Wua Lai Walking Street Saturday Market
Saturday evening street market of silver crafts and food stalls along a historic silversmith road.
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This guide to the Wua Lai Walking Street Saturday Market in Chiang Mai starts at a hand-painted warning sign barring women from a nearby silver-clad temple, then traces that oddity back to King Kawila, who resettled silversmith families from a Shan village called Ngua Lai here after retaking the city from Burmese occupation. Their descendants still work these streets in a hammering technique called repousse, coaxing flowers and dragons up from flat metal by hand most evenings, not only on market night.
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