Thailand: Chiang Mai – Waroros Market

One of our adventures in Chiang Mai was a walk through the local market: Waroros Market.  You could buy everything there, from food to clothes to gold!  But we focused on the good stuff – fresh fruits and veggies, sweets, snacks, and flowers!  (As always on the blog, you can click on the photos in the post to make them big!)

I loved seeing all the sweets laid out in the stalls:

And all the savoury things:

Bundles of sticky rice:

Pickled fruit (plums!!!!!):

The green chili paste Chiang Mai is famous for: nam prik noom, made with green chilies, garlic, and shallots.  You eat it with sticky rice and cooked veggies or meats:

All the veggies:

All the teas:

Including pandan leaf tea (the bag in the middle labeled “Pandanus”):

Beautiful bags of rice:

And all the spices — including these spice packs that include everything you need for different Thai dishes (e.g. the one on the right is for Tom Yum soup!):

And all the fabulous fresh stuff — fruit (look at that pineapple in the bottom centre!):

Mango and watermelon:

Tamarind, still in the pod, my favourite:

And sweetened tamarind:

Rose apples:

Dragonfruit!!!!

And a fruit I don’t know — but I had a delicious one in Phuket — you can see in the top left corner that it has a black pip in the centre (Does anyone know what it is? Is it a plum? Let me know in the comments!):

Young coconuts:

Colourful watermelons:

Pineapples:

Sugar cane:

Avocados:

And teeny pumpkins!

And fresh fresh eggs (I love the pink ones!):

Chiang Mai is very well known for its strawberries.  They even create dried strawberries for snacking and strawberry wine:

And at the very edge of the market — all the flowers!!!

Delivered fresh:

And laid out in gorgeous arrays!!!!

And another mystery to me — these looked like a citrus, anyone know what they are???

I love market adventures — from San Miguel’s Tuesday Market in Mexico to the floating markets we visited outside Bangkok, and now this market in Chiang Mai.  Just wonderful!