Shopping in Bangkok (SSMAH
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Siam Discovery Center adjoining Siam Center is avant garde chrome and steel with a few international brands but not a vast selection. A great place to educate yourself though and pick up a historic bauble or two, is The Metropolitan Museum of Art shop. The Met Art shop showcases refashioned jewellery and bric-a-brac modelled on original historic pieces housed at the original New York museum. Cufflinks and earrings are always good buys. The fifth floor is Kid’s World where you’ll find Tiny Tykes, The Maternity House, and Pork Chop & Friends. The sixth floor houses cinemas and assorted entertainment. Siam Discovery is close to both Siam Centre and the monster Mah Boon Krong, or MBK as it is commonly known.
Maboonklong (MBK) , Bustling MBK is the heart of city discount shopping. Buy small or buy wholesale. The nearest station is National Stadium, one stop on from Siam Square, but you can easily walk across. MBK is several floors of shops segregated into accessories, furniture, clothing, gold and jewellery and so on, floor by floor. There are some decent restaurants in the complex for a short halt when the feet get weary. Some of the nicest items are to be found in the home decoration area – cushion covers, backrests, tablecloths and sumptuous bedspreads. Grab a signature fold-up Thai mattress that stacks up as a pyramid-shaped cushion for the living room floor.
Siam Paragon you are now all set to go straight upmarket into the gleaming sprawl of the monstrous new Siam Paragon complex near Siam Square. Or head for the anything-goes weekend market on the outskirts of town.
Central World Plaza on Rajadamri Road (previously the World Trade Center) with Zen, Isetan, and a raft of upmarket designer brands and fashions. Check out the ice skating rink and the cineplex theatre.
Narai Phand, Around the corner is the musty but well-stocked government-run handicraft complex Narai Phand. Pick up an intricately-patterned six-piece porcelain tea set for Bt14,500 or a bone china set for Bt35,000. Narai Phand will be happy to ship your purchases to your home country. There’s a Thai food caf? here should you fancy a bite. Other items include enamel vases, celadon pottery, wooden spirit houses, statues and so on
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