At night, the streets around Chiang Mai's Warorot Market overflow with shoppers.

Rubyfish and prawns at a street restaurant at Thapae Gate

The scene at Warorot Market may look haphazard, but vendors pay for and are assigned to specific spots on which to set up their wares.

Merchandise fills up all the available sidewalk space around Warorot Market, leaving just enough room for two-way pedestrian traffic.

An Isaan native transplanted to Chiang Mai, selling 'Isaan sausages.' The sausages are made with pork, garlic, and either rice or glass noodles.

A popular means of transportation around the city are the songthaew, pickup trucks converted to carry passengers on benches that line either side in back.

Fish sticks and fish balls, meatballs, sausage, among other offerings

More street food

At Warorot Market one can indulge one’s appetite for grasshoppers, bamboo worms, crab claws, crickets, and water striders, seen here.

Curried dishes and other take-away foods for your dinner

Fresh fruits and vegetables along the sidewalk on Moon Muang Road

Flower sellers at Warorot Market with their fragrant and colorful offerings. Flowers and floral arrangements are an important part of everyday Thai social and religious life. The garlands hanging on pink ribbons in the photo are malai. Fashioned from marigold blossoms or jasmine buds, they are used in a variety of ways, including as offerings at shrines or, hung from a car’s rearview mirror, as protection against accidents.

Massage parlor poster

Curbside offerings

Waiting out the rain on a slow day for sales

Directions to the 'Joe Maboro' guest house and other miscellanea

Chiang Mai's Walking Street Market attracts hordes of local people and tourists as well.

Many of the wares for sale at the Walking Street Market are hand made by the sellers.

Dusk settles over Moon Muang Road and an outlet of the ubiquitous 7-Eleven chain

Japanese restaurant on Moon Muang Soi 7

The world of commerce has an ugly way of intruding on sanctuaries of the spirit.

Jimi Hendrix poster outside the monks' quarters at a Chiang Mai temple

Mother and babies at Wat Mahawan

Sidewalk wares

Lottery-ticket seller, who has set up shop right in the street, studies her morning paper.

A woman sweeping the floor of her shophouse on one of the side streets of the city

Indoor stalls at Warorot Market. 'Less is more' is not a marketing strategy here.

An avalanche of religious objects at Warorot's indoor market—for placement at shrines, businesses, or in the home.

Eating and reading, waiting for customers

Two canine visitors to Wat Chiang Man, Chiang Mai's oldest temple

Chiang Mai sunset with overhead wires

A songthaew parked for the night along a lane off of Moon Muang Road, waiting for a new day and more riders in the morning