While a most visitors and locals have made their way up to Chatuchak on the week end so many have noticed the rather nondescript Or Kor Tor (Marketing Organisation for Farmers) Produce Market that sits just across the street from Chatuchak's southern entrance, right by the Kamphaeng Phet MRT station While Chatuchak is only open on weekends, or Kor Tor is open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and it is easy to spend half a day here wandering around, shopping, and most definitely eating
The market began as an agricultural collective , The market sells not only Royal Project organic veggies and fruit from Doi Kham, but also stocks the best imported fruit to be found in town, along with all of the top Thai selections , Mangoes is the most popular fruit. If you aren’t buying, it's still the perfect eye candy ,and photographers wanting to do some market photography will be in the best spot in the kingdom. . Best of all is the area of food courts, where there's a section of tables set up for dinners, and vendors sell just about every Thai curry and dish to be had with rice under the sun . There's an excellent dessert section near the food court which shouldn't be missed, selling all sorts of traditional Thai sweets including , tha Khanom Krok. Many of the vendors at or Kor Tor have been selling here for several decades, even after large rent increases that were put in place after the market underwent major renovation some years ago. A word of warning though, if you are a durian addict, this is the best place in Bangkok to buy top notch durian, and the adjacent MRT station does have very large signs telling you that durians are not allowed in the MRT, and yes, the guards have had plenty of practice sniffing them out, so you'll be forced to either take a cab or walk around to the BTS if you don't have your own transport for your stinky spiked fruit.