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Chapter 56 What to Buy at the Night Market

In Chiang Mai, Wang Anan and the others did not come at the best time.

Every November, Chiang Mai will hold a grand Loi Krathong Festival, and every April, it will celebrate the Songkran Festival.

But Wang An'an and the others came during the hottest time, perfectly avoiding these festivals.Fortunately, before boarding the plane, I shared the perfumed pineapples I got from the check-in with everyone, otherwise it would have been spoiled in such a hot day.

But apart from these festivals, there is much more to do in Chiang Mai.

There are many night markets in Chiang Mai and they are large in scale.The most famous ones are Changkang Road Night Market, Weekend Night Market and Saturday Night Market.

In addition to these, there are also some niche night markets, such as Haystack Night Market, Chiang Mai University Night Market and so on.

After a few people visited the popular night markets in Bangkok, they planned to go to those niche night markets when they arrived in Chiang Mai.

Do you think that before going to the night market, Wang An'an and others will first go to the temple to sacrifice the internal organs and six internal organs?It doesn't exist, there are a lot of delicacies waiting for them in the night market.

When Wang Anan and the others stood in the most exotic Karal Night Market in Chiang Mai.

Can't help but give out admiration.

The Qatar night market mainly sells handicrafts, jewelry and travel matching clothes, shoes and the like.

Of course, there are also many food stalls here, but unlike other night markets, the food stalls here need to buy tickets first, and then buy snacks, and cannot pay cash directly.

And there are a lot of ethnic minority stalls here, such as stalls in the Middle East or Iraq.

Moreover, Wang An'an and the others were very lucky, and there happened to be a Thai dance performance that night.Thai dance performances are not scheduled, but irregular.

After exchanging the tickets, they went straight to the food stall.

Buy a Fengfeifei pork knuckle rice for 30 baht, a mango sticky rice for 50 baht, plus two coconut ice creams for 50 baht, and a large grilled seafood platter for 380 baht.

The grilled seafood platter included prawns, squid, scallops, etc., but when it was served, there wasn't even a single plate.

There is only one piece of seafood wrapped in plastic paper, spread out on the table, and you can eat it directly with gloves on.

Eating delicious food and watching performances, isn't this one of the great pleasures in life?

If you are full, of course you have to go shopping. Which things are worth buying here?

Thailand's handmade soaps are sure to squeeze into the front row, with pleasantly scented soaps hand-carved in the shape of lifelike flowers.

Some are like water lilies, some are like champagne roses, some are like phalaenopsis, and some are like blue enchantresses.

There are so many styles that you can't tell what kind of flower it is, you only know that it is a flower of different colors and different varieties.

Presented in their original lacquer or wood boxes, these handmade soaps are as beautiful as they are functional, making them perfect to take home for your own use or as a gift.

When Wang Anan and the others bought it.

"Scan this~" the stall owner said in Mandarin with a Thai accent.

Oh ho!It was paid by Alipay.

Unexpectedly, in order to do business, the stall owner not only learned Chinese, but also began to use Huaguo's payment app.

It seems that the stall owners are quite twitchy.

In addition to handmade soap, Chiang Mai's silverware is also second to none in Thailand, and even some local families have passed down this skill for several generations.

The silverware products sold by the stall owners are exquisitely crafted and skillfully crafted. Sometimes even silversmiths will hold silver bars to make the silverware products required by the guests on the spot.

Of course, the silver content of these silverware products is slightly uneven.Some use 925 silver, some use 990 silver, but very few use 999 silver.

In fact, the difference between them is the difference in silver content.But 999 silver is not suitable for making jewelry, but more suitable for making silver bars for investment.

If you want beautiful and fashionable silver jewelry, you can choose 925 silver, which has a brighter gloss, is not easy to deform, and is not easy to oxidize and change color.

Of course, if you want to preserve value, then try to choose 990 silver and 999 silver!

In addition to silver ornaments, there is another thing that is very Thai, that is wood carving!

What woodcarving is more lovely?Of course, it is a small elephant wood carving full of colorful patterns!

In fact, the shapes and movements of the elephants are almost the same, but because of the different colors and patterns, almost every wood carving becomes a unique work.

For example, use black as the base, small red flowers attached to the surface, and add a few leaves and branches.

It is mainly yellow, and the curved and natural lines are randomly decorated.

Each one is filled with the unique folk flavor of Northern Thailand.

In addition to these, it is inevitable that Thailand's fabric embroidery, Thailand is the second largest silk exporter in the world, and of course Huaguo ranks first.

But this does not affect Wang Anan and the others to buy some Thai silk as souvenirs. Although there is no particularly high-end Thai silk in the night market, there are also many cloth bags and sachets with spices.

Buy a few, put some spices in the closet, and the clothes in the closet will emit a faint fragrance.There are even some spices that have the effect of repelling mosquitoes, which is very practical.

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Several people took a fancy to the straw hats on a hat stall in the night market. Since the next trip was going to the beach, sun hats were essential.

Huihui asked the stall owner the price.

As a result, the main price of the stall was 300 plants, but several people felt that the price was a little high, so they planned to go to other stalls to have a look.

Naihe walked around for a while, but still found the hat she liked the most. Sure enough, the one she saw at first sight was the best.

I just wanted to go back and negotiate the price with the stall owner, and each of them would buy one, to see if it could be a little cheaper.

But when the stall owner saw several people leaving and returning, he was sure that Wang Anan and the others only took a fancy to their own hats, so of course they refused to lower the price.

Bamboo went up and sold it badly,

"Can you give us a little cheaper? We are all students and don't have that much money."

As soon as Zhuzi finished speaking, Huihui was on the sidelines as an interpreter.

But the stall owner kept waving his hands and said no, no, no.

At this time, Zhuzi was in a hurry and began to burst into English, but unfortunately she could only use words like "morecheaper..." at most, which probably exhausted all her life's knowledge.

In the end, several people still bought a hand-knitted straw hat.

"Oh, so many mosquitoes!"

"Really, I also think there are a lot of bugs here!"

"I saw mosquito repellent in the cabinet of the villa we rented. Spray some when I go back."

"Is there any mosquito repellent available? The landlord is quite considerate. Let's give him a 5-star review when the time comes."

"Let's buy some things and take them home. They can be used for breakfast tomorrow morning. I've seen that the villa's kitchen is available. We can make our own breakfast!"

"OK."

A few people did not buy breakfast at the night market, but went to the 711 convenience stores everywhere in Thailand, and bought some standard sandwich assembly ingredients such as bread, cereal, ham, and eggs.