Does anyone know, from actual experience today, if the supermarkets in MBK, Paragon and Central Chidlom are open this week and what days/hours? Thanks.

Tops in MBK is open right now

 

dont know about those places specifically but yesterday and today every supermarket and 7/11 i've seen has been open. the initial announcement did state that supermarkets and food markets would remain open.

And what about the bakeries in the big malls like Paragon/Central World/Chidlom?

16 hours ago, fruitman said:

And what about the bakeries in the big malls like Paragon/Central World/Chidlom?

My guess is you cant reach them. They normally leave the door to the supermarket open but block anybody going anywhere else. Not every bakery is right next to the supermarket and you dont want people wandering around the shopping mall to go to the bakery on the 2nd floor in the far back.

7 minutes ago, Bob12345 said:

My guess is you cant reach them. They normally leave the door to the supermarket open but block anybody going anywhere else. Not every bakery is right next to the supermarket and you dont want people wandering around the shopping mall to go to the bakery on the 2nd floor in the far back.

Some malls have now set up desk for restaurants to take order on the floor that remains open for supermarket access, you go and order with the staff and they bring what you order to the desk for collection

14 minutes ago, Bob12345 said:

My guess is you cant reach them. They normally leave the door to the supermarket open but block anybody going anywhere else. Not every bakery is right next to the supermarket and you dont want people wandering around the shopping mall to go to the bakery on the 2nd floor in the far back.

I would like to know it for sure so we don't go there to see a closed bakery.

 

They could also pack the bread in plastic and just lay it in the supermarkets, western style....i don't see the reason of displaying the breads open and uncovered for a whole day to finally pack them when they're getting sold. That's very unhygienic and even the top bakeries do so in Thailand.

1 hour ago, fruitman said:

They could also pack the bread in plastic and just lay it in the supermarkets, western style....i don't see the reason of displaying the breads open and uncovered for a whole day to finally pack them when they're getting sold. That's very unhygienic and even the top bakeries do so in Thailand.

Bread loses its crunchiness as soon as you pack it in plastic.

"Real" bakeries therefore never use plastic bags, but paper.

But this being thailand, most bread isnt ever crunchy to start with.

1 hour ago, digbeth said:

Some malls have now set up desk for restaurants to take order on the floor that remains open for supermarket access, you go and order with the staff and they bring what you order to the desk for collection

The supermarkets in every mall are open and the food stalls are open only for take away.

I went to paragon (gourmet market) and you can only enter the Paragon mall complex via the door that is on the GF, on the far west side of the complex (that’s where you’d enter/exit if you were going to cross to Siam Center) but again in the GF (not the level with the water fountains) or the GF door closest to Bangkok Bank.

 

the whole gourmet market was open, plus almost all of the smaller take-away food stalls just outside of the market Itself. The food court is closed.  Some of the larger sit-down restaurants (Bon Chon, KFC, MK, one McDondald’s, etc) are open, but take away only. Most of the smaller (La Monita, Billion Beef, etc) sit-down places are closed.  The two independent bakeries- BreadTalk and Flavor Field (a Thai Yamazaki brand) are open and it looked like they were doing a full product line.

 

i didn’t notice any shortages in any of the open shops.  Inside gourmet they do sell some non-grocery/food items. For example, there’s one aisle of home kitchen goods likes utensils, paper/plastic food containers or one aisle of religious goods, etc- those are still open and you can buy/access them.  So if it was inside Gourmet market before Monday, it’s still there.
 

for me, the hardest part was finding the few entrances that you could still use.