You can get all the northern Thai specialties here and eat with the local Thai people. We especially enjoyed fried fish cakes, freshly fried oyster omletters, and delicious chicken satay skewers with Singha beer from a bottle. Believe it or not, I think I single-handedly ate about 12 of these excellent, fresh grilled chicken skewers. A polite dog also joined us for a few pieces of chicken, but I mostly gave him the fatty pieces, which it liked. But I felt that wouldn't be too nourishing for it, and then gave him a few complete chicken pieces.

The chicken curry noodle soup dish is also a spicy and delicious specialty! Most places have an english menu, but it's also easy to walk up to a stall and simply point and nod. You can enjoy a complete dinner with drinks for about $8 U.S. dollars! Quite amazing. There were only a few families enjoying dinner here and not too many tourists at all. We thought perhaps people eat here very late, but Somporn says on weekends it's quite a bit busier, and on weekdays most Thai people eat at home.

This market is really most well-known for its fresh seafood stalls where fresh fish, shrimps, and shellfish on ice are displayed at many restaurants. We did not try the seafood places, but other food stalls we tried were the Pad Thai guy, the Chinese noodle lady, and we would have tried the Thai Soup Noodle guy, but he wasn't quite ready for orders! A stop at the Anusam market is a dining treat before a night of shopping at the night bazaar.