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It’s one of the most well-known (yet most tiny too) food markets of Chiang Mai. Located in the backpackers area, it daily attracts lots of locals and foreigners. You will find there fresh vegetables, fruit, fruit-shakes, spices, cooked chicken, fish, sweets, coffee and other food and drink goodies worth a try. And it’s cheap. Cooking [...]

A few steps away from the Somphet Market, you will find a serie of small stands offering noodle soups, curries, donut bites, fried rice, meat balls, fruits… sometimes even rotee and gyozas. There’s anything for a quick, good (and extremely cheap) eat here. Count 25bht for a noodle soup, and between 30/45bht for curries/pad thais/fried [...]

This cute little lady’s fruit shakes are well worth a try! Always a wide selection of fresh fruit, chosen with great care. She’s recently added very good hot and iced chocolate and coffee. You can enjoy it in the vibrant Somphet Market, or just take it away. It’s the last market stand, right in between [...]

This unique café is entirely decorated by the owner, a very original soul. The music is always delightful (well, that is, if you appreciate latin vibes) and the garden is the perfect green hideaway – it’s like having your coffee in a jungle corner inside the city. It offers great thai food, great hilltribe coffee, [...]

More than being a café, a restaurant, and a secondhand shop, Free Bird Cafe helps out, with all of this, refugee children from burma and offers them a shelter and proper education. The garden is really lovely, green and quiet: the perfect place to relax while doing some good action. You can drop there unused [...]