Street Markets

Just another Saturday night at Dalat World Market for a meal and look around. Thai street markets are found everywhere and this is no exception. It seems to me that this is part of the Thai culture from the earliest days where trade was conducted at riverside locations.  

For our final stop today we visit Sam Chuk Market which is a 100-year-old traditional water market that has remained an antique community while being surrounded by an evolution of modern influences. This Chinese community and old-fashioned market, complete with wooden shop houses, has retained its authentic Thai style, dating …

For this day’s adventure, we head north to Supun Buri to visit a temple which could be said to be one of the most bizarre temple complexes in Thailand. Part of the temple grounds is a simulation of the Buddhist idea of heaven and hell and what happens when you …

Finally! I find a market stall that sells the crickets and other bugs, so I challenge Chanya to eat them. There were a few challenge videos spreading around the Thailand vlogging scene so I decided to throw out the challenge to some of the group. Alas, nearly all of them …

Nothing special going on today while out doing the monthly shopping at Phetkasem Big-C. A quick rundown of the events coming up for the next weekend and some thoughts on our channel. Chanya loves the market stalls outside the Big-C at Phetkasem. Doing the weekly vlogs, I sometimes find it …