Neighborhood · Samphanthawong · Chinatown
Talat Noi
ตลาดน้อย
A riverside maze of engine grease, ancestral mansions and street art — old Chinese Bangkok in miniature.
Jing ler? — no way
Hidden in the lanes is So Heng Tai, a 200-year-old Hokkien courtyard mansion — with a four-metre-deep scuba diving pool in the courtyard. The eighth-generation owner teaches diving lessons to pay for the house's upkeep rather than sell to developers.
Jing ler? — no way
Explore it in the 3D city →Talat Noi's nickname is 'greasy alley': for decades its shophouses have dismantled engines into glistening mountains of second-hand parts. Before that, it was where Chinese junks moored — this tiny quarter has been trading for longer than Bangkok has existed.