Chatuchak Weekend Market

This is our 3rd visit to Chatuchak (or Jatujak) weekend market in Bangkok, it is the largest market in Thailand. Simply called J.J. by Bangkokians, it covers over 35 acres (1.13 km²) and contains upwards of 5,000 stalls but most stalls only open on Saturdays and Sundays. You can find wide variety of products including household items, clothing, Thai handicrafts, religious artifacts, collectibles, foods, plants and live animals in here.

The market is adjacent to the Kamphaengphet station of the MRT Bangkok Blue Line, or about a 5-minute walk from the Mo Chit station of the BTS Skytrain Sukhumvit Line and another MRT station of Suan Chatuchak (Chatuchak Park). But we always use the taxi to go and back home, it is faster (since the taxi use the highway) and cost the same for the 3 of us, just being practical .

By now we know to carry essentials only for market visit (cash, wet ones, hat and fan) and dress as comfy as possible, no matter what time of the day we went the heat at some point will be unbearable ! The good thing, plenty options to hydrate your body (freshly squeezed juice, popsicle, cold sliced fruits, cold drink stalls), naturally we choose the one that is busy with customers (this also works for choosing place to eat).

After walking for half an hour we saw tiny stall selling only black grass jelly (Cincau Hitam in Indonesian) known in Thai as chao kuai and is commonly served relatively plain together with ice and natural brown sugar. In some place they also being served with Jackfruitt or mixed together with other Thai desserts. I preferred them plain with no sugar but Little Miss will gradually adjust the taste to her liking, as you can see in the photo below ....

 

Honestly, I haven't seen the market completely, out of 3 visits so far I think I've seen 1/3 of it only. In the beginning our Little Miss dislike open market / bazaar, she preferred supermarket with blasting AC anytime but I've been taking her to so many open market here in Bangkok I supposed she start getting used to the tropical heat, also we have quite numbers of fan collected by her solely for market visit purpose *grin*

One of our favorite thing to do is eating in the market, we're a bit careful choosing where to eat since Little Miss has nuts allergy but so far so good, we've been lucky to find places that is both delicious and save for the whole family. This time around we ate at Dinphow Cuisine (Sector 4, Soi 1) they served delicious Vietnamese food at very reasonable price, we'll definitely going back next time !!!

My fave : Spicy Pork Satay @ Dinphow Cuisine





Little Miss loves their Shrimp Spring Rolls



One happy girl at lunch time

From this trip I got myself a pair of ballerina pumps and Lemon Grass diffuser for our home, Little Miss got several outfits, purse & other knick knacks and Hubby just happily tag along playing tourist. 

The weekenders in JJ

Stay tune for more market visit and beautiful images of Bangkok.