The few posts made in this blog on the cost of life in Bangkok considered that you do all your shopping in a big department store. In my case, this is usually in Carrefour on Rama 4 or in Lotus, just in front of Carrefour. I find it convenient, like most people I guess, since you'll find everything under one roof.

But talking about finding everything you need under one "roof", if what you require is fresh vegetables, fruits, fishes, seafood, i.e. food, nothing beats the Klong Toey wet market, just a stone throw away from Carrefour, on Rama 4.

This is a huge wet market and you'll find everything you need for preparing your lunch, and also quite a few things you'll probably prefer to not eat...

Prices are very often displayed and speaking Thai is not absolutely necessary for you to be able to shop there, just learn how to count up to one hundred since most items will cost you less than that.

We'll start with the vegetables, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, garlic, carrots, cabbage, brocoli, local vegetables...

This is Thailand, so you'll find many stands selling a wide variety of chili pepper

The fruits, bananas, mangoes, lime at baht 1 each.

The meat, alive and dead

And the seafood and fishes

And in case you do not believe that the food is fresh on this market, here is a short clip taken there a few weeks back, with the fishes pictured above and the next stand where big frogs were being slaughtered

You'll find more photos in the Photo gallery

And if you like markets, here are three of them we recommend, in Mukdahan. Click on the picture to go to the corresponding page

Indochina market

Wet market

Night market