Thailand has enormous merchandises, both imported and exported, to be consumed. The growing of trades and markets has brought the country filled with many types of merchandises, from locally hand made goods to the manufacturing goods; from agricultural merchandises to man-made or artificial goods. The Thai merchandises also include services, Thai life styles and culture.
Thai life styles and culture is one of the attractions drawn a lot of visitors to Thailand to appreciate. The life styles and culture start since the touch of a foot on the land of Thailand. The first one is the “Thai Wai”. Thai Wai for greetings, for expressing “thank you”, for expressing apologizes. It is the culture naturally expresses among the Thai people throughout the country. It is now being widespread to the visitors to Thailand to pick up and delightfully perform. It is as well shown to other Asian countries to start performing similarly to the “Thai Wai”. Thai Wai is now becoming one of the International Thai trade mark.
Next are the cooking style and the food, “Thai cuisine”. The dish called “Tom Yam Koong”, literally refers to Thai spicy shrimp soup, and has become popular and known around the world. The simple cooking style and the taste have become the “must try” to visitors while visiting Thailand. This dish is so much popular worldwide that the name of the dish symbolizes Thailand. The crisis of Thailand’s economy in 1997-2010 is represented by the name “Tom Yam Koong Crisis”. This dish is now on the menu of all restaurants in Thailand and abroad. It is also one on the list of the Thai Cuisine School. A number of countries adapt this dish to be one of their favorable dishes from their kitchens.
“Muay Thai” or Thai boxing is now becoming the world Thai merchandise. “Muay Thai” is one of the Thai life style as much as the Thai culture. Thai boxing impresses its audiences through its opening beautiful “Wai Kroo” before start boxing. The “Wai Kroo” is for the Thais to pay respect to the teacher who taught them on that art. The music played, and the styles of the boxers while performing “Wai Kroo” are unique and distinct for Thai culture. It is also believed that this performance is a kind of warming up the muscles before start boxing. Traditional Thai boxing is amazing by itself. The movement while boxes is the art, though it tends to be quite fierce since all parts of the body; fists, feet , knees, elbows, arms, legs; are allowed to perfectly used with the opponent. However, the Thai boxing is also being International Thai trade mark nowadays. Several schools of Thai boxing have been set up for the Thais and for foreigners who are interested. The schools are operated within the country and abroad. International match of Thai boxing is widely organized; some on the TV broadcasting, some at the professional boxing stage and some are at foreign countries.
