The next morning, we wanders around for breakfast. There are few stalls beside the road full with people, and hence we decide to have our breakfast there.

The pork leg rice @ RM4 looks really pale and uninteresting when it served, but it’s good. The meat is super tender, the gravy is nice and it just taste amazing! Eat it with their chili, it is just greatttt!! However, the vegetables taste bitter though. 7.5/10

The koay chap @ RM5 in the other hand, does looks interesting with loads of ingredients. It taste good too. 7.0/10

The chicken rice @ RM4 again, looks uninteresting and as a carnivore, the meat is really just too little for me. BUT, the rice itself tasted really good! 7.2/10

After checking out from the hotel and before heading back to Malaysia, we have our lunch at a place where I forgotten. Couldn’t be bother too since the food is mediocre.

Steamed Keng Som Fish, something which I just don’t like how it taste. 4.0/10

Fried Lala….. Normal la. 5.5/10

The forgotten roasted duck and roasted pork until we remind them, which is just meh too. 4.5/10

After this trip, I finally found that food here ain’t that cheap as in the past already. Crazy amount of Malaysians entering this small town had made it become a small tourist place and hence, price soar.

However, people still come to here for the one and only one reasons……..

My next trip to Thailand will definitely be Hatyai, a place which the last time I go is more than 10 years already.

I usually came here for few hours only and I am back.

However, for the first ever time, I decided to overnight here.

One of the many fried chicken stall. Yummy if you don’t mind the cleanliness. 

And no, it’s not what you think. My mum and LY are with me…….

HAHAHA!!

Sticky rice with mango, which my mum loveeee…..

Unlucky for us, most of the newer and cleaner hotel are fully booked! It really shocked me. Well, I can understand if we are in Hatyai, but here?!

A small stall that’s rather interesting to me. BBQ! 

Luckily, finding a hotel is never a problem here since there are just so many around. BUT to find one which is cleaner is quite a big task. Walking around with our luggage, and finally we managed to check in one which seems okay to us.

BBQ intestines, which is delicious. 

The expressions of the receptionist is really funny when my mum asked for a room with extra bed, or a room that have 2 single bed instead of a queen size one. Guess you should know what kind of business they are actually in eh?

Crab cooked with curry powder at my favourite Ped’s Restaurant.  The crab are fresh and kinda huge, too bad it taste okay only. 6.5/10

Since it’s a hot day, I decided to buy a can of beer to cool down, but I can’t open the fridge door in 7-11. It’s locked!!! WhatttttT????!!!!!

Thai style Pork Leg which is rather disappointing too as it’s too hard to bite. Besides, the crab and the pork leg cost us RM122, which I find that it’s ridiculously expansive. 5.8/10

Then only I noticed that there’s a notice on the fridge, saying something such as “Today is an important Buddha day, No liquor can be sold”.

Whao!!!! I never know that, culture shocked eh!!!

It’s 16th July 2011 when I am there by the way.

Elephants on the street!!! 

And yes, 7-11 do follow the laws well. I end up able to buy it at some other restaurants, but was told I can only buy back and drink in my room, and not at their shop.

Looks like they do enforce their law well eh?

To be continued….

However, Annathai Kitchen at Pulau Tikus, Penang is doing something different. Not only it’s located inside a house which give you some small little cafe style feeling when you are inside, it also serve Thai food instead of the normal Chinese food we found in most economy rice stall.

Due to LY is a Siam Laksa freak, and as long as it’s on the menu, she will order it. And yes, although Annathai Kitchen is selling economy rice, they do have a small menu for few other Thai dishes that you can order.

The Siam laksa here come with a very different setting from what you usually get when you order a bowl of noodle.Yea, we have to mix all the ingredients including the noodles ourself, and the only reasons I see them doing this is they can speed up their preparation time only. However, this had certainly lead to the noodles and ingredients are not hot enough when served, especially the soup is not piping hot too.

However, the Siam Laksa here is still good. It only cost RM3 but it taste really really good. LY even say that this is her favorite now as it taste much more better than the one at Tan Jetty.

I beg to differ though. Besides, although the first time we ate it was awesome, and when we return here after 2 weeks, the standard drop a lot. Consistency is very important for anyone in F&B business, and if you can’t freaking maintain your standard it’s a fail. All of us were disappointed one our 2nd trip and surely I will come back again once soon to see what happened in the next trip. (8.5 for 1st trip, 6.8 for 2nd trip)

The desert available here is the Glutinous Rice with Banana. My mum absolutely love it, but well, for me is just above average as I don’t really fancy this type of  desert. 7.0/10

While LY is the Siam Laksa freak, Sam Lee is the Otak-Otak freak, which the one served here is awesome! The Otak-Otak is steamed and served in small metal bowls, and was top up with coconut milk and chili. The Otak-Otak is very soft, and taste superb! 8.9/10

The Roasted Minced Pork with Chili is a bit too salty for most of us though, but I still find that it’s nice, and I am thinking, it will be a good snack for beer. Weird? Yes I do think so but what the heck? 7.5/10

The curry mutton taste extremely good also. A superb dish to go with rice as the curry is really fragrant, and the meat is really tender. 8.6/10

I don’t know what is this called, but it’s crab meat and some other stuff cooked in the crab shell which taste nice too. 7.5/10

The Thai Pork Knuckle Rice is usually served with rice together, but since all of us are too full, we just opt for the meat. However, it just taste normal although the Thai chili paste are able to enhance it very much. 7/10

While we were eating happily, 1 of the waiter told us that their Vinegar Pork Knuckle is ready, and we should try it since it taste very very nice. So here it is, by far 1 of the best I had tried before. The pork knuckle is cooked until very very very tender, the gravy taste superb as it’s sour enough. This is how Vinegar Pork Knuckle should be cooked man! However, during our 2nd visit, it was not ready yet as we are too early. 9.8/10

I ordered another plate of Thai Chicken Rice just to try the taste which taste not bad too. 7.0/10

Total Damage: RM45 for 4 person (Sorry I lost the receipt hence unable to give the details of price for each dish)

Operating Hours: 10.30 AM to 2.30 PM, 5.30 PM to 9.30 PM

Location: Jalan Moulmein, Penang

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Since both me and LY are extremely thirsty, we order 1 big bottle of fresh sugar cane water to share among. It’s extremely refreshing, and we finish the whole bottle even before our dish came. Hence, 2 person 2 bottle, fair right?

Some vegetables to go with some Thai sambal, which taste very good and spicy. Yummy…I love it.

One of the recommended dish by the boss – Roasted duck sliced. The name is roasted duck, but I find that it taste more like ham instead of duck. Nevertheless, it’s still good as the meat is tender.

The meat itself taste a bit salty, and eat it with their special sour spicy sauce, man this is good! 7.9/10

Tom Yam, Tom Yam, Tom Yam!

We opt for Tom Yam seafood, which is very good. The seafood used is very fresh, and the soup taste great. Sour, spicy, hot, all in perfection, hence appetizing. We basically drank dry the whole bowl of soup! 8.0/10

This dish is definitely great for crab lovers – crab meat with curry powder. When eating crab, I think most people will hate the need to take off the shell right? Well, in this dish, the shell was taken off already! You can enjoy the crab meat with the flavorful curry powder. Just great as I don’t need to have my hands dirty for enjoying it! 8.2/10

Total Damage: RM49 for 2 person (If you using Thai Bath, just times 10)

Operating Hours: Lunch and Dinner

Location: Ban Dan Nok, Songkhla, Thailand

And yea, Bukit Kayu Hitam is the place always being mentioned by folks here. People always say, let’s go to Bukit Kayu Hitam for some little shopping, and have some really authentic Thai food. However, little to be known by folks here, Bukit Kayu Hitam is still under Malaysia, as it is Kedah’s main border town on the Malaysia-Thailand Border.You don’t need to pass the border, or use your passport to visit Bukit Kayu Hitam.

However, since Bukit Kayu Hitam is not their main destination, passport is needed to enter the town of Ban Dan Nok in the district of Sadao, Songkhla province in Southern Thailand.

Like in almost every border, the immigration area is always packed and full with people queuing up. We queue up for more than 30 minutes, and since it’s open air border, there ain’t any air-conditional to cool us down. So once we pass the border, the 1st thing that came to my mind is to have some coconut jelly!

Ice cooled coconut jelly @ RM2.50 is really superbly refreshing for us.

Pork knuckle!!!

And yea, the famous pork knuckle rice @ RM4 which you can find easily in the town of Ban Dan Nok. The pork given is a bit too small for me though, but the meat taste superbly nice, and with the great amount of fat-lean meat proportion, it’s just yummy! Ate it with the spicy Thai chili, orgasm!

Another stall that you can find easily here is these fried chicken stall. However, the one here is a bit more extreme as they even have crabs on their menu! I simply love the fried chicken from these stalls as they are cheap and good. However, for health conscious people it is not a good choice at all. Reason?

First, the oil was being reused for countless of time. After the food was fried, it will be placed on the stall (which is by the road side) without anything to cover it. Imagine the amount of dust flew on it before you consume!

Another version of coconut jelly @ RM1.50 per box.

And finally….Kung Fu Panda! Guess where is this panda at?

Location: Ban Dan Nok, Thailand

One of the most famous restaurant is Rung Reang, a restaurant even known by few of my friends from Kuala Lumpur.

The crowd here is amazing. We reach there around at 9 PM, and almost all table were full. We were also told that we need to wait quite long for our food.

While waiting patiently, we had some satay @ RM6 from the nearby stall, which is quite a good snack to munch around since the waiting time is really long. 6.8/10

After 1 hour of waiting, finally, our food arrive!

Kerabu mango with chicken feet, however, I feel that the kick in this is not as strong as how it should be, most likely because it ain’t sour enough. 6.8/10

Otak otak with assorted seafood. Like in many cases, although they are generous in the amount of the seafood given, I will much much prefer if the otak otak itself was more. 7.3/10

The thai style prawns is amazingly good though. Although the prawns given is quite small, but I absolutely love the gravy of it! 8.5/10

Thai style steam fish, 1 of my most order fish whenever I visit a restaurant serving Thai food, just because I am a fish lover! The steam fish here is not bad, but I will prefer it to be spicier and sourer (again!), and if only fresher fish were used too. 7.2/10

Overall, the food here is ok la, just that I won’t travel 1 hour ++ just to dine here again in the future, nor it’s worth waiting 1 hour for them.

Total Damage: RM72.70

Operating Hours: 6 PM to 11 PM

Location: Jitra, Kedah

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Yes, this is a feast, this dish alone is a FEAST! It’s 1 of the most awesome dish I ever had, superb dish!

Teaser picture of the feast…….and look at the egg…..oh mai oh mai….droooolllzzzzzzz

Ok, cut the crap of the feast, I will show you guys later what I mean.

If any of you were to google “thai restaurant butterworth”, you will be bombarded by “Khuntai Thai Restaurant”. It just show’s how famous this restaurant is in Butterworth, as if want find Thai food in Butterworth? Khuntai is the way to go.

Khuntai is a big restaurant, which they had many private rooms for their customer to choose from.

Tom Yam Fish @ RM 18 is our first dish. The Tom Yam taste exactly how it should taste, spicy, sour, and appetizing! Really good to go with rice! 7.5/10

Next up? Fried egg @ RM 8, as in really normal fried egg. To me it seems the chef is really trying to fried an egg only, and didn’t put any effort to make it taste nice. Best part is in the receipt they dare to state this dish as “signature egg”……. Sigh. 5.0/10

Kerabu mango and chicken feet @ RM 15, turns out to be quite ok. How I wish it can be more spicy to give this dish more kick! 6.8/10

AND NOW, I present you, the FEAST!!!! All of us were shocked when we saw this! Not only the plate was huge, but look at the stuff inside! It’s amazing!

This is 1 of their signature dish, and the waiter introduce it as “shi da tian wang” aka the 4 kings, steamed in Lemon Thai style!

This dish is just amazing, and hence I call it a FEAST! It got clams, really fresh and tasty clams!

Squid, again, fresh and loaded! Yummmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

And finally Udang Galah (fresh water prawns, huge one) and huge mantis. All the 4 Udang Galah are loaded with eggs, which is extremely tasty, and will makes 1 orgasm. The same goes to the mantis (hidden from the picture) which are huge in size, but the meat is very very fresh, sweet and tasty!

Due to all the kings of seafood used, the soup taste superb! Very sweet and awesomely heavenly tasty! Besides, the sourness and spiciness of the soup just makes you want to drink the soup again and again, even though you are already god damned full!

A must TRY!!!!!!!!

However, 1 must beware of the hefty price tag it came. When the waiter introduce us, we ask, how much it cost? He say’s he can’t tell cause they need to weigh it first. So we ask him to go ahead. However, when the dish came, and when I saw the price tag of the Udang Galah is RM13 for 100g, I knew this dish is gonna be very expansive.

Yes, it cost me RM 151.80 for that dish alone. However, to me, it’s really really worth it.

It was however Mother’s day on the day I visit it, and hence the crowd is just scary. We arrive at around 6 PM, and the shop is already almost full. Those who arrive late and did not reserve a table, will just have to stand and wait like what most people are doing when we left. Scary and lucky for me!

Total Damage: RM 202.44

Operating Hours: 5 PM to 11 PM

Contact: 04 – 332 7523, 012 – 431 3537

Location: MK-9-914, Jalan Permatang Tengah, Butterworth

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The owner of this stall actually shifted few place when they just started business, and finally they had settle down here at Restaurant 398 at Taman Intan for some time. I still love their Thai style steamed fish here. They use charcoal to make sure the soup of the fish is always hot. You can also always ask for extra soup if you wish, as that’s what I do all the time, as I absolutely love it. Thanks to the chef choosing not to skip the ingredients, the soup is wonderful, hot spicy and sour enough, although there’s sometime I wish it was even more spicy. Besides, they do have white cabbage under the fish, which is really nice. 8.0/10

Besides the fish, the otak-otak here is something I love too. Again, thai style otak-otak is totally different from Malaysia version one, as they use more seafood to cook it instead of fish only. Thai style otak-otak usually have prawns, squid, fried fish and sometimes even crab meat inside. Marvelous! I actually love the otak-otak itself more rather than all the seafood in it. 8.3/10

Stir Fried vegetables with salted fish is quite good too. 7.5/10

Thai style fried clams with basil leaf is good, as I always love this type of cooking style. Yummy, how i wish the clams are bigger with more meat! 8.1/10

Restaurant 398, located at Taman Intan, Sungai Petani. It may look old and small, but goodie Thai food is available here!

Operating Hours: 6pm to 11pm

Location: Lebuh Intan, Sungai Petani, Kedah

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Well, when served, it also looks like just another plate of Chicken rice, with a choice of roasted chicken or steamed chicken.

However, 1 shall take note, I find that the stall owner seems to just simply chop the chicken, and never arrange it properly. The chicken was very messy as you can see the meat and bones seems to be tear apart rather than being chopped. Bad presentation will usually spoil one’s appetite, and hence I find that the chicken taste just normal ( and too salty too) before……

I eat the chicken with THIS! This is their special made chili sauce which you won’t be able to find it elsewhere. The chili is made with mainly garlic, chili, vinegar and even some tao cheong, spicier and oilier than the normal one. It’s really appetizing and make everything goes with it nice! Besides, the rice here is very fragrant too. 8.2/10

Another thing that I find very odd here is that the chicken rice stall does not serve taugeh. It’s the stall beside is that sell it, which turns out not bad as it was not overcooked.

The otak-otak here however is just normal. Don’t bother to order it la, come for the chicken rice is good enough. 5.5/10

Overall, this Thai Style Chicken Rice located at Lam Hong Coffee Shop is quite good, especially if you are looking for some special chicken rice.

Total Damage: Chicken Rice for 2 Person @ RM18, Otak-otak @ RM2, Tauge @ RM2

Operating Hours: 12pm to 3pm (Closed on Sunday)

Location: Lam Hong Coffee Shop, Penang Road, Penang

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This time, I ordered something highly recommended by everyone, the awesome Siam Laksa. 9.7/10

The Siam Laksa is cooked separately at a small stall outside the house. It’s really something you should try if you are here. It’s really lemak and full with fish flake. Just awesome, even for someone like me who is not a fan of the Siam version of laksa  at all still love it very very much.

Fried chicken wing, and look properly people, it’s not the normal chicken wing you get outside.

It’s stuff with minced chicken and seafood! Just so special, great! 7.5/10

Fried fish cake, to me just normal. 5.1/10

The Mango Kerabu is better than the squid kerabu, but still, I find that not sour enough. 6.1/10

The normal Tom Yam Seafood is a tad better than the clear version. Love it as it’s more spicy and sour. 7/10

After eating, I decided to walk towards the end and see what is there, as I saw few group of people walk towards in and take picture there.

It’s a temple, but seems no one was inside.

The road that lead to no where.

There is a small building beside the temple, which is actually a toilet, cost saving toilet that you don’t need to waste water to flush after you finish your business. Out of fun, I went in and have my small business in it too.

Again, Lang Sae Lee is still highly recommended, especially the Siam laksa, it’s just best of the best.

Total Damage: RM50 for 2 person

Operating Hours: 11am to 7.30pm

Location: Tan Jetty, Pengkalan Weld, Penang.

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