Wherever I go, I love to visit the local fresh food market - they are always full of colours, nice things to eat and a good place to mingle with local people. When we asked locals in Hua Hin to recommend us a "wet" market, they pointed us to Fresh Food Market Cha-am.
We reached Cha-am fresh food market at about 6:30am after a 15 minutes drive from Devasom Hua Hin Resort where we spent the night. It was a bright and cool morning.
So many fresh, colourful fruits from plantations and small holdings around the area.
Durian stall.
Fresh pork stall.
The seafood section. Hua Hin is on the western shoreline of the Gulf of Thailand. Cha-am fresh food market is just 5 minutes drive from the beach.
Most of the seafood come from small fishing boats like this which bring in their night's catch from the Gulf of Thailand.
The fish's eyes were bright and their bodies still stiff with rigor mortis. Everything was fresh and there was no stench of anything stale anywhere in the entire market. The well kept market though wet here and there, was overall clean and pleasant.
Some of the squid were 2 feet long.
We next turned our attention to the hawker food stalls at the fresh food market.
This stall sells many traditional Thai sweet desserts (khanom wan Thai). We bought 2 of each type and brought it back to the resort to eat.
We were amazed by the deliciousness of the sweets which were made mainly with fresh coconut milk, glutinous rice, mango etc. I am still thinking about the wonderful sweets now.
Buddy Chan loves this glutinous rice with fried pork.
This stall is very similar to tau huey and you char kueh (fried fritters and soya bean milk) of Singapore/ Malaysia.
Herring type fish stewed in savoury salty sauce. The fish meat was quite stiff and the taste was mostly savoury salty. I guess the balancing sweetness will come from rice or porridge.
Freshly made traditional Thai sweet coconut and rice cake (khanom khrok).
There was a Thai kway chap stall.
There will always be at least one TFC - Thai fried chicken stall 😋
There will always be at least one stewed pork knuckle stall.
This was like deep fried otak otak (spicy fish paste).
Je Jim's porridge stall, here since 1982 (that's 37 years ago).
Je Jim with giant pork balls.
A small portion of what we ate this morning. A very small portion of it.
The porridge was savoury sweet and amazingly delicious.
My tastiest Teochew fish porridge ever (with compliments of Je Jim as she wanted us to try it). Thai hawkers are so warm and friendly.
Forbidden pork blood curd because we are Singaporeans on travel 😂
When you are at Cha-am Fresh Market, Je Jim's porridge stall is a Must Try.
Recommended for you 👍 We enjoyed ourselves a lot at Cha-am Fresh Market. Lots to see, smell, touch, hear and taste. The food we tried were delightful as the ingredients were very fresh. And, needless to say, Thai food is oh so very delicious. The well maintained market was clean and pleasant. It's a memorable experience you Must Try when you are in Hua Hin. (The red hue in the background was the rising sun.)
I do not know the names of many of the Thai food I saw today. If you know, please help me by leaving a comment. Appreciate much.
Food Market, Cha-am, Cha-am District, Phetchaburi, Thailand
GPS: 12°47'44.8"N 99°58'01.6"E 🌐 12.795782, 99.967110
Hours: Best before 9am for fresh food.
Date visited: 26 Apr 2019
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