A restaurant in central Thailand was bursting with a stream of customers coming for a unique dining experience: enjoying a meal while sitting in floodwaters, surrounded by live fish they bring into the establishment.
Since an adjacent river breached its banks 11 days ago, the flooded riverside restaurant has become an internet sensation, drawing customers keen to pose in the lapping brown water or toss fish food to photograph the feeding frenzy.
Families enjoyed lunch at Pa Jit restaurant in Nakhon Pathom province, about 30km (18.6 miles) from Bangkok, with enthralled toddlers gawping at the river fish flapping around their thighs. Wait staff in waders gingerly carried bowls of fish soup or chicken noodles from table to table.
Pa Jit has been a riverside fixture for more than 30 years, said owner Pornkamol Prangprempree. When the restaurant was flooded the first time around four years ago, her heart sank.
