Quite a few visitors to Thailand have told us here at WoWasis  that they like the quality and price of streetside shoe repair and sewing so much that they actually bring their shoes and clothes from home to be repaired here. It’s cheaper than repair in their own countries, or buying new. 

In all Thai cities and towns, one-person streetside repair stalls do it all, do it well, and do it cheaply. Sewing machines are of the foot pedal variety. Electricity is not a necessity, although it can always be cadged from the power line above. And these stalls are all over, rarely is a streetside repair stall more than a block or two away.