A creative space and night market near Bangkok [toc] Chang Chui is an unusual and creative weekend and night market located in Thonburi and mostly promoting local designers. The market is far outside Bangkok and mostly consists of a mix of restaurants, bars, local designer shops and local exhibits. Of course, the main attraction is the immense plane now used as a fancy restaurant called Na-Oh, serving three or 5-course
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A Luxury Mall in Ploenchit [toc] Central Embassy Bangkok is an immense and beautifully designed luxury shopping mall built in the Ploenchit neighbourhood, at the intersection of Ploenchit Road and Wireless Road (Witthayu Road). Central Embassy is also home to the 5-star Park Hyatt Bangkok Hotel and the last shopping mall on what is often called the 'Bangkok Shopping Mile'. The main attraction in recent years is the vast amount
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A trendy community village in Ploenchit [toc] Velaa Sindhorn Village is a trendy and luxurious community village on Langsuan Road in Bangkok. Velaa is part of the set of luxury hotels and condominiums recently built in this part of Bangkok, just next to the well known Lumpini Park. Ploenchit is becoming increasingly posh and what was rather the rundown part of this neighbourhood has become the most exclusive part of
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Asiatique the Riverfront [toc] Asiatique the Riverfront is a gigantic night market close to the centre of Bangkok. This shopping & entertainment paradise is divided into four distinct zones and the theme is all about the past of Bangkok as a trading harbour. In the 19th century and under the reign of King Rama V, 'Port of East Asiatic' was the first pier of Thailand where people could trade with
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Central World Shopping Mall Bangkok [toc] Central World is now the third-largest mall in Bangkok after Siam Paragon and the new Icon Siam. It is truly a shopper’s and dining paradise with a strategic location, probably with a broader price range than the two other shopping malls in Bangkok. Central World aims at the mid and upper range of local and international clientele. With an immense esplanade in front of
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A shopping mall on Bangkok riverside [toc] ICONSIAM is the latest, largest, and most luxurious shopping mall in Bangkok. How many times did you read this sentence in Bangkok? When you thought there was enough mall and the latest would be the last for at least another decade, a bigger one would open. At least, ICONSIAM is not on the ‘shopping miles’ which stretched from Siam to Sukhumvit but filled
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What to Do at Siam Paragon? [toc] Siam Paragon is the mother of all malls in Bangkok and despite the growing competition, it manages to remain one of the best malls in Bangkok. The shopping mall concentration in the Siam area is so massive that the Rama 1 road stretching from MBK to The Emquartier is nicknamed the shopping mile, with an estimated 4,500 shops and 495,000 square meters of
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A budget mall in the heart of Bangkok [toc] MBK Shopping Center is an iconic budget shopping mall standing in the heart of Bangkok since 1985, best known for its bazaar product and tons of knock off goods. The location at the top of the 'shopping mile' in Siam district makes it very convenient to access and with more than 2,000 shops and stalls, the size is simply enormous. While
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Terminal 21 on Sukhumvit. [toc] Terminal 21 Bangkok on Sukhumvit is like no other shopping mall in the city, a fun place to visit, even if you don't plan to buy anything. It is designed like the departure hall of a vast international airport, with escalators and boarding gates to take you to nine different destinations in no time: the Caribbean, Rome, Paris, Istanbul, Tokyo, London, San Francisco, New York
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Where to shop in Bangkok? [toc] The amount of shopping malls in Bangkok is staggering! Here we listed the most popular and centrally located, but there are a lot more on the outskirts of Bangkok. Most travellers visiting Bangkok wonder why are there so many of them, but you have to be living in Thailand long enough to understand that a mall is not just a shopping place; it's a
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Bangkok Night Market [toc] Rod Fai Market Bangkok is a young fun place to explore from the end of the day until late at night. Like most of these eclectic flea markets, you probably won’t come to buy anything but somehow you hope something will strike you. It’s quite a large market in Bangkok, but unlike the colossal Chatuchak can be covered in less than two hours. As it gets
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What to buy at Chatuchak Market? [toc] Chatuchak Market, one of Bangkok's landmarks, is on almost every tourist list of Must-Do in Bangkok. This is probably one of the largest markets in the worlds, a supposedly organized maze covering 27 acres, containing around 15,000 shops. It is simply humongous, monumental, gargantuan, but ultimately, it's fun. On your first visit, you probably will have no idea what you are about to
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The EmQuartier Bangkok [toc] EmQuartier is an enormous and trendy shopping mall in a strategic part of the busy Sukhumvit Road. EmQuartier is actually a massive extension of the existing Emporium shopping mall that was built in 1997, run by the same company responsible for the famous Siam Paragon Bangkok. Obviously, the management had 15 years to study the market in this part of Sukhumvit and knew there was enough
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Old Siam Plaza Old Siam Plaza is a hidden treasure of Thai culture in Bangkok. It is one of those places people just consider old and outdated but is about to become a living museum. The whole area surrounding Old Siam is also a window on the past with its old movie theatre and Art Deco buildings. Old Siam is divided into two main atriums and three floors. One area
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Papaya Vintage Shop Papaya Vintage Shop is one of the most amazing place I ever saw in Thailand and I thought I saw quite a bit! It's supposed to be a shop, but it is more of a vintage museum with extremely rare items scattered around in a humongous organized mess across four floors of narrow passages of crumbling shelves. It's a bit far outside Bangkok, but it's so worth
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