Thursday, June 25, 2015

AFTER THE MANGO SEASON ...

Durian lovers will venture to wherever these lovely spiky fruits can be found





There is no other way to get the best taste except with the 
finale of finger-licking good.
If opening the fruit is an issue...just get the seller to do it for you.

Other fruits are coming soon....rambutans, cempedak, mangosteens...


Still green...maybe in 3 to 4 weeks time...







Saturday, June 13, 2015

9-10 June 2015 Hatyai Trip

at 33 Buffet Restaurant, for lunch at Lee Garden Plaza. Food is nothing to shout about. But we really filled up our empty tummies after a long train journey from Alor Star. 
We set off at 7.56 am sharp, which was such  a surprise considering we were taking the KTM. Arriving at Padang Besar Railway Station after an-hour of comfortable train ride and after clearing both immigration without hassle, we had to wait almost 2 hours for the Thai  train engine to arrive to take the KTM coaches into Hatyai. KTM engines are not allowed into Thailand. We arrived at 12+ after an hour's journey.

at our hotel


outside the hotel

We had delicious herbal beef koey-teow for dinner. The bowl with the egg is pork noodle soup - also very tasty. There was concentrated markisa juice in the small round bottles and mango juice for drinks.



The next morning we had dim sum of course!

Waiting to checkout the next day.

The 2D1N trip went well except for the Hatyai-Padang Besar portion of our return train journey. We were scammed and had no train seats for the one-hour journey. We were not the only ones. There were about 20+ people who were also in the same boat. We had to stand ALL the way. I believe this scam is run by KTM northern station staff working in cahoots with their Hatyai counterparts. So travellers BEWARE. There is no such thing as "free-seating" on the KTM Hatyai-Padang Besar train coaches.