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Bangkok Market
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Bangkok market,
Bangkok markets,
Bangkok night,
Bangkok night
market, Bangkok
shopping, Chatuchak
market, floating
markets Thailand,
patpong market,
patpong night
market, Pratunam.
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Bangkok and Thailand is a
paradise for the bargain hunter. Especially the street
markets of Bangkok offer almost everything a consumer can
think about it.
A journey through the bargain
labyrinths via tough heckling can start at the Patpong
night market just in front of the go-go bars with the nice
Thai ladies who wait for you.
Thai street food also gives a
opportunity to learn about Thai Kitchen on location in front
of you. But you better be aware of 2 two subjects related to
any Bangkok street food and market. The first is, all the
items you see are laying there probably already for hour
maybe even days and they are usually not covered.
Bangkok
and practically all Thailand has a terrible air pollution
problem due to traffic and other factors, actually almost
nobody cares about the air pollution issue. That means all
this dirt in the air will settle partly on the street food
or the food offered in the markets.
If you buy something
from the market in Bangkok and elsewhere you can at least take it home and clean it
before eating, this hardly works with a fried chicken etc.
you find at the street market or with the soup pot without a
cover.
The second issue with Bangkok
markets and street food is the
hygienic, almost all the people don’t care very much
about cleanliness and you will find this out when the
stomach hurts. Especially dangerous are non heated food
items like vegetable, salad and in particular mixtures like
the famous papaya pok pok.
The next problem at the Bangkok
street markets is, they always use water from the tab
and everyone who know Thailand and other countries will
tell, never
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let tab water enter your body,
even if its boiled. Every reasonable restaurant in Bangkok and Thailand uses
water from the bottle, also this water sometimes is not
good, in particular when it comes from the big plastic
containers.
So, if you are hungry in
Bangkok and elsewhere in
Thailand go to a real
restaurant, they are
usually also very cheap and
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Even very
narrow side streets and boardwalks offer
a kaleidoscope of exotic markets with
sometimes strange colors, smells and tastes.
Very
interesting markets in Bangkok are in China
Town, where still are some of the most
important markets of Bangkok. When the city
was founded in about 1782 Chinese traders
started their business there.
Today, in the
small streets still many of the typical
Chinese houses can be seen where at the open
ground floor is the sales and storage area
and the upper floor serves as living room. The same can also be found at Phuket, Penang
and all the way down to Singapore. Only |
Bangkok Floating
Market
Bangkok Street Market |
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Thai
Market, cock roaches, crickets and
other bugs
Bangkok Fruit Market |
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in Myanmar
or Burma all this quarters are more
Indian style.
One
of the most famous markets in
Bangkok is the
Chatuchak weekend market.
Many
trader who offer their goods on
Bangkoks non food markets come to
the Chatuchak weekend market
to source their goods for sale. At
right you can see some
cheap hip hop or
bling bling
jewelry. They also sell
other iced out gear and hip hop
earrings
Dozens of bright booths try to sell
upholstery, fashion bags,
buckles, bling bling, pins and all
kinds of "Hello Kitty "imitation.
Others sell school supplies and
children's shoes.
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Flip-flops are offered,
Chinese clothing,
lampshades, and in between,
in a open road, exotic
fruits and vegetables. A
little further then
appliances galore: washing
machines, radios, computer
parts, tools which will
brake after the first use,
they come from China, and of
course, DVDs and CDs.
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Although much smaller, but
similar busy is Pahurat the little India of
Bangkok north of Chinatown.
Sikhs and Hindus plus the smell of
cinnamon, pepper, cardamom and
perfume plus he rhythms of Indian
music in Bollywood-style.
Bangkok markets are not only a hub
for tourists, but also for goods
from all over Asia, from Cambodia,
Laos and Vietnam to Afghanistan and
Tibet. The entire range to get
at Chatuchak, Bangkok's biggest
market. Every weekend a quarter of a
million people in the sauna
temperatures have a look on about
9,000 stalls and shops. There are
other myriad of air-conditioned
shopping malls of the city
frequented by younger Thais as hip
and trendy hangouts.
At
Bangkok Chatuchak market you get
almost everything, tanks full of
Siamese fighting fish, antiques,
orchids, chickens in cages, dogs |
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and snakes.
Musical instruments, religious
amulets, sarongs, trendy fashion
from young designer, opium pipes,
all the obscure vintages magazines
and not to forget more and more fake
branded goods at knock-down prices.
Few, however, edifying protected
wild animals. |
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