Fish Wholesale Market, Chatuchak, Bangkok

[eric6363]

These photos are taken at the fish wholesale market (next to JJ Mall), Chatuchak, on a Thursday.



































Is it possible to bring the fish back? Yes - buy at most 1 day before you fly back.
Ask them to put in 2 plastic bags just in case. Wrap the bag in your dirty clothes.
Pack into your hard suitcase, and check in. Mine survived.
I was told by a Singapore Customs officer that we are allowed to bring in 30 fishes in 3 litres of water.

There are giant angelfish for 2000 bahts. I got a pair of very nice large angelfish for 350 bahts each.
There are giant goldfish - I did not ask the price, but you can see the prices in some of the bags.

Oh - if you intend to bring fish back to Singapore, upsize your luggage first if you are travelling by budget airline.

[weiquan]

thanks for sharing man.
did you happen to see plecos or corys there?

[eric6363]

Er... I donno what they are... Did you see any in the photos?
I was only looking at kois, goldfish, angelfish, and some fighting fish...

[benny]

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Cheers,

[marle]

Thanks for sharing!

[Hulk]

thanks for the info.... bro

[wllm33]

very enlightening indeed.
thanks for sharing .

[sriwonc]

Thanks for sharing. I will be there this coming weekend. Yewha

[pengtsin]

If you happens to be in Bangkok, how would you bring back fish back to Singapore on a commercial flight?

These days they don't let you bring liquids into the cabin.

Thanks!

[Razorblade]

He did mention that the fishes are in the hard suitcase and was check-in, not hand carry on board.

Fishes not too keen unless they are exotic or its very expensive here, otherwise would rather get them locally, did cross my mind once to buy back some frogs, scorpions and spiders though :P

cheers,

[SCOPE]

Great sharing! i believe this market give us lots of choices in that setup. Hope to visit it one day.

[Misery]

heading there next month :P
hope to get some good stuff back hehe.

[guppylove]

this is very tempting.

[guppylove]

Thnaks for sharing too(:

[LauHau]

Can we do import direct from there?

[fisbike]

Are the market open on weekday too? I thought only Sat and Sun. You visited it on a Thursday?

[hkh]

Are the market open on weekday too? I thought only Sat and Sun. You visited it on a Thursday?

Yes it opens on weekdays too.....

[Shrimpong]

Do you mean you hand carry? Or check the baggage in? If you have other sharp or hard items in the baggage, and if explode in midair then ho seh liao..LOL

[wllm33]

Can we do import direct from there?

even if you import direct from there, you must know who to trust and worth the while,i.e. from a good breeder.

think can get someone to help get them in via the proper legal direct import method, if can know the exporter/breeder is reliable.
cheers.

[eric6363]

Do you mean you hand carry? Or check the baggage in? If you have other sharp or hard items in the baggage, and if explode in midair then ho seh liao..LOL

Please read my first post again. Everyone should already know that no liquids exceeding 100ml can be carried on board a flight.

It is common sense that you should not pack sharp objects with your bags of fish.
Furthermore, if a sharp object pierce a bag of fish, the bag does not "explode". A bag of fish is not like a balloon.
Lastly, please do not use the words "explode" and "midair" in the same sentence - some people do not like it.