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Hat Yai: Log Terrace Thai Food Restaurant

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Hat Yai Food: Log Terrace Thai Food Restaurant – Here’s another restaurant that I’ve visited in Hatyai, Thailand yesterday and that is the Log Terrace Thai Food Restaurant. Well, this place has a theme and which is a loggy feeling with lot’s of artificial log in the interior and entrance which gives a jungle feeling.

The location of it besides a river stream add a sense of nature while dining at there. The restaurant was very famous but then it’d become quiet nowadays, but still it’s introduces in tourism website. According to my Thai’s relative, this restaurant has been operating for about 8 years +.

Thai food is awesome and I couldn’t resist myself from it. Though, eating too much of Thai food will feel weird and uncomfortable. At that time of dinner, I was still craving for Thai food, but at the moment of writing this, I am not already. HAHA.

The restaurant has a nice set but then it’s quiet, on a Sunday evening. Check out the place here and food after the break.

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February 27, 2012
Hat Yai: Saban-nga Restaurant

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Hat Yai Food: Saban-nga Restaurant – Sorry if I am posting many food pr0n lately which seduces your taste bud and hungriness, I just couldn’t stop myself on sharing them with you guys. Haha. Yesterday, I went to a one-day trip to Hat Yai and the most interesting stuff at there to me was the food!

I went to this restaurant called Saban-nga Restaurant which serves authentic Thai food. Most cool is steamed rice was in purplish colour! It’s located somewhere near to the university area and it was a Thai relative who brought us there.

The restaurant has a nice and comfy interior with nice garden garden outside. Well, I don’t really know how to introduce the food, so I’ll let the photo speaks. The tomyum, the vegetable, the omelet, the pork leg (not really my favourite), the petai, were good!

Purple steamed rice. The dye is from a kind of flower.

Thai loves pork leg, which I don’t really fancy about it.

Tomyum goong! With lots of shrimp and fish.

Petai fried with onion, prawn and sambal. I realised that restaurant in Bangkok does not serves petai.

Pickled mango cut into small strips, tasted sour.

Thai-style omelet. Do you know why Thai’s omelet is so good? It’s because when they cook, they add in a little bit of milk, so it looks fluffy.

Nam-prit, a kind of Thai’s sald which you eat raw vegetable with Thai-style spicy sambal.

Fish cake which tasted like otak-otak.

Fried kangkung or known as phak bung in Thai.

Fried fish with meat cut into small pieces.

A glass of ice blended watermelon to end up the meal and also to freshen up the day.

Are you feeling hungry now? =D

Saban-Nga Restaurant
Punnakan Soi 9,
Kho Hong, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110,
Thailand

Telephone: +66-081-9690686

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February 27, 2012
Bangkok: Night Market Outside Central World

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Bangkok Trip: Night Market Outside Central World (Day 4) – Well, it almost comes to the last post and last day of my Bangkok trip. I still have one more post to share about. So after going to a day of Bangkok sightseeing trip to Wat Pho, Wat Arun and Grand Palace, I went back to hotel to take a rest to recharge my power. Later at night, it’s pretty free and no place of interest to go already.

Mom randomly suggested walking around the Central World shopping mall area as there’s a small night market right in front of the mall. We walked from our hotel and it took us about 20 minutes to reach there. It’s nice to walk at night because the weather get cooler and is away from the sunny sun.

At the night market outside Central World, you can find typical Thai’s night market stuff like clothing, beauty accessories, footwear, lots of street food, gift and more. Didn’t really buy anything there except a bottle of beverage and went to bought a notebook in Central World instead. Hehe, thanks dear Huei for getting me the notebook.

Since there’s nothing much to see at there, we went back to hotel for the last night. And so, my Bangkok trip has put a full-stop here. The last day, day 5 is just another going-to-airport-and-back day.

Shrine is everywhere!

Fried food look so yummy, but super duper unhealthy!

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February 23, 2012
Bangkok: Grand Palace

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Bangkok Trip: Grand Palace (Day 4) – Grand Palace is a historical site in Bangkok, Thailand where many years back, it’s the palace of King of Thailand. In year 2006, I went there once, and 6 years later, I went there again! It hasn’t changed a bit, but there’s some renovation going on in the Grand Palace. The tourists are more than before and the weather was hotter than before.

Although Grand Palace is located right next to Wat Pho, but then the main entrance is very far from Wat Pho! OMG. It took me about 10 minutes walk from Wat Pho to Grand Palace’s main entrance under the scorching hot sun. It’s really very very hot. I suggest starting the trip at Grand Palace first only go visit Wat Pho and Wat Arun, visit in the morning will be the best as it’s not that hot yet.

Looks pretty and like a Thai girl right? Hehe.

I have heard about the Grand Palace scam which is that the tuk-tuk taxi driver will approach you and tell you that Grand Palace is close at that time, and will instead bring you to other temple like Lucky Buddha and shopping at the gem shop, only you completed the “tour”, they will bring you back to Grand Palace. They charged only about 100-200Baht for the trip. Sounds good right? But it’s actually a scam and it’s a time wasting tour. Grand Palace is in fact opens daily. When they bring you to these places, they actually receive commission.

However, I did not approach with any of such tuk-tuk driver. I’ve read on the Internet, it’s better to beware. If you are approached by them, just say no, or in Thai, ‘Mai Owl Rock’, which means I’ve been here before.

Going in to the Grand Palace is pretty troublesome because one needs to be properly dressed. I have shorts, and Hueisean has shorts too, so we have to rent something to cover up. 200Baht per piece and you will get back the deposit when you end the tour. I got myself a wear on pants and Hueisean got a piece of sarong-liked cloth. 3/4 length pants and skinny jeans are also not allow in the Grand Palace, and spaghetti straps too. What a strict place, but since you get to rent the cloth for free, so why not checking it out?

Entrance fee to Grand Palace is very expensive at 400 Baht (RM40) per person! Since we have already there, no point getting back already, so me and Hueisean bought the ticket and went in. We only have about 1.5 hours to tour the whole Grand Palace because it closes at 4pm every afternoon. The weather was really very very hot, perspiring drops were all over the body and the pants they lend were hot.

We started off the tour at the temple area which is the Temple of Emerald Buddha – Wat Phra Kaew. I think this is the most beautiful part of the Grand Palace compound and with most things to see. Other than that is just no-photo’s Throne Hall which is just normal.

The Italian Renaissance-style of Throne Hall and King’s Residence is pretty cool. It’s a blend of Thai and Western architecture. When you are at the ground level, you can see Renaissance-style architecture, but when you look at the top of the building, you can see the Mondop-style roof. Pretty cool.

Actually Grand Palace is not as big as you seen from the outer wall. Many parts of the Grand Palace are prohibited from enter. It’s just maybe a small little part of Forbidden City in Beijing. However, if you haven’t been there before, I think this is a good place to tour on. Not big, but still good. We returned the pants and got back the deposit that we’ve made then we went to look for a cab to go back to hotel. Unfortunately, cabs around the Grand Palace just don’t want turn on the meter, so no choice that I paid 200 Baht for a 30 minutes trip back to hotel.

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February 21, 2012
Bangkok: Wat Pho

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Bangkok Trip: Wat Pho (Day 4) – After getting back from Wat Arun, we went to the famous reclining Buddha temple – Wat Pho right away. Mom and dad were not interest in it too because they had went in before, so it’s me and Hueisean who went in to check out the reclining Buddha.

The Wat Pho was under-renovation at that time, but luckily it’s still open to visitors. Entrance to the Wat Pho Reclining Buddha Hall is charged at 100 Baht per person, with a free bottle of mineral water. That’s sounded cool. It was just a small bottle of mineral water, better than nothing.

The Wat Pho was pretty crowded with tourists. The hall that lies the huge golden Reclining Buddha is hot, and narrow. Although the hall is not very big, yet exploring the hall takes time because of the narrow passage and the presence of huge crowds.

After exploring the reclining Buddha (sleeping Buddha), I went to tour around the Wat Pho compound for a little while. Wat Pho is not actually about the Reclining Buddha only, but there’s also a proper shrine hall that house the Buddha statue for people to worship with joss stick. There’s also presence of Thai-style holy tower-liked structure in the Wat Pho compound.

I am pretty amaze with the huge Reclining Buddha in the hall, it’s really huge and the whole statue is painted in golden paint and mother of pearl are inlaid at the Buddha’s feet. However, the 100 Baht entrance is expensive though, 50 Baht would be better. Haha. Nevertheless, it’s a must visit if you are in Bangkok since it’s so near to other attractions like the Grand Palace and Wat Arun.

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February 20, 2012
Bangkok: Wat Arun Temple

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Bangkok Trip: Wat Arun Temple – It’s time to share back about my Bangkok Trip that I’ve been to a week ago. After getting onto the water taxi at Tha Tien Pier, we reached the other side of Bangkok, where the famous Wat Arun Temple is located. Wat Arun is also known as 郑王庙 Zheng4 Wang2 Miao4 to the Chinese is famous for it’s pyramid-like Prang-style tower which symbolic holistic goddess and it’s away for the Thai’s buddhist to worship to god.

It’s very special and only available in Thailand, and I heard Cambodia too. It’s something that you couldn’t be found in China or Malaysia.

The weather was really really hot, 2 set of umbrellas were really not enough for four of us. It’s best to have one for each. Hueisean and I went in to the Wat Arun to check out and climbed up to the top. Entrance fee at 50 Baht per person and you will have to wear a proper clothing in there. Hueisean dear wore a pair of shorts so she had to rent a piece of Sarung-liked cloth to cover up the leg. Deposit 100Baht and pay a rental of 20Baht for it, it’s pretty cheap. There’s no dress code for man though.

We took photos at the bottom of the tower later then we climbed up the stairs. The stairs are pretty steep and I need to hold tight on the handle to guide me up and there. There’s two landing point up there and from there I can get a good view of two sides of Bangkok.

It’s better at the top because it’s windy and we enjoyed the view of Bangkok. The Prang-styled tower is a really special architecture element of Thai. Every part of it are decorated with tiles and ornaments, I feel it’s very, unique and amazing. Spend 10 minutes up there and we went back down. Mom and dad were waiting for us down there because they had no interest in climbing it. After that, we went back to the pier to catch the water taxi back to the other side of the river. We then we to tour the famous reclining sleeping Buddha – Wat Pho and Grand Palace.

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February 19, 2012
Bangkok: Huai Khwang Night Market

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Bangkok Trip: Huai Khwang Night Market (Day 3) – Oops, I missed out a place after eating my dinner at Somboon Seafood Restaurant on the third day of my Bangkok Trip last week. Right after our dinner, we went to tour around the area of Huai Khwang. Walking along Ratchadaphisek, and turned left into Pracharat Bamphen Road when reaches a junction leaded us to a row of night market and stalls located along the road.

It’s the Huai Khwang night market and wet market area. Unlike night market in town, this one is more cater to the locals around that area, selling clothing, accessories, shoes, and also raw food and vegetables at the wet market. Besides, there’s many exotic sexy clothing because of the presence of night club workers at this area. We toured around this place for an hour before heading back to the hotel. The wet market is where we stopped as it’s boring and smelly. Now I know that they shop for meat and vegetables at night, something different.

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February 15, 2012
Bangkok: Walking Along Central World Area & Platinum Mall

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Bangkok Trip: Walking Along Central World Area & Platinum Mall (Day 3) – On day 3 of my Bangkok trip, after praying at the Erawan Shrine, we walked towards Platinum Fashion Mall, a place where my mom and dear Hueisean was crazy for, there are lots and lots and lots of clothing and girls accessories, all sell at affordable price. It’s a shopping haven for the girls. We passed by Central World, which is also one of the largest shopping mall in Thailand and Asia and skipped that mall because that all the things inside are not very affordable to us. Haha. It somehow like our enlarge version of Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur.

The walk to Platinum Fashion Mall took us about 15-20 minutes. It was scorching hot under the hot sun and luckily we have umbrella with us. Though, there’s only two umbrella for three of us. It’s best to have one umbrella for each person. Along the way, there’s some stall selling Thailand t-shirt and food by the roadside. So there’s always things to see in in Bangkok.

It’s so nice when we stepped into Platinum Fashion Mall because of the cooling air conditioning. It’s so hot out there that I was so sweaty. I accompanied the two girls shopped at Platinum Fashion Mall. It’s like a more beautiful version of our Berjaya Times Square with even more fashion stores. There’s so many stores that Platinum Fashion Mall is divided into 3 buildings and each floor is classified into different type of fashion apparels. 80 percent of the mall are all about girls stuff, so I was pretty bored at there.

One thing, I realised the price is although affordable, but still Chatuchak’s cheaper.

At lunch time, we crossed over to the opposite of Platinum Fashion Mall for a famous chicken rice lunch.

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February 13, 2012
Bangkok: Famous Erawan Shrine / 4 Faced Buddha

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Bangkok Trip: Famous Erawan Shrine (Day 3) – Erawan Shrine, also known as Thao Maha Brahma, or simply known as the Erawan 4 Faced Buddha is a famous little shrine that is located in the city centre. Many people know about this, especially Malaysian tourist. Every Buddhist who visits Bangkok will definitely go there to do a little prayers. I’ve went there before, 4 years ago and I just went again, last week. Haha.

Very simple, every visit to Bangkok will bring us to this 4 Faced Buddha. Even artists from Hong Kong will visit it too.

It’s very cool is that this Four Faced Buddha is located in the city center, at Pratunam area and near to Central World shopping mall. Cab dropped us here, did some prayers, only then we head to shopping along this road as there’s many shopping malls here. It’s easy to reach here by BTS, and stop on Chitlom Station. The shrine is located by the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel, at the intersection of Ratchaprasong.

Buddha’s Face #1.

Buddha Face #2.

Buddha Face #3.

Buddha Face #4.

According to the history, this Erawn Shrine was built in 1956 as part of the government-owned Erawan Hotel to eliminate the bad karma believed caused by laying the foundations on the wrong date. A very funny fact is that you can find a replica if this shrine in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. =D

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February 12, 2012
Bangkok: Talad Rot Fai – Retro Train Night Market

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Bangkok Trip: Talad Rot Fai – Retro Train Night Market – I believe many visitor to Bangkok does not aware of this night market that’s called Talad Rot Fai, included me until I found it on CNNGo website. Talad Rot Fai, also known as Talad Dek Naew or in English – the Train Market is a night market that features retro stuff, antiques, second hand clothing and also a hangout place for Thai’s retro hipster.

“Talad” means market and “Rot Fai” means train in Thai which reflects the venue which is actually an abandoned train warehouse and tracks.

It was kinda hard to communicate with the taxi driver about this place even I showed him a map of the location, many of the taxi drivers are not from Bangkok itself and not really familiar with all of the road in Bangkok. I told him about Kamphaeng Phet MRT Station, somewhere near there then he brought us there. Sucking blood, he charged 250Baht for the trip.

Anyway, forget about the cab driver, he brought us there safe and sound. I was pretty worried it didn’t open or not exist as I couldn’t find much info about it on the Internet. When I saw the light and sound of Thai, I became excited and found many people going in and out of the “Talad Rot Fai” train night market.

The Talad Rot Fai is actually located near to Kamphaeng Phet MRT Station, so it’s easier to take the MRT here and then you walk towards west of the station, which is also the way away from Chatuchak Weekend Market.

A little bit history about this train market is that it’s started off 2 years back in 2010. It was just an abandoned warehouse and railway track and Rod’s Antique rented the place to sell antique stuff. Rod’s Antique was actually located near to Chatuchak Weekend Market. Then Rod’s invited many vendors to sell stuff at here for free. When it was free, there’s not much stalls and vendors, but once they started collecting rental, more and more vendors come in. Funny right.

This train market sells a lot of 2nd hand retro stuff, clothing, antique and has many modified Volkswagen van which then turned into a mini vehicle bar playing retro music, offering beer and other beverage. You can find some cool artsy futsy printed tee here as well as some nice retro home decor.

Mom dislike second hand clothing, but those clothing looks as good as new. I find this place quite interesting because it’s a retro theme night market. Many youngster dress up in retro fashion too! What I like the most is the Volkswagen modified van which I feel it’s very cool.

Deep in the warehouse is outlets of different antique shops including Rod’s.

You may also grab a beer and sit at one of the outdoor bistro too. We walked for about 2 hours at there, explored, only then we headed back to the hotel.

Talad Rot Fai / Talak Dek Naew / Train Market is opens on Saturday and Sunday from 5pm. Get there as late as 8pm when all the stalls are out in full force.

To get to the Talad Rot Fai, take the MRT to Kampaeng Phet Station. Get out at exit 3 (Or Tor Gor Market) then cross the road and walk about 450 meters west on Kampaeng Phet Road, away from Chatujak Market. For a map (in Thai) click here.

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February 12, 2012

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