Chatuchak Weekend Market

Suan Lum Night Bazaar

This bazaar is open from 3pm until midnight and some shops even later. It deals in clothing, jewelry, paintings, sculptures, handicraft products and CDs. Restaurants and beer gardens are there in plenty, with both open-air and inside seating. Good food and live entertainment draws in the crowd. Night Bazaar has a 6,000-seat entertainment hall called Bangkok Hall. It is used to stage concerts. Also present in the bazaar is Joe Louis Puppet Theatre, a traditional Thai puppet troupe, which gives performances based on Ramakien, the national epic of Thailand.

P Con Development leased the property from the Crown Property Bureau until March 31, 2006. Now, the lease has run out and the tenants were given time until April 2006 to vacate the premises. However, business is as usual in the bazaar even today. Plans are afoot to develop the property and build office, residential and entertainment complexes. The bazaar is located opposite Lumpini Park near MRT Lumpini station.

Pak Klong Talad

Pak Klong Talad is a very large and busy wholesale market for fresh flowers and vegetables. Many flower vendors throughout the city buy their stock here at night and sell it the following morning. It's best to go between 02:OOam and 04:OOam when boats on the Chao Phraya River and trucks from nearby provinces arrive with large quantities of flowers, vegetables, spices, and fruits. These all are piled high inside the market and along nearby streets, making the market very photogenic, though the smell given off by some off the produce can be quite overpowering. The market takes place where Klong Lord meets the Chao Phraya river, next to the Memorial Bridge on the northeastern edge of Chinatown. To get here, either walk south on Maharat Road from Wat Pho, take a river taxi to Tha Saphan Phut or ask a taxi to go to bpahk klong dta-laht (Pak Klong Market) or sa-pahn put (Memorial Bridge). The wholesale market is mainly near the river, the cheap normal market in small streets nearby.

Ordinary buses 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 21, 37, 42 and 82 all pass nearby. The market finishes by about 10:00am. Also nearby is the Memorial Bridge Night Market, a large all-purpose market night market with very cheap prices if you bargain.

Ratchadaphisek Road

This is quite a large commercial district, with many shops including branches of Robinsons Department Store, Tokyu, Jusco, Yaohan and others. Also in the area is the showroom of the Department of Export Promotion, an organization serving businesses interested in exporting Thai products.

Thieves Market

Nakhon Kasem, known in English as the Thieves Market, is a second hand market for Thai and Chinese antiques (though most, if not all, are fake) and pawn shop goods, porcelain, brass, furniture, musical instruments and similar items. It's really past it's best now, and is not a particularly inspiring place to shop as many of the better deals have left for more profitable locations. The name comes from the fact that once upon a time this was where stolen goods would turn up, but it's you're unlikely to find anything illegitimate today. Bargain hard. Selling similar types of goods is the Lang Krasuang Market, on Atsadang Road in Banglamphu.

Pahurat Market

Pahurat Market is in 'Little India' next to Chinatown. It's basically a wholesale market for textiles, and there's a wide selection of all sorts of fabrics, sarongs, and clothes available from all over Asia. The Old Siam Plaza is north of Pahurat and has many gun shops in the area, as well as a handicrafts market.

Sampeng Lane

Narrow Sampeng Lane (also known as Soi Vanit) in Chinatown is an interesting place to wander down, and has a colorful history involving mur ders, drug sales, gang wars and prostitution. Nowadays, it's operates less dangerously as a wholesale market, though you're not likely to find much that you want to buy. Items offered for sale include fabrics, textiles, preserved food, household and kitchen accessories, spices, cheap toys, etc. It's obviously a good place for any sort of Chinese specialty and prices are cheap, though bargaining skills are essential. It's worth going just for the experience -it's amazingly busy and every possible space is used with street vendors setting up shop anywhere they can. Since it is always crowded, pickpockets abound- so don't take too much money with you, just in case.

Klong Thom Market

Always congested but ever popular, Klong Thom's charm is unrefined, yet undeniably worthwhile. Second-hand goods are always valued at this old-fashioned flea market, regardless of their condition. Hardware and electrical appliances are Klong Thom's major commodities. It seems everything can be put on sale here. No need to spend your money, a troll around Klong Thom could be an experience in itself.

Bo-Bae Market

Bo-Bae Market, located where Klong San Sab meets Krung Kasem Road. It is a well known to be the center of wholesale clothes and textiles market with cheap prices. For over 30 years, now Bo-Bae Market has revolutionized the garment wholesale business. There are well over 700 shops all under one roof making Bo-Bae Market the biggest garment wholesale center in Thailand. The complex is owned and managed by Prommaharaj Land Development Co., Ltd.

Bangrak Market

Bangrak Market, on Charoen Krung Road near the Shangri-La Hotel. It's not solely a flower market though - meat, seafood, fruit and clothes are all also on sale here. Prices are reasonable for Bangkok, and very cheap for this rather exclusive neighborhood. Also on Charoen Krung Road is the stamp market, which takes place next to the GPO (General Post Office) on Sundays only.

Banglamphu Market

Banglamphu Market extends over Phra Sumen Road, Chakrapong Road and others nearby. Despite it's proximity to touristy Khao San Road, this is still mainly a market frequented by locals to buy clothes, household accessories etc...