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Flooded restaurant in Thailand brings delight with swimming fish among diners

JERRY HARMER Associated Press
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 Updated Feb 18, 2026
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Thailand Flooded Restaurant — Diners at the Pa Jit restaurant enjoy their meals as fish swim in the aisles due to flooding from the Tha Chin River in Thailand's Nakhon Pathom Province west of Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday.
Sakchai Lalit, Associated Press

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NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand — A restaurant in central Thailand was bursting with a stream of customers coming for a unique dining experience: Enjoying a meal while sitting in flood waters, surrounded by live fish swept into the establishment.

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Thailand Flooded Restaurant — Diners at the Pa Jit restaurant enjoy their meals as fish swim in the aisles due to flooding from the Tha Chin River in Thailand's Nakhon Pathom Province west of Bangkok, Thailand on Friday.
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Thailand Flooded Restaurant — Diners at the Pa Jit restaurant feed fish that come from floods from the Tha Chin River in Thailand's Nakhon Pathom province, west of Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday.
Sakchai Lalit, Associated Press

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Thailand Flooded Restaurant — Diners at the Pa Jit restaurant take video of fish that came from floods from the Tha Chin River in Thailand's Nakhon Pathom province, west of Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday.
Sakchai Lalit, Associated Press

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Thailand Flooded Restaurant — Diners at the Pa Jit restaurant watch fish swim in the aisles due to flooding from the Tha Chin River in Thailand's Nakhon Pathom Province west of Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday.
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