🔄 Updated 21 Jun 2026
Come to Hat Yai and skip the night markets, and you've missed half the city. By day Hat Yai is a trading town, but once the sun goes down the stall lights flick on, the smell of pork satay and roti drifts on the breeze, and Thais, Malaysians, and Singaporeans fill the streets. The city has several night markets, but the three travelers hit most are the ASEAN Night Bazaar, Greenway, and the roadside stalls around Lee Gardens. We'll break down how each one is different.
ASEAN Night Bazaar — the city's big night market
The ASEAN Night Bazaar sits at 1406/3 Kanchanavanich Road, and it's the most organized and easiest-to-walk night market in Hat Yai, with both an indoor section and an open-air yard. Locals and Malaysian travelers love it for the sheer amount of stuff, the cheap prices, and a clearly separated halal food zone. The upside is the roof — you can still walk it in the rain. The downside is that it gets packed and a bit stuffy at peak, since much of it is indoors.
- Hours: roughly 16:00–22:00. The busiest stretch, when everything's open, is 18:00–21:00.
- Closed: several reviews say it's shut on Mondays. If you're going early in the week, check their page first to be sure.
- Shopping: clothes, shoes, bags, accessories, homeware, souvenirs — hundreds of stalls, and you can haggle a little.
- Eats: the food zone leans halal — pork satay (non-halal stalls are in a separate zone), chicken biryani, roti, grilled and fried snacks, bubble tea, fresh fruit juice.
How to walk it without filling up too soon
Walk the outer ring of shopping stalls first and save your stomach for the food zone — eat from the entrance and you'll be full before you've covered it. Most dishes run 30–60 THB, so order small from several stalls and you'll get to try a bit of everything.
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Greenway — secondhand finds, new goods, and a food court in one
Greenway Market is over on Supasarnrangsan Road, close to the ASEAN Night Bazaar — a short walk or motorbike-taxi ride away. Locals are hooked on it as a source of cheap secondhand goods you can dig through for hours. The market splits cleanly into three zones, so you always know which way to head.
- Front zone — secondhand goods: clothes, shoes, bags, with prices starting in the low tens of baht. Dig patiently and you'll turn up something good.
- Middle zone — brand-new items, mostly fashion clothing and souvenirs.
- Inner zone — the food and drink court, with vendors pulled from all over Hat Yai and plenty of room to sit and eat.
Hours: roughly 17:00–22:00, generally open Tuesday–Sunday and closed Mondays (some seasons it starts Wednesday). The food court has plenty to choose from — fried chicken, sticky rice, som tam, grilled squid, homestyle sizzling steak, chicken rice, fruit smoothies, all the way to the Korean–Japanese fusion the younger crowd goes for. Prices are friendly, with mains around 40–80 THB.
Street food people keep talking about
Hat Yai's night markets shine for halal food and southern street eats. Work your way through these, ordered from the dishes people mention most down to the snacks you close out with. Prices are rough ranges — the real number depends on the stall and the size.
Roti / banana-and-egg roti
The southern signature — thin dough fried crisp at the edges, drizzled with condensed milk and dusted with sugar, eaten hot right at the stall. It's the dessert to finish a meal with, and you'll find it at every market.
Chicken biryani / nasi lemak
Spiced biryani rice with fried chicken, or Malay-style nasi lemak served with sambal — filling, and a real taste of the south. Find it in the ASEAN halal zone and at the Lee Gardens stalls.
Pork satay / chicken satay
Smoky grilled skewers dipped in peanut sauce with pickled relish — easy to eat as you walk. Halal stalls use chicken or beef, so check the sign before you order.
Grilled squid
A Greenway favorite — fresh squid grilled to order, dipped in a punchy seafood sauce. It's the kind of walking snack people line up for.
Hat Yai fried chicken
Crispy-skinned fried chicken topped with crisp-fried shallots — the city's signature. Eat it with hot sticky rice. You'll find it in the Greenway food court and at stalls around town.
Som tam + sticky rice + grilled meat
The Isan-meets-southern set — punchy papaya salad with grilled chicken or pork neck, a filling meal for a few tens of baht. Locals order it often.
Kaya toast
Toast spread with southern-Malay kaya custard — fragrant and gently sweet, good with hot coffee or iced tea. A light snack to eat between stalls.
Fresh fruit juice / sugarcane juice
The southern climate is hot and humid, and a cold glass of orange, sugarcane, or blended fruit juice helps a lot. Stalls are scattered through every market, a few tens of baht a glass.
Bubble tea / trendy drinks
The younger corner of Greenway has plenty of colorful tea and drink stalls — photogenic, sweet but not too sweet, easy to carry as you keep shopping.
Mixed fried snacks / fried fish balls
Chicken pop, fried wontons, fried fish balls, chicken wings — scooped into a cup and tossed with seasoning. The kind of pick-and-dip snack to keep going while you browse.
On halal and cleanliness
Hat Yai gets a lot of Muslim travelers, and most stalls in the halal zones are clearly signed. If you eat halal, check the stall's sign before ordering; if that's not a concern for you, you can pick either kind in the same market. Either way, go for stalls with a queue and fast turnover first — the food's fresher and safer.
Lee Gardens area — halal roadside stalls downtown
If you're staying at a hotel in central Hat Yai, you don't have to head all the way out to Kanchanavanich to walk a market. The Lee Gardens area (around Lee Gardens Plaza, near Hat Yai railway station, under a kilometer away) starts filling its roadsides with stalls around 4pm, leaning toward halal food and snacks you can graze on. It's not a big market like ASEAN or Greenway, but you get the downtown atmosphere and it's close to where you're staying.
Halal roadside eats
Nasi lemak, roti, kaya toast, fried crab, grilled snacks, fruit juice — graze your way along the road, all easy on the wallet.
Souvenir shopping nearby
This area backs onto Kim Yong Market and the souvenir shops, so you can shop for snacks, dried fruit, and cosmetics on the same night.
Downtown atmosphere
After 8pm there's the odd busker or street performer, and massage shops and cafes around for a break.
All three markets in one night — a timed plan
If you've only got one night and want to cover it all, this order walks the smoothest: start at the Lee Gardens area downtown in the early evening, then move out toward Kanchanavanich where the bigger markets are.
Eat-and-walk across all three markets
Spread it out, no rushing
On getting around and valuables
These three markets aren't in one spot: Lee Gardens is downtown, while ASEAN and Greenway are over on the Kanchanavanich–Supasarnrangsan side. A short motorbike-taxi or taxi/Grab ride is the easiest way between them. When it's crowded, watch your bag and valuables — carry it in front — and bring plenty of small cash, since many stalls still take cash only.
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