The small market town of Sam Chuk, in Suphan Buri, is the kind of place with just 200 timber houses and four
main streets. But it was formerly a center of trade in the region, drawing sellers who crossed its surrounding
paddy fields and paddled up its khlongs. It became a magnet for fishermen who once caught shrimp in the fastflowing
Suphan Buri River that passes through the town.