Sampeng Market, Bangkok

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13 Nov 2018

Destination of the day: Sampeng Market.

It's a wholesale market right next to Yaowarat Road, aka Chinatown.

The market sprawls across a labyrinth of lanes and alleys, selling dried foods, bags, kitchen wares, knick-knacks, toys, etc.

Due to the small alleys, the wholesalers depend on kulis to deliver their goods using those vertical trolleys. Nat told me not to be surprised if I heard someone yelling "fai mai" ("on fire!") or "mid" ("knife!"). That would be the kuli trying to get through the narrow alleys. "Make way" no longer gets people's attention 😆


Kuli delivering goods.

Toys!

Street foods.

Smiling lady and sweet snacks.

Fried glutinous sweet cakes on top of a mountain of sugar, crushed peanuts and sesame.

Glutinous rice with side dishes.

Wan Gao, literally means bowl cake, made of glutinous flour.

Some sort of sweet snacks made of flour, eaten with shredded coconut and sugar.

An old shop selling traditional Chinese sausage along Yaowarat Road.

Roasted giant tapioca dipped in sugar syrup.

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