tomatoes

[Mekong Bob]

Where to find nice and fresh, deep red, sweet, tender tomatoes in Chiang Mai?

most are not sweet. crunchy.  tasteless.

 

Can you recommend a market?  I'm in Hang Dong District.

 

Thanks!

[Wandr]

Hang Dong Market has a stall that advertises organic produce. You will have to walk the aisles to locate it , and best I can describe is that it's about in the middle.

They have pretty decent tomatoes, though maybe not always. They are not the roma variety but round and deep red, like in your picture.

Taste is ok. Let us know what you think .

[worgeordie]

The only decent / very good tomatoes I have found in Chiang Mai,on a regular basis

are sold in RimPing, under the "Eat me", or it could be "Buy me" brand,

they are grown under cover by some Dutch folk,outside Chiang mai.

 

They have them in packs of 6-8 or some on trusses,and some loose so you

can choose yourself,they look like tomatoes,smell like tomatoes and taste

like real tomatoes, most of the other tomatoes for sale in CNX are field grown,

and have thick skins,and are devoid of taste.once my wife purchased some

really lovely Roma type tomatoes in the market, I sent her back to buy another

2 Kg, sold out, and never seen again.

regards worgeordie

[trainman34014]

Difficult to find a consistent supply of what we would call decent Tomatoes unless you want to pay Rimping prices every week.   Main reason for the local crap field variety is that Thai's mainly use Tomatoes for cooking and not salads or sandwiches.  Royal Project shops have been a good hunting ground of late but they don't always have them.

[prism]

14 hours ago, worgeordie said:

The only decent / very good tomatoes I have found in Chiang Mai,on a regular basis

are sold in RimPing, under the "Eat me", or it could be "Buy me" brand,

they are grown under cover by some Dutch folk,outside Chiang mai.

 

They have them in packs of 6-8 or some on trusses,and some loose so you

can choose yourself,they look like tomatoes,smell like tomatoes and taste

like real tomatoes, most of the other tomatoes for sale in CNX are field grown,

and have thick skins,and are devoid of taste.once my wife purchased some

really lovely Roma type tomatoes in the market, I sent her back to buy another

2 Kg, sold out, and never seen again.

regards worgeordie

They're called "Take me Home" tomatoes. They are good if you're willing to pay a little extra. 

[opalred]

i have tried over many years/ to grow a tomato that smells and taste real here 

so far found nil/ bought  seed from different Asian  country's /still no taste 

last lot /brought seed in china /the packet had a photo of large red tomato on front 

grew them /the vines grew to 2 meters and the fruit the size of a 1 baht coin  and sour ?

[Wandr]

My guess is tomatoes need to be grown in a greenhouse here. I have no idea why as I have not researched the matter.

The better tomatoes I buy here look greenhouse grown, including the ones I have bought recently at Hang Dong market's organic stall.

Maybe there should be a topic on growing tomatoes in Chiang Mai.

[CMKiwi]

A Thai couple that have a stall in the Mae Rim plaza market have a variety of tomatoes.

 

They on occasion have ones resembling the beefsteak variety. Sometimes they have vine tomatoes. At one stage they had some of the tastiest cherry tomatoes I've had.

 

Prices are good. Beefsteak type for 40 baht a kg. Local type tomatoes for about 10-20 baht a kg. Cherry type (Italian version) were a bit expensive at 70 baht/kg.

 

 

[daoyai]

This is the tropics,  stick to the small varieties, I like them tangy so I buy from the fresh market, no complaints.

[Mekong Bob]

thanks all

[THAIJAMES]

6 hours ago, daoyai said:

This is the tropics,  stick to the small varieties, I like them tangy so I buy from the fresh market, no complaints.

Except for cherry tomatoes, most tomatoes need dry and cold weather to become sweet and tasty. 

Never had a tomato in Thailand that could compare to the ones that I used to grow and pick from the vine back in the US.