Tah Tien

With her mischievousness, she made the giant temple guard both met, feuding and fighting fiercely at the midstream of Chao Phraya river, where it is now referred to as "Tah Tien".

The film's plot is a combination of two famed tales from traditional Thai folklore, Uttai Tawee and an urban legend on the origin of the name of Tah Tien (now a pier, market and tourist attraction in Phra Nakhon District near Grand Palace and Wat Pho[1]).

The two giants featured in the film and the urban legend are the temple guards of two Thai Buddhist monasteries, or wats on opposite banks of the Chao Phraya River.

A mediator eventually stepped in (often cited to be either an angel, a monk, a yogi, the Buddha, or a yak from the royal Wat Phra Kaeo temple) and ordered them to stand down, but the damage had been done.

Owing to the flattened landscape as a result of the fight, the area was rechristened "Tah Tien" (or spelt "Tha Tian"), translating roughly as 'Flat Port.