Chatuchak Singapore opens with several original Bangkok favourites

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Chatuchak Singapore opens with several original Bangkok favourites

Relish direct-from-Chatuchak stalls selling baby octopus, pad thai and roasted pork. The open-air market is now open at The Grandstand until May 3.

Bangkok'south open-air market Chatuchak says sawadee to Singaporeans looking for a sense of taste of Thailand as it opened here on Tuesday (Feb 4). It volition run for three months at The Grandstand on Turf Club Road in Bukit Timah until May 3 and is the world's first Chatuchak outside of Thailand.

The market boasts more than 400 unlike vendors, some of whom will exist flying in – on a rotation basis – from the original venue in Bangkok.

Y'all won't need to eat on-the-go as you roam the 40,000 sq ft infinite as at that place are around 400 seats at the venue so you tin can enjoy your treats with a Chang beer and take a breather from all that shopping at the same fourth dimension.

Chatuchak Singapore may exist smaller than the original space in Bangkok simply what it has going for it is that it'southward open near daily – Tuesdays to Sundays from 4.30pm to 10.30pm.

Of form you can expect to check out lots of nutrient stalls at the market. Highlights for at present include King Octopus from the Bangkok venue, which sells baby octopus stewed in a tangy stew. It'll ready you dorsum Southward$15, though.

(Photograph: Chatuchak Marketplace Singapore)

At that place's too pad thai from another Bangkok original, Phadthai Sukhothai Baanna, which comes in S$vi and South$8 plates, the latter with prawns.

Other direct-from-Chatuchak stalls to look out for are SukhoThai Roasted Pork, which sells over 300kg of meat daily at its original venue and Tomoko, which serves vegetarian snacks fabricated from purple potatoes.

No Thai food feel will be complete without Thai milk tea and Khon Wanna has a stall selling but that, which also comes with a show equally you sentinel the vendor pull the tea ala teh tarik. The stall also sells roti.

Apart from food, you can pick upwardly some apparel, accessories and other trinkets such as handmade silver jewellery from Bangkok's Lamiad Selected Silverish, handcrafted ceramic appurtenances at Aa ar ie ee Studio or sketchbook t-shirts by Thai artists at Chapter One.

Chatuchak is the second Thai market to come to Singapore after Artbox held its third iteration terminal November.

At that place'southward free parking at the venue or you can hop on gratuitous shuttle buses from Botanic Gardens, Clementi and Toa Payoh.

Chatuchak Singapore is at The Grandstand Southward Carpark at 200 Turf Lodge Route. It runs daily (except Mondays) from 4.30pm to x.30pm.

Chatuchak Singapore opens with several original Bangkok favourites

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