Vegetarian Festival

Month
October
Where
Yaowarat · Mahachai (yellow flags)

🗺️ Bangkok🗺️ Samut Sakhon (Mahachai)

Notes from 1980

  • Days 1–9 of the 9th Chinese month: keep precepts and eat vegetarian; jay shops fly yellow flags with a red 齋, people wear white. Confirmed by sources

  • In 1980 the festival was still mostly a Chinese-community affair; the wide popularity came later. Likely

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