Big C Market Pantip Chiangmai

Buy your water and snacks here, not from the stalls outside. This Big C sits on the ground floor of the Pantip complex on Changklan Road, and it's the sensible antidote to Night Bazaar pricing, with groceries, toiletries, bottled water, Thai snacks, the household bits you forgot to pack, all at normal supermarket rates. If you're staying anywhere near the Night Bazaar strip, it's the shop you'll end up using without thinking about it.

Beyond the aisles the complex runs to clothing, electronics and food vendors, plus a food court if you want to eat for a few baht rather than sit down at one of the tourist restaurants along Chang Khlan. Don't come expecting a pleasant browse. It's busy, functional and full of locals doing their actual shopping, which is precisely why the prices are what they are. Weekday mornings are the calm window. Evenings and weekends, it fills up.