Jingjok
ตัวละ · 3 ตัว 100 · ราคาเดียว: reading the sign
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Every rack carries a cardboard sign in marker pen, and it tells you whether to bargain at all. ตัวละ 100 is the per-piece price for clothes; ชิ้นละ for other items, ไม้ละ for skewers, แก้วละ for drinks. 3 ตัว 100 is the bundle: three for a hundred, which is cheaper than three singles and the reason vendors like you to buy more. ราคาเดียว means one price for the whole rack, no exceptions, no haggling. ลด 50% is a sale; มือสอง is second-hand; แบรนด์แท้ on a cheap rack means nothing. Numbers are usually Arabic, so you can read most signs on day one.
Try this today
Photograph three price signs at the market and read them aloud with the classifier.
Learn this in “Night market” →
Your first 90 days of Thai
Culture cards in Jingjok are tied to the words that carry them, each ending in one thing to try today.
- WEEKS 1–2 · SURVIVEGreet anyone, pay, and order food and 7-Eleven exactly how you like it.
- WEEKS 3–6 · SETTLE INGet around by taxi, Grab and skytrain, find anything, and handle your landlord.
- WEEKS 7–12 · RUN YOUR LIFEPharmacy, bank, SIM and apps, how you feel, and a weekend away, all in Thai.
The first week is free.