The 5-metre-tall Kru Kai Kaew statue – a bald, winged man with fangs and talons – installed outside the four-star Bazaar Hotel, is regarded by some as a ‘god of wealth’ but by others as alien to Buddhism and sacrilegious.

The 5-metre-tall Kru Kai Kaew statue – a bald, winged man with fangs and talons – installed outside the four-star Bazaar Hotel, is regarded by some as a ‘god of wealth’ but by others as alien to Buddhism and sacrilegious.