Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Of Tutus, Floating Market and Massage....

Yup yup! It is Thailand =)
Went there with my family just for the weekend.
For 1. food 2. bargains 3. just pure fun!

First stop is at a restaurant. I can't remember names here as Thai words sound kinda foul? We ordered 5 dishes, and our tour guide muttered a dish sounded like ..."Hampalang"?

*scrunched-up face*
Well I don't know! See it for yourself LOL


This is the Hampalang dish. The dish is a vege pattties dish, consists of greeens, green long beans, green spring onions and green cili padi- all fried together. It is eaten with prickled cucumber...imagine biting on the cili padi =)

The other 5 dishes were awesome. One word to describe, HOT. Though they were horrendously spicy, we, (proud penangites!) could still finish every drop of the red, the orange, the green Thai curries! =D *peace sign*

Next stop was the infamous Floating Market.


If we weren't rushed by our tour guide, we would have patroned every food sampan along the river side! The cooking looked simple, yet they are delectable! And they cost around 200baht each serving. Fantastico~
=)


Little cute fried bird's eggs wrapped in banana leaves!



The big black jelly is called 'leong fun' in hokkien. You see bamboo containers and cute lil clay mugs? They are used to pack drinks and food. So you pay for the food, get the food and the lil souvenirs too! =)


At night, we were free to roam every where at the night market. Daddy took us for supper in an ubiquitous looking shop, selling birds' nests and shark fin soup? These are exquisite dishes for the chinese but it seems like the Thai take them as desserts lol they are alil more expensive desserts!

They sell lobsters at the road side! I was like... " Uh huh???"

Around midnite, Daddy asked for a fulll body massage. I wanted to have one but i was dozing off by the time the girl came into the hotel room. According to Daddy, the girl looked very petite. But, she is strong. She could flex all those hardened muscles with her tiny fingers, loosen up those stubborn knots and and the effects of whole day of walking and travelling is gone! Just two hours of mighty-o-massage ladyyyyy!

In the morning, we had breakfast in hotel. They served fresh rambutans for desserts? I am impressed. The Thais are proud of their natural resources! Seafood, lobsters by the road side! Spice scented body shampoo! Local fruit, rambutans at a hotel breakfast! I salute them. =)

Next stop was the Bazaar. We took the Thai taxi, Tutu. Cute! It is the biggest market in Hatyai. The place was so packed, full with big umbrellas, shading from the scorching sun. But the umbrellas made the place a heat hub. We went there for bargain hunting so, the sweltering heat aint anything! I think.

I thought I am a good bargain hunter, but Daddy is a master in it. Daddy if you ever come across my blog...

THANK YOU FOR THE BAG. I LOVE IT. MMWAH!

The bag was 400baht. The lady was so persistant in the 280baht and with a few shuffling of notes? and jokes? and Daddy's charming persona? He got it for 225baht.
ps: No wonder mommy falls for him!

A lot more bargains and we were off home. Yup! A weekend in Thailand.

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PS: Yours truly has a lot to brag but it'll take a few pages, hundreds of photos, thousands of comments. So she has decided, No. =)

OKAY, the last photo? =D
Those are the culprits in Thai HOt HOt dishessss~
haha! OKAY. END.

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