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29-863: A busy night market aimed at tourists is also located in Patpong. Patpong consists of two parallel side streets running between Silom and Surawong Roads and one side street running from the opposite side of Surawong. Patpong is within walking distance from the BTS Skytrain Silom Line 's Sala Daeng Station, and MRT Blue Line 's Si Lom Station. Patpong 1 is the main street with many bars of various kinds. Patpong 2 also has many similar bars. Next to these lies Soi Jaruwan, sometimes referred to as Patpong 3 but best known as Silom Soi 4. It has long catered to gay men, whilst nearby Soi Thaniya has expensive bars with Thai hostesses that cater almost exclusively to Japanese men. Patpong gets its name from

58-528: A 16-month digital intermediate process, including a 96 kHz/24-bit audio remaster by Stearns for the DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack , the result was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray in October 2008. At the time, project supervisor Andrew Oran described the reissue of Baraka as "arguably the highest-quality DVD that's ever been made". Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert described

87-578: A busy subway terminal, the aircraft boneyard of Davis–Monthan Air Force Base , tribal celebrations of the Maasai in Kenya , and chanting monks in the Dip Tse Chok Ling monastery. The film features a number of long tracking shots through various settings, including Auschwitz and Tuol Sleng , over photos of the people involved, past skulls stacked in a room, to a spread of bones. It suggests

116-613: A designated "entertainment zone" in 2004, along with Royal City Avenue (RCA) and portions of Ratchadapisek Road , where the largest commercial sex venues are found. This designation allows its bars to stay open until 02:00, instead of the 24:00 or 01:00 legal closing times enforced in other areas. In October 2019 the Patpong Museum opened in Patpong Soi 2, housing a collection of art , antiques and displays covering 70 years of Patpong's history. The privately owned museum

145-531: A few days of the week, as the traders rotate around different neighbourhoods on different days of the week. Haggling over prices is a common practice at such markets. Today, several kecamatan (district) in Jakarta and also other provinces in Indonesia, hold weekly pasar malam , usually held every Saturday night in nearby alun-alun square, open fields or marketplaces. In Indonesia, pasar malam has become

174-581: A universal cultural perspective: a shot of an elaborate tattoo on a bathing Japanese yakuza precedes a view of tribal paint. Following previous DVD releases, in 2007 the original 65 mm negative was rescanned at 8K resolution with equipment designed specifically for Baraka at FotoKem Laboratories . The automated 8K film scanner , operating continuously, took more than three weeks to finish scanning more than 150,000 frames (taking approximately twelve to thirteen seconds to scan each frame), producing over thirty terabytes of image data in total. After

203-616: A weekly recreational place for local families. Other than selling variety of goods and foods, some pasar malam also offer kiddy rides and carnival games, such as mini carousel or mini train ride. Night markets are popular in Auckland , the biggest city in New Zealand, Wellington , the capital city of New Zealand, and in small regional cities and towns like Hamilton , Flaxmere and Waitara . The first night market in Auckland

232-451: Is Ron Fricke 's follow-up to Godfrey Reggio 's similar non-verbal documentary film Koyaanisqatsi . Fricke was cinematographer and collaborator on Reggio's film, and for Baraka he struck out on his own to polish and expand the photographic techniques used on Koyaanisqatsi . Shot in 70 mm , it includes a mixture of photographic styles including slow motion and time-lapse . Two camera systems were used to achieve this. A Todd-AO system

261-532: Is located on the 2nd floor of building 5 opposite Foodland supermarket and below Black Pagoda, and is open from 10   am to 10   pm. Many Western films have featured Patpong, including The Deer Hunter (1978). The final part of the musical Miss Saigon (1989) is set in the Patpong bar scene. In Swimming to Cambodia , Spalding Gray discussed the red light district of Patpong and its prostitutes, saying there wasn't much else to see in Bangkok save

290-605: The COVID-19 pandemic , the night markets in Auckland introduced the use of an app for contactless orders and payments so that social distancing can be managed. Night markets are also hosted in various areas of North America, particularly with large Overseas Chinese communities in the Pacific Northwest and the West Coast, with Taiwanese-American student organizations hosting annual night market events to emulate

319-669: The Gold Buddha during the day and the whorehouses at night. The song Welcome to Thailand from the 1987 studio album of the same name by the Thai rock band Carabao contains the lyrics: "Tom, Tom, where you go last night?... I love Meuang Thai. I like Patpong " . The song complains that Farang tourists (Westerners) are often attracted to the sleazy side of Thailand (the sex tourism of Patpong and Pattaya). The movie Baraka features several shots of strippers in Patpong. The 1994 book Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of

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348-772: The Philippines . Nevertheless, night markets are more prominent within ethnic Chinese economic and cultural activities. Some well-known night markets exist in Taipei , Kaohsiung , Shanghai , Beijing , Guangzhou , Hong Kong , Singapore , and Bangkok , but they also exist in Chinatowns worldwide. Taiwan has over 700 night markets. The larger and more formal of these markets might take place in purpose-built marketplaces while smaller or more informal ones tend to occupy streets or roads that are normal thoroughfares by day. Night markets are commonly known as Pasar Malam by

377-554: The Richmond Night Market features more than 400 booths and attracts in excess of 30,000 people per night (total attendance in 2005 was almost two million). Night It Up! (formerly Toronto Night Market and Asian Night Market), has been and continues to be Power Unit Youth Organization's flagship project, attracting hundreds of thousands to a three-day celebration of Asian food and culture in Markham, Ontario (attendance

406-678: The Bangkok Sex World by Cleo Odzer describes the experiences of an anthropologist doing field research in Thailand. Patpong: Bangkok's Twilight Zone (2001, by Nick Nostitz ) is a photographic depiction of aspects of the Patpong night life. The 2008 book Ladyboys: The Secret World of Thailand's Third Gender paints a portrait of Thailand's kathoeys . Patpong opera is a collection of songs written by Kevin Wood, manager of Radio City, to tunes of modern rock songs. Together they tell

435-585: The Blu-ray release as "the finest video disc I have ever viewed or ever imagined." A sequel to Baraka , Samsara , also shot in 70 mm and made by the same filmmakers, premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and was released internationally in August 2012. Baraka holds a score of 81% on Rotten Tomatoes out of twenty-six reviews. Roger Ebert included the film in his "Great Movies" list, writing: "If man sends another Voyager to

464-558: The area, and Patpong became an R&R (rest and recuperation) stop for US military officers serving in the Vietnam War , although the main R&;R area for GIs was along New Petchburi Road, nicknamed "The Golden Mile". In its prime during the 1970s and 1980s, Patpong was the premier nightlife area in Bangkok for foreigners, and was famous for its sexually explicit shows. In the mid-1980s the sois hosted an annual Patpong Mardi Gras, which

493-627: The city. The Queens Night Market is held in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York City on Saturdays from April to October. It hosts as many as 100 vendors. Baraka (film) Baraka is a 1992 American non-narrative documentary film directed by Ron Fricke . The film is often compared to Koyaanisqatsi , the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio for which Fricke served as cinematographer. It

522-403: The distant stars and it can carry only one film on board, that film might be Baraka ." The score is by Michael Stearns and features music by, among others, Dead Can Dance , L. Subramaniam , Ciro Hurtado , Inkuyo , Brother , Anugama & Sebastiano and David Hykes . In 2019, German composer Mathias Rehfeldt released the concept album Baraka, inspired by the film. The project

551-419: The family that owns much of the area's property. Luang Patpongpanich (or Patpongpanit), an immigrant from Hainan Island , China , purchased the area in 1946. At that time it was an undeveloped plot of land on the outskirts of the city. A small klong (canal) and a teakwood house were the only features. The family built a road – now called Patpong 1 – and several shop buildings, which were rented out. Patpong 2

580-547: The jovial atmosphere and celebrate the unique culture of night markets. In San Francisco's Chinatown , a large night market with almost 100 booths takes place every autumn Saturday in Portsmouth Square. In Chinatown in Vancouver , British Columbia, large night markets take place every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from May to September, as well as in an industrial area near suburban Richmond, BC 's Golden Village ;

609-659: The locals, which literally means night market , "pasar" being related to "bazaar" in Persian or also the meaning "market" in Malay/Indonesian, and "malam" meaning "night". A pasar malam is a street market in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore that opens in the evening, usually in residential neighbourhoods. It brings together a collection of stalls that usually sell goods such as fruit, vegetables, snacks, toys, clothes, movie discs and ornaments at cheap or at least reasonable prices. A pasar malam often takes place only one to

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638-711: The story of the people in Patpong. Patpong serves as part of the setting in Tom Robbins' book Villa Incognito . Night market Night markets or night bazaars ( Chinese : 夜市 ) are street markets which operate at night and are generally dedicated to more leisurely strolling, shopping, and eating than more businesslike day markets. The culture of night markets originates from China and have spread globally with overseas Chinese populations. They are typically open-air markets popular in East Asia , Southeast Asia , and Chinatowns in several other regions of

667-1276: The world. The concept of the night market traces its roots back to the medieval Chinese Tang dynasty . The Tang government put strict sanctions on night markets and their operations in A.D. 836. Towards the end of the Tang dynasty, economic expansion led to less state regulation and restrictions being lifted on night markets. During the Song dynasty (960–1279), night markets played a central role in Chinese nightlife. These markets were found in corners of large cities. Some stayed open for twenty-four hours. Song period night markets are also known to have included restaurants and brothels due to being frequently located near business districts and red light districts. Night markets are popular in Chinese culture ; they are especially common in East and Southeast Asia , found in China , Hong Kong , Macau , Taiwan , as well as Overseas Chinese communities across Thailand , Cambodia , Vietnam , Singapore , Malaysia , Indonesia to

696-516: Was a weekend street fair that raised money for Thai charities. In the early-1990s, however, the Patpongpanich family turned the sidewalks of Patpong 1 Road into a night market, renting out spaces to street vendors. The consequence was that Patpong lost much of its vibrancy as a nightlife strip, becoming crowded with tourist shoppers who ignored the nightlife. Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy drew away many of Patpong's thrill seekers. Patpong became

725-414: Was added later, and both roads are private property and not city streets. Patpong 3 and Soi Thaniya are not owned by the Patpongpanich family. The old teak house was demolished long ago and the klong was filled in to make room for more shops. Originally Patpong was an ordinary business area, but the arrival of bars eventually drove out most of the other businesses. By 1968, a handful of nightclubs existed in

754-517: Was opened in 2010 in Pakuranga . By 2019, night markets can be found in Auckland seven nights a week. Typically, night markets in Auckland are being held in shopping mall carparks . They offer food from Asia and Europe, as well as Māori and Pacific cuisines. There are also specialist pop-up night markets that serve one kind of food (such as noodles). In 2019, food delivery services from Auckland night markets were also introduced. In 2020, during

783-774: Was over 130,000 in 2017). The 626 Night Market , held at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California , a suburb of Los Angeles , is stated to be the largest Asian night market in the United States. The Food Trust in Philadelphia operates a unique variant of a night market, with it being a temporary event only active for one night before moving somewhere else in the city; the market has thus far been held in East Passyunk , South Street , Northern Liberties , Mount Airy , Old City , Chinatown , and other places across

812-535: Was photographed in the 70 mm Todd-AO format, and is the first film ever to be restored and scanned at 8K resolution . Baraka is a documentary film with no narrative or voice-over . It explores themes via a compilation of natural events, life, human activities and technological phenomena shot in 24 countries on six continents over a 14-month period. The film is named after the Islamic concept of baraka , meaning blessing, essence or breath. The film

841-800: Was used to shoot conventional frame rates, but to execute the film's time-lapse sequences Fricke had a special camera built that combined time-lapse photography with perfectly controlled movements. Locations featured include the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem , the Ryōan temple in Kyoto , Lake Natron in Tanzania , burning oil fields in Kuwait , the smouldering precipice of an active volcano ,

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