Coffee-able books and advertisements like to present an Amazing Thailand of dancers and temples, elephants markets, with lots and lots of fruit carving. While these marvels of official Thainess do exist, you often have to look for them. Though sometimes the elephants go looking for you, while they wander city streets for a living. Most of the time, what residents and visitors experience is the unsung popular culture. Everyday things, being the public's choice, are on less Thai and do frequently amaze.