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What to Buy

Incense
Flowers
1 5
Pak Khlong Market (see p77)
For the Chinese, incense is
is the place to buy fresh flowers – essential, particularly for making
either individual cut blooms or offerings, and several shops in
a bouquet mixing a few Chinatown sell incense in
favorites. Temperate coils, pyramids, small
flowers such as roses sticks, and big sticks
mingle with orchids that burn for hours.
and lotus ginger. Fashion
6
Gold
Accessories
2 There is nothing
If you are seeking
some gold ornamenta­ exclusive about the
tion, check out the gold cheap trinkets on sale
shops along Yaowarat throughout Chinatown,
Road (see p78), which Lotus parti cularly along Sampeng
sell 23­carat gold in a buds Lane (see p79). Plastic
wide variety of designs. earrings, strings of beads,
cuddly mobile phone covers, and
Textiles
3 sequined handbags are just a few
of the items on offer.
The fantastic range of textiles
on sale in Chinatown, and particu­
Ceramics
larly in Phahurat Market (see p77), 7
is enough to tempt many visitors to Most of the ceramics on sale
take home a bolt of cloth or some in Chinatown are functional rather
inexpen sive ready­made garments. than decorative, yet the ceramic
shops are worth nosing around
for unexpected treasures.
Lanterns
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In a few of the narrow alleys
off Soi Isara Nuphap some families
still make traditional Chinese
lanterns for a living. Shops along
Sampeng Lane sell the finished
product in a range of bright colors.
Spices
9
Visitors to any of the fresh
markets in Chinatown can admire
colorful chili pastes and spices
overflowing from huge enamel
basins and pick out a few to
Shop staff preparing packets of tea experiment with at home.
Temple Offerings
Tea
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The most common temple
Green tea and black tea, loose
or packaged, is sold throughout offerings in Bangkok are incense
Chinatown, and is consumed in and colored paper, although shops
great quantities by the Chinese specializing in religious necessities
themselves. Fresh markets and in Chinatown also sell miniature
herbalists would be the best places shrines and bright robes to drape
for you to sniff out a good brew. around Chinese deities.
See map on pp76–7
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