AYUTTHAYA: THE POTENTIAL FOR BEING THE GASTRONOMIC DESTINATION
Gastronomic tourism, offering impressive food and drink experiences, could significantly create motivation for
travel. In this regard, Thailand, widely recognized as a major ‘food paradise’ destination, could be easily employed as a
prime example. Ayutthaya is indeed a complicated combination of numerous different races that have tightly knitted and
become a land of multi-cultures. In fact, its culinary together with its natural and historic sites as well as the friendly Thai
society, complicated combination of numerous different races, is inarguably a major factor of its successful tourism
industry.
With an aim of providing a unique example of how Thai, Chinese and Muslim culinary are merged and
contribute to the successful local food tourism. This article, therefore, features several the most popular and unique local
products in Ayutthaya Province, where Thai, Chinese and Muslim cultures, particularly their culinary, have successfully
mingled.