Phuket

cecil on March 10th, 2010

Do you fancy eating lobster? A lot of people do and all of those many seafood restaurants in Patong are selling lobster. There are 2 types of lobster displayed for patron’s selection: dead or alive! Dead lobsters are off course much cheaper. Another factor deciding the selling price is the restaurant. Some are selling dead lobster for 180THB per 100 gram while some are offering 120THB per 100 gram.

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This is a photo taken on the lobster display counter in front of Savoey (our Safari Beach Resorts‘ famous seafood restaurant). Look at the price tag. Dead lobsters are selling for 200THB per 100 gram! So 1 medium sized lobster should cost you around 2000THB or USD60! We didn’t try any there as we prefer eating prawns more than lobster. Do you fancy eating lobster? – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel blog

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What Patong Beach is first famous for? The beach off course! I’ve posted quite a number of Phuket travel stories so far but I still haven’t posted much things about the beach itself. This is it: The Patong Beach, the beach itself. We reached Phuket and Patong in the morning, had our first look at Patong Beach and had our first lunch at Jungceylon shopping mall. After lunch, we walked around the town to get some feel of the environment and local culture, and we headed back to our Safari Beach Resort for a brief nap…. zzzzzzzz.

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In the late afternoon, we went out again. This time we were walking down to the beach, just across the Beach Road in front of our hotel (this is the best part of Safari Beach Hotel which situated in front of the beach and next door to Bangla Street). Have you ever experienced this: You thought of going somewhere or buying something on travel but you did not do it in the first place and you started to say to yourself, “Nevermind, I still can do that LATER”? And what would happen next? You would never have the 2nd chance to do it! It happened to me on my Gold Coast travel where we thought of going back to see the sunset at Surfers Paradise on our last day but we failed eventually as bad traffic delayed our way back from Hinterland and it was already night hours when we reached home…

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So, whatever you think you want to do or see or buy on travel, DO IT IMMEDIATELY or you’re going to miss it! Same with our fun hours at the beach of Patong. If we delayed to go to the beach on our first day in Patong evening, we were going to miss the best evening sunlight in Patong as there were too cloudy to see sunset on the rest of our days in Phuket!

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I love the late afternoon sunlight at Patong beach. The beach was so attractive under it…

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While many tourists were sunbathing under the sun, there were many other activities going on the beach.

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Beach parachute ride is a famous activities at Patong Beach.

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We were doing something else…. crab catching!

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Jetskiing is another favourite sport on the beach.

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Love sunlight, lovely wife… :)

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Beach soccer is among the local favourite sport on the beach. There are a lot of Thai soccer talents out there…

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An illusion of moving sand after wave tides, one of my favourite shot.

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Beach chairs could be rented for sunbathing and there are also best for people watching!

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Singha Beer on the beach! Lovely!

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The best part on the beach of Patong: visitors were served with complimentary Starbucks coffee! Wonderful! I couldn’t find any of this in Malaysian beach. Can you?

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An unique feeling of tasting coffee on beach! :)

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Though evening sun is bright, scattered clouds blocked parts of the sunset unfortunately…

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The best dusk scene I could captured on the day in Patong Beach. The sun set at 7pm and we left the beach for our first dinner in Patong! What we did at night after dinner? Exploration on the Bangla Street, the most happening street in Patong and Phuket!

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Don’t miss my upcoming stories on Phuket travel. I will try to wrap up the whole story of my travel to Phuket before this May. Why? In May I will write and concentrate more on my exciting short 14-day tour to Western Europe! :)

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cecil on February 11th, 2010

Still remember how we arrived at Phuket Island and reached our Safari Beach Resort at Patong Beach in early morning? (Read them first if you are not) At 11am, still a bit early for lunch but we were starving. So we looked for restaurant for our first lunch in Phuket. Our cab driver suggested we had meal at this biggest shopping mall in Phuket called Jungceylon and so there we went!

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Jungceylon is a shopping complex combining blocks of shopping, dining, recreation and megastore together. It is situated along Rat-U-Thit Road, the main and busiest road in Patong Beach (check the map in my earlier post), and it is just a throw stone away from our Safari Beach Resort and Bangla Street (the heaven at night).

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The main block is the shopping mall featuring all types of goodies and fashion outlets.

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We were looking for eateries inside the mall. Mostly fast food and western food… we were searching for something local…

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Yes. We found something local. It’s the food court at lower ground floor! How could we able to taste some authentic Thai food in a food court?! This was the first question appeared in my mind… Later I realised that I was totally wrong!

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Though it is just a food court in a shopping mall, WE HAD THE BEST THAI DISHES FOR OUR TRAVEL TO PHUKET HERE!! Can you believe it? Yes. It’s true. We had our first meal in Phuket here. After all other local foods we tried later on our tour, we still found foods selling here in Jungceylon food court to be one of the best! You could try the authentic Thai foods like Tom Yam soup, fried noodles, seafood, fried rice and many more local delights here. Prices might be slightly more expensive than the cheapest you could find in Patong, ranging from 80THB to 120THB. Though we didn’t try them all but I believe they all taste good! Travel Tips: Highly recommended food court in Patong Beach!

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They have a separate drink counter and cashier counter, just like what we usually see in a food court. :)

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All foods are paid via CASH Card purchased from the cashier. No cash would be entertained!

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Apart from the food court, lower ground floor of Jungceylon is also the Thai cultural hub, featuring stalls and shops selling all sorts of local product and snacks. The above photo shows some of the local snacks on sale. Feel like trying?

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She sells seashells on the seashore, of Patong Beach. :)

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Some stalls selling local decorative and traditional Thai costumes.

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View from another angle…

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Walking down the alley on the same floor, there are shops selling local arts, woodcraft, religious and cultural products.

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Wood carving shop.

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Are you buddhist? You can get some beautiful handicraft and bronze artwork of buddha at this shop.

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I like this one. Can you read those printing on the T-shirts…

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Aromatic candle in carved wood stand.

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When we walked through the shopping block to the back exit, we found ourselves at the courtyard and outdoor open bar. Linking together with this courtyard are also dining wing and new entertainment block. There is a water fountain and a catwalk platform in front of a Chinese junk boat and just besides the new block.

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This is the new shopping block. Apart from entertainment outlets within, Carrefour megastore is also located inside this block. Take a while shopping at the megastore and you will get from here some cheap local products like fashion, foods as well as mineral waters! More importantly, we didn’t have to bargain to get the cheapest price! Highly recommended for shoppers without bargaining skill! *****

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The courtyard or Jungceylon Square.

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Another view at the square.

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Tired of walking? Sit and relax at one of the open restaurants here and start watching people. I treated myself at this Subway cafe, sipping coffee with cigarette lit up.

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Stack it your way! Double, triple or quad! Wow! I couldn’t find this here in BurgerKing Malaysia. Perhaps Malaysian are much smaller eater. This is a signboard posted in front of a BK outlet in Jungceylon mall. It is one of the many fastfood chains you could find here. Looking up to the bright blue sky when we walked out of Jungceylon, I know where we should be heading to next… the BEACH! – Travel Feeder,your ultimate travel photo guide

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cecil on January 31st, 2010

This is the group photo we posed before entering the Phuket FantaSea Show in Phuket. I wouldn’t have posed for this snapshot if without the old folk in our group. And we needed to pay 600Bht for it! For those of you who are going to Phuket and watch the show, and wish to know [...]

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cecil on January 20th, 2010

No travel story to tell today. I’m still busy tidying up my travel blog. So I uploaded this photo as my travel snapshot of the day. It shows a Buddhist temple in Phuket. Local people called Buddhist temple as Wat. Among the total of 29 Wat’s, it is the most popular and important Buddhist temple in Phuket [...]

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This is a snapshot taken during my recent visit to Phuket Island, Thailand. Measuring 45m high, this Big Buddha of Phuket is the latest (or going to be) tourist spot of Phuket. It was still under construction when I was there in October 2009 and the placement of its eyes (which means the buddha would [...]

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Let’s continue our photo travel to Phi-Phi Islands. We left Monkey Bay and arrived at Maya Bay at about 11:30am. If you were new to this travel blog and wish to know where we were coming from, read Part 1/2. Maya Bay is one of the most popular beach of Ko Phi-Phi Leh Island though there [...]

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cecil on December 18th, 2009

Congratulation to all of you who have participated in my travel photo quiz of camel rock! You are all correct! That camel resembling lime rock island is one of the smaller islands of Koh Phi-Phi, or Phi-Phi Islands, south east off Phuket Island of Thailand. I fancied more to the bigger rock (island) next to it… [...]

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cecil on December 16th, 2009

Many times, when travellers visit a city or country, they will have a first impression towards the place. This first impression is what travellers observed in the first place, whether the travel destination is cool, clean, noisy, safe, friendly or gorgeous. However, it’s still up to the perception of that traveller. One might say the [...]

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Time to have some fun! I haven’t had posted any travel photo quiz since quite some times ago. So I’m going to do it today. The truth behind? I haven’t finished my full length stories for Travel Feeder so I hope this quiz could buy time for me!
OK then. Let’s have some wild guess. Look [...]

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