Road Trip to Hatyai on CNY

I just got back from Hatyai! It's a very inpromptu road trip down to Hatyai with my parents and sister. It's Chinese New Year, i have my day off till Thursday, so..why not right? Too bad i couldn't spend more time visiting my friends and family as we left at the wee hours in the morning on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year.

We stopped by Butterworth to meet a family friend, we had a quick lunch with my dad's friend and thought of going on with our journey as it takes another hour to reach the border of Thailand at Bukit Kayu Hitam. They invited us to stay the night and head on to Danuk the next morning, we decline their thoughtful offer and went straight down to Thailand.

We dropped by the Duty Free to get some wine, Me and sis bought Bailey's and yup, we finish the whole bottle in 3 days, but this is nothing compared to the night we partied at Malacca(will blog about it soon) HAHA! After getting the Insurance done for my car to enter Thailand, we have to drive for another hour to reach Hatyai. when we finally reach, most of the hotel was fully booked. But we manage to get a hotel room for a very good price, about 880 baht per night. Not exactly located right in the middle of town, we have a car, so it's not a big issue. Hatyai is not really that big, we can get into town by walking, but i don't think my parents can walk, still drive better.


We were driving around town looking for some typical Thai food, after roaming around town we found a night market, hey..it's the best place to find good food, could be cheap too! We found a parking spot and walk towards to market. The first thing i saw that i have to try Thai meat balls!

The Night Market


My mom can't wait to get in line to try some.


I like these little round things..taste so good.

This intestine like thingy..really taste good too. very spicy indeed

There are so many things that i see at the night market that we could not find in the local night markets. Something that i thought only high class restaurant can pride, but it is selling like hot cakes at the night market. Yes, it is none other than... Lobster!

So many...guess how much is it?


Not that big, but atill looks big enough..for 200 Bhat per piece..not bad


Look at the durians...it is so damn huge!!!

My dad says i am not allowed to go to Thailand so often, because he says that each time i come here, i tend to buy everything that is in front of my eyes, especially food. But you can't find food like this in Klang or KL, not even Malacca. And it is so f**king cheap man. Where can you find a place selling pork everywhere, Singapore also cannot like that la.

Chinese New Year in Thailand is really Chinese New Year la. CNY ornaments, fantastic and gigantic, trying to rhyme la..but tak jadi. They place huge offerings for the God, i mean really huge ones. Too bad, just for deco, cannot eat one la

Look! Monsterous duck!

Mutant Grapes!


Offering to the God! Nice le.


What is CNY without the Lion Dance!

Enough about Hatyai! An hour drive away from Hatyai is a town called Satorn. My dad wanted to visit the Port Tamalalang, so we thought we just just follow him and accompany. Each time we stop at a traffic light, there is always people going around car by car selling things. In India and Philippines, you will find people begging for money. In Malaysia, people sell newspapers and Lottery numbers. In Thailand, they sell jasmine flowers. Something for the car, it smells real nice.

It really smells great.


Look at the shape, looks like little tiny bells

On our way down, we happen to see a huge crowd at the side of the highway. So, curiously we stopped to see what was going on, apparently, it is the Satorn's International Kite Festival 2008. We happen to be on the last day os the festival. What Luck!

There definitely must be kits la. Kite Festival ma.

Where there is festival there is definitely FOOD!! Cheap Food!!! Food Glorious Food!! Yummy yum yum!!! Look at all these food!!!

Rows and rows of stalls selling mountain of food at a bargain!


Chick-ken!


Cute little things!


The shape and colour looks delicious


Don't know what is this thing, sigh..too many things to buy and try, but didn't manage to try this. Too much food already!

Thristy..look at the deco for their Cincau, nice right..why can't we do that in Malaysia ah?? Visiting stall by stalla dn this caught my eyes, huh?? Looks colourful and familiar..It's, It's Hello Kitty on a stick. You really can sell anything with little kitty on it, from household items, to toilet seats, jewellry, now they also venture into food products. Reeeeeally marketable eh...

Beautifully decorated cincau!


Hello Kitty!!!???!!!

I'm so sick of Little Kittties, i am going to destroy it...Me, my sister and my father..Yes! My father is sick of Hello Kitty! *Chomp Chomp*

Acting cute

Not trying to act cute...can never be cute

Dad so sporting (actually..we force him into this, hehe!)

Ohhh...then there is candies, lots and lots of colourful candies to choose from. Bubble tea stall is called Magic Milk! HAHA!! MOOOOOO000000......

Colourful Candies!!!


Sweets Heaven

This is our Candy man..so to say..

uuhhh...Dragon...nice or not?

They have Art and Crafts too, they can just think of anything eh...At one point, my sis wants to take everything home, even the kids (see bottom pic)

Kids colouring


MMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO........


It's kind of a hassle carrying coconuts around..so my dad uses the big plactic bag to hold his drinks..talking about being innovative eh..haha!!

This is also another thing that my dad could not resist.


Yes, he can't resist coconuts and also cuttlefish! Cheap, only 50 cents per stick!

Sis, Mom and Dad

Nice.. I mean the butterfly kites on the background!

Me and Sis..Time is just right..the wind blew the kite..we can't help ourselves but to buy one. Making excuses that it is actually for Little Joey(Baby that my mom is babysitting). Haha!

After done testing all the food..watching all the colourful kites..Cam-whoring all the way..we decide to leave. It takes about an hour drive back to HatYai, better leave before it gets dark.

Then we saw something, thought that it is sea coconut water..i know we had lots of coconuts already...but still cheap ma..

So, my Dad pulls over and we went down, thought we could buy a drink or two. But, there are no drinks. No water, just the fruits.

Sea Coconuts, to eat..no drinks!


Looks familiar right?? looks like something you see on tv right? This fruit is going to make me rich..like seeing a familiar figure on edibles. It's a familiar face, come to think of it..it looks like...

Sigh, just a scary mask you see on Scary Movie 4! Have to urge to post it on ebay..see how much i can sell for this.. Sigh my easy plan to be rich overnight will not come true. who the hell wants to buy a coconut that looks like a ghost right? Same or not?

This is definitely a long post, so i will update you guys further on my next few days what we did at danouk! Don't want to bored you with more crazy things happening in my life at CNY! Hehe!