From jars of fermented shrimp paste and yellow bean sauce, to soft cakes of palm sugar and plastic-wrapped trays of frozen kaffir lime leaves, the fragrance and funk of authentic Thai food is on exhaustive display at Bangkok Market. Devoid of decor, cute displays and free samples, this grocery store is unburdened by any semblance of a shopping "atmosphere." There is only the rattle of a battered cart for which you spent six minutes searching, a rainbow of jarred and canned curry pastes, a... More »
