Where the city buys things, and when
Yaowarat after dark, Chatuchak on a weekend, and a canal market that outlived its trade.
In this section
3 guides. Everything on the site is in the archive.
- Chinatown eats at night because it worked all dayYaowarat's street food economy runs after dark, on a street laid out in the nineteenth century for a trading community that is still there.
- A weekend market big enough to need a street planChatuchak runs to thousands of stalls arranged in numbered sections, which is the only reason anybody finds anything twice.
- The floating market outlived the trade that made itDamnoen Saduak was a working canal market before it became a photographed one, and the boats still carry the same goods.