Muantae.com, articles about Chiang Mai, Thailand



As a second largest city in Thailand, Chiang Mai offers very unique attractions. Visitors to Chiang Mai will find fascinating people and their lifestyles, culture, arts, exotic food, and nightlife. The city is also well-known as a shopping paradise.

Muantae (phonetics), a northern Thai word which means real fun, has been created as an e-zine style travel guide, dedicated to providing the fun-loving travelers, expatriates, and those just browsing through, with useful information about Chiang Mai and other Northern provinces of Thailand. Our readers will be entertained with a variety of interesting articles.


Chiang Mai's Cheapest Food Markets
Written by Lin Nina   
If you only have 10 to 20 baht on you, what kind of food will you be able to afford in order to soothe your hunger needs? In Bangkok, it is rather hard to find cheap food prices, but in Chiang Mai where most of the working people's earnings are not yet as handsome as the Bangkok Metropolitan hiring rates, there exist two food markets that offer incredibly affordable foods for the many who have to watch their tight budgets.

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Kamin Lertchaiprasert
Written by Panida Suvapiromchote   
"Think rationally not emotionally", "Do not judge a person based on other people’s judgements", "Do not worry about the future, do your best with the present".

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Wieng Kalong Ceramics
Written by Panida Suvapiromchote   
If you travel along the Chiang Mai-Chiang Rai on Highway 1035, plan to make a stop-over at the Wieng Kalong village to discover another page of history of the Lanna Kingdom at this small and serene village. The village of Wieng Kalong in the Wieng Pa Pao District of Chiang Rai has been well known to antique ceramic collectors around the world for more than four decades, but the village itself has attracted few visitors. So the local community is reviving and promoting the high quality Wieng Kalong ceramic reproductions in order to attract more collectors and tourists.

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American Silversmith in Chiang Mai
Written by Soui Sananikone   
After spending some 35 years working in management for major international engineering and construction firms, Steve McCarthy decided to retire to the beauty of South East Asia. After much traveling and searching, he has settled for the unique charms of Chiang Mai, in Northern Thailand. An elegant American man in his sixties, Steve has found and embarked on many local causes, to occupy his time. Besides being deeply involved in a Child Development Center for undocumented orphans from neighbouring countries and “babysitting” a guest house for friends, Steve has also managed to have found fame in silversmith, much to his surprise.

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Kao Tok Silk & Cotton
Written by Jiap des   
Simple but elegant was my first impression on this silk and cotton clothes shop named "Kao Tok" situated on Tha Pae Road. From bright colours to light and dark tones, the shop displays ladies' silk and cotton clothes designed by a Japanese couturier who has had long years of experience in the garment business in Japan prior to working in Chiang Mai.

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