Night street food

Come hungry and come after dark. This is a proper eating market rather than a shopping one, somewhere between 50 and 100 little carts strung out along Thanon Sangchuto near the clock tower, most of them selling food you eat standing up or at the plastic tables scattered between them. The crowd is largely Thai, which tells you what you need to know about the prices and the cooking.

My advice is to walk the whole run first before you commit. Plenty of stalls sell the same things, and you'll spot four or five doing cold desserts alone, so there's no sense buying the first thing you see. Regulars single out the yen ta fo, that pink fermented tofu noodle soup, and the moo ping skewers. There's bakery stuff, snacks, even pizza if someone in your group has given up on Thai food. One reviewer noted pad thai at 35 baht back in 2020, with free iced water thrown in, which gives you a sense of the ballpark.