Bang Lamphu and Khao San
Situated close to the Grand Palace and Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Bang Lamphu has a lively market where clothing is a popular buy. This is the placeto pick up cheap imitations of everything from jeans to Italian shoes, and there are some good Thai silk stores, too. Khao San Road is a lively street for informal shopping with many bars, restaurants, guesthouses and hotels. It has become a very popular entertainment centre for young people, originally foreign but now Thai as well, but it also has many wholesale silver jewellery stores.
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Bo Be Market
This long-running street market is only a 15-minute drive east of Khaosan Road, and it’s also close to the Hua Lamphong Train Station. While the area is not heavily frequented by tourists, it gives you an authentic feeling for Thai life and offers a few glimpses into old Bangkok. The market is a favourite for Thai merchants who make it a point to get there early. Clothing and other necessities of life are sold wholesale by the dozen or more.
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Chatuchak Weekend Market
The weekend market is a Bangkok landmark. They say that if you can't find it at Chatuchak you can't find it anywhere. It really is a paradise for browsers and bargain-hunters with 15,000 stalls attracting 200,000 visitors every Saturday and Sunday. The sheer variety of merchandise is astounding, and there are plenty of food and beverage options too. The market is also a place where professional and amateur art-lovers meet with artists.
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Chinatown
Bangkok’s Chinatown, a maze of teeming streets by day, and a blaze of neon signs by night, runs along Yaowarat Road and Charoen Krung Road up to the Odeon Circle. Yaowarat Road is lined with many gold shops, and if you’re looking for a golden opportunity to pick up necklaces, rings and accessories made from this precious metal, Chinatown is your best bet in Bangkok.There are also many restaurants where you can find good seafood and traditional Chinese delicacies.
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Phahurat
Bordering Chinatown, the area around Phahurat Road is thought of as Thailand's Little India. The road was built during the reign of King Chulalongkorn over a century ago and most of the families who settled there were Sikhs in the textile trade. The Indian community in Thailand shops here for saris, wedding gowns and souvenirs. There are many interesting Indian restaurants in the alleyways between the main streets.
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Pratunam
The area is best known for inexpensive ready-made clothing, which is sold partly in a street market where bargaining is the order of the day. Major hotels include the Amari Watergate and the Indra Regent. A few hundred metres west along Phetchaburi Road from the Amari Watergate Hotel and across the street, is an enormous computer goods establishment called Pantip Plaza for the cyber-connoisseur, devoted to hardware, software and other electronic goods. It offers incredibly good value. This is a place to spend a whole day in, the true Aladdin’s cave for computer geeks.
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Sampheng Market
A very well known wholesale market, Sampeng offers vast variety of goods such as sandals, baskets, toys and all kinds of household items as well as herbs. An added attraction is watching the amazing feats of balance and manoeuvre performed by porters weaving in and out of traffic with enormous loads of goods packed in their handcarts.
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Silom-Surawong-Patpong
Silom Road is the main artery of Bangkok's commercial district running parallel to Surawong Road, with Patpong roads1 and 2 running crosswise between the two. In addition to housing dozens of specialist shops and boutiques and street stalls, the area boasts branches of well-known retailers and several shopping plazas. Stalls pack the streets every evening, especially for Patpong's famous night market.
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Silom-Mahesak-New Road
Silom leads into Charoen Krung, or New Road,which runs parallel to the Chao Phraya River. Notable shopping opportunities here are antiques and gem and jewellery stores. Mahesak Road is a gemtrading centre and Oriental Plaza and the River City shopping complex have many fascinating, high standard antique shops.
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Siam Square
Ultra-modern shopping centres such as Siam Paragon, Siam Center, Siam Discovery, and Mah Boon Krong or MBK are all located on the city’s “shopping strip” in Siam. The area is conveniently located in the heart of the city, clustered around the Siam BTS (or Skytrain) Station, and provides endless hours of potential shopping and entertainment, exhausted consumers can also take a cappuccino break at one of the trendy cafes in the area or take in a movie at one of the state-of-the-art cinemas. This multifaceted area is also renowned for its maze of stalls (overflowing with trendy clothes and shoes), which are highly popular with Thai teenagers and university students.
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