In front of the Mosque, along side a hundred year old Thai style house in the Chiang Mai night bazaar area, there is a unique weekend market. The sellers are mostly all Hill Tribe, Chinese Muslim, Shan Burmese and more.
Get there early, this market is finished by midday, as most good fresh food markets usually are in Thailand. The main objective was to shop for fresh plums which are in season, we came back to Pai with a truckload of fresh fruits, and other fresh hard to find produce.
Shopping at open air markets is the best way to select fresh produce, you’ll never feel the same entering a supermarket again. Not only is market culture a place to shop for groceries, it is a social event, a place to see and be seen. Open air fresh markets in Thailand (especially northern Thailand) are ethnic melting pots where different people gather to sell their wares and co-mingle amongst each other.
Check out the assortment of colors, natures finest paintings…
Tags: chiang mai, fresh food, fresh produce, Hill Tribes, markets, Northern Thailand, open air markets
May 20th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
What you find on Chiang Mai Markets, where they are and when they take place, you can read in my blog http://my-lanna.blogspot.com
May 21st, 2008 at 12:09 am
pictures look edible, they got my saliva going…
miss those street markets…
sick of the darn impersonal supermarkets and their neon overstocked isles
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 am
Uh….? Sorry “Marhas”, but I didn’t find the weekend Lisu\Shan hill tribe market that I posted about on yer blog, did I miss something? Cause you seem to cover all the mainstream markets…. Not any of the nitty gritty ….
November 24th, 2008 at 9:36 am
interesno pochitat’ o krisise