Have Perut Will Travel...: BANGKOK Day 2 │ Chatuchak Weekend Market!

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Sunday, 16 March 2025

BANGKOK Day 2 │ Chatuchak Weekend Market!

Night Market!

We picked you up again making our way down to the lobby of Tierra Residences hoping to catch a shuttle ride to the Gateway Ekkamai.

The shuttle departed promptly at 4:00pm and we arrived at Gateway Ekkamai five minutes later. We rode an escalator up to the first floor and made our way into the Ekkamai BTS station.

We caught a train headed to Mo Chit BTS station at a quarter past four, and fifteen stops and thirty minutes we had arrived. We disembarked then exited and stopped to get our bearings.

After a quick check with Google Maps we found the entrance to the night market.

"The Chatuchak Weekend Market, on Kamphaeng Phet 2 Road, Chatuchak, Bangkok, is the largest market in Thailand. Also known as JJ Market, it has more than 15,000 stalls and 11,505 vendors, divided into 27 sections."

Cat got a hat for THB199 (approximately USD6/EUR5/MYR26); two casual dresses for THB200 each (approximately USD6/EUR5/MYR26); finally Cat got a tote bag for Brendan for THB150 (approximately USD5/EUR4/MYR20).

After an hour of shopping we decided to have an early dinner although it was just 6:00pm since we skipped lunch, and after checking out several boisterous stalls we decided on the orange clad group. We ordered the:

Tom Yam Goong
Roasted Pork
Large Omelette
2 bottled water

for a total of THB800 (approximately USD24/EUR21/MYR106). To be honest the taste was just so-so, and the stall was nothing more than a hyped-up commercialized tourist trap. We enjoyed our breakfast at Fortune Town and enjoyed even more our dinner last night at Thai Pad Kitchen.

After dinner we went in search of fruit juices and got a large plastic glass of watermelon for THB60 (approximately USD2/EUR2/MYR8).

Cat then got another tote bag for Brendan for THB100 (approximately USD3/EUR3/MYR13); then a Slipknot and a Nirvana tank top for Brendan as well for THB200 each (approximately USD6/EUR5/MYR26).

We then made our way back to the Mo Chit BTS station. Fifteen stops later we disembarked once again at the Ekkamai BTS station.

We got down to the ground and got several packets of cut fruits for THB150 (approximately USD5/EUR4/MYR20). We were knackered from the day's gallivanting, so we hailed a Grab car back to Tierra Residences.

The first car bailed out on us; the second car picked us up at 8:00pm for a fare of THB77 (approximately USD2/EUR2/MYR10).

Stay tuned as our shopping continues at Thailand's largest clothing market.