Trang Vendor Rushed Off Feet With Tenth Month Festival Sweet Orders
A Trang sweet vendor is working around the clock to fulfill surging orders for traditional festival sweets ahead of September's Ancestor Veneration Day celebrations in southern Thailand.
As the Tenth Month Festival approaches, a home-baked sweet vendor in Pak Cham subdistrict, Huai Yot district, Trang province is scrambling to produce traditional sweets—rakrop, pong, besam, and ba—after receiving an overwhelming volume of customer orders.
On September 24, 2569, reporter observed Vilaipon Iad Khlong Chi at her home-front stall in Pak Cham working urgently to prepare rakrop and pong sweets for delivery ahead of the Tenth Month Festival.
September 27 marks Ancestor Veneration Day in southern Thai belief, when people travel to temples bearing savoury and sweet food offerings and traditional sweets—including pong, ra, besam, roo, and ba sweets—to present to the monks.
Vilaipon said she has been making and selling sweets for years, producing pong and rakrop as her staples to earn income and support her family. Since her family's primary livelihood is a durian orchard, which generates income only once yearly, she turned to selling sweets both retail and by custom order to cover daily household expenses. As the festival approaches, customer orders have surged dramatically, forcing her to work nearly around the clock, yet she continues accepting orders because this income is vital for family expenses.
Pricing: fried pong sweets are 10 baht per bag (9 baht wholesale if unfried); rakrop is 20 baht per bag (17 baht wholesale); besam is 20 baht per bag or 150 baht for 100 pieces; and ba sweets are 20 baht per bag or 140 baht for 100 pieces.
Vilaipon added that despite being a small roadside stall, she can generate a daily profit of roughly 700–800 baht after expenses—income that meaningfully lightens the family burden, especially when household costs rise. Anyone interested in ordering can contact her at 061-069-0447.
