Pattaya food vendors profit as young men face military draft

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Daranee Jitpukpan did a roaring business selling pork meatballs to the Pattaya men called to military-conscription lottery.

They may or may not have been drafted, but everyone has to eat.

That’s what the food vendors who flocked to Pattaya School No. 2 April 7-10 knew as they readied their meals for the young Pattaya men called to military-conscription lottery.

Potential conscripts and their families arrived early and were happy to find plenty of breakfast options.

Meatball dealer Daranee Jitpukpan said the many Covid-19 restrictions and social distancing in place actually made food sales more organized than before the pandemic.


Pattaya School No. 2 became a clothing and food market for the 4-day period the military used the campus for their conscription selection process.