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!
I think the fruit is called sapodilla. Great pics! 🙂
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