somehow managing a charcoal grill on a rocking canoe without setting the river on fire. It is an aquatic culinary circus where the pad thai is handed to you on a bamboo stick, and dropping your wallet in the water is just part of the ambient tax.