Where to Buy in Bangkok
Retail therapy sits at the centre of everyday life in Bangkok, and is in fact one of the best ways to see 21st century Thai culture up close. Monks browse for bargains alongside impecabbly-styled teenagers. Malls have usurped temples as the masses refuge of choice. Markets are teeming hotbeds of local creativity and international copycats. Indeed, Bangkok offers a shopping experience quite unlike any other. What follows is the most detailed online overview of the places where this endless theatre of buying and selling takes place: Bangkok's shopping facilities. |
Bangkok's markets vary from the hot and sticky mazes of Pratunam, Pahurat and Chatuchak Weekend Market, to the more sophisticated, cooler and more orderly night market known as Suan Lum Night Bazaar. The variety of goods on offer is collosal, ranging from exotic fruit and vegetables to souvenirs, furniture and clothing. Remember bargaining is vital! (READ MORE)
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The department store is a modern-age shopping phenomenon that's all about convenience - and dedicated entirely towards helping you get a shopping overdose. Unlike malls, you don't even have to leave one store to go to another; it's an open-plan shopping environment with all kinds of merchandise offered in demarcated zones and on various floors. (READ MORE)
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