Nang Loeng Market

Come hungry and come early. This is a market that serves the people who live around Wat Sommanat, not the tour groups, and the best of it is the ready-to-eat Thai food that vendors assemble through the morning. Produce, meat and household bits fill the rest of the stalls. It's old, it's narrow, and it doesn't dress itself up.

My advice is to treat it as breakfast or a very early lunch. By early afternoon the trading has slowed and the good stuff has gone. If you want the fresh produce at its best and the aisles at their most active, be there not long after eight. Photographers will do well here too, though I'd keep the camera low-key and buy something from the person you're pointing it at. An hour is enough to wander and eat properly.

Anyone hunting souvenirs should look elsewhere. This is a place to eat cheaply among people going about their week, and that's the whole point of it.