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The center of shopping with thousands of shops is around Central world (picture at right side), that's at the intersection Sukhumvit - Ratchadamri with BTS Bangkok access at Siam Station or Rachadamri Station, a shopping mall that attracts not only by its excellent designed interior, but also by many trendy shops especially for young and young at heart buyers, the place is only a little bit chaotic organized. Its within the most popular urban neighborhood of the city, close by are several luxury hotels and the Central world, Siam Paragon, Gaysorn Plaza and mbk Bangkok shopping center, all are multi-brand center, which trusted brands, local stores and international labels, there are thousands of Bangkok shops in that area. From a foreign visitors point of view the most interesting is probably the mbk center at Siam Square since that place is more locally oriented with plenty of typical Thai goods and services such as fashion, accessories, jewelry, shoes, bags, food and foodstuffs, consumer electronics and services.

Thailand is somehow based on agriculture, trading, tourism and Thailand shopping among other. Plenty of people in Thailand live directly or indirectly from shopping which naturally again is strongly related to trading.

The spectrum of Thailand shopping is extremely wide and one parameter should always be kept in mind, most goods made in Thailand are usually much cheaper than imported goods, there are some exceptions.

The picture of a Bangkok shop and shopping in Bangkok is changing rapidly. This has to do with China and recent free trade agreements between ASEAN and China.

A Tsunami of cheap Chinese goods swap over south east Asia, some Chinese stuff is good, some is junk, but it won't affect the Thai population

negatively since most of the goods which can be imported more or less without import duties from China are not competing against goods made in Thailand, have a look at a Bangkok shop here.

Walk along Sukhumvit road, Silom road and Surawong road, Patpong and other places for some shopping at Bangkok markets, there are hundreds of small stalls dedicated mainly to sell clothes, shoes, handbags and all kind of fake items which sometimes wont work anymore the next day or just fall apart two days later, but most of this shopping goods are reliable and cost a fraction of the original items.

If a traveler ask where is best shopping place in Bangkok, the answer is simple, almost everywhere since there is fierce competition this has something to do with a very common behavior of Thai people, if someone opens a shop and others see they make money with, immediately 5 more similar shops are opened, but as a matter of fact, more shops with the same goods in the same area let the prices drop due to competition, means for 2 shops is enough business and enough profit, if there are 5 shops everyone almost earns nothing, but the people don't understand.

Although there countless markets  Bangkok markets throughout the city, Chatuchak Weekend Market is the undisputed number one Bangkok markets and Pratunam market is number one for clothing. Actually most of the items you see at other markets throughout the city are bought here means  wholesale shopping in Bangkok to get the prices down. Pratunam market is the number one in terms of shopping clothes.

Shopping also including antiques, gold jewelry, cameras, seafood, electronics, herbs, Chinese medicine. There are plenty of jewelry shops in the big malls and other shops selling gems, often rubies, jade and other gems from neighboring Myanmar or Burma.

- Very close to Pratunam is Pantip Plaza the top IT shopping mall in Bangkok.

Pantip Plaza is one of the best IT shopping malls in Asia, it's a great mall with everything compact on display what anyone need in terms of computer, gadgets, cameras, software, music, video and all kind of accessories and more over 5 floors. In between is a self service restaurant with delicious Thai food and a  couple of fast food restaurants. Every day thousands of Thai people and foreigners visit the mall, bring in computers for repair, buy some IT related books or maybe just a hard disk, some memory or whatever. The compactness of Pantip Plaza all under one roof, is beneficial for everyone, no costs for long drive around in town, sticking in the traffic jam, no cost for shipping and every day special deals are available, the variety is the key.

Almost every shopping mall has some clock shops with designer brands from Europe, on the other side are the Bangkok markets, especially at Patpong where there are plenty of small stalls with Bangkok shops for cheap watches made in China, watches from China at cheap only in price, they easily keep up with every other clock from Europe perhaps a hundred times more expensive. Actually the best fake designer Bangkok shopping is Patpong night market that includes all usual products such as shoes, clothing, watches and a fake handbag in Bangkok. A very special breed also made in China and sold on Bangkok markets are fake designer watches, these copies are so good that it is virtually impossible to see a difference to the expensive items, but inside electronic works rather than mechanics but very often