Chatuchak market or also known as JJM is a "must-go" place for me. i can't describe why, i just love to be there. Even just for window shopping. it's only open on weekend (saturday and sunday) and known as the biggest market in Thailand.
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| JJM from above. (courtesy of wikimapia) |
You can use MRT/subway or taxi to JJM. By MRT, buy a token to Kamphaeng Phet and u can see the market when out of the subway.
By BTS / skytrain you might to change to MRT at Sukhumvit. if you're a bit confuse, don't worry, they have the route map at every station. You may refer to it when you confuse.. same goes to me. if you come with bunches of friends, taxi will be a better, cheaper & comfortable choice...
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| view when u out of subway. there u go.. let's shoppin' |
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| No Smoking area |
Something about this place that i really like is its a "No Smoking Area" even its a open place. And the rule applied strictly, i even saw a police ask a foreigner to stop smoking. So, its not like some place that even the police act against the rule.
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| Chatuchak Maps |
A very big place, consist of 1.13 kmsq and more than 5000 stalls. you can found just everything here, from food, souvenir, t-shirt, jeans, bag, shoes, kimono, tie, thai silk, porcelain, books, dogs etc. My Thai's friends did remind me that if you interested in anything, just buy it. Because its really hard for 1st timer to look for the previous stalls, unless when you are just a few stalls away. but if really need to survey something just take note the shop "address"
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| the shop address. memorize it if you can. |
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| main pedestrian road around chatuchak |
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| choose what u want |
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| interested? |
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| even tattoo available. |
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| flowers. You can find real one too |
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| ancient chinese porcelain (maybe) |
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| cheap t-shirt. |
And the best thing.. there's a lot of food..! fresh food such as vegetables, fruits, juice comes with plenty of choices.
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| ais krim kelapa |
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| lotus seed.. yummy.. |
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| fresh grilled prawn |
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| teh tarik |
yes, its teh tarik.. even they spell it a bit different. In thai we call "teh ais" as
Cha Yen. When i thought my "
cha yen" pronunciation was ok, they easily detect that i'm not
Kon Thai. suddenly he speaks malay then. nak Teh Ais ke? *aku rasa sangat malu. He mentioned that he worked in restaurant in Kampung Baru years ago, that's why he can speak malay fluently.
For a proper lunch, you can find a lot of stall sell just anything you can eat. For Muslims, there are a lots of halal food here too. but i only show one of them for now. maybe i'll show another Muslim stalls after my next visit to Bangkok.
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| Kah Jak. Own by muslims and the tea maker can speak malay. |
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| the menu |
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| The Food : Phad thai.. |
Others than food, JJM also offered you FOC entertainment.Give them 20 THB or more would be favorable. Our help might help them a lot. just look at them, at least they try to do something to gain what we going to give them. When there are effort, we should appreciate then.
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| groups of teenagers playing music instrument (sorry i don't know the music instrument name) |
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| innocent faces |
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| skills |
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| cute little girl dance with sword.... |
A lot of thing to spend on, and a lot of thing we could learn too. Look at some of them makes me feel how lucky am i.. regardless all the complain i made to myself i should be grateful instead.
Appreciate whatever "given" to us, as when the time comes, it will be taken away..
