Bangkok Home Shopping Guide

Go to Bangkok and move back home. (All first-hand and second-hand household items are available)

I stayed in Bangkok for ten days in April. Apart from the Erawan Shrine, I didn’t go to any other palaces or temples. It’s not that I didn’t want to go, it’s true. No time to go.

Before going to Bangkok, many people would think that it is a city with a strong religious atmosphere and developed pornographic services. There is actually a mandatory statement on the Chinese tourism website: "If you don't watch adult shows = you have never been to Thailand." A gimmick title that favors tourism. After coming here, my biggest impression of Bangkok is its beautiful design and exquisite life. ?

I remember accidentally seeing such a slogan on the billboard at the entrance of Center Embassy. I can’t remember the original English sentence clearly. The Chinese meaning is: Our country will never be able to compete with China and the United States with its labor force. India, only if we focus our productivity on mental work can we possibly find our own place in Asia. ?

Perhaps it is due to the entire country’s support for intellectual workers and the old king’s love for design aesthetics that this country has so many original designers! From exquisite cafes to original home furnishing brand collection stores, I was really dazzled. I only regretted that the place was too small and the wallet was too small to carry all these good things home one by one. This article is a record of this meaningful home journey. I really want to save everyone’s time and select [must-visit attractions] for home lovers, so that we can see Bangkok from another side.

?SIAM DISCOVERY?

Want to look for LV and GUCCI as soon as you enter the mall? Want to shop NIKE and ADIDAS? Sorry, none here. This is a newly opened shopping mall in Bangkok in May last year with the theme of "Lifestyle Experimental Experience". It mainly sells original brands and niche brands. You are afraid of matching clothes when buying clothes, and you want personality when buying home furnishings. This mall allows you to browse To lameness. ?

The entire three floors are open shops like this. Each designer's works are carefully classified. One booth is almost composed of the works of 10 designers. Interesting flower utensils and plants, warmly detailed porcelain tableware, hand-made decorative paintings that enhance the style of your home, exquisite lamps with a strong sense of design... When you come here, you will find that you have traveled to so many cities and home improvement markets, and suddenly you are here. Looking back, it turns out they were all here.

Emquartieramp; Emporium

Emquartieramp; Emporium is located at Phrom phong station on the BTS line. There are two super shopping malls on the left and right sides of the station. There are not as many people here as in the SIAM business district, but it is no less easy to shop. On the third floor of Emquartier, an entire floor is also dedicated to original designers, from clothing to lifestyle peripherals...?

The lifestyle stores here partially overlap with the designer products of SIAM DISCOVERY, but they are definitely Most are more refined and delicate. You can clearly feel that the products here belong to a more niche high-end line, with better quality and feel, and the price is relatively more affordable. ?

Give me another reason to love visiting here - there are green plants everywhere, and there are many tropical plants spreading inside the tall and modern building. The most exciting thing is that on the sixth floor of the mall, They even built an entire floor of outdoor botanical gardens! ?

Chatuchak Weekend Market

If the two business districts introduced earlier will make you feel a little distressed when shopping (but the products are really top-notch in terms of appearance and quality), then Chatuchak Weekend Market The weekend market is a place where you can really let yourself go. This is the world's largest weekend market, with an area equivalent to 15 football fields and consisting of 15,000 stalls.

Chatuchak Market covers household products and decorations, clothing and peripherals, second-hand products, home furniture, potted plants, pets, antiques and other areas.

As shown in the picture, each small color line on the map represents a row of streets consisting of 20 to 40 merchants. I believe you will definitely not be able to finish shopping in one day, so it is better to plan in advance and have enough shopping. Be more purposeful. Let’s count first. Which areas do you think you must visit? How many streets do you need to visit? ?

I reluctantly agreed to take pictures after purchasing the goods. The left of the picture is a stone sculpture made of pure Indonesian volcanic stone, and the right of the picture is a variety of internet celebrity chopping boards made and sold by the beautiful shop owner.

You can only reluctantly agree to take photos after purchasing. The picture on the left is a stone sculpture made of pure Indonesian volcanic stone. The picture on the right is a variety of internet celebrity chopping boards made and sold by the beautiful shop owner. Most of the furniture section here comes from small designs. Handmade by master craftsmen, each piece of furniture is in small stock and can be bargained for. Everything from large furniture to small decorations that you can think of is sold here. In the Chatuchak Home Furnishing Area, you can see an endless stream of furniture buyers from various countries, as well as tourists from around the world who are sweating and looking around. Chatuchak Market will not give you the same Yiwu feel, nor will it give you the illusion of a gathering place for fake and shoddy goods. It is more like an incubator for junior designers/craftsmen, where everyone carefully creates products with their own personality. products. Perhaps it is precisely because these small handicraftsmen are worried about piracy and counterfeiting that a large number of stores have signs prohibiting photography, so there are not many wonderful photos to share with everyone. However, if you want to fly to Thailand just to visit Chatuchak Market for two days, I can responsibly tell you that it is worth the money for the air ticket. ?

HOF-Hall Of Fame

This is a very inconspicuous shop hidden in Ekamai Station on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok. It has one to four floors and can be visited. The available purchase area is only the first and second floors, the third floor is the owner's storage warehouse, and the fourth floor is the owner's small bedroom. The total area is only 300 square meters, but it is filled with all kinds of wonderful second-hand household items. I thought this was a boutique store that could be visited in ten minutes, but unexpectedly I stayed inside for more than an hour. There are toys from the 1970s and 1980s from all over the world, wonderful handicrafts from indigenous peoples on the seven continents, old European utensils, animal and plant specimens...?

This store is not far from where I live. I visited three or four times and only went in the last time. It's not open on Sundays and Mondays, and it's not open on holidays. It said it would open at 11 a.m., but I didn't get up until the owner got up at 12:15, and it closed on time at 6 p.m. Friends who want to go must choose a non-holiday afternoon from Tuesday to Saturday to visit on time.

The second-hand products here are so dense that there is only a narrow gap for you to move. If you carry a schoolbag and go shopping, you have to be even more careful every time you turn around. It may cost tens of thousands of baht. compensation.

Papaya Design Studio

PAPAYA has the same style as HOF, but is 15 times the size of HOF. The giant antique warehouse covering an area of ??5,000 square meters is filled with household accessories from different periods that you can only see in movies. Of course, the main way for retro stores like papaya and HOF to make money is not from selling a few audio watches to young people who can afford their lives, but from leasing them to filmmakers or photographers for use in auxiliary shooting. The lingo of this kind of leasing behavior is also called detail leasing. Indeed, this is also a place frequented by filmmakers and famous photographers. Many of the retro props in Hollywood movies you see come from PAPAYA. ?

[Prams of different eras]?

[Operating room shadowless lights of various sizes]

From strollers of different eras and styles to thousands A retro bicycle, and even more than a dozen different styles to choose from, from operating room shadowless lamps to old society electric chairs of various shapes. ?

According to the boss of PAPAYA, PAPAYA is known as the world’s largest used goods warehouse. Most of the treasures here come from purchases he and his companions made in various countries. The store is divided into three floors. There is an Astro Boy in the center of the first floor. I believe that an old man who can open such a treasure house for his whole life must have maintained his childlike innocence all his life.

PAPAYA’s way of purchasing goods is also very interesting. Maybe it’s because such a large second-hand warehouse may not be able to hire shopping guides. You go in alone, take a photo with your mobile phone of whatever treasure you like, and wait for them to go shopping. After that, I took my mobile phone to the door and asked the boss about the price one by one, which was also very novel. The placement of PAPAYA is not as particular as that of HOF. Most of the goods are classified according to their respective attributes. Chairs are piled together in batches, decorations are listed according to size, and clocks are hung on the wall in order. The aisles are also very spacious, and it is not easy to hear heartbreak just by turning around. sound. However, due to the large size of the warehouse, some items cannot be cleaned and dusted every day, making it seem a bit less refined than HOF. However, I believe that as long as you come, you will definitely take away a few of your favorite little treasures. Some hoarding disorders are annoying because they don’t look good. You see, this store is obviously run by a hoarder who has transformed into a master collector.

For the above shopping addresses, searching for place names in Google Maps will show the specific routes and corresponding taxi fares. (Except for HOF, the HOF address can be reached by getting off the BTS at Ekamai station and walking 1.5km east along the main Ekamai road)

Text and photography｜Wang Yudi?

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