Thailand: HatYai - A bit here and there

Aihh..

I don't know what should i write for my HatYai trip, its all about eat.

Ok before that, tell me what is the first thing when you're arriving in HatYai?

Get a cab to hotel, chill and eat or massage right? Yea i agree. But i got a completely different experience.

First, i leave my camera in Malaysia.

Second, i dropped my phone in the cab which sent us to HatYai hotel from airport. (Fuck i just have it like one and half month damn it!)

Great, no device for photo taking.

Ok its not fair to say no device at all, John with his iPhone, DSLR and a compact camera, but they are not my Xiao P and i don't know how to take the photo that i wanted la!

Ok back to the topic.

This is my first time to HatYai, and HatYai wasn't my destination, i just stay in Hatyai for 2 days, and stay 4 days in Koh Lipe.

John and I arrived in HatYai airport by noon, get a cab and check into New Season Hotel which located in the city center.

We didn't have much plan, just eat and wonder around in the city center.

If you're not a buddha, you might not interested in the famous temple and buddha visit in HatYai. So your only activity will be only eat, and shopping.

HatYai is not a big city, the most happening street is XXXXXXXXXX street, i can never remember the name, but if you're staying in Novotel, New Season, Lee Plaza, Regency or Sakura Grand View Hotel, you're basically staying in the XXXXXXXXX street that i'm saying.

Ok, I was staying in New Season Hotel for the first night arrived in Thai, and stayed in Sakura Grand View Hotel in last night before back to Malaysia (The 4 days in the middle i was in Koh Lipe). My advice, go for Sakura Grand View, might take you extra 5 minute walking distance to the main street aka shopping center, but cheaper the price, better the view, nicer the room, definitely better than New Season Hotel.

Alright, go to photos, copyright under John.

Room view from New Season Hotel

My regret, i haven't got a chance to taste the pork ankle.

Buddha festival food court

Chilling in the night, found Birdy coffee, haha. Birdy the name of my deputy editor.

Riding Tuk Tuk.

Famous Kam Eng Restaurant

Monkey hahahahahahahahahaha. Nice shoot John!

Hawker street

I owned the road.

How horrible, i got all these within a day.

Famous dish in HatYai is chicken rice, pork ankle, bird nest, noodle and suckling pig. Surprisingly not Thai food right? By natural HatYai has lot of Chinese, believe it or not, you don't need to know Thai to survive here, if you know Hokkien you can survive very well here.

Research from the internet, we had our dinner in famous Kam Eng restaurant in HatYai, don't worry about location, get a Tuk Tuk and tell them you wanna go Kam Eng Restaurant, almost every driver know where is the location.

And get your supper in the hawker street, just beside Lee Garden Plaza. We had our mid night dessert in the street, lots of nice food too.

John enjoyed his 7-11 shopping very much, all he looked for is MeiJi chocolate milk, he can finish a big bottle one shoot, i stunned, haha.

We got back from Koh Lipe 4 days later and i decided to change a hotel (I decide on the hotel and he decide in food), Sakura Grand View Hotel.

First, we got higher level room, great view of the city center and heck i saw great sunrise in the next morning!

Second, cheaper and nicer breakfast buffet. A little bit cheaper because of the location. But no worry about that, you can go everywhere by tuk tuk with very cheap fare.

Third, clean and big room. Very big window in the room, bright and clean, far better than New Season Hotel.

Scroll down for the sunrise view, and FOOD!

Cute donkey! In Sakura Grand View Hotel

Langsung tak paham

So we ordered whatever we see. And this only cost us RM30+-

Damn nice ice cream, only cost him less than 10 bucks.

Countless shoes.

Birdnest

View from Sakura Grand View, the city center of HatYai

He wanna capture the hot chick behind me, i covered him.

Amazing, sunrise view from my room.

I really don't have the talent in playing DSLR.

Those are the best sunrise pictures that i could do.

2 nuts playing with the shadow.

Macam Petaling Street

We have half day in the last day in Thai, we do not have much plan, except eat (Yes, this is makan tour) and get some souvenirs. We decided to go for some local food, so we walked without an aim and we got a very nice local store selling BBQ and noodle.

See the menu? We don't understand at all, the boss couldn't understand Chinese at all too, so we just ordered whatever display and that is what we got. Haha.

We then walk to shopping center, called Centrol and Lee Garden, lots of boutique and shoes and branded stuff as well. But we're both not shopper, i like dessert more.

Then we got some nuts.

Hey, yang boleh makan punya nuts la. Cashew nuts is cheap and nice.

Alright next post will be Koh Lipe, will give all the info including transport and stay.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

20111025, 0829pm

Rach in headache mood.