Road Trip to Hatyai on CNY 2

A simple road trip to Hatyai also have so many things to talk about eh? Or am i just talkative?Really Hatyai has changed a lot since the last time i was there. Roads are now converted to a one way street, just like Malacca has changed there roads to a one way street, miss one turn, die la..make one big round. They have their dedicated night market where the roads are closed down sharp 5 pm, exactly like Malacca's Jonker Walk lo. Such similarity, hehe.


On our last day in Hatyai, my parents decided to visit a temple nearby where we came across when we were on our way to Sathorn. We saw a huge statue of The Buddha and we just have to visit and give some offering before leaving back to Malaysia. How can you go to Thailand and not visit the temples?

We did our prayers, make some donations and had a chit chat with the care-taker of the Temple. She told us that it is a very new Temple and that it is still in building progress, The Pagoda is not fully completed. They still accept donation of roof tiles, where you can put down your name on the tiles and after some prayers, they will put it up on the top of the Pagoda.

Dad and Sis at the entrance of the Temple (saw my mom in the background?)

Mom and Sis with the Laughing Buddha


The Pagoda


The Statue that caught our attention

Most devotees would light up oil lamps in their names and make prayers. My dad did that and he have the honour to beat the gigantic drum as many times as he wants. Definitely a Chinese will choose an auspicious number which is either the number 8 or 9. So, my dad decided to beat the drum 9 times. 1st time for HAPPINESS, 2nd time for WEALTH, 3rd time for PROSPERITY, 4th time for LONGEVITY, 5th time for WORLD PEACE, 6th time for...ok, I'm making things up..anyway, definitely we will asked for blessings like this.

Dad with the drums

We also found out later that it is a monastery. It is a school for monks, where they learn Buddhist Theology. We saw so many young monks walking around just like we are at school, instead their uniforms are robes. We will definitely go back there when we visit Hatyai again.

Nice dragon Statues

Goddess of Mercy the Kuan Yin's Shrine ( Dad making his prayers)

Beautiful statue of Buddha sitting on clouds

Look at that row of Buddha statues. It is actually a cemetery, ashes of the cremated body of people's loved ones are place in the statue.


We head back to Danouk, and spend our last night there. Planning to leave after lunch the next day, because i don't really like night driving. Lucky my sister came along as 3 of us can rotate driving when one is tired, not so strenuous. We booked a Hotel room with 2 queen size bed, enough room for all of us. Then we head straight down for dinner and hunting for some exotic food.


Then some big and huge with a long nose caught our attention. Yes, Elephant. a lot of people gather around the elephant and it's owner selling sugarcanes for people who wants to feed it. My dad bought one and start feeding the elephant. Me and my sister was like standing aside and was like ewww... we were at A'formosa resort for their animal parade and have this unforgettable encounter with an elephant made us traumatize. Oh, the wet wet trunk and the rough rough skin..ugghh..gives me the creeps now.

Dad feeding the elephant

Sis, trying to overcome her fear of the elephant's wet drool..

We made her touch the elephant (see how far she is standing away from the elephant)

Same goes for my Mom, only 2 fingers touching

Oh yea, for safety precaution. Saw that small red thing at the elephant's tail. Yea, that's their small precaution sign put on a huge elephant's rear end.

Enough about elephants, Let's focus on food!! Oh, how can i miss this delicacy. It's a must when you are in Thailand. Initially, i told my sister. It is very nice, taste like peanut. Salty, crunchy and sweet(i blog about it last year, Here's the link)... How long have we persuade her! She keeps insisting, No, don't force me to eat stuffs like these, i don't eat stuff like these. In the end, she ate it also. Guess what, she loves it too... She finish most of it actually. Told her it is nice, she ends up believing me..haha. I definitely recommend it, it's yummy.

This is one of my favourite, the bamboo worm

This is also nice, the silk worm

This batch of crickets is too huge for my liking. I prefer the smaller ones

I dare not try this, someone needs to force me to try it..you dare or not? Eat cockroach!

I also don't have the courage to try this, grasshopper.

Don't know why, whenever we visit Thailand, we usually end up in 7-eleven buying tid-bits. Which we can never find in the Malaysia's 7-eleven. Assorted berry Mentos, Gummi Bears, Mentos Gum, Dentyne gum is so damn cheap. My sister found think drink in 7-eleven and we thought of experimenting it, to see it actually works or not.

It's a collagen drink, it actually makes your skin looks supple and vibrant and smooth, so it seems. No harm trying right? Let my sis be the guinea pig la, hehe!

Before drinking the product


Drink, drink, drink it all in..till the last drop!


*blink* Got difference or not?

Don't know why they named the product 'Blink'. A blink of an eye already can see the difference meh? Sigh, i say. i don't see any difference also after so many blinks. The product bluff me la.