Chiang Mai

A Lot Of Thai: Home Cooking School

A family-run home cooking class, taught by the owner. Vegetarians and people with any kind of food restrictions welcome. Courses includes a market tour and a recipe book is provided for later use. Gordon Ramsey visited this place.

1400 baht pp

Anusarn Market

During the day time the Anusarn Market area is devoid of any vendor stalls. All the permanent shops, bars, and eateries around the inside walls of the market area are open for business. Every afternoon the Anusarn Market vendors move in, erect their large tent type stalls and open. Good shopping, good restaurants, and in a back corner there is a ladyboy cabaret that puts on a one-hour show at 21:30 at a reasonable price. Haggling is expected at market stalls. Start by offering a price lower than what is asked.

Closed · opens 6 pm

Anusarn Market

ตลาดอนุสาร

A busy outdoor night market with lots of little Thai, Indian and Western restaurants and food vendors. Great atmosphere.

Baan Thai Cookery School

Courses include a cookbook and market tour. Day or evening classes.

1100 baht pp

Central Plaza Chiang Mai Airport

เซ็นทรัล แอร์พอร์ต พลาซ่า

On five floors, with a food court, banks/ATMs, and multi-screen cinema. It also has a Cultural Centre attached selling many crafts, a large food market, and an extensive selection of Thai ready-to-eat stalls in the basement.

Chiang Mai Gate Market

A major shopping venue for fruit, vegetables, meat, and fish for locals. Between the ring roads and in the vicinity are numerous food stalls.

Huay Kaew Waterfall and Natural Pools

At the foot of Doi Suthep on Huay Kaew Rd. Look for a large Buddhist shrine (Kruba Srivichai Monument) on your left after travelling past the entrance to Chiang Mai Zoo. Turn left into the market at the back of the shrine, and keep walking up the hill. You will come to the waterfalls after about 5 minutes. The pools at the bottom of the waterfalls are not really big enough for swimming, but are a great place to cool off at the height of summer. During the dry season some of the waterfalls dry up. Head for the high ground and you will still find pools full of fresh water. There are usually quite a few students hanging out there from the nearby university, who will happily practice their English conversational skills with you.

100 baht

Kalare Market

A large covered arcade full of shops with an open food court and entertainment area. The food court operates on a coupon system: you buy coupons from the cashiers, then redeem them at the many small adjacent food stalls. Cheap dining. The market has bars, many shops, massage shops.

Closed · opens 6 pm

Kasem Store

A small store a few doors up from Chang Moi Road, situated near but not in Warowot market (to the east of the walled city and just before the Ping River). Has those difficult to get items such as real powdered milk, black loose leafed tea, assorted good cereals, assorted pastries, etc. Has a good assortment of foreign goods including vegetarian and vegan food. Good English spoken.

Malin Plaza Night Market

If the Night Bazaar is the place tourists go at night, Malin Plaza is where young Thais go. Its proximity to มช ("maw chaw", the local nickname for CMU) means that in the evening this place is crawling with teens and twenty-somethings. Clothing is young, trendy and cheap. Cheap restaurants abound, including a number of all-you-can-eat table-top barbecues.

About 18:00-

Siam Rice Thai Cookery School

Friendly and knowledgeable staff provide a course on local and traditional recipes. The course includes a market tour and provides you with the recipes for the dishes that you create.

Sompet Market

Just south of the moat's northeast corner. Mostly a fruit and veg market for locals, but close at hand to the many guesthouses in the area so a good place for visitors to stock up on grub. Lots of prepared meat and meals as well.

Tha Phae Walking Street

Sunday Walking Street Market

This market is enormous and takes up several blocks on either side of Ratchadamnoen including from Ratchawithi to Ratchamanka on Prapoklao (from the 3 Kings Monument to past Wat Chedi Luang). The street is blocked off to traffic for local craft vendors to layout their handmade wares. There are food vendors strewn throughout. It starts at 16:00, but not everyone is set up until around 18:00. Runs late, but most vendors start to pack up around 22:00 or so. Due to the amount of families that visit, there is a strict smoking and drinking ban, enforced by fines up to 4,000 baht.

Sun 17:00–23:00

Thae Market CNX

Student Night Market

Lots of vintage and (2nd hand) cloths stalls at local prices — shoes 100 baht, jackets 200 baht, hats 30 baht. Includes an interesting beyond the ordinary food court with numerous delicacies.

Tue–Thu 17:00–22:00

Warorot Market

กาดหลวง / Kad Luang / Talat Warorot

This sprawling indoor/outdoor market is supposedly where the locals shop and maybe worth a visit to look over the plethora of fabrics, spices, tea, and dried fruit piled up along the aisles. However, you will notice that about 90% of all the shops sell the same, so not much variety or bargaining for that matter. Across the road is a flower and fruit market and an out-of-this-world fireworks stand. At night the street is packed with delicious food stalls — try the one where you can serve the greens yourself, almost like Vietnam.

06:00–17:00

Weekend Flea Market

A large flea market with everything you can imagine, from the odd wooden penis neglace, to watches, to ca––r spare parts and electronics, to countless coins and Buddha amulets. Here you can get a feel for Thai traditions and every day live. Come before noon!

Sat Sun 08:00–16:00

Wualai Walking Street

Saturday Walking Street Market

In the old silver-working district, it's a smaller version of the Sunday market with many of the same vendors.

Sat 17:00-23:00

Football (soccer)

Go watch the local football team, Chiang Mai FC, play at 700 Year Stadium. Fixtures and info in English or visit the Red Lion English Pub in the Night Bazaar two hours before the game to get a free ride (nearly always available).

Night Bazaar

ไนท์บาร์ซ่า

A huge indoor/outdoor commercial maelstrom centred on the Night Bazaar Building on the west side of Changklan Rd. The Night Bazaar can be considered an entire region of the city as it incorporates the Anusarn and Kalare Markets as well, with the borders being ambiguous (and unimportant). It can take a concerted effort to find something different among the near identical stalls selling tourist-oriented sunglasses, T-shirts, textiles, watches, luggage, caps, and anything else small enough to sell from a market stall. You rarely see Thai people shopping here. On the east side of the street you will find the Anusarn and Kalare Markets with wider offerings.

Closed · opens 6 pm

Sanpakhoi Market

Produces, meat, food stalls, and much more at local prices.