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the moat and tie up at a spot where a bridge had been built. This structure became known
as Saphan Mon, or Mon Bridge, and by the time of Rama
III
, in the 1820s, it was a hand-
some teak structure. The main business of the Mon at this settlement was pottery, and in
particular the conical-lidded traditional cooking pots called
moh
, which they made here
and also imported from Koh Kred. The area became known as Ban Moh.
A visit to this area today won't reveal many cooking pots, but what can be found is
an area of crumbling and stately shop-houses, amongst the finest on Rattanakosin Island,
together with an oddly rural atmosphere, for traffic bypasses this sliver of land and the
canal is quiet and leafy. There is a river pier, serving the busy market of Pak Klong Talat,
and a sluice gate at the mouth of the canal protects the water level when the Chao Phraya
