Bangkok Shopping Areas

Where to Shop in Bangkok

Bangkok Shopping

Where to start? It can be difficult to decide as choices are endless. Head for areas with a local reputation for good shopping and great bargains. Try Chinatown, around Sampeng Lane; Pahurat Textile Market; Pratunam Market for ready-to-wear clothing, or Suan Lum Night Bazaar for silverware, furniture, jewellery and gift items.

Hop on the Skytrain to Sukhumvit Road for antiques and handicraft shops. Siam area is abound with high-end shopping malls where sophisticated and funky clothes are available. If you want to experience something a little more adventurous, make your way for the huge weekend market at Chatuchak on the outskirts of town.

Chatuchak Market

If you're in the Chatuchak area, you simply can't miss Chatuchak Weekend Market, boasting over 15,000 stalls specialising in everything you could imagine - from clothing, fresh and dry food, pets, plants and used books to furniture and even fighting roosters.  Read More...

Chidlom - Ploenchit Shopping

Head here for upmarket, trendy and expensive - Bangkok's answer to London's Knightsbridge. CentralWorld is the latest in a series of ever brand conscious areas where both international and designers rule supreme. Air-conditioned comfort, smooth surroundings and luxury goods from all over the world. Read More...

Chinatown Shopping

Busy, bustling and hot, shopping in Chinatown is very different from your typical mall outing. Tiny alleys come crammed with a huge assortment of goods, crowded with porters manoeuvering wooden carts around customers. The main road, Yaowarat, has lots of fascinating Chinese pharmacists with containers full of strange looking herbal remedies.  Read More...

Khao San Road Shopping

Khao San Road is bursting with youth-orientated things for you to spend your precious baht on. Market stalls come piled high with beach attire, fisherman pants, T-shirts, ethnic clothing and other items that will help you achieve the dishevelled, scruffy-chic look so common in these parts of town.  Read More...

Pratunam Shopping

Few other cities offer such a vast choice of goods, much enhanced by the polite sales techniques and good-natured haggling that accompanies most transactions. Read More...

Ratchaprasong Shopping

In the malls and the streets of the Ratchaprasong intersection you'll find an eclectic mix of places to shop, with several major shopping malls to choose from. Read More...

Siam Shopping

There's a saying that goes, "if you want to know what's in (in terms of fashion), go to Siam". Extremely popular among teenagers and young adults, Siam's long been a showcase of the trendiest and latest fashion in Bangkok with shopping malls like MBK, Siam Discovery, Siam Center, and Siam Paragon. Read More...

Silom Shopping

Be it during the day or well past midnight, Silom is bound to have something to satisfy all breeds of shoppers. Start with the shopping malls in the area, including Silom Complex, Central, and Robinson. Read More...

Sukhumvit Shopping

Sukhumvit Road is one of Bangkok's best known and eclectic shopping streets. Easily accessible thanks to the Skytrain, its air-conditioned malls, department stores, myriad shops and sidewalk vendors offer an overwhelming variety of goods that ranges from cheap imitation tat to the latest fashion trends. Read More...

Victory Monument Shopping

Shopping at Victory Monument is more about street fashion and cheap accessories that you might throw away after a few weeks than high-street designer labels. The area is frequented by working-class Thais and university students in search of something colourful and affordable. Read More...

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