Pratunam Market

The emphasis here is on clothes, in particular T-shirts, and the Baiyoke Garment Center, the immense open-air market that comprises much of the area, is the best place in town to buy that black Iron Maiden T-shirt you’ve had your eye on.

The greater market area occupies the neighbourhood behind the shopfronts on the corner of Th Phetchaburi and Th Ratchaprarop, and also includes several like-minded malls: Indra Square, which carries mostly women’s clothing; Pratunam Centre, featuring a decent selection of Thai handicrafts and silver; City Complex and Krung Thong Plaza, two nearly identical wholesale clothing malls; and, across the street, the five-storey Platinum Fashion Mall sports the latest in no-brand couture, including a basement-level Jeans Zone, featuring 100 shops.