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Shopping in Bagnkok
Chidlom / Ploenchit and Rajprasong Area | Pathumwan / Siam Square Area
| Sukhumvit Area
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| Silom Area
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Chao Phraya River Area
Chidlom / Ploenchit and Rajprasong Area
 This area is one of the two biggest shopping centers in Bangkok, with large big department stores filled with the latest fashions.
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Amarin Plaza
Situated at Rajprasong intersection and next to the BTS Chidlom Station. There are so many shops in the 30.000sqm space, so that you can find all the latest new fashions.
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Central (Chidlom Branch)
Central is the preeminent and most complete chain of department stores in Thailand. The Chidlom branch is the biggest, with 7 floors of shopping and a great International Food Court on the 7th floor. Conveniently connected by a walkway to BTS Chidlom Station.
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Central World Plaza
Formely World Trade Center, it's located on the corner of Rama I and Rajdamri road. The Isetan and Zen department stores anchor this huge complex, although there are hundreds of quality smaller shops. The 6th floor is the entertainment area and includes a skating rink, bowling lanes, and cinemas. King Power duty free shop is on the 7th floor. A short walk from the BTS Chidlom Station.
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Gaysorn
Located on the corner of Ploenchit road opposite Central World Plaza. This is the most luxurious complex in Bangkok, and features, many luxury brand products such as Fendi. Dior, Louis Vuitton. Gucci, Prada etc. A direct skybridge entrance from BTS Chidlom Station.
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Narayana Phand (Narai Phand)
Located opposite Central World Plaza, this is the place to buy Thai products. The top floor is like a department store, the bottom floor is like a market / bazaar, where you can negotiate your best deal.
Great deals on souvenirs in an air-conditioned environment. A short walk from BTS Chidlom Station.
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Peninsula Plaza
The top boutique plaza in Bangkok, it rivals Gaysom Plaza for the upscale shoppers. Top quality name brand designer clothing, jewelry, and accessories. Also home to the main offices for many of the international airline companies. A five-minute walk from Rajadamri BTS, next to the Four Seasons Hotel.
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Ploenchit Center
Located in the central business district of Bangkok. A large, modern 46,000sqm shopping complex with over 100 retail shops, and a large Villa Market supermarket. Located near the JW
Marriot Hotel. BTS Ploenchit Station.
Pathumwan / Siam Square Area
 Although not as upscale as the Chidlom/Ploenchit area, there are probably more shops, boutiques, kiosks, cinemas, and restaurants in this compact area than anywhere else in the city.
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Bonanza Mall
One of the teenager havens in Siam
Square. Specializing in clothes, cosmetics and accessories. Located across
the street from Mah Boon Krong (MBK), and connected by a skybridge on the
2nd floor. BTS National Stadium.
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Mah Boon Krong (MBK)
Located on the corner of Phayathai and Rama I road. Mah Boon Krong (MBK) is like a giant indoor market and has it all. There are more stores, shops, booths, and kiosks than you can count. Fast food on the first floor and restaurants on six. The 6th floor also has cinemas and bowling. The third floor has hundreds of counters with electronic and mobile phone accessories. Elsewhere you will find any clothing accessory you could imagine. Connected to National Stadium BTS by a walkway through Tokyu Department Store.
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Siam Square
The hotspot for Thai teenagers to shop. A grid of streets lined with shops, restaurants, internet cafes, bookstores, language schools, the Hard Rock Cafe', three cinemas that play foreign and art house films, and of course - lots of clothing. BTS Siam Station.
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Siam Discovery Center
Another downtown mega-mall with more than 200 shops offering clothing, home furnishings, electronics, toys and games, music, and more. The Grand EGV
theatre is on the sixth floor. There are probably more
dining choices here than any other mall in Bangkok. BTS
Siam Square Station.
Sukhumvit Area
 Like Silom road, Sukhumvit is one of Bangkok's major thoroughfares, with shops, boutiques, stalls and modern shopping plazas, not to mention hotels, bars and restaurants along both sides.
Sukhumvit is known for its abundance of tailor-made garment shops, which offer custom tailoring as affordable and as easy as buying off the peg. Antique cognoscenti flock to the section of Sukhumvit which houses a number of antique shops specialising in Thai period furniture's, genuinely old or reproduction, and exquisite wood-carvings.
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Emporium
The Emporium Shopping Center is Sukhumvit's upscale offering. Many designer name shops and boutiques sell the latest fashions from Armani, Guess, Chanel and Versace and others. There are also some trendy cafes and eateries on the second floor as well as a food court on the 6th. SFX Cinema is on the seventh floor. Connected by a walkway to BTS Phrom Pong Station.
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Outdoor Market
Sukhumvit's answer to Patpong, the merchants set up on the sidewalk from Soi 4 up to Soi 19 every night. Knock-off designer clothing, music, movies, and just about any souvenir you could imagine. BTS Nana and Asok.
Petchburi and Pratunam Area
 A long stretch of road with many hotels, the main shopping areas are near the intersection of Rajadamri Road, a ten minute walk from Central World Plaza.
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Panthip Plaza
Six floors of electronics at the lowest price. Computers, hardware, software, digital cameras and every other type of electronic gadgets are all available. There are perhaps as many as 500 shops, kiosks, and counters, so you can compare the same product at different venders for the best price. Also pirated (as well as
licensed) DVDs MP3s and computer software. Located on Petchburi road, near the Amari Watergate Hotel.
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Pratunam Shopping Complex
This 24 hour market is frequented by wholesalers and exporters (although consumers can certainly shop here) for the cheap clothing, textiles, and fabrics available for sale. The market is just off the main road, look for the entrances that lead to it behind the
roadside shops. Located near the intersection of Rajchaprarop and Petchburi road, near Panthip Plaza.
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Bai Yoke Market
Also in the Pratunam area, near the Baiyoke Hotel, it sells the same sort of thing; clothing and accessories. As well as the market, there are many clothing and textile shops in this area.
Silom Area
 The main artery of Bangkok's financial district, Silom Road also presents great shopping opportunities. At its lower
end, close to the Chao Phraya River, dozens of gem and jewellery stores line the footpaths while temporary stalls offer an array of souvenirs from T-shirts to handicrafts.
Major department stores led by Central and Robinson dominate the upper section. The colourful night market of Patpong, which links Silom and Surawongse roads, is thronged with avid bargain-hunters until late into the night.
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Silom Complex
Located on Silom road and connected to BTS Saladaeng Station on 2nd floor. This is the modern shopping complex which offering a wide range of goods. Central's first store is still here occupying five floors. Many different types of markets rotate through the lobby area. Many different restaurants and a Top supermarket in the basement also.
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Thaniya Plaza
Located on Thaniya road (between Silom Soi 2-4), and also known as the "Japanese street." The forte here is the dozens of golf shops selling equipment and clothing.
There are also many book stored, and Thai crafts such as, lacquerware, basketry, and antique items.
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Srinakarin Road
This street is outside the downtown area, running
from Ramkamhaeng Road to Bang Na-Trat Highway. It is worth a trip by taxi to visit the two main shopping areas, Seri Center and especially Seacon Square.
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Seacon Square
A huge complex of 500.000 sq. km, Seacon Square is the largest shopping center in Asia and the 5th largest in the world. It is no exaggeration to say that the 400 or so stores have nearly anything you might want to buy. Some of the bigger stores are a huge football-field-sized branch of DK Books with close to 1
million books (not that many English language though). Lotus Supercenter (a supermarket), Robinson's department store. In addition to stores are 14 THX cinemas (including one that simulates a drive-in cinema, with the patrons sitting in model cars), a bowling alley, ice skating rink, a special simulator' virtual reality cinema, a mini-golf course. For the kids there is "Yoyo Land" a massive indoor theme park with rollercoasters. ferris wheel, boat rides, flumes, and many more. Next door is the Seri Center, a good place for buying anything computer related.
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Srinakarin Road
This street is outside
the downtown area, running from Ramkamhaeng Road to Bang Na-Trat Highway. It is worth a trip by taxi to visit the two main shopping areas, Seri Center and especially Seacon Square.
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Seacon Square
A huge complex of 500.000 sq. km, Seacon Square is the largest shopping center in Asia and the 5th largest in the world. It is no exaggeration to say that the 400 or so stores have nearly anything you might want to buy. Some of the bigger stores are a huge football-field-sized branch of DK Books with close to 1
million books (not that many English language though). Lotus Supercenter (a supermarket), Robinson's department store.
In addition to stores are 14 THX cinemas (including one that simulates a drive-in cinema, with the patrons sitting in model cars), a bowling alley, ice skating rink, a special simulator' virtual reality cinema, a mini-golf course. For the kids there is "Yoyo Land" a massive indoor theme park with rollercoasters. ferris wheel, boat rides, flumes, and many more. Next door is the Seri Center, a good place for buying anything computer related.
Chao Phraya River Area
 This area is associated with royalty, history, old Thailand, and the birthplace of Thai trade and commerce.
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O.P. Place
The "Asian Heritage Shopping Center", next to the Oriental Hotel. The place to buy antique, historical, and ornate Thai arts and crafts. Tailors and fine Thai silk products, carpets, leather goods, paintings, decorations, ceramics, and jewelry.
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River City Shopping Complex
Next to the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel, this four-story complex is best known for art and antiques stores. Home to many handicrafts, unique gifts, and many fine restaurants. There is an art exhibition auction once a month. This is also the launching point for many river cruises and canal tours.
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Markets and Weekend Markets
This is the real way to shop in Bangkok. Thousands of people buying tens of thousands of products. Nothing has a price on it and everything is negotiable - so bring your bargaining skills. You could buy nothing and still have a great experience.
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Bo-Bae Market Also known as "Wholesale Market", it is a center for wholesale clothes and textiles, but they also sell to the public. 700 stores with all types of garments and prices. Located on Krung Kasem road near Klong San Sab.
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Bang Lamphu Market Bangkok's oldest one-stop shopping market, Bang Lamphu is like a huge single-storey department store. From basic necessities to exotic extravagance, you can find it all here.
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Chatuchak Weekend Market
The granddaddy of them all. Also known as "Jatujak" or "JJ Market" or "Weekend Market", this is Thailand's biggest Weekend Market, selling everything under the sun; food, trendy fashions, antiques, intricate wooden carvings, masks from far-off lands, adorable fluffy dogs, colorful fish of every hue, birds, art, collectibles,
t-shirts, music and movies, and plants. You can find all this and more at amazing Chatuchak Market.
There are between 12-15,000 individual booths (nobody really knows!) overflowing with every imaginable type of wares to catch your fancy. Once inside the market, you will be catch up in a world of bursting crowds and stalls streching as far
as the eye can see. They say that if you can't find it at Chatuchak, you won't find it anywhere in Thailand. The published opening hours for the market are from 9.00am to 6.00pm on Saturday and Sunday, though many of the stalls actually open sometime between 9.00am and 10.00am and close around sunset.
Chatchak is also open on Friday as a market for wholesalers, but there is no problem doing normal shopping on this day either (same opening times). The Garden Plants section is also open on Wednesdays and Thursday from 7.00am to 6.00pm. Watch out for pickpockets, as even though they're not a particularly big problem the crowded conditions make it easy for them to operate successfully.
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Chinatown and Ban Mor
All that glitters is real gold at Yaowarat, Bangkok's Chinatown, which accommodates the largest concentration of gold shops in Thailand. Traditional stores in the area will also excite the imagination of intrepid browsers. A few blocks away, you'll find the equally sparkling strip of Ban Mor. where quality jewellery stores abound on the footpaths.
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Khao Sarn Road
One of the most famous places in Bangkok, and one that is undergoing changes. "Old" Khao Sarn has budget accommodations, many travel agents, cheap clothing, tattoos, hair braiding, CDs. and unbelievably cheap roadside food stalls (Phat Thai for 10 bant).
"New" Khao Sarn has trendy cafes, coffee shops, nightclubs, and is now the place in Bangkok to buy silver. An interesting experience and must visit for any tourist in Bangkok.
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Klong Thorn Market
This is Bangkok's "second hand" market, sold in a crowded, exciting flea market atmosphere. You can bring any used goods here for an assessment of value, and a chance to sell to one of the dealers. Hardware and electrical appliances, new or used, are some of the more popular items.
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Pak Klong Market
Is a very large and busy wholesale market for fresh flowers and vegetables. Many flower vendors throughout the city buy their stock here at night and sell it on the following morning. It's best to go between 0200 am and 0400 am when boats on the Chao Phraya River and trucks from nearby provinces arrive with large quantities of flowers, vegetables, spices, and fruits.
These all are piled high inside the market and along nearby streets, making the market very photogenic, though the smell given off by some off the produce can be quite overpowering. Very close to here is the Memorial Bridge Night Market, a large all-purpose market night market with very cheap prices if you bargain.
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Patpong Night Market
Maybe the most famous market in Thailand, this is very popular with tourists. On a street lined with go-go bars, there are many stalls selling fake brand name items of clothes, sunglasses, watches, CDs, silk, souvenirs, and more.
It's interesting to watch the vendors set-up at dusk, and then break down the stalls at the end of the night. In order to get a good deal, you need to bargain hard, and the rule of thumb is you should pay around 50% of the original asking price (movies and music maybe a little higher). Also, the quality of some things (watches, sunglasses, silk) is questionable, so caveat emptor.
If you need a break during shopping, stop in the Radio City Bar and watch the entertaining Elvis and Tom Jones impersonators. Patpong is between Silom and Surawong roads, and well known to all taxi drivers. You can also to the sky train to Sala Daeng Station.
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Phahurat Market
A wholesale and retail market for textiles, fabrics, clothing, sarongs, etc, some from Thailand, others from around Asia. Located in "Little India" next to Chinatown.
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Sampeng Lane
This cramped and chaotic lane (also known as Soi Wanit) in Chinatown is an interesting place to stroll down, for the experience as much as for the shopping. On sale are the usual fabrics and textiles, but also household and kitchen accessories, spices, and preserved food. A nice place to check out Chines culture, and much of the food and articles for sale are some kind of Chinese specialty.
Prakanong
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Jim Thompson (outlet)
productssilk,silk products
open daily9 AM-6 Pm
153 Sukhumvit Soi 93, Prakanong, Bangkok
Tel. 0 2332 6530-4, 0 2742 4601-3 ext.13-15
Website
www.jimthompson.com
Bang Rak
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The Silom Galleria
Soi 19 Silom Road, Bang Rak, Bangkok
Tel 0 2630 0944-50
Website
www.silomgalleria.com
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Jim Thompson (Main Shop)
productssilk,silk products
9 Surawong Road, Bang Rak, Bangkok
Tel 0 2632 8100
Fax 0 2632 8111
website
www.jimthompson.com
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Jim Thompson (outlet)
productssilk,silk products
open daily9 AM - 6 PM
149/4-6 Surawong Road, Bang Rak, Bangkok
Tel 0 2235 8931-2
website www.jimthompson.com
Phayathai
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King Power Complex
Between Rangnam Road and Si Ayutthaya Road, Phayathai, Bangkok
(Duty Free Shop with Joelouis Theatre, Thai Restaurant and Hotel)
Tel 0 2658 0020-49
Website
www.kingpower.com
Ratchatewi
or Rajthavee
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Pratunam Center
Phetchaburi Road, Pratunam, Ratchathewi, Bangkok
(This is the largest OTOP handicrafts center of Thailand)
Tel 0 2309 8888
Pathum Wan
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Central Chidlom
1027 Phloenchit Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel 0 2793 7777 Fax 0 2793 7799
Website
www.central.co.th
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Gaysorn Plaza
Radchaprasong Junction , Raddamri Road, Pathumwan
Bangkok
Tel 0 2658 1000-19
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MBK Center
444 Phayathai Road, Pathum Wan, Bangkok
Tel 0 2620 9000
Website
www.mbk-center.com
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Naraiphand
127 Ratchadamri Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok
(This is the largest handicraft shopping center in Bangkok)
Tel 0 2252 4670-9
Website www.naraiphand.com
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Siam Discovery Center
989 Siam Tower, Rama 1 Rd., Pathumwan Bangkok 10330,
Bangkok
Tel 0 2658 1000-19
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Siam Paragon
Rama 1 Rd., Pathumwan Bangkok 10330,
Bangkok
Tel 0 2658 3000
Fax 0 2658 3019
Website
www.siamparagon.co.th
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