Among the many delightful experiences that international traveling offers, treating your taste buds to the local cuisines is definitely among the most memorable ones. Let Bangkok’s multiple delicacies make their way to your heart through your stomach and taste for yourself, why Thai food is so popular worldwide.  Sit tight as we bring you the best of the street food options so you experience the true essence of Thai food as it was meant to be.

Experiencing the soul of the city through the food and more - The Chatuchak Weekend Market

This weekend market is the heart and soul of Bangkok - the sheer quantity of goods sold at this market will leave you open-jawed. The variety of foods available here is incredible as well, you can get soup noodles and rice dishes, grilled skewered finger foods, even fried eggs! For those with a sweet tooth, there are ice-creams, smoothies and all sorts of Thai desserts! There are also air-conditioned cafes peppered throughout the lanes so you can take a break from all that shopping and rest your tired feet.

Getting There

This market is conveniently accessible from the hotels located all around the city.

12 km from Silom (a 24 minutes cab ride)

12 km from Sathorn (an 18 minutes cab ride)

10 km from Asoke (a 22 minutes cab ride)

15 km from Makkasan (a 30 minutes cab ride)

The Food! What should you try?

The food stalls are hard to miss, and are mostly clustered together at various intervals throughout the market.

1. Creamy Coconut Ice-cream

It is among the most popular foods in Bangkok owing to the tropical weather conditions and the abundance of the coconuts. You must definitely head out to a stall selling these delicious cooling treats. Your long walk through the market warrants that you cool yourself down with this amazingly simple dessert served in coconut husks all set to make you swoon. Equally popular among children and adults alike, guaranteed to be your favourite - you’ll be googling the recipes of these the minute you get back home!

2. The Squiddy Delight

Thai food, like most Asian cuisines, is known for its offbeat experimental tendency. Squid is a common local cuisine in Thailand and a quite popular one at that. A popular local way of consuming the squid is by deep frying the tentacles along with the eggs to make for one delicious high-calorie experience- but when better to indulge than during a holiday? The crowd around the stalls selling these speak for the taste of the dish.

3. Wash Down the Oil; Sugarcane Juice

Enhance your tropical experience, dive in further with the delicious and highly cooling beverages blended to perfection and refresh you immensely. Our top recommendation would be the sugar cane juice - sweet and perfect in all ways - it revitalizes you, settles in well with all the delicious food but doesn’t leave you feeling heavy.

4. Further the fruity experience

Fresh seasonal fruits contribute to the colours of the fruit stalls. Pick out your favourite and munch on or go right ahead to the fruit salad. This is the perfect place to try the rarely seen tropical fruits.

5. The freshest and ripest of mangoes served alongside some sticky rice

This is every bit as good as it sounds. Or even better. It leaves you feeling full and happy - a comfort food doubling as a dessert bringing you a wholesome essence of the city's best.

6. Fried Insects - Carpe Diem

Your ultimate test - can you handle the ultimate Thailand delicacy?

There is an exclusive, moderately popular stall in the market that attracts the curious and makes the brave at heart stay on. From fried silkworms spiced up to roasted caterpillars, every cooked insect you can possibly imagine. If you can stomach it, it is totally worth the experience.

Chinatown: Another Street Food Paradise

Located 4 km away from Silom, your street food experience is in no way complete without heading out to Chinatown.

7. Sumptuous Satay

Served on a bamboo stick, your Thai food experience couldn’t be more Asian. This mouth watering dish is prepared by grilling meat over an open flame and served with an overwhelming mix of Asian flavors including a sugar syrup based sauce containing cucumbers and chilies. Jay Eng, located right opposite the easily noticeable shrine of Chao Por Heng Jia, makes this an all-the-more delicious experience adding a bit of a nutty overload to the otherwise rather bland meat.

8. The Lod Chang Concoction

Blending deliciously creamy coconut milk with jackfruit and a bit of coloured sticky rice. There is no day, no time or season where this dessert-beverage is not warranted. What makes it all the more special is the fact that it isn’t sold elsewhere - just in the stall it’s named after, right on the Charoen K Road.

9. Elvis Suki’s Sukiyaki

This dish is nothing short of an Asian paradise. What’s not to love? The glass noodles, the right seafood and some eggs spiced up thoroughly with roasted garlic and chillies - in sauce form usually. Yeah, our mouths are watering too.

10. Buttered Scallops

A twist of fun and garlic boosting up the already prominent delight of the classic dish - the scallops are grilled thoroughly using garlic butter and served fresh- seafood never got better. Sold in the same stall as the Sukiyaki.

11. Sassy Sea Bass

We simply cannot seem to get enough of Suki’s delights - this one brings to you stuffed sea bass that boasts the flavors of lemongrass and coriander - and if this is not tangy enough, there are some lime leaves too.