📍 Well-known Thai gold shops & where to buy
The major names, plus where to buy in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Pattaya and Hat Yai.
Licensed Thai gold shops all trade at the Gold Traders Association daily price, so the gold price is essentially the same everywhere. Differences are in making charges, designs, service and how easy it is to sell back.
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Well-known shops
Hua Seng Heng (ฮั่วเซ่งเฮง)
Opened on Yaowarat Road in 1951, run by the Pasawongse family for three generations. Head shop plus three branches on Yaowarat, and branches at Silom Complex and Seacon Square. Bars and jewelry in 96.5% and 99.99%, gold savings and futures brokerage.
📌 Head shop: 255–257 Yaowarat Rd · daily 9:30–17:30 · call centre 02 112 2222
Good for: bars · Yaowarat
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Tang Toh Kang (ตั้งโต๊ะกัง)
Yaowarat’s oldest gold shop, over 140 years old, holder of the royal Garuda emblem. Single shop in a colonial-style building with a free gold-shop museum on the 6th floor.
📌 345 Soi Wanit 1 (Sampeng) · museum Mon–Sat 9:30–16:00, closed public holidays
Good for: history while visiting Yaowarat
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MTS Gold (แม่ทองสุก)
Started as a small Bangkok jewelry shop; three generations, six branches, plus wholesale, refining and online gold trading via banking apps such as K PLUS. Map shows the Pahurat flagship.
📌 Flagship: Pahurat intersection · call centre 02 770 7777 · some branches closed Sundays
Good for: bars · online gold
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Chin Hua Heng (จินฮั้วเฮง)
Founded 1980, head shop at the mouth of Yaowarat Soi 6, three branches, known for gold artwork.
📌 Head shop: Yaowarat Soi 6
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Aurora (ออโรร่า)
Thailand’s largest gold-jewelry chain — orange signs, mostly in malls and hypermarkets, around 488 branches at the end of 2024. Listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 2022 (AURA).
📌 Many branches — use the buttons to find the nearest
Good for: jewelry in malls nationwide
Where to buy
Anywhere in Thailand, search ร้านทอง (“gold shop”) in your map app.
🏙️ Bangkok
- Yaowarat (Chinatown) — about 130 gold shops; MRT Blue Line, Wat Mangkon station.
- Chain shops in most large malls.
⛰️ Chiang Mai
- Chinatown around Warorot Market (Kuang Men Rd), plus mall chain shops.
🏝️ Phuket
- Phuket Town and large shopping centres. Beach-area jewelers often don’t use association prices.
🌊 Pattaya
- Chain shops in major malls. Be careful at tour-group “gem centres”.
🛍️ Hat Yai
- Many gold shops in the city-centre shopping district, popular with Malaysian visitors.