Eat and eat trip (part 3)

Our wonderful eating trip continued.

After the day trip to the pottery village of Dan Kwian, we went back to Korat main town, and boy, were we hungry even before we got off the bus! And it was only around 5pm... We headed back to the same restaurant where we had the late dinner on the first night in Korat to have a snack, since we'd planned to eat dinner at the night market later. The restaurant staff recognised us (of course, we were the only ones who couldn't speak Thai and could only gong gong smile at them, what!).

They have the most yummy fruit "shakes" - they're called shakes on the menu, but I think they are more like fruit slush. Made from fresh Thai honey mandarins, coconut juice or other fresh fruits, they are simply delicious and so refreshing!



We ordered a seafood salad...but there were only fried prawns, and the salad came with 2 types of dressings - a home-made mayo dressing and a lighter vinegary dressing. The grape was not part of the salad.



Prawn cakes - we were surprised there were 6 very decent pieces served with sweet pineapple



Braised fish noodles - this "snack" turned out to be large enough for 2 full servings!



All in all, very satisfying, and very good value for money! Highly recommended. :-)

Our visit to the night market didn't yield anything spectacular, and since I was still feeling full from our earlier "snack", I didn't stuff myself further, but the SO had the seafood noodles from the roadside stall near the hotel for supper (that was when we met the baby elephant).

We went back to the hotel cafe for a night cap and I had Thai ice milk tea.


I've always wondered why their ice tea looks so orangy, even those found in Singapore. Knowing the famous Thai sweet-tooth, I'd asked for less sugar (narm-tam nit noy in Thai), so the tea tasted very good and just right.

The next day, we walked around the vibrant street along the Memorial area before leaving for Phimai.

These grilled bananas looked very good, but I forgot to try them.



The street-side market stalls selling peeled pomeloes, sugar cane, preserved tamarind (assam) , water chestnuts (I think) and the horn thing traditionally associated with the Mooncake Festival (dunno the English name?)





Here's a stall selling pan-fried gu-chai kueh, Chinese style



At Phimai, we had a hard time looking for something decent to eat as the Bai-Teiy restaurant seemed to have moved away, and it was made worse coz hardly anyone there spoke English.

We had no choice but to eat the duck noodles at our guesthouse, and yes, it came with pieces of curdled blood ( duck blood, I presume) - not satisfying nor filling. I didn't like it and didn't finish it.


We saw a French guy walking around looking for some substantial Thai zhi-char food, so we can understand it must be worse for him.

In the evening, we had snacks at the night market, though only selectively coz some food wasn't cooked and were quite exposed, so we had to play safe.

After asking around, we finally walked like 2.5km in the semi-darkness to find Bai-Teiy restaurant, and had some real food. This was where we found the one and only Korat cat (outside the restaurant).

Phad Siew (dry hor fun)



Fried Hokkien mee (different from our local version)



Kai-lan stir-fried with roast pork (very fatty roasted pork... wrong choice!)



Unfortunately, I can't say the food was good. It was rather oily and quite average lah! Besides, prices were on the high side for this type of so-so standard...a bit disappointing after all the trouble we took hunting for the restaurant.

Oh well, sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.

(to be continued)