Jingjok
ขีด: shopping in hundreds of grams
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Thai markets weigh in kilos and ขีด. One ขีด is 100 grams, so ten ขีด make a kilo and ครึ่งกิโล (half a kilo) is five ขีด. Price signs usually say กิโลละ 80 or กก.ละ 80, meaning 80 baht a kilo, even when you only want a little. So ask for what you need in ขีด: ขอสามขีด gets you 300 grams of cashews, dried shrimp or minced pork. Vendors put it on the scale in front of you and round to the nearest few baht. Fruit is mostly sold by the kilo; mangosteens, rambutans and longans go in a bag on the scale, while durians and watermelons are weighed one by one and priced from the kilo rate.
Try this today
At the next market, ask for something in ขีด instead of pointing.
The words that carry it
Learn this in “Shopping and the market” →
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